# Community businesses offered up to £6k extra funding through Crowdfunder Crowdmatch - Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2019/11/19/community-businesses-offered-up-to-6k-extra-funding-crowdfunder-crowdmatch/ - Published: 2019-11-19T08:00:28+00:00 - Author: Melanie May **Community businesses can apply for up to £6,000 of extra funding if they use the Crowdmatch function on Crowdfunder to raise cash for their projects before Saturday 30 November.** This is a result of [Community Business Crowdmatc](https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/funds/community-business-crowdmatch) h, a partnership between [Crowdfunder](https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/) and [Power to Change](https://www.powertochange.org.uk), which offers extra funding for successful crowdfunding campaigns that are run for the benefit of their communities. So far, for every £1 pledged by Power to Change, £2.15 has been matched by the local community, increasing the amount of capital raised for community businesses using the programme by 115%. In total nearly £100,000 from 1,019 supporters has been raised for seven community businesses, with an average pledge of £60.53. ## Advertisement [⌊Posthub advert. You create the campaign. We'll handle the postal journey. Get started at post-hub.co.uk.⌉](https://fundraising.co.uk/ads/posthub-20261007-300x250/) These include [Norwich Mustard](https://www.powertochange.org.uk/what-is-community-business/stories/norwich-mustard-2/), and [Equal Care Co-op](https://www.powertochange.org.uk/what-is-community-business/stories/equal-care-coop/) in Halifax. Norwich Mustard saw more than 180 people donate to a Crowdfunder campaign to start Norwich’s own cooperative, community-owned company to produce mustard in the region after Colman’s announced it was moving out of the town, raising £14,000, £6,000 of which was crowdmatched by Power to Change. Equal Care Co-op, which offers fairly paid social care services, raised £22,050 with 198 supporters, £6,000 of which was matched by Power to Change. To be eligible for the extra funds, organisations must meet the four criteria of a community business: * Locally rooted * Accountable to the local community * Trading for the benefit of the local community * Have a broad community impact Eligible community businesses can seek extra funding from Power to Change on a first- come, first-served basis and funding will be allocated by the end of November 2019. [To apply](https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/funds/community-business-crowdmatch), community businesses need to set up their project on the Crowdfunder site and tick the ‘Extra funding’ box. Naomi Sampson, Programme Manager at Power to Change, added: > “This partnership with Crowdfunder has allowed community businesses to raise much > needed funds, but at the same time it has presented people in their local communities > with an opportunity to engage with these businesses where they traditionally might > not have before. > “We encourage any existing community businesses or those with an idea for a community > business to consider starting a Crowdfunding application to appeal to their local > community, with the incentive of having funds matched by Power to Change.” Jason Nuttall, Programme Director at Crowdfunder, said: > “Community businesses have many of the ingredients which help to make crowdfunding > a success, they have strong community support and are usually able to offer some > great products or services as rewards to backers. Coupling that with match funding > from Power to Change all goes to help projects run successful crowdfunding campaigns.” * **[Crowdfunder launches fee-free platform for charity fundraising](https://fundraising.co.uk/2020/02/06/crowdfunder-launches-fee-free-platform-for-charity-fundraising/)**( 6 February 2020) * **[Five tweets for fundraisers on 10 February 2020](https://fundraising.co.uk/2020/02/10/five-tweets-for-fundraisers-on-10-february-2020/)**( 10 February 2020) * **[Fundraising Institute of New Zealand launches emergency international matched funds appeal](https://fundraising.co.uk/2020/08/11/fundraising-institute-new-zealand-launches-emergency-international-matched-funds-appeal/)**( 11 August 2020) ![Loading](https://fundraising.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/page-views-count/ajax-loader- 2x.gif)