It has been a wonderful, bonkers year at Paved With Gold, we couldn’t be more thankful for our incredible clients.
When we became Kickstarter Experts at the end of 2016, we discovered that the majority of projects were raising between £1,000-£10,000. We’ve helped people raise almost $1.5million, on average raising more than $124,000 over our campaigns. However, we realised that a lot of fantastic projects were raising these smaller amounts and were missing out on valuable support as they just didn’t have the budget. Richard and I made a resolution that we’d find a way to work with even smaller makers than we’d done previously.
We are so excited that we’ve really been able to do that in so many forms this year. From providing free advice through Cultural Enterprise Office, publishing a report on crowdfunding in the UK for Creative Scotland, running our mentoring schemes through Central Research Laboratory and Creative Scotland. We’ve also done more talks and workshops than ever before, presenting for the likes of Royal Conservatoire, Scottish Culture Policies, Visit Scotland , it’s been brilliant.
Alongside our crowdfunding work, we also undertook so many creative projects, we loved producing Longflint’s newspaper, a raft of photography and video for V&A Dundee’s shop in collaboration with Make Works and PR for Makerversity’s cultural programme. All this, while Richard held down the fort for 4 months, while I was off having my son (Thank you Richard Ling!).
We also upgraded Glasgow HQ and got featured in the wonderful Startups Magazine, best year so far?
Thank you everyone for your continued love + support. We’ve many, many exciting things already lined up for 2019 and we cannot wait to get started, but first we’re off to celebrate the holidays with friends and family.
Happy Holidays everyone, and we’ll see you in the new year.