# 2015 Big Give Christmas Challenge to double donations

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2015/12/01/2015-big-give-christmas-challenge-launch/
- Published: 2015-12-01T09:20:47+00:00
- Author: Melanie May

**The UK’s biggest online match-funding campaign, the annual [Big Give Christmas Challenge](http://www.theBigGive.org.uk),
begins this Friday, with more than 250 charities taking part.**

Back for the eighth year running, the 2015 campaign will double online donations
for two days on Friday 4^(th) December, and Saturday 5^(th) December. It invites
donors wishing to have their donations doubled to visit [www.theBigGive.org.uk](http://www.theBigGive.org.uk)
as close after midday as possible on both days, where they can choose a charity 
to give to.

Donations are doubled on a first-come, first-served basis, with the first tranche
of match funding released at midday on day one, and the second at midday on day 
two.

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Donations are matched by a range of philanthropic organisations called ‘Champions’,
as well as through pledges from the charities’ own major donors. This year’s Champions
include The Reed Foundation, The Childhood Trust, Candis Magazine, and The Lake 
House Foundation.

Alex Day, director of the Big Give said:

> “We are extremely excited about this year’s Christmas Challenge. We know the ‘
> double your donation’ offering proves extremely popular with supporters. We hope
> this year will be a fantastic experience for all of those taking part and raise
> many millions of pounds for some wonderful causes.”

Launched in 2008 by Sir Alec Reed, founder of Reed Recruitment, the Christmas Challenge
has so far raised more than £64 million for 2,271 charity projects.

 * **[Report shows match-funding encourages public donations](https://fundraising.co.uk/2016/07/12/report-shows-match-funding-encourages-public-donations/)**(
   12 July 2016)
 * **[Big Give Christmas challenge raises £7.2 million with record donations](https://fundraising.co.uk/2016/12/09/big-give-christmas-challenge-raises-7-2m-record-donations/)**(
   9 December 2016)
 * **[Big Give announces Send A Cow as overall Christmas Challenge Award winner](https://fundraising.co.uk/2017/02/14/big-give-announces-send-cow-overall-christmas-challenge-award-winner/)**(
   14 February 2017)