# Giving Tuesday UK tour gets underway

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2014/08/06/giving-tuesday-uk-tour-gets-underway/
- Published: 2014-08-06T14:02:34+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Giving Tuesday UK, part of the international movement that invites people to give
their time, money or voice to charity on the first Tuesday in December each year,
will be staging a tour of cities across the UK to spread its message.

The [Giving Tuesday UK](http://www.givingtuesday.org.uk) team hope to encourage 
local charities, groups and businesses to get behind the campaign and start planning
for the day, which this year falls on 2 December.

## Black Friday, Cyber Monday, Giving Tuesday

Giving Tuesday has been chosen to follow and contrast with the major pre-Christmas
shopping days that have been christened Black Friday and Cyber Monday . It asks 
people to do one simple charitable act on the day in the run up to Christmas.

## Advertisement

This is the first year that Giving Tuesday has been promoted in the UK. Already 
120 partners have signed up to the campaign. These include RSPCA, Cancer Research
UK and RNIB. Founding partner companies include Glamour, Homebase, Argos, Mindshare
and Thomson Reuters. UK Fundraising too has supported the campaign in the UK: its
editor [Howard Lake chaired the launch to UK charities](https://www.fundraising.co.uk/2014/06/18/giving-tuesday-launches-uk/)
in April.

Last year #GivingTuesday brought together 10,000 partners globally, from tiny community
groups to huge multi-national corporations like Google and Microsoft. #GivingTuesday
also gained the support of over a hundred well-known individuals including Bill 
Gates, Kevin Bacon and Ringo Starr.

## UK Giving Tuesday tour

The UK-wide tour has confirmed visits in:

 * [Nottingham](http://www.givingtuesday.org.uk/events/givingtuesday-in-nottingham)(
   6 August)
 * Cardiff (13 August)
 * Newcastle (20 August)
 * Bristol (August 21)
 * Leeds (2 September)
 * Edinburgh (15 September)
 * Manchester (23 September)
 * Birmingham (29 September)
 * Glasgow (6 October)
 * Belfast (17 October)

 

The campaign in the UK is being led by the Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) and Blackbaud.

John Low, Chief Executive of the Charities Aid Foundation, said:

> “We’re thrilled that #GivingTuesday is beginning to gather momentum, and we’ve
> already been met with a lot of enthusiasm, in the charity sector and beyond.
> “We’re taking the campaign on the road to grow our partner base even larger and
> make sure we whip up excitement and build support in every single county.
> “In the US we’ve seen some cities really take the campaign up for themselves –
> Baltimore alone raising millions of dollars – and we hope to inspire the same 
> spirit of competition among cities over here”.

 * **[Tesco to partner with two health charities in 2015](https://fundraising.co.uk/2014/09/09/tesco-partner-two-health-charities-2015/)**(
   9 September 2014)
 * **[Over £1.3 million raised on community crowdfunding site Yimby](https://fundraising.co.uk/2014/09/10/1-3m-raised-community-crowdfunding-site-yimby/)**(
   10 September 2014)
 * **[Winners of JustGiving Awards 2014 announced](https://fundraising.co.uk/2014/09/26/winners-justgiving-awards-2014-announced/)**(
   26 September 2014)