Does the claim “We are currently due to run out of funding next month” include the £62,500 donation? It seems like not, but you didn’t insert any caveats about that into your claim. At any rate, what’s the situation for marginal funds? What do you anticipate getting cut if you don’t meet your goal, and what would you do with funds over your budget (or will you just stop accepting donations)?
Unfortunately the £62,500 donation is only a ballpark figure at the moment and won’t be confirmed until late December or January. Sorry that I didn’t make this clearer.
The first thing that would be cut from the budget is an external publicist for Will’s book. We would have to rely on Penguin to do much of the publicity, and we would do as much as we had time for in-house as well. I would probably want to fundraise additional funds to hire a summer intern to help with marketing and pitching media outlets in this case.
You can see the full list of everything that we could fund if money was available in this spreadsheet (which uses this now-outdated documentation). The budget that we are using to fundraise includes only a small fraction of these opportunities, as they are the ones that we most wanted to fund.
At time of writing, we need an additional £15k on top of our current pledges to be able to fund our top priorities except Will’s publicist. Paying for Will’s publicist would require another ~£19k on top of that.
Unfortunately the £62,500 donation is only a ballpark figure at the moment and won’t be confirmed until late December or January. Sorry that I didn’t make this clearer.
The first thing that would be cut from the budget is an external publicist for Will’s book. We would have to rely on Penguin to do much of the publicity, and we would do as much as we had time for in-house as well. I would probably want to fundraise additional funds to hire a summer intern to help with marketing and pitching media outlets in this case.
You can see the full list of everything that we could fund if money was available in this spreadsheet (which uses this now-outdated documentation). The budget that we are using to fundraise includes only a small fraction of these opportunities, as they are the ones that we most wanted to fund.
At time of writing, we need an additional £15k on top of our current pledges to be able to fund our top priorities except Will’s publicist. Paying for Will’s publicist would require another ~£19k on top of that.