After 12 years of crowdfunding creativity in Ireland, Fund it closed on 15th February 2023.
Founded in 2011, Fund it was the first Irish-owned crowdfunding website to support creative projects. Over the years, Fund it has successfully supported project creators in crowdfunding over 1,700 creative projects ranging from new albums to poetry publications, community festivals to photography exhibitions, radio studios to documentaries.
Fund it worked directly with project creators to provide confidence and guidance on their crowdfunding journey, which contributed to the platform’s high success rate. In recent years, the crowdfunding landscape has changed significantly, with new platforms arising from commercial companies with the resources to provide competitive user-focused functionality. Fund it has seen a decline in new projects and funders, making it too challenging to support the operating costs required to keep Fund it running.
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Fund it is an all-island crowdfunding website for Ireland’s creative projects, giving everyone the power to help good ideas happen. Fund it is based in Ireland, run by Business to Arts, a not-for-profit organisation working to support resilience and transformation in the cultural sector through research, innovation and partnership.
Fund it is designed to support greater individual giving to the creative sector and facilitate pre-sales of creative projects. Crowdfunding serves to strengthen the bond between a creator and their audience which offers the potential for wider-ranging, long-term relationships.
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