Tag: Big Give Christmas Challenge

Big Give’s 2024 Christmas Challenge raises a record £44.7 million in one week

Stuart Mitchell

Big Give’s Christmas Challenge has become the UK’s biggest public fundraising campaign in 2024 after raising a record-breaking £44.7 million in just one week, marking a remarkable 35% increase from last year’s total of £33 million.The campaign, which concluded at midday on Tuesday, 10 December, attracted over 119,000 donations from the public, with 74% of participating charities meeting or exceeding their fundraising targets and 95% of all available match funds being utilised. This amount raised is particularly notable given the ongoing impact of the cost of living crisis, which has…

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Charities’ “blown away” by the public’s support, as a record-breaking £20m has been raised in the Big Give Christmas Challenge

Stuart Mitchell

The UK’s biggest coordinated Christmas fundraising campaign, the ‘Big  Give  Christmas Challenge’, has broken its fundraising record, as it reveals that a staggering £20.1m has been donated during the  week-long matched funding campaign, which ended  on Tuesday 8th December. The money  raised will be a vital lifeline for the 764 charities that  took part this year, including homeslessnesss/refuge charities, which were the hardest hit by Covid-19. These charities saw the greatest demand in their services, up 81% since the pandemic hit, it was revealed in an  industry-wide report conducted by the…

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