# First #GiveMe5 campaign raises £25,000 in a day

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2015/01/30/first-giveme5-campaign-raises-25000-day/
- Published: 2015-01-30T07:03:26+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Online giving platform Localgiving’s #GiveMe5 campaign yesterday raised £25,000 
for 365 organisations around the country, in just 24 hours.

The matched giving campaign offered to match fund 1,000 £5 donations made to the
small or local charities that are listed on Localgiving.com. Unlike other matched
giving campaigns, such as that run by The Big Give, the #GiveMe5 campaign was not
available on a first-come first-served basis. Instead, the donations that would 
be matched were selected at random.

![#GiveMe5](https://www.fundraising.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/giveme5.jpg)

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The campaign focused on £5 donations. Other sums could be donated of course, but
they would not be eligible for matching.

My donation to a choral society was not matched, I have just learned. But that hasn’t
detracted from making the gift.

Indeed, #GiveMe5 will return to [Localgiving.com](http://www.localgiving.com) for
one day next month on 25 February 2015, offering the same chance of doubling your
£5 donation.

Localgiving has run [other matched giving campaigns](https://www.fundraising.co.uk/2013/01/03/localgiving039s-grow-your-tenner-campaign-raises-12m/)
including [Triple Tenner Tuesday](https://www.fundraising.co.uk/2014/12/01/localgiving-triple-1000-10-donations-giving-tuesday/)
to mark Giving Tuesday UK.