# Localgiving to run £5 match fund campaign

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2015/01/10/localgiving-run-5-match-fund-campaign/
- Published: 2015-01-10T12:00:32+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Online giving service Localgiving will run another match fund campaign starting 
at the end of this month, enabling smaller and local charities across the UK to 
double the value of some of their donations.

The #GiveMe5 campaign will double 1,000 £5 donations made during a 24 hour period.
There will be two campaigns, one on Wednesday 28 January and the second on Wednesday
25 February 2015.

The new match fund campaign follows the success of Localgiving’s one-day [Triple Tenner Tuesday](https://www.fundraising.co.uk/2014/12/01/localgiving-triple-1000-10-donations-giving-tuesday/)
campaign with which they marked the [UK’s first Giving Tuesday](https://www.fundraising.co.uk/2014/06/18/giving-tuesday-launches-uk/).
On 2 December 2014 583 groups raised £75,736 in just 24 hours, with donations of
£10 being trebled in value.

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## How to get involved in #GiveMe5

If your local charity would like to get involved in the #GiveMe5 campaign and other
match fund initiatives then it needs to [register for Localgiving membership](https://localgiving.com/gm5).

To be clear, each £5 donation made to a charity during the two one-day campaigns
will be placed into a draw to be doubled with an extra £5 of match funding.

Donations of other amounts will not be eligible for match funding, but of course
will be received by the recipient charity.

So, there is no guarantee that a £5 donation during the campaign will be doubled.
But you can boost your chances of receiving a doubled donation by – you guessed 
it – asking more of your donors to give £5 and inviting them to give more than one
£5 donation. Localgiving’s terms say that donors may make as many £5 donations during
the promotion as they wish.

Even better – “there is no limit to the amount of match funding any single group
may receive”.

 * **[Localgiving partners with NCVO to boost services to smaller charities](https://fundraising.co.uk/2015/04/01/localgiving-partners-with-ncvo-to-boost-services-to-smaller-charities/)**(
   1 April 2015)
 * **[Localgiving offers £5,000 in grants to top 20 #LocalHero fundraisers](https://fundraising.co.uk/2015/04/30/localgiving-offers-5000-in-grants-to-top-20-localhero-fundraisers/)**(
   30 April 2015)
 * **[Localgiving’s Northern Ireland match fund campaign begins this week](https://fundraising.co.uk/2015/05/13/localgivings-northern-ireland-match-fund-campaign-begins/)**(
   13 May 2015)