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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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Giving for @GedlingBC Foodbank campaign is one of the most backed ever on Spacehive in just a week. Still overfundi… https://t.co/7BznANsU4P
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Incredible response to @GedlingBC and their campaign to keep their food banks stocked - 100 backers in a few hours… https://t.co/uVtP7obS71
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With backing from @MayorofLondon and @VeoliaUK, Streatham Community Woodland Project has hit its target and is now… https://t.co/O6OftZhqkk
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We're seeing a fantastic response from projects coming forward - emergency food packages, digital equipment for com… https://t.co/2HCxVu1JhU
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Thanks @SECONDHOME_IO for giving a shoutout to two local COVID-19 response projects which are currently crowdfundin… https://t.co/jrvKzwgUtQ
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Got a project to help your community at this time? You can crowdfund on Spacehive for COVID-19 response projects an… https://t.co/ThCPrNcOJD
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We've shifted into full COVID-19 response mode and are now seeing unique projects coming forward - from funding for… https://t.co/qhhf52zpEw
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🆘 Fantastic to see Mansfield Council set up an emergency match-funding scheme to support local food banks in ONE DA… https://t.co/u3550HFvGj
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As part of their crowdfunding campaign @BentleyFarmDN will now be setting up a box scheme to help vulnerable isolat… https://t.co/IBsUGlS2oz
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@ShirazMaher Thanks fir sharing Shiraz. Incredibly insightful. So sorry it was such a nightmare. Sobering
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Congratulations to @TheLexiCinema - an incredible £20,000 pledge has taken it to within sight of its target, which… https://t.co/zJKQuNECxW
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We have now submitted our planning application! We are one (big!) step closer to transforming The Common Room into… https://t.co/9NhbuIdhsf
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Havering Heroes Fund is live - crowdfunding to support vulnerable residents in the borough. In #Havering and want t… https://t.co/8cUYioRsZa
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Thanks to our partners @idverdeUK for pledging £1,000 to @RefugeesBees and its community beehive initiative. Anothe… https://t.co/WuK0OPW1MH
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Generosity at its finest in #LBHF as some very big pledges come in for Kids Network virtual mentoring programme, jo… https://t.co/gBohluB5g5
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Like many not for profit sports orgs, been hit hard. We asked pre-pay & play customers if they’d like refund,credit… https://t.co/sd5tUBlDud
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@ZeroCarbonYorks @ZeroHeadingley @GfAoLBA We are pleased with the results of our @Spacehive crowdfunding for Holmfi… https://t.co/zDrflYuUVb
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This is a cool project, using Zoom to run online art classes with different age groups in @Royal_Greenwich, with a… https://t.co/KNqQZar0OZ
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Thanks so much to @TowerHamTennis for such a generous pledge to help Bow Food Bank hit its crowdfunding target! You… https://t.co/VdHMpjrGQk
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Giving for @GedlingBC Foodbank campaign is one of the most backed ever on Spacehive in just a week. Still overfundi… https://t.co/7BznANsU4P
Address Spacehive
Spacehive30 Marsh Wall
E14 9TP London
United Kingdom