Helping our members get funded!
Welcome to the challenger brands of tomorrow! During March 2021 we teamed up with Crowdfunder UK to help a group of our members through a collective crowdfunding programme, raising over £20k! Scroll down the page to view each campaign. During the programme, we produced a number of resources for members to help them through their campaigns, along with Zoom meet-ups and a Slack support group. You can find some of those resources here:
Resources available to paid members (log-in required)
We’re joined by Nicole and Anna from CrowdfunderUK to explain how rewards-based crowdfunding works and how to run a successful campaign. Nicole, Anna and David then take questions from the members live to help you get started on your crowdfunding campaign.
Watch back the February crowdfunding meet-up, where each member introduces themselves and then we look at what support each company needs to set up their campaign. Karl Fogg from Phyton also explains why he chose to launch a crowdfunding campaign.
Watch back our March Crowdfunding meet-up. Now all the campaigns are live each member gives us an update on how they are generating publicity for their campaigns, and we talk to Victoria from Happy Carrot Skincare about how she got to 50% funded in the first couple of weeks.
Resources available to free members (log-in required)
Victoria from Happy Carrot Skincare was the second of our members on our Crowdfunding programme to hit their funding goal. We talk to Victoria to find out exactly what activity she did to hit her target, what she learned and what she would change if she did it all again.
Laura from Primary Veducation is on a mission to help schools be more inclusive for vegan children. Unlike our other members, Laura found that the majority of her backers were people she had no previous connection with. So just how did Laura buck the crowdfunding trend and get supported by complete strangers?
One Planet Pizza was the first vegan company in Europe to go through equity crowdfunding. In this interview, Lisa talks with their founder Mike Hill about how to run a successful funding campaign and his advice for any vegan business looking to raise money.
