# UK Aid Match to grant

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2013/10/01/uk-aid-match-grant/
- Published: 2013-10-01T07:05:15+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

The Department for International Development (DFID) has announced the first full
round of its UK Aid Match programme, offering £120 million in grants over the next
three years.

The programme matches donations from the public to charities' appeals for development
activities that address poverty reduction in developing countries. In this way it
is designed to enable "the UK public to have a say in how an element of the aid 
budget is spent".

The full programme follows a pilot phase which match funded 18 public appeals which
ran between Summer 2011 and Spring 2013. Charities including Comic Relief, Sightsavers,
Trocaire Northern Ireland, and Save the Children received grants totaling £42 million.

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In the full grant programme, there will be two funding periods each year for three
years. In each of these, £20 million will be made available. At least £1m from each
round will be earmarked for **small organisations** (those with an average annual
income of less than £1 million).

DFID will match up to £5 million per appeal. To qualify, appeals must be likely 
to raise at least £100,000 and offer "a minimum of 400,000 opportunities for the
general public to view information about the appeal".

[To apply](https://www.gov.uk/uk-aid-match#how-to-apply) organisations must first
submit a Concept Note by email to UK********@******ov.uk by 1 November 2013. These
must relate to public appeals planned to run within the period from 1 March to 30
September 2014.

The second round of [UK Aid Match](https://www.gov.uk/uk-aid-match) opens on 3 March
2014.

 

 

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