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Spacehive
General
Founded: 2011
Type: Donation-based crowdfunding
Donation-based crowdfunding - geography: United Kingdom
CO. no.: 7553730
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Description
Spacehive is the world's first funding platform for neighbourhood improvement projects. We make it as easy to fund a new park or playground for your area as buying a book online.
For people with inspiring project ideas, Spacehive allows you to pitch for support and funding from your community. For everyone else it's a refreshingly easy way to transform where you live: just find a project you like and pledge funding. If it gets funded, it gets built!
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Founders Spacehive
FOUNDER & CEO, Chris Gourlay
LinkedIn | Twitter (@chris_gourlay)
Type: Entrepreneur
Description: Chris is the Founder and CEO of Spacehive, the world?s first crowdfunding platform for civic projects. He is a former Sunday Times staff journalist who covered architecture and planning, as well as leading the paper?s London coverage.
He launched Spacehive in 2012 as a social business to stimulate new sources funding and creativity for the civic environment. Since then the platform has helped to deliver a diverse mix of projects across the UK - from a new community centre in Wales to a giant waterslide in the middle of a Bristol high street.
He has won awards for Spacehive from the Big Venture Challenge, Nesta, UnLtd, Deloitte and Downing Street.
Tweets by Founders, Employees & Spacehive
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A fantastic evening in store for us in Grantham at the first #CrowdfundSK workshop - the new civic crowdfunding pro… https://t.co/zW2k3O01Bb
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Communities are responding to the climate crisis at a local level - including solar panels on schools, rewilding, e… https://t.co/rU0wUIrBK1
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Splish splash splosh! Community crowdfunding is creating an exciting new wave of lido projects - and even potential… https://t.co/pK8HJplFmC
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Smaller projects delivered by local people have a big social impact across our city. More than 100 projects have be… https://t.co/t5VUoQi3zz
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Excited to be at City Hall for the 2019 Pledge Awards! A record amount being pledged by @MayorofLondon on… https://t.co/LJIB618Wnz
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Stumbled upon "Dinner under Helsinki Sky" a free event for people to come and share dinner together (BYO). 700 peop… https://t.co/XlEblFx6r9
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.@RajeshAgrawal, speaking at @London_First, highlights the potential and importance of London’s crowdfunding moveme… https://t.co/oydPhMWSH5
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Great to speak at @MayorofLondon’s #CrowdfundLondon event. Quoted at World Govt Summit as an example of a local go… https://t.co/jflzJ6Loeg
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If you haven't already heard, we've teamed up with national crowdfunding platform @Spacehive to create the… https://t.co/V1Hy3zF0Pa
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2 days to go! Got an idea that could improve your local area? Upload it to @Spacehive by 1st of May and… https://t.co/o92URvuTlZ
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We had to stop our Remember to Dance sessions due to lack of funding so now we're crowdfunding with… https://t.co/W3tZJCONEK
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Project Hive in Leicester is flying! @wwceorguk have done a great job mobilising the community around this project… https://t.co/jpkpj0yyGu
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Exciting news. We've backed our first #GrowingGreatPlaces project. St James Church Clock Face Repair on @Spacehive… https://t.co/JDfYbdgqvg
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We’re at @MatthewsYard with @Spacehive talking all things #CrowdfundLondon. Have you got a great idea for a communi… https://t.co/rOnILP57C7
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Hearing from #CrowdfundLondon alumnus Andy from @OurGipsyHill who raised £5,800 to transform the space behind the t… https://t.co/zA7ioq9pUN
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Last one for the week! Talking #CrowdfundLondon with #croydon this evening. The @MayorofLondon has a £1m fund for c… https://t.co/mqdvDF0E2J
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Tonight we’re in Holloway for the third #CrowdfundLondon introduction event. There’s a rich heritage of projects fr… https://t.co/YBqzVDqAR7
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Wonderful to hear from Mike from @clapton_commons who last year secured £25k from @MayorofLondon for a Village Hall… https://t.co/o8zVKF4diE
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This was a brilliant parade in 2019 as part of @HDculture2019. Take a look at the proposals for 2020 and if you can… https://t.co/NOETdyf30a
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Tonight we’re in Holloway for the third #CrowdfundLondon introduction event. There’s a rich heritage of projects fr… https://t.co/YBqzVDqAR7
Address Spacehive
Spacehive30 Marsh Wall
E14 9TP London
United Kingdom