Campaign finishes

The campaign closed on 6th Sept, having raising just under 50% of the target of £4,444.

There were numerous ups and downs during the campaign. The initial start where we raised over £1,000 in the first week (from friends and family). The second phase did not work out as we lost our main network - the Children of the Sun. 

The third phase was to go back to our original funders for last minute contributions. During this phase, our highest funder came forward with a donation of £500. Wow

Only £320 could be processed through the web, so the remainder £180 was given to me in cash.

On the close you can get downloads from Indiegogo of all the donations and email addresses and postal addresses etc. 

The way the funding works is that whenever any body pays (all done via paypal) a 9% payment of the donation is paid immediately to Indiegogo (from paypal). In addition paypal takes a fee of approx 4%.

So the funding fees were - £169 (on money through Indiegogo/paypal of £1,876) plus the paypal fee of just under £80. I had not budgeted the paypal fees (and had assumed we would raise the target so only budgeted the 4% ie with the 5% refund for successful campaigns).