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Past Events
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How to Fund Your Studies?

Nov 9, 7-8 pm, Corpus Christi College, Rainolds Room

You have got your first degree and want to move on to further studies? This event will be a panel discussion with two students who ran crowdfunding campaigns to fund their degree, administrative advice on how to apply, and Oxford student representatives from silofunds.com, a platform to help students fund their studies by scholarships and crowdfunding.

Join the Facebook event here!

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The Landscape of Crowdfunding

Oct 26, 7-8 pm, Corpus Christi College, Rainolds Room

Can you make more money from crowdfunding than from your bank account? The dimensions of crowdfunding from alternative financial investments to charity.

  • Dr. John Hoffmire, Oxford University

 

Professional Crowdfunders Talk about the Business

Oct 12, 7-8 pm, Corpus Christi College, Rainolds Room

Panel discussion with representatives from Hubbub, Gofiee, and EdAid.

How can crowdfunding help students to fund their studies? What is it like to build a crowdfunding platform from scratch? Does crowdfunding on branded platforms increase the impact of campaigns?

  • Tom Woolf, EdAid, Founder

  • Yvonne Tay, Gofiee, Founder

  • Brett de Gaynesford, Crowdfunding Legend at Somerville College, Oxford

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Crowdfunding Campaign with Corpus Christi College Michaelmas and Hilary 2015/16

OxFund managed a crowdfunding campaign for the choir of Corpus Christi College to raise GBP 3,000 for a Christmas CD.

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Week 1: Wolfson Innovate Pitch Event from 19:00 to 22:00 on 28th of April 2015 (http://www.wolfsoninnovate.com/).

For the details of the teams who pitched at Wolfson Innovate Pitch, click this link (http://www.wolfsoninnovate.com/#!the-pitches/c19lo)

 

Week 2: The stories of successful crowdfundraisers

Venue: Oxford Launchpad, Saïd Business School, Park End Street OX1 1 HP

Date: 5th of May (Tuesday)

Time: 19:00 – 20:00

The panel will share their fundraising experience with the audiences. How did they hit their crowdfunding targets? 

 

They will share how they marketed their campaigns are how they engaged their target audience. 

 

Panelists:

 

Alexandra Abrahams, the Treasurer of Somerville Women’s Boat Club.

In the Smash and Dominate: The Women’s Boat Club Challenge on Hubbub, Somerville Women’s Boat Club successfully raised £8,300.

 

Andrew Cunningham, the Co-Founder of an all girls' secondary boarding school (www.wisergirls.org) in Kenya, UNICEF Education Consultant and D.Phil student at Department of Education.

Working with WISER in using Facebook to raise funds and awareness, Andy launched a 100 day campaign to raise $25,000 and ended up raising $67,000 last year. In last month, Andy had a 48 hour challenge to raise $5,000 and ended up raising $26,000.

 

Elliot Falvert-Martin, the Alumni and Database Officer at Wolfson College.

In his successful campaign – Tibetan and Himalayan Studies: research and preservation on Hubhub, Elliot helped the Tibetan and Himalayan Studies Centre at Wolfson College raised £50,800 to establish a post-doctoral Research Fellowship.

 

Rachael Owhin, MSc student in Migration Studies.

In the #OXFORD10000 £10,000 in 10 days! campaign on Hubbub, Rachael successfully raised £10,926 to cover the tuition and college fees for her MSc course. Her campaign was reported by Daily Mail and Evening Standard and she was interviewed by various BBC stations, such as BBC Oxford, BBC Bristol, BBC Northampton, BBC Leicester and BBC Derby.

 

Check our blog for a report of this event.

 
Week 3: Which crowdfunding platform should we choose to present our project?

Venue: Oxford Launchpad, Saïd Business School, Park End Street OX1 1 HP

Date: 12th of May (Tuesday)

Time: 19:00 – 20:00

The presenter will introduce different crowdfunding platforms which serve different purposes, for instance education-related initiatives, charitable works, new products and start-ups.

Presenter: Shan Huang, D.Phil student at Department of Education, Founder of OxFund

 

Check our blog for the slide used for the presentation.

 

Week 4: OSEP Workshop: Duncan Knox on Crowdfunding

Venue: Hatch, 37-38 Little Clarendon Street, Oxford, OX1 2HF

Date: 19th of May (Tuesday)

Time: 18:30 – 20:00

This event is organised by Oxfordshire Social Entrepreneurship Partnership (OSEP)

 

Duncan Knox cofounded Hubbub in 2011 with the mission to help everyone involved in education and non-profits to use crowdfunding to do and achieve more. He now leads Hubbub Philanthropy, Hubbub's consulting arm, helping non-profits harness the power of crowdfunding to achieve their fundraising goals. Over the last 4 years he has personally crowdfunded £400K for one of Hubbub's investment rounds. 

 

In this workshop Duncan will discuss crowdfunding and demonstrate how to use his crowdfunding platform, providing tips along the way on how to run a successful campaign. If you would like to attend, please register here.  Refreshments will be provided. 

 

Week 5: Need funding? - Let your college, university and the new university crowdfunding platform know

Venue: Oxford Launchpad, Saïd Business School, Park End Street, Oxford OX1 1 HP

Date: Tuesday, 26th of May

Time: 19:00 – 20:00

 

Have you thought about using crowdfunding to fund your next degree, innovation, entrepreneurial project, charitable work, creative arts or sports club? What support you need from your college, the university and the crowdfunding platform? Speak out and let them know.

