Crowdfunding for Creatives – The Power of Networked Communities

📅 Date: Thursday, 25 September 2025🕙 Time: 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM UK (GMT)💻 Where: Online – Live Zoom + 30-Day Replay💷 Cost: £15 (about the price of a Nando’s)

Please note we have just 25 spots for this workshop...

💡 Why Attend?

Got the idea—a film, theatre show, video game, or cross-media project—but no budget?

This workshop gives you practical, proven ways to raise money and keep your project independent:

• Grassroots crowdfunding strategies from our own case studies + our peers.
• How to tap into UK creative tax reliefs worth up to 50%.
• Business models that blend audience power with sustainable income.

🔍 What We’ll Cover

1. Crowdfunding Platforms That Work

• Kickstarter – Campaign design that converts clicks into backing
• Patreon – Building a loyal, paying creative community for long term support.

2. Co-operative & Community Ownership Models

• Turn your audience into active stakeholders.
• UK co-op case studies that fund creative work.
• (NEW) Networked Virtual Co-ops – Use social media tech to unite global backers into decision-making, resource-sharing, always-on creative hubs.

3. LTD Companies & For-Profit Models / Not For-Profit Models

• Smart company structures for creative entrepreneurs.
• Balancing profit with creative freedom.

4. UK Creative Industry Tax Reliefs – Your Secret Weapon

• Film & High-End TV: 25.5%–39.75% rebates.
• Theatre Tax Relief: Up to 50% for touring shows.
• Video Games Tax Relief: 20% for qualifying cultural content.
• How to stack tax credits + crowdfunding for maximum budget impact.

🎯 Who’s It For?

• Producers & Creatives - Indie filmmakers, theatre makers, game developers.
• Early-career creatives figuring out sustainable funding.
• Producers ready to mix audience-driven support with industry finance.
• Future Artists...

🎙 Your Host

Future Artists Independent Film & Theatre Producers – a not-for-profit delivering practical, no-nonsense training through the Future Artists Academy of Arts and Sciences.

We’ve crowdfunded award-winners, run co-ops, and navigated the UK tax relief maze. Now we’re handing you the map.

🔥 Why £15 Is a Steal

Two hours that could unlock thousands in funding.Replay available for 30 days—perfect if you’re mid-shoot, mid-tour, or mid funding crisis.

✅ Reserve your spot – Live on 25 September at 10 AM GMTBring your notebook, your wildest idea, and the ambition to make it happen.