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GAH! Too late! The message on the page reads: THIS PROJECT IS FUNDED! Now I feel left out. I could have been in at the start but now I’m pressing my nose against the glass as the funders and the fundees smile inside.

In a crowd. Hence the term crowdfunding.

It works as follows — someone has an idea, they need a few grand to take it to some sort of fruition. It’s not a charity so they can’t walk the Inca Trail or the Sahara. They put their idea on the internet, look for small amounts of money from lots of strangers and friends. In my patchy record I’ve helped fund two books, one DVD, one short film and one documentary.