Crowdfunding, Crowdsourcing and Digital Fundraising

This course is free at the point of access to member of the archive sector; it is funded by The National Archives as part of our Archives Unlocked delivery plan. Please read the full description below before booking your place.

About the course:

In May 2016 the Royal Voluntary Service ran a Kickstarter campaign to digitise their UNESCO UK Memory of the World inscribed Narrative Reports for the Second World War. They didn’t just reach their £25,000 target, they smashed it. Will it be you next? This course will help enable you to raise funds in this growing digital landscape. We’ll examine the tools that are available to you, how to best apply them, and how to integrate your on- and offline fundraising activity to create successful digital campaigns.

Who should attend?

This is a course for anybody who works within the UK archive sector who is considering setting up a crowdfunding campaign or crowdsourcing campaign. During the workshop we will work through the elements necessary for a successful crowdfunding or crowdsourcing campaign. You will leave the workshop with a simple template to work through when setting up a crowdfunding campaign.

Learning Objectives

The course will enable participants to:

• Understand the world of online fundraising

• Understand the different tools available to facilitate digital fundraising and feel confident in choosing the right tools for their organisation

• Understand what makes a successful integrated fundraising campaign

• Be able to plan an integrated fundraising campaign for their own organisation

Workshop Facilitator

Lucy Davis: Lucy is an experienced Fundraiser having raised funds for large, medium and small third sector organisations over the last 12 years. More recently Lucy was Fundraising Consultant on the Fundraising for Archives programme and now works with Beth Astridge to deliver the Archives Revealed funding programme on behalf of The National Archives and The Pilgrim Trust.

This course is free at the point of access for members of the archive sector; it is funded by The National Archives as part of our Archives Unlocked delivery plan.

If you book a place and are unable to come please let us know as soon as possible, we often have waiting lists of people who would like to attend.

Similar courses are currently being delivered at a cost of £280 +VAT per person, thus if you book and don't attend resources are being wasted that a colleague in the sector could benefit from. Therefore, if you book a course and don't attend without letting us know you will be unable to book any further courses for the next 6 months with us.