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

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Funding FAQ: What the hell is arts funding?

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Tips and tricks for writing applications for arts funding

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Funding FAQ: DYCP vs National Lottery Project Grants

How To Freelance – workshop resources

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

Resources for freelancers, collectives & arts organisers

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Running arts & community events

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Planning your first crowdfunding campaign – Quickstart Guide

Running your own workshops and courses

Running your own workshops & art courses

Being Really Good At Being Self Employed

Being Really Good At Being Self Employed

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Self Care Checklist for Precarious Workers

Arts & community fundraising

Arts & community fundraising – useful resources

Crowdfunding - Matched Crowdfunding Beginners Guide

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

Crowdfunding - Picking The Right Crowdfunding Platform

Picking the right crowdfunding platform

Crowdfunding: How to fund in 48 hours

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ACE Cheatsheet 1 Year On

Map Your Crowd – essential crowdfunding preparation

5 Step DIY Self-Directed Learning Plan

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Arts Funding Grants: Preparing your application

Useful Resources: Pre-Launch Crowdfunding Checklists

Useful Resources: Preparing your crowdfunding campaign page

Enrol Yourself - Start a Learning Marathon

Enrol Yourself, Learning Marathons & Self-Directed Learning

Useful Resources: Understanding Copyright

Crowdfunding Reward Ideas

Creative Crowdfunding Reward Ideas

Crowdfunding Rewards

Designing great crowdfunding rewards

Learning about coaching: reflections of a trainee coach

Building a crowdfunding team

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

On Closer Inspection: the work of Stuart Robinson

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

A short history of Plymouth’s contemporary arts ecology

Social Making Symposium – Plymouth 2016

Achieving Empowerment

Re-defining the currency of success

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

Building more empowered local communities through local global online learning

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

Illustration of the brain by Henry Vandyke Carter - Henry Gray (1918) Anatomy of the Human Body

Supporting neurodiverse & neurodivergent artists

Crowdfunding Project Analysis Toolkit

Why I’m backing Statecraft

Top 7 Reasons I Would Back Your Crowdfunding Project

Useful Resources: DIY Arts Activity

Makey Makey @ Summer Mix 2015

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

Makey Makey & the Green Orchestra

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

Why you should go to a Boardgame Convention…

Why I set up the Plymouth Boardgame Meetup

Only Yourself To Blame: Barry Sykes

Bruce Asbestos: Tiny Canvas Friday

7 things artists could learn from board game Kickstarters

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

Stop thinking of Kickstarter as a platform for donations

Use Kickstarter to create a new community around your project

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

Focus on your timescale and actually delivering

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

Some people are never going to back things on Kickstarter

On Collaboration

Long Conversations

As British as a Bank Holiday Weekend: S Mark Gubb

Coding For Women

MAKEY MAKEY Workshop – Falmouth University

Gambling Man: Mark Greenwood

Never can say goodbye

Girl On The Bottom…

Tonight Matthew, I’m going to be Dickie…

A Very Incomplete Lexicon of LOW PROFILE

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