With ten days to go before they must vacate 3 Bristo Place, and the Forest is having one last has decided to try to raise the money to buy the building – or at least enough to put down a deposit.
I’ve spent the morning interviewing and recording Rachel McCrum, who at this moment is setting up a “We Fund” site with a target of £100,000 – with a ten day deadline. If they get to the total, they can buy the building. If they don’t get to the target, they’ll get nothing.
We Fund is one of a number of crowd-source funding sites, which use a combination of different pledges and rewards to encourage people to give to charities and creative projects.
Forest members have spent the morning coming up with rewards for people who donate – everything from a buritto (£10) to a private gig from local punk rock musician Billy Liar (£1000).
The top reward is currently a years indentured servitude from a Forest volunteer – though the £1 million price tag might put people off.
The new pledge site should be up later today – I’ll update this post with a link once it goes live.
UPDATE – 19:06
I’ve just heard that they’ll launch the pledge site tomorrow morning to coincide with peak web-traffic.
UPDATE – 23/08/2011
Still no sign of the new We Fund account – it seems that they have to be approved before they can go live on the site, which takes some time. They still their Just Giving account for donations though.
Posted on 21/08/2011 by tomallan28
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