# Bacs’ Big Break campaign raises £150k for 120 charities

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2013/09/16/bacs039-big-break-campaign-raises-pound150k-120-charities/
- Published: 2013-09-16T09:10:25+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

The Big Break campaign which promotes paying by Direct Debit has raised £150,000
for 120 charities between February and June 2013.

The campaign is run by [Bacs Payment Schemes Limited (Bacs)](http://www.directdebit.co.uk),
the company behind Direct Debit. Charities benefiting include Shelter, Marie Curie
Cancer Care, Freegle, Age UK and Be Child Cancer Aware.

The campaign linked generating more people paying by Direct Debit to donations to
charity. Organisations in a number of sectors were encouraged to promote payment
by Direct Debit, and for each one set up they would make a donation to a nominated
charity.

Charities were selected by a monthly online vote. Members of the public could propose
a charity for the share of a £5,000 donation. During the five month campaign over
120,000 votes were cast. Each month, one charity won £2,000, the runner-up £1,000,
and the remaining money was shared by the other nominated charities.

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Mike Hutchinson of Bacs said that this year's campaign had been the most successful
so far.

 

 * **[Direct Debit is the most valuable type of donation over a year, says Bacs](https://fundraising.co.uk/2013/10/25/direct-debit-most-valuable-type-donation-over-year-says-bacs/)**(
   25 October 2013)
 * **[Big Break campaign to benefit charities](https://fundraising.co.uk/2014/01/08/big-break-campaign-benefit-charities/)**(
   8 January 2014)
 * **[Charity Checkout passes £2 million mark in donations to small charities](https://fundraising.co.uk/2014/11/20/charity-checkout-handled-2m-donations-charities/)**(
   20 November 2014)