Crowd funding of civic projects

Spacehive has won David Cameron's Big Society Award for helping local communities to fund neighbourhood improvement projects online. The Prime Minister praised the organisation for harnessing a new trend that allows local people, businesses and councils to spontaneously fund projects.

A total of 58 civic projects worth £1.8m have been funded via Spacehive since March 2012. Most of the schemes do seem to be urban at the moment but the idea might be worth pursuing if you have a project.

Have a look at their website and see if there is any scope for using them for your project.