# Big Give to double donations to 423 charities this week

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2011/12/05/big-give-double-donations-423-charities-week/
- Published: 2011-12-05T09:47:19+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

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Online giving service The Big Give will this week match up to £5 million in donations
made by the public during its Christmas Challenge. The donations are being doubled
by a combination of major donors and charities’ own trustees. The ‘[Big Givers](http://content.thebiggive.org.uk/hidden/big-givers-2011)‘
include the Reed Foundation, ICAP, Garfield Weston Foundation, Candis Magazine, 
the Pilgrim Trust and the Waterloo Foundation.

The Christmas Challenge runs from 5-9 December, with more ‘doubling’ funds released
at 10am every day. This year 423 charities are participating and competing for the
largest share of the funds. The giving starts at 10am today.

This is the fourth Christmas Challenge run on theBigGive.org.uk and, with a target
of £10 million, aims to be the largest to date. Last

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year’s Challenge raised over £9 million, with the first £1 million raised in just
45 minutes.

The Big Give was established by Sir Alec Reed as a platform for charities to showcase
their work and has now evolved into “a website for intelligent giving, where donations
go that little bit further”. Sir Alec himself is pledging £1 million to match donations.

The Big Give say that this is the first time that donors have had the opportunity
to choose from such a wide range of charities and have their donations doubled.

www.thebiggive.org.uk

 * **[The Big Give Christmas Challenge 2012 offers £1 million in matched donations](https://fundraising.co.uk/2012/05/09/big-give-christmas-challenge-2012-offers-1m-matched-donations/)**(
   9 May 2012)
 * **[350 charities take part in The Big Give Christmas Challenge 2012](https://fundraising.co.uk/2012/12/05/350-charities-take-part-big-give-christmas-challenge-2012/)**(
   5 December 2012)
 * **[The Big Give announces The Summer Give matched funding campaign](https://fundraising.co.uk/2015/03/02/big-give-announces-summer-give-matched-funding-campaign/)**(
   2 March 2015)