Crowdfunder

If you raise money for a registered charity, we can automatically claim gift aid on your donations. Gift aid is not available if you raise money for your own cause. When you fundraise for a registered charity, donations are automatically sent to the charity. When you fundraise for your own cause, you will receive the funds directly into your chosen bank account. Whether you're helping a charity grow its impact, or directly helping people in need yourself, your page is making a difference. We ask you to set a target because fundraising pages with targets tend to raise more than those without. But even if you don’t hit your target, you’ll still receive any donations you’ve raised. If you’re raising funds around a particular event, then your page will close 3 months after the event ends. If you’re raising funds outside of an event (typically for a personal cause), your page stays open for 120 days by default. In either case, you can choose to extend your page duration at any time.

You can fund a dinosaur fossil excavation, a historical study of medieval monasteries, or an experiment on the International Space Station. If it helps unlock new knowledge, then we can fund it. We have the technology. Every dollar you contribute towards science helps push the boundaries of knowledge. Backers directly fund the project scientists, so there is no overhead involved (compared 50-60% when receiving a grant at a university). Experiment is an all-or-nothing funding platform. This means the project must reach the funding target, or no one's pledges are charged. Scientists share progress, data, and results directly with backers, many widely available as open access and citeable. As a backer, you'll be able to see how much of a scientific impact you've made.