For stuff like this, why don't people just set up their own donation site? The target audience isn't necessarily off-put by other steps, and you can get past the kickstarter fees.
Kickstarter fees are something like 5%, right? (And a further 5% for payment fees, but you'd have to deal with that anyway.)
Out of the goal, that's 125 pounds. How many man-hours do you think it would take to set up the site, test it, secure it, etc? I can't see that ever being worth it for relatively small goals like this! And that's before you even consider that folk are probably more likely to feel comfortable donating to a kickstarter, since they already have an account etc.
The Django Software Foundation and I considered it, but Kickstarter is really well-designed for making new projects and is a trusted brand for payments. Building our own would have taken both time and having to get a merchant account working, which is not a good use of resources, really.