 

OxFund invited Jonathan May – the CEO and Co-founder of Hubbub, the Development Offices at Green Templeton College, Keble College, Merton College, Regent’s Park, St Hugh’s College, Somerville College (the only Oxford college with its own crowdfunding platform) and University College, and the staff from ISIS Innovation, who are working with Hubbub to build a Oxford-branded crowdfunding platform for Oxford staff and students to raise money for their entrepreneurial projects, to form a panel to listen to your needs.

 

More colleges' development offices may join, as we are still in the process of confirming. Please check the Facebook event for the updates. Even if your college’s development office is not on the panel, speak out your needs and we will pass them to the development office of your college.

 

Check our blog for a report of this event.

 

Week 6: Crowdfunding for Film, Game & Publishing

 

Venue: Tomáš Halík Room, Harris Manchester College, Mansfield Road, Oxford, OX1 3TD

Date: 2nd of June 2015

Time: 19:00 – 20:00

 

As some point in your life, you may have thought about making a film, short or long, or a game, simple or complex, or publishing something through a publisher or your own website. You may have the expertise to make it happen but are unsure about where to obtain the funds. Maybe you are doing it but need additional financial resources. Crowdfunding may be the answer. To provide some insights into how to crowdfund film, game and publishing, OxFund invited:

 

A Better Place Journal's Co-Founders, Madeleine Lawson and Sophie Caldecot. A Better Place is a new ethical lifestyle website encouraging positive consumer decisions in order to leave the world a better place. They raised £9,020 for building and maintaining its website on Crowdfunder (http://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/a-better-place-journal/).

 

Writer & Director of 'Exit Plan', Richard Oakes. Richard runs a music video production company called Dark Fable Media specialising in VFX. Exit Plan is a sic fiction film about mankind migrating to Mars. He raised £1,580 on Indiegogo (https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/exit-plan/x/10793725#/story).

 

Martin Friar's First Kiss’s producer, Emily Everdee. Emily is a finalist at the University of Oxford and will soon pursue a masters degree in Film Aesthetics. Her short film 'Sally' (2015) was screened at the Ultimate Picture Palace. Martin Friar's First Kiss is about the awkward yet sentimental first kiss experience. The on-going campaign has raised £342 to the date on Kickstarter (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/emilyeverdee/martin-friars-first-kiss-a-short-film).

 

Thea: The Awakening- Final Push!’s developer, Mila 'Yuuki'. Mila is the Writer & Events Designer of MuHaGames. Thea: The Awakening- Final Push is a slavic, witcheresque dark fantasy world of Thea Awakens!, featuring strategic-survival gameplay, story based events & a card minigame! The on-going campaign has raised £1,627 to the date on Kickstarter (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/muhagames/thea-the-awakening-final-push).

 

Check our blog for a report of this event.

 

 

Week 7: How I Raised 1 Million for Natural Disaster Victims - Michael Maher King, Founder of Smile Kids Japan

 

Time & Date: 19:00-20:00 on 9th June 2015

Venue: Oxford Launchpad, Saïd Business School, Park End Street, Oxford OX1 1 HP

 

Michael set up the volunteer organisation Smile Kids Japan (website under reconstruction…) in 2007 to promote sustainable and local volunteering at institutional care facilities (sometimes called orphanages) in Japan. This grew and has helped volunteers set up visits in 25 of the 47 prefectures in Japan, seeing several thousand people volunteer their friendship to kids in care. Following the 2011 earthquake and tsunami that struck Tohoku, Smile Kids Japan joined up with another NPO, Living Dreams, and Mike moved to the area to work full time on this project. Mike and the team raised over $900,000 in the months after the disaster, working with large corporate donors and setting up smaller events, including a 5 kilometre fun run that was carried out in 12 countries on the same day and raised over $100,000. The work was featured on the ITV ‘Tonight' documentary news program, and in national papers. After giving a talk at TEDxTokyo and returning to the UK to study the alternative care system in Japan, Mike was invited by the Japanese Ambassador to meet and talk with the Emperor and Empress of Japan along with other Brits, including Lord Patten, who had been involved in the relief work. 

 

Michael is going to speak about fundraising strategies and will suggest (at least) three concrete ideas for fundraising that can be done before the end of term. These can be used for any charity fundraising, however the focus will be on post disaster, specifically on the situation in Nepal. 

 

 The meeting aims to form a small team who can work on a flash fundraising event before the end of term, though you do not have to participate further if you just want to listen to the talk and learn more about fundraising.

 

Check our blog for the transcription of the talk.

 

Week 8: Crowdfunding Mentoring: How to Prepare Your Crowdfunding Campaign Workshop by Angelica Lindsey-Clark 

 

Time & Date: 19:00-20:00 on 17th June 2015 (Wednesday)

Venue: Oxford Launchpad, Saïd Business School, Park End Street, Oxford OX1 1 HP

 

Crowdfunding Mentoring is a mentoring service provided by OxFund to help students to run their crowdfunding campaigns step by step from launch to finish. The first workshop is run by our guest mentor - Angelica. She just finished her successfully crowdfunding, in which she raised £9203 to rebuild the Somerville Library in Ghana. She will be sharing her knowledge of how to prepare a crowdfunding campaign.

 

To book a place, click going on our Facebook Event https://www.facebook.com/events/1618070128452059/

 

A special thanks to Oxford Launchpad for offering the venue to hold OxFund events in Trinity term!

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