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2016 success stories

January 2017

Here are some of the projects that you helped to fund last year!

Film and TV

Support our debut feature film -- 7x7!
El Gran Salto (The Jump)
Somewhere out there

Music

Original punk blues album by Bristol-based duo Husky Tones
Where The Night Falls - Album Release & Funding Project
The Imperial Plan by The Fable

Business

Bristol's First Cat Cafe
The South by Southwest Apprentice
TheGivingMachine - Be The Key

Art

Upfest - Europe's largest street art & graffiti festival
TCPUK - Tunisian Collaborative Painting in the UK Launch Event
The Empathy Museum – A Thousand and One Books
Get Anna Hill Wallpaper to Exhibition!
Beyond the Stage Photography Exhibition
Charity Calendar by chARTwork

Community

Help us fund and launch 91 Ways International pop up Peace Cafes!
Sikh Garden of Remembrance
A community-building social for children with special needs and their families
The 150th Anniversary of Swindon's traditional Children's Fete
Goats for Sustainable Woodland Management

Refugee aid

Help Refugees - #holidaysforgood - shelter campaign
UK festivals team up to raise vital funds for France’s refugee camps

Politics

Make Bristol Green in 2016!


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