# Big Church Day Out gives Tearfund enough new donors to fund 1 million meals

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2016/06/09/big-church-day-gives-tearfund-enough-new-donors-fund-1m-meals/
- Published: 2016-06-09T09:58:07+01:00
- Author: Melanie May

**Tearfund recruited enough new monthly donors at this year’s [Big Church Day Out](http://www.bigchurchdayout.com)
festival to fund 1,066,530 meals for people in need.**

 

More than 22,000 people attended the annual music festival in Sussex at the end 
of May, with attendees asked to pledge £5 per month by signing up to Tearfund’s 
[Give Like Jesus campaign](http://www.tearfund.org/disastersappeal). Over the weekend,
enough supporters signed up to the appeal to achieve Tearfund’s goal of helping 
to provide one million meals. Every pledge of a regular gift made at Big Church 
Day Out will be matched for the first 12 months up to the value of Tearfund’s target
of one million meals.

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Tearfund ambassador and chocolatier and pâtissier Will Torrent gave festival-goers
a teff crêpe baking masterclass, learnt during a visit to Ethiopia in April to see
Tearfund’s work. Before his demonstration he spoke of Amarech, a mother of seven,
who he met during his visit and who had been helped by the charity.

 

Torrent said:

 

> “It was incredible to see how Tearfund works through local churches to unlock 
> people’s potential and in doing so, helps them discover new ways to help themselves.
> Seeing the support for Tearfund’s Give Like Jesus campaign this weekend made me
> realise there are thousands of generous people with a real passion to help others
> like Amarech.”

 

Give Like Jesus is also [Tearfund’s first DRTV campaign](https://fundraising.co.uk/2016/04/04/tearfund-launches-first-drtv-campaign/),
and asks people to sign up to a £5 monthly donation to help the charity provide 
food and assistance to those in drought-stricken Africa.

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