Rachel Dobbs

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

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  Posted in Crowdfunding

Funding FAQ: What the hell is arts funding?

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  Posted in Funding FAQ

Funding FAQ: DYCP vs National Lottery Project Grants

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  Posted in Funding FAQ

How To Freelance – workshop resources

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  Posted in Being Self Employed, DIY Culture

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

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  Posted in Crowdfunding, DIY Culture, Workshop Resources

Resources for freelancers, collectives & arts organisers

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  Posted in Being Self Employed, DIY Culture

Running arts & community events

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  Posted in Workshop Resources

Planning your first crowdfunding campaign – Quickstart Guide

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  Posted in Crowdfunding, Funding FAQ, Workshop Resources

Running your own workshops & art courses

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  Posted in Workshop Resources

Being Really Good At Being Self Employed

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  Posted in DIY Culture, Workshop Resources

Self Care Checklist for Precarious Workers

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  Posted in DIY Culture

Arts & community fundraising – useful resources

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  Posted in Funding FAQ, Workshop Resources

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

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  Posted in Crowdfunding

Picking the right crowdfunding platform

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  Posted in Crowdfunding

Crowdfunding: How to fund in 48 hours

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  Posted in Crowdfunding, Funding FAQ

ACE Cheatsheet 1 Year On

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  Posted in DIY Culture, lessons learned

Map Your Crowd – essential crowdfunding preparation

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  Posted in Crowdfunding, lessons learned

5 Step DIY Self-Directed Learning Plan

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  Posted in Education, Open Education

Arts Funding Grants: Preparing your application

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  Posted in DIY Culture, Funding FAQ, Teaching Resources

Useful Resources: Pre-Launch Crowdfunding Checklists

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  Posted in Crowdfunding

Useful Resources: Preparing your crowdfunding campaign page

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  Posted in Crowdfunding

Enrol Yourself, Learning Marathons & Self-Directed Learning

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  Posted in Education, long conversations, Open Education

Useful Resources: Understanding Copyright

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  Posted in Education, Workshop Resources

Creative Crowdfunding Reward Ideas

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  Posted in Crowdfunding

Designing great crowdfunding rewards

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  Posted in Crowdfunding

Learning about coaching: reflections of a trainee coach

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  Posted in coaching, lessons learned, Open Education

Building a crowdfunding team

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  Posted in Crowdfunding

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

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  Posted in Crowdfunding, Teaching Resources

On Closer Inspection: the work of Stuart Robinson

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  Posted in exhibitions, Writing about art

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

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  Posted in DIY Culture, lessons learned, Writing about art

A short history of Plymouth’s contemporary arts ecology

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

Social Making Symposium – Plymouth 2016

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

Achieving Empowerment

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

Re-defining the currency of success

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

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

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

Building more empowered local communities through local global online learning

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  Posted in DIY Culture, Education, lessons learned, Open Education

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

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  Posted in Cheatsheets & Toolkits, DIY Culture, Funding FAQ, lessons learned

Supporting neurodiverse & neurodivergent artists

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  Posted in lessons learned

Crowdfunding Project Analysis Toolkit

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  Posted in Cheatsheets & Toolkits, Crowdfunding, workshops

Why I’m backing Statecraft

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

Top 7 Reasons I Would Back Your Crowdfunding Project

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  Posted in Crowdfunding, lessons learned

Useful Resources: DIY Arts Activity

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  Posted in Cheatsheets & Toolkits, DIY Culture, workshops

Makey Makey @ Summer Mix 2015

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  Posted in workshops

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

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  Posted in over-used or over-familiar

Makey Makey & the Green Orchestra

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  Posted in workshops

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

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  Posted in Boardgames, let's talk about games

Why you should go to a Boardgame Convention…

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  Posted in Boardgames, lessons learned

Why I set up the Plymouth Boardgame Meetup

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  Posted in Boardgames, DIY Culture, lessons learned

Only Yourself To Blame: Barry Sykes

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  Posted in exhibitions, Writing about art

Bruce Asbestos: Tiny Canvas Friday

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  Posted in DIY Culture, long conversations, Writing about art

7 things artists could learn from board game Kickstarters

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  Posted in Boardgames, Crowdfunding, lessons learned

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

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  Posted in Crowdfunding, lessons learned

Stop thinking of Kickstarter as a platform for donations

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  Posted in Crowdfunding, lessons learned

Use Kickstarter to create a new community around your project

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  Posted in Crowdfunding, lessons learned

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

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  Posted in Crowdfunding, lessons learned

Focus on your timescale and actually delivering

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  Posted in Crowdfunding, lessons learned

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

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  Posted in Crowdfunding, lessons learned

Some people are never going to back things on Kickstarter

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  Posted in Crowdfunding, lessons learned

On Collaboration

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  Posted in Uncategorized

Long Conversations

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  Posted in long conversations

As British as a Bank Holiday Weekend: S Mark Gubb

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  Posted in exhibitions, Writing about art

Coding For Women

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  Posted in making

MAKEY MAKEY Workshop – Falmouth University

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  Posted in workshops

Gambling Man: Mark Greenwood

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  Posted in exhibitions, Writing about art

Never can say goodbye

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  Posted in exhibitions, Writing about art

Girl On The Bottom…

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  Posted in exhibitions, Writing about art

Tonight Matthew, I’m going to be Dickie…

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  Posted in exhibitions, Writing about art

A Very Incomplete Lexicon of LOW PROFILE

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  Posted in Uncategorized