Spruce up a park or start an arts festival: how to raise money for a community project

Create a story for your project – and a future that potential backers can really buy in to. Illustration: Jamie Wignall/The Guardian

Nail your pitch

Whether it is sprucing up your local park’s play area, adding solar panels to your children’s primary school, setting up a community cafe or putting on an arts festival, keep the pitch – and the title – short and focused.