Crowdfunding Toolkit for Councils

Executive Summary

This Policy Prototypes project consolidates the learning and experience of developing, communicating, and delivering a community crowdfunding programme into a how-to guide and toolkit to support other councils in creating their community crowdfunding programmes. This enables them to provide meaningful social impact, connect with local communities, and contribute towards the core Council objectives.

Principals to be met:

• Co-production – We will develop systems that enable citizens to be equal partners in designing and commissioning public services and in determining the use of public resources.
• Democratic engagement – We will support the active engagement of the full range of residents in decision making and priority setting.
• Innovation – We will embrace innovation in how we work with local communities to drive positive change.
• Social partnership – We will strengthen the co-operative partnership between citizens, communities, enterprises and Councils, based on a shared sense of responsibility for wellbeing and mutual benefit.