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artist & educator

  • About
  • Cheatsheets
  • Workshop Resources
  • Crowdfunding
  • Open Education
  • DIY Culture
  • Everything else
  • Buy Rachel a coffee!
  • Twitter
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Quick start crowdfunding beginners guide

How to start crowdfunding: a beginner’s guide to resources & advice

  • Posted in Crowdfunding
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How To Freelance – workshop resources

  • Posted in Uncategorized

Map & build your crowd – advice for artists and creative practitioners

  • Posted in Crowdfunding, DIY Culture, Fundraising, Workshop Resources

Resources for freelancers, collectives & arts organisers

  • Posted in Being Self Employed, DIY Culture
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Running arts & community events

  • Posted in Workshop Resources
Crowdfunding quickstart guide banner image

Planning your first crowdfunding campaign – Quickstart Guide

  • Posted in Crowdfunding, Workshop Resources
Running your own workshops and courses

Running your own workshops & art courses

  • Posted in Workshop Resources
Being Really Good At Being Self Employed

Being Really Good At Being Self Employed

  • Posted in DIY Culture, Workshop Resources
SelfCareChecklist-PrecariousWorkers

Self Care Checklist for Precarious Workers

  • Posted in DIY Culture
Arts & community fundraising

Arts & community fundraising – useful resources

  • Posted in Fundraising, Workshop Resources
Crowdfunding - Matched Crowdfunding Beginners Guide

Matched crowdfunding – what is it & how can I access it?

  • Posted in Crowdfunding
Crowdfunding - Picking The Right Crowdfunding Platform

Picking the right crowdfunding platform

  • Posted in Crowdfunding

Crowdfunding: How to fund in 48 hours

  • Posted in Crowdfunding, Fundraising
ace cheatsheet Rachel Dobbs

ACE Cheatsheet 1 Year On

  • Posted in DIY Culture, Fundraising, lessons learned

Map Your Crowd – essential crowdfunding preparation

  • Posted in Crowdfunding, Fundraising, lessons learned

5 Step DIY Self-Directed Learning Plan

  • Posted in Education, Open Education
arts funding grants

Arts Funding Grants: Preparing your application

  • Posted in DIY Culture, Fundraising, Teaching Resources

Useful Resources: Pre-Launch Crowdfunding Checklists

  • Posted in Crowdfunding

Useful Resources: Preparing your crowdfunding campaign page

  • Posted in Crowdfunding
Enrol Yourself - Start a Learning Marathon

Enrol Yourself, Learning Marathons & Self-Directed Learning

  • Posted in Education, long conversations, Open Education

Useful Resources: Understanding Copyright

  • Posted in Education, Workshop Resources
Crowdfunding Reward Ideas

Creative Crowdfunding Reward Ideas

  • Posted in Crowdfunding
Crowdfunding Rewards

Designing great crowdfunding rewards

  • Posted in Crowdfunding

Learning about coaching: reflections of a trainee coach

  • Posted in coaching, lessons learned, Open Education

Building a crowdfunding team

  • Posted in Crowdfunding

Building your crowd: social media tips for crowdfunders & creative practitioners from Guy Kawasaki

  • Posted in Crowdfunding, Teaching Resources

On Closer Inspection: the work of Stuart Robinson

  • Posted in exhibitions, Writing about art

How Plymouth Art Weekender can can help nurture the city’s arts eco system

  • Posted in DIY Culture, lessons learned, Writing about art

A short history of Plymouth’s contemporary arts ecology

  • Posted in DIY Culture, over-looked, Writing about art

Social Making Symposium – Plymouth 2016

  • Posted in DIY Culture, lessons learned, Social Making: Now & Next, Writing about art

Achieving Empowerment

  • Posted in DIY Culture, lessons learned, Social Making: Now & Next

Re-defining the currency of success

  • Posted in DIY Culture, lessons learned, Social Making: Now & Next

Building in succession (as a requirement) in arts & community projects

  • Posted in DIY Culture, lessons learned, Social Making: Now & Next

Building more empowered local communities through local global online learning

  • Posted in DIY Culture, Education, lessons learned, Open Education
Arts Council England National Lottery Project Grants Cheatsheet

