Over the past year, we’ve been supporting the Kickstarter team here in the UK. This involves supporting press for Kickstarter prompts, projects and people specifically for the UK audience.
In 2019, Kickstarter started a partnership with the inimitable gal-dem magazine to support more women and non-binary creators of colour to find accessible pathways to raising funds on the Kickstarter platform. In 2020 they were due to take this project on the road to Sheffield, Bristol, Glasgow and Birmingham, everything was set and then the pandemic hit. They waited and waited in the hope we’d be able to do these events in person, but when that didn’t seem likely we started to plan to run these events online.
We decided to keep focussing on 4 regions rather than bringing together everyone in one session. The hope being that people could expand their local networks. Paved With Gold helped to secure a new batch of 12 speakers for the event series including Immy Kaur, Briana Pegado, Heather Marks and Azekel Axelle. We then worked with the gal-dem team to promote the events and create a friendly welcoming circle of creators to join in the conversations on Zoom.
Here, Kickstarter opens up some of the insights and advice from those sessions to all.