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Crowdfunding

March 2024

  • Hadil Louz, a British Palestinian, at her home in Dundee

    ‘I lost hope with the Home Office’: Palestinians fundraise to evacuate family in Gaza

    Hundreds of GoFundMe campaigns set up after Home Office refuses visas or Ukrainian-style entry scheme

February 2024

  • Lindley Estate in Peckham.

    Cash-strapped London council starts crowdfunding drive to pay for green upgrades

    Southwark asks residents to invest as little as £5 to help fund eco-projects such as cycle hangars and school upgrades

October 2023

  • The Student, based at Edinburgh University

    Europe’s oldest student newspaper saved from closure

    More than £3,000 raised to keep the Student – founded in 1886 by Robert Louis Stevenson at Edinburgh University – going

September 2023

  • ‘It was a significant amount of money’ … Sue and Katie O’Leary-Hall, pictured with their children Will and Rose, lost their disability living allowance the day after Rose died.

    Parents who lost allowance day after their child’s death call for change in law on ‘cliff-edge’ benefit cut

    Charities and parents say legislation must be introduced to protect families from short-term financial hardship caused by immediate loss of disability living allowance

August 2023

  • Illustration: Jamie Wignall

    Money hacks
    How to help support good causes during the cost of living crisis

    UK households are under pressure at a time when charities are needed more than ever but there are still ways to contribute

April 2023

  • Myla Natalie Ray in a garden.

    Crowdfunding for medical care doubles amid record NHS waiting lists

  • The storm tower at Compass Point in Bude, Cornwall.

    Race to rescue Bude’s Pepperpot lookout tower from being swept into the sea

February 2023

  • Sapphire Bates outside Book Bodega in Ramsgate, Kent

    ‘We’ve rediscovered the joy of reading’: how customers are rescuing UK bookshops

    A bookseller in Kent has gone viral after tweeting a picture of her empty shop. Here, other retailers explain how they are surviving – even thriving – when many people are counting every penny

January 2023

  • Hope Fashion clothes

    Hope Fashion asks fans to donate £100 or more to stop it collapsing

    Brand focused on clothes for women in their 50s and older says it will fail without fundraising

December 2022

  • Wild Beer Co is based in Shepton Mallet, Somerset.

    ‘Treated like a chump’: Wild Beer Co’s collapse leaves bitter taste for backers

    Five years on from £1.76m crowdfunding, some feel misled after plans for destination venue unravelled along with the firm itself

November 2022

  • One of the FV103 Spartan APCs that are on their way to Ukraine.

    ‘A joke that went out of control’: crowdfunding weapons for Ukraine’s war

    In just nine hours, the Prytula Foundation raised $5.5m from private donors to buy 50 FV103 Spartans used by the British Army

October 2022

  • A crater caused by a Russian missile strike at a playground in Kyiv, Ukraine.

    Ukraine crowdfunding raises almost $10m in 24 hours to buy kamikaze drones

    Money raised after wave of Russian strikes on Ukrainian cities on Monday will be used to support army

July 2022

  • Jane Clendon (left) and Charlotte Gerada (fifth from right) with fellow protestors outside the former Joiner's Arms on Hackney Road, east London on Saturday, January 31, 2015. They are campaigning against the closure of gay and lesbian bars and clubs in London and the loss of LGBT history. As property prices soar they are being turned into luxury flats. Photograph: Frantzesco Kangaris Commissioned for SOCIETY

    Race is on to revive much-loved London gay pub the Joiners Arms

    Stars including Stephen Fry and Joe Lycett join forces to help campaigners fundraise for UK’s first community-run queer venue

March 2022

  • Part of a military convoy in southern Ivankiv, Ukraine.

    The drone operators who halted Russian convoy headed for Kyiv

    Special IT force of 30 soldiers on quad bikes is vital part of Ukraine’s defence, but forced to crowdfund for supplies
  • Civilians from Ukraine on a train heading for Berlin this week.

    How your holidays can help the people of Ukraine

    The travel industry has moved quickly to support refugees from Ukraine and British holidaymakers can play a major role
  • Residents in Milton clean up houses in Brisbane, Friday, March 4, 2022. Southeast Queensland is bracing for more damaging rain that could delay the clean-up after flooding. (AAP Image/Jono Searle) NO ARCHIVING

    Queensland and NSW floods: what you can do to help affected communities

    Is it better to donate to established charities such as the Red Cross or to crowdfunding campaigns? And should you give money, or goods?

February 2022

  • Arwa Mahdawi

    The whole world should be worried by the ‘siege of Ottawa’. This is about much more than a few anti-vaxx truckers

    Arwa Mahdawi
  • Trucks line Bloor near Yorkville on February 5, 2022 in Toronto, Canada.

    Ottawa protesters turn to Christian crowdfunding site after GoFundMe snub

January 2022

  • Worried couple trying to work out their finances.

    Universal credit claimants turn to crowdfunding to meet living costs

    Faced with benefit cuts, illness and soaring bills, people are raising funds on sites such as GoFundMe

December 2021

  • Book-ish, Crickhowell.

    Crowdfunding offers the UK’s independent booksellers a pandemic lifeline

    As local bookshop numbers grow, readers have come together to back them in Crickhowell, Brighton and Buckley
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