NEW: ACE Project Grants application CHEATSHEET (formerly Arts Council England Grants for the Arts)

  • Posted in Cheatsheets & Toolkits, DIY Culture, lessons learned
Illustration of the brain by Henry Vandyke Carter - Henry Gray (1918) Anatomy of the Human Body

Supporting neurodiverse & neurodivergent artists

  • Posted in lessons learned

Crowdfunding Project Analysis Toolkit

  • Posted in Cheatsheets & Toolkits, Crowdfunding, workshops

Why I’m backing Statecraft

  • Posted in Boardgames, Crowdfunding, let's talk about games

Top 7 Reasons I Would Back Your Crowdfunding Project

  • Posted in Crowdfunding, lessons learned

Useful Resources: DIY Arts Activity

  • Posted in Cheatsheets & Toolkits, DIY Culture, workshops

Makey Makey @ Summer Mix 2015

  • Posted in workshops

Zombie Apocalypse Planning: Preparedness, dry runs and speculative survival strategies that allow us to discuss the unthinkable

  • Posted in over-used or over-familiar

Makey Makey & the Green Orchestra

  • Posted in workshops

Being the average UK boardgamer (and inclusivity, diversity and microaggression in boardgames)

  • Posted in Boardgames, let's talk about games

Why you should go to a Boardgame Convention…

  • Posted in Boardgames, lessons learned

Why I set up the Plymouth Boardgame Meetup

  • Posted in Boardgames, DIY Culture, lessons learned

Only Yourself To Blame: Barry Sykes

  • Posted in exhibitions, Writing about art

Bruce Asbestos: Tiny Canvas Friday

  • Posted in DIY Culture, long conversations, Writing about art

7 things artists could learn from board game Kickstarters

  • Posted in Boardgames, Crowdfunding, lessons learned

Use Kickstarter as a distribution model & a tool to gauge interest

  • Posted in Crowdfunding, lessons learned

Stop thinking of Kickstarter as a platform for donations

  • Posted in Crowdfunding, lessons learned

Use Kickstarter to create a new community around your project

  • Posted in Crowdfunding, lessons learned

Develop projects where a Kickstarter campaign is an integral part rather than an afterthought

  • Posted in Crowdfunding, lessons learned

Focus on your timescale and actually delivering

  • Posted in Crowdfunding, lessons learned

Use Kickstarter as a way to generate excitement about your arts practice

  • Posted in Crowdfunding, lessons learned

Some people are never going to back things on Kickstarter

  • Posted in Crowdfunding, lessons learned

On Collaboration

  • Posted in Uncategorized

Long Conversations

  • Posted in long conversations

As British as a Bank Holiday Weekend: S Mark Gubb

  • Posted in exhibitions, Writing about art

Coding For Women

  • Posted in making

MAKEY MAKEY Workshop – Falmouth University

  • Posted in workshops

Gambling Man: Mark Greenwood

  • Posted in exhibitions, Writing about art

Never can say goodbye

  • Posted in exhibitions, Writing about art

Girl On The Bottom…

  • Posted in exhibitions, Writing about art

Tonight Matthew, I’m going to be Dickie…

  • Posted in exhibitions, Writing about art

A Very Incomplete Lexicon of LOW PROFILE

  • Posted in Uncategorized

USEFUL RESOURCES

Arts Council England National Lottery Project Grants Cheatsheet

Arts Council England – Grants For The Arts Cheatsheet

Click here to download Rachel’s ACE Cheatsheet (2500+ downloads to date!)

USEFUL RESOURCES

Crowdfunding quickstart guide banner imageCrowdfunding for Creative Practitioners

Practical advice on how to design & run successful crowdfunding projects

 

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