A Number of the designer-makers who take part in our events have run successful crowd-funding campaigns, for example jeweller Chris Parry raised a record-breaking £50k, allowing him to invest in machinery that will help him expand his handmade jewellery business.

Digital Shoreditch celebrates outstanding innovation and creativity in the UK’s premier digital capital, which is right up our street (literally)! As a collective, they run monthly meetups, a comprehensive directory, hackathons, and an enormous annual festival of the most talented digital and technical creative’s.

If Simon’s ‘eye of the tiger’ video pitch doesn’t do it for you then this blog may be falling on deaf ears, however I ask for you to read on and learn a little more about The Litter Picking Man, for then you’ll see why he truly is a PleaseFund.Us hero!

We want crowdfunding to enhance any individual’s efforts of gathering money, whether it’s for a charity or not.

That’s right. PleaseFund.Us are now accepting charitable projects, and we’re really excited about the extended possibilities for anyone crowdfunding for their creative idea.

Here at the PleaseFund.Us HQ we are often asked how to promote someone’s project once they are live. We are asked lots of things actually, but this does seem to be something that keeps coming up. It normally comes from the project owner once their fundraising page has been up for a week or so and they have seen a rush of initial pledges from some of their nearest and dearest and suddenly the fear of the big wide crowdfunding world hits them.

This is the 3rd round of grants issued via the PleaseFund.Us platform, bringing the total amount of recipients of our grant-giving scheme to a nice round double figure (10)!

For the third time, the judges have come to their verdict, and the winners of the third creative’s grants have been decided. Not only that, but we've got even more grants (and maybe even a free holiday) to offer you...

Creating your project page is essentially just the same as creating a pitch: You’re pitching to your own contacts, your own networks, and anyone else you can for them to support your campaign.

Sitting on a panel at LOCO comedy film festival, I share the do’s and don’ts when pitching your idea an audience