{"id":2821,"date":"2018-08-21T15:48:50","date_gmt":"2018-08-21T15:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/?p=2821"},"modified":"2018-09-13T09:45:21","modified_gmt":"2018-09-13T09:45:21","slug":"crowdfunding-a-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/2018\/08\/21\/crowdfunding-a-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Crowdfunding a success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2822\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/files\/2018\/08\/The-Design-stripped-away-e1533740076217-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/files\/2018\/08\/The-Design-stripped-away-e1533740076217-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/files\/2018\/08\/The-Design-stripped-away-e1533740076217.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>A new Crowdfunding platform set up by the University&#8217;s Development Office to support student projects at Kent has successfully raised thousands to build an environmentally sustainable, wooden timber-framed, round building \u2013 using materials taken from the University&#8217;s own coppiced woodland.<\/p>\n<p>This exciting project is to create a teaching, learning, and social space set within an ethnobotanical garden and was initiated by Dr <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/sac\/staff-profiles\/profiles\/conservation-social\/academic-staff\/bride_ian.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ian Bride<\/a>. If Dr Bride could raise \u00a33,000 through the Green Room &#8211; From Tree to Building Crowdfunding campaign, the University would match-fund the amount.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We raised well over the \u00a33,000 target in a matter of weeks and thanks to generous match-funding this ambitious and ground-breaking project will enter the building phase at the start of next term,&#8221; said Alex Perkins from the Development Office.<\/p>\n<p>There will now be a further launch to coincide with Freshers Week and the Development Office will now be working with Kent Union to choose student-led projects to fund raise through the platform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new Crowdfunding platform set up by the University&#8217;s Development Office to support student projects at Kent has successfully raised thousands to build an environmentally &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/2018\/08\/21\/crowdfunding-a-success\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40284,"featured_media":3133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124,6600],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2821"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40284"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2821"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3135,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2821\/revisions\/3135"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}