Picapatch is a new way to help good things happen in the places you care about.
Explore beautiful illustrated maps of real places. Discover what people are trying to make happen and pick a patch to become a small part of the story.
Your contribution supports the project as a whole. Your patch gives your support a place to belong.
Go on, take a wander.
Community gardens. City farms. Woodlands. Wildlife spaces. Playgrounds. Sports halls. Buildings. And all sorts of places that matter to people.
Every Picapatch project starts with a real place and something positive people want to make happen there.
Take a wander. See what you find
Every place has stories hiding within it.
A pond waiting to be restored. An old barn becoming a workshop. A neglected basketball court getting a new lease of life. A patch of ground becoming a garden.
Wander around the map and discover what’s happening, why it matters and what your support could help make possible.
Found somewhere you care about?
Every available patch on the map is a little piece of the bigger picture, with its own two-word name — for example dragonfly–hawthorn or robin–clover.
You’re not buying the land, and your contribution isn’t restricted to that exact square.
Your patch is simply your place in the story.
Pick your patch and make your contribution.
One patch might help plant a sapling. Twenty might help restore a pond. Hundreds might help transform a whole place.
The important bit isn't how much one person can give.
It's what lots of little patches can do together.
Traditional crowdfunding tends to have one big target.
Real places aren't always that simple.
A project might ultimately need £10,000 — but £2,500 could plant an orchard. £5,000 could restore a pond. £7,500 could create accessible paths.
Picapatch lets projects show you those moments along the way.
So £500 raised isn't a failed £10,000 campaign.
It's £500 that can make something happen.
Where something genuinely can't happen without reaching a minimum amount — buying a piece of land, for example — we'll make that clear before you contribute.
When we feel connected to a place,we’re more likely to care for it.Picapatch is about makingthose connections visible.
FAQs
Picapatch is a new way to crowdfund for places.
We create interactive illustrated maps of community and environmental projects, divided into small patches. You can explore the place, discover its stories and choose a patch to support.
You're making a contribution to the project behind the place. In return, your patch is marked as cared for on the map, with your name (or "Anonymous") and an optional dedication, and it gets its own page you can share.
No. You're not buying or owning the land. Your patch is a connection to it, and a way to be part of the place's story.
Every patch has its own two-word name, like dragonfly–hawthorn or robin–clover. It makes your patch easy to find, remember and share, and once you've chosen it, the name stays yours.
No. Your contribution helps the project as a whole. The patch is where your support shows up on the map, rather than a budget for that exact square of ground.
Not every project needs to hit 100% for something good to happen. Many projects can make real progress at each milestone along the way, so the money raised still goes towards the work.
For projects that genuinely can't proceed without reaching a minimum amount, we'll make that clear before you contribute.
With Flexible Funding, the project uses whatever is raised, and each milestone unlocks something that can happen.
Target Funding is for projects that can't go ahead without a minimum amount, like buying a piece of land. We'll always show which kind a project is before you contribute.
The funding chapter ends, but the place stays. The project page and its map remain, so the project can keep sharing updates and you can see what your contribution became part of.
It stays on the map. Your patch keeps its name, your dedication and its own page, so you can come back to it as the place changes.
Yes. You can pick several patches on the map and support them together in one go. If you'd rather not choose, we can find some for you, and we'll keep them close together where we can.
Yes. You can add a dedication when you check out, and it appears on your patch's page. If you choose several patches at once, the dedication applies to all of them. Each patch page has a link you can share with the person it's for.
Payments are taken securely by card through Stripe and go towards the project you've chosen.
We take a small, 5% commission to help keep Picapatch running. Find out more here.
Yes. Every project is reviewed before it goes live. We check who’s behind it, their connection to the place, and that the project and intended use of funds meet our guidelines.
Our checks aren't a guarantee that everything will go exactly to plan - projects in the real world rarely do - but we want you to know there are real people and a real place behind every Picapatch.
If you have a place in mind and a project that could bring people together around it, we'd love to hear from you. Tell us about it through our Start a project page and we'll get in touch.
Community gardens, city farms, woodlands, wildlife spaces and other places people are working hard to protect, improve and bring to life. Every Picapatch project begins with a real place and a real project.