The Alpin Charity project, which we labeled under the slogan Parkour Parents go Alpin, developed from an idea of a couple who had their children attend our Parkour Training on a regular base. They liked the Parkour project so much, that they decided to conduct fundraising around them crossing the alps. We were involved in the project and I helped set up an account on a fundraising platform. I also created the website, which contains a blog that they filled with content during their preparations and every evening during their journey.

We managed to get the story into several local newspapers and got quite some attention. However, the funds we raised were quite little. In hindsight, we made several mistakes. The two major ones:

• The cause for which the donations should be utilised was not clearly stated. We basically said something like “supporting and upholding our training of some sort and building new obstacles for our training”. If we had a more specific project, that might have made more graspable.
• The payment methods we offered were too limited. We did not allow for Stripe (due to miscommunication reasons and since it was not clearly enough for us on the crowdfunding website…). So people were initially only allowed to use Visa, which is not that common in German and was potentially rejected by quite some potential sponsors.

So my next crowdfunding project can build on these learnings.

As the project ended, www.parkour-charity.de is now forwarded to parkour project website, where the blog is embedded.