HOW TO GET YOUR HANDS ON OUR MONEY.

Once you’ve submitted your idea it will be sent around all of our Selectors,
each of whom will pick a set number of ideas every 3 months depending on how
much money we have in the bank. This is not a committee - the Selectors do not meet,
and each Selector makes their decision entirely independently of the others.

The first round of funding will take place at the start of July 2008, with an
application deadline of 2nd July 2008. All applications received after this date
will be put into the following round of funding.

Once it has been decided which ideas will receive funding we will contact all
applicants to tell them the outcome of the selection process, and send all
successful applicants their £50 by post, in cash, transfer or PayPal.

More about the Selectors

The founding Selectors are a rum bunch from a variety of backgrounds - film people,
TV people, art people, event people, law people and design people. But they
share a love of ideas and a passion for the Fund. They have all helped create this Fund
in some way. Once the Fund gets to a reasonable size we will start replacing these Founding
Selectors with a number of successful applicants who’s ideas really excel,
so that it’s totally self-governing.

As with your application, it doesn’t really matter who they are, it’s their ideas that matter. So by way of introduction here are each of their £50 quid ideas. Think you can do better? Come on and apply!:

Sam

“i will make all the words to the song oliver’s army by elvis costello in badges…

and then pin them onto a leather bomber jacket / or a cape…

funds permitting i might make the whole album…

don’t know which one it is though…

it is the music i’ve been listening too while painting my shelves and it
is very good.

alternatively i could do evidently chickentown (my favouite song at the
moment) and pin them onto a rubber chicken! that might be better. you
can choose.”

Al

“Here goes…

If I was awarded £50 from the £50 Danger Fund I would first turn it into 100 X50p pieces. I would then go to Oxfam and buy a guitar (£1) and a voluminous hat £(1)

I would then make my way to Waterloo Station, set up a pitch and begin ‘Reverse Busking;’ ‘Reverse Busking’ is the process by which you musically entertain passers by whilst encouraging them to TAKE 50p rather than give; once all the 50p were gone I would continue playing and wait till the hat filled up again. When it had got to £50 again i would then repeat the process as before, giving the money back out in the form of an unexpected gift. This process would be repeated until people started filming me on their phones, I made it onto London Tonight and clips were uploaded onto YouTube. Once I had a million clicks I would then sell the footage to Charles Saatchi, the proceeds of which would be donated to Great Ormond’s Street Children’s Hospital.”

Joel

“So…

I thought it would be a good laugh to find a car somewhere in town with
a parking ticket on it, still stuck on with the little yellow envelope
under the windscreen. Before the driver arrives back, put another little
yellow envelope under the windscreen with £50 in (which is the exact
amount to cover the fee!). A simple, fun, little good deed that should
confuse the hell out of the parking offender.”

Oli

“Okay, the thinking is to hold a new summer music festival to compete in the ever burgeoning market - the venue, Hyde Park; the appeal, it’s free!

In terms of who would play, you post on the website a call for submissions - upcoming bands who are unsigned and are prepared to play an acoustic gig to get some coverage. It will indeed be more a glorified picnic, but with HUGE potential.

The fifty quid would be spent thus:

£10 - printing A4 flyers which would be posted all around London to market the new Hyde Park festival for the summer, giving directions and pushing that it is is FREE!

£15 - picnic rugs, pretty things to make the thing look nice and also some cordon tape to section off the ’site’… fun can be had there…

£25 - a ‘float’ for booze - you buy this amount of alcohol to sell to the first wave of the crowd…

So you could have either one or two ’stages’ where you would have a schedule of live music (acoustic as mentioned above), stand-up comedy, mime, whatever the fuck you like…”

Noreen

I would like to fly poster flies around town, and use them as a form of rating. The worse the commercial the more flies on the crap.

Andrew

[awaiting idea]

Mike

[awaiting idea]