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Nearly a week with no donations

An update for Raptordogs: Life is Unpredictable

Oct 13 2026

We haven't had any new donations in almost a week guys, don't forget to share this campaign around with all your other friends, family and social media followers! Let's spread the word as much as we can and keep the donations coming!

2% raised!

An update for Raptordogs: Life is Unpredictable

Oct 7 2026

2% of the funding has now been raised and we're at £410, thanks again to everyone who's donated so far! Can we get any more donations? Remember to tell all your friends, family and social media followers to donate as well, and tell them to keep passing the word on!

Already supparsed the previous campaign

An update for Raptordogs: Life is Unpredictable

Oct 6 2026

We've now raised £310, more than the previous campaign raised, thanks again to everyone who's donated so far. Let's keep up this momentum, don't forget to tell all your friends, family and social media followers about this campaign and try to convince them to donate as well, and get them to tell their friends, family and social media followers, and to keep passing the chain on! Let's build up our audience and keep the donations coming!

Off to a strong start.

An update for Raptordogs: Life is Unpredictable

Oct 4 2026

£130 donated already, a very strong start, thanks so much guys, can we get any more?

54% funded! Thank you for all your support!

An update for World Kid Lit - 10 Years of Reading the World!

Aug 4 2026

Dear friends of World Kid Lit,

¡Gracias! Thank you! Shukran! Misaotra anao!

Thanks to you and all our generous supporters, we have now raised £1070 for our community project, World Kid Lit. That's 54% of our £2000 target, and it means we can ...

* offer two free school events, with a Read the World book bundle introducing young people to stories, poetry and non-fiction from five continents.

Find out here about our schools workshops and events, and how you can nominate a school:

https://worldkidlit.org/world-kid-lit-in-schools/

* offer two additional Read the World book bundles, on top of the ten bundles we had already secured funding for, meaning we'll be sending out books every month for the rest of this year. Please keep donating to this fund as we would love to send a school a book bundle every month in 2027!

Find out more here about our book bundles and how to nominate a school: https://worldkidlit.org/2026/06/08/free-book-bundles/

* pay our lovely judges of the Schools' International Reading Award! And pay for the postage to send out all the gorgeous global and translated children's books that make up the prize book bundles

Find out more about our SIRA award and please share the details with a school near you! https://worldkidlit.org/international-reading-award/

We really believe that children deserve to see themselves and their diverse identities represented in the books they encounter in schools, and they deserve the rich diversity of styles of books that we get from reading the world. Please keep telling your friends and colleagues about us, and help us reach our £2000 funding goal

Thank you!

Ruth and Team World Kid Lit

https://worldkidlit.org/who-we-are/

Scaffolding is up! Help us make the most of this moment

An update for Saving Jacobs Wells Baths

Apr 11 2026

We’ve reached a critical milestone at Jacobs Wells Baths: the scaffolding is now in place and the first phase of repair works are well underway. Specialist contractors, Carrek Ltd are working to repair original roof timbers and replace of the historic glass roof lantern that will bring natural light back into the main hall and transform the space for future use. 

This gives us a rare and time-limited opportunity to carry out as much repair and restoration work at height as possible while access is in place.

Every additional pound raised now helps us go further to repair and protect more of the building’s historic fabric - removing buddliea, fixing masonry and carrying out low level roof repairs, reducing the need for future costs. 

By supporting the project at this stage, you’re not just helping us stabilise the building. You’re helping unlock the next phase of reonvations and transformation, strengthening our case for major investment and bringing us closer to reopening this incredible space for the city.

If you’ve been thinking about supporting, now is the moment your contribution can have the greatest impact. We're working to reach our £10,000 individual giving target and every individual support helps us to not only deliver more work, but show public support for this project. 

Give big, give small, every donation will make a difference to how far we can go together!

(Image by Khali Ackford Photography)

You Did It....

An update for Upfest 2026

Mar 16 2026

Thanks for all your amazing support, we hit our target!!

We are currently working through sorting the rewards, please keep an eye out for emails we will be in touch soon.

big LOVE

The Upfest Crew 

We're sooo close!

An update for Upfest 2026

Mar 15 2026

Huge thanks to everyone who's support us this year, 

With just 15 hours to go we can see the finish line with just £335 to raise in the next 15 hours to hit our £10,000 goal! 

You've been an incredible support us this year, if you're also able to share our campaign on this final day it could just make the difference. 

https://www.fundsurfer.com/crowdfund/upfest-2026

big LOVE

The Upfest Crew 

50% raised!

An update for Upfest 2026

Mar 6 2026

Thanks to you, Upfest 2026 has raised 50% of its goal!

Keep sharing and donating to help them get to 100%

https://www.fundsurfer.com/upfest-2026

Upfest is back but needs your help!

An update for UPFEST 2022

Mar 3 2026

Thank you for your previous support of Upfest!

Have you heard, Upfest is back this summer, 15th until 31st May and we need your help to make it incredible. 

We're 40% of the way there to raising the much needed £10,000 to help us host as many artists as possible alongside providing 5,000 free workshop spaces for 50+ different types of creative workshop for everyone. 

We've spent the last year gaining arts council funding and bringing some sponsors on board, but we're still £10,000 off our target. 

If you can help, you'll be rewarded, check out our list of rewards here 

UPFEST 2026 CROWDFUNDING

Support now, the crowdfunding closes this Sunday. 

Thanks again, we appreciate you all.

The Upfest Crew 

Artwork by Upfest 2026 festival artist: Melo