Site Updates - Help Fund MedBud's Future: Donations Reopened • MedBud™ Community

MedBud has long become the most dependable and reliable medical cannabis information platform across the UK; pushed forward by years of over full-time volunteer hours. Our mission is to independently and impartially document the entire UK medical cannabis industry - to better inform patients, clinicians and the greater industry alike.

In order to reach our goal of enough income to employ full-time staff (while currently being grossly over-stretched) - we urgently need to find better dependable monthly funding.

We're relaunching our donations platform, powered DonorBox – and we're now able to accept donations by credit/debit card, PayPal and direct debit - either as a one-off donation, or on a monthly basis.

We try to to provide as much transparency as possible on how we operate, and have just updated our donations page with details on our current monthly overheads, expected future staff costs, and documenting the estimated current income to our organisation.

Any forum members donating are now given a special supporter/donor title, which we've just backdated from all historic donations wherever we can find an email address matching a forum account. Huge thanks to @Marc Landers, @MigraineMan, @Liiam, @Living through Haze and @DOBBIN for helping get us to where we are today

We truly appreciate any and all support from patients, clinicians and the industry alike

MedBud™ is a non-profit organisation founded in January 2022, we've survived so far solely from the generosity of donations. We've struggled through our rise to become the most dependable UK medical cannabis information platform, based solely upon the dedication of volunteers. We urgently need to hire full-time staff to help manage our ever-increasing daily workload.

Before long, we hope to allow advertising banners and to start offering industry services to help secure our future funding. For the moment, we're solely dependent upon donations.

We're launching our fourth call for funding and donations. The first in February 2022 kept us funded throughout our first 6 months until September 2022. Our second call for donations in November 2022 carried us through until spring 2023. Our 'Foundation Fundraiser' launched 20th April 2023 both managed to ensure our incorporation - and has kept us funded for over a year, with a couple of companies pledging recurring monthly donations of several hundred pounds.

Right now, our overheads are set to surpass our donation income once again – we urgently need to improve funding to secure our future stability, dependability and success. We appreciate any and all support from patients and industry alike.