# Localgiving announces 2017 Local Hero campaign & Small Charity Week Match Fund

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2017/03/22/localgiving-announces-2017-local-hero-campaign-small-charity-week-match-fund/
- Published: 2017-03-22T09:00:28+00:00
- Author: Melanie May

**Localgiving’s 2017 Local Hero campaign opens on 1^(st) April, with every active
fundraising page on Localgiving eligible for a chance to win extra funds,**

 

[Localgiving](https://localgiving.org/) has £5,000 to award in the [Local Hero campaign](https://localgiving.org/what-we-do/campaigns/localhero),
which will be split between the causes supported by the top 20 fundraisers in April.
Participants will be ranked according to the number of unique online donors from
which they secure a donation during April. The top fundraiser will once again receive
£1,000 for their chosen cause, with those in second to fifth place receiving £500,
sixth-tenth place receiving £200, and those in places 11-20 receiving £100 each 
for their cause.

## Advertisement

 

Participants must have an active Localgiving page, and ask people to sponsor them
at any time between the 1st and 30th of April. Each fundraising page will be automatically
included in the campaign and the more people that sponsor the page, the higher up
the leaderboard it will rank.

 

#### Small Charity Week Match Fund

 

Later in the year, in June, Localgiving will also be supporting small charities 
with its [Small Charity Week Match Fund](https://localgiving.org/what-we-do/campaigns/small-charity-week-match-fund).
For one day only, starting at 10am on Thursday 22nd June, Localgiving will be doubling
one-time donations to local charities pound-for-pound by up to £25. Charities and
community groups that are members of Localgiving will have a maximum of £250 of 
match funding available to them.

 

The campaign will take place on Fundraising Day as part of [Small Charity Week](http://smallcharityweek.com/)
2017, launching at 10:00 and running until the fund runs out, or 23:59 – whichever
comes first.

 

To get involved in this event, charities must make sure they have an active Localgiving
membership. All groups with an active Localgiving membership will be automatically
eligible for match funding through the campaign.

 * **[Localgiving’s Local Hero campaign raises over £122k for local charities](https://fundraising.co.uk/2017/05/09/localgivings-local-hero-campaign-raises-over-122k-for-local-charities/)**(
   9 May 2017)
 * **[Grow your Tenner 2017 raises almost £670,000 in a week](https://fundraising.co.uk/2017/10/27/grow-tenner-2017-raises-almost-670000-week/)**(
   27 October 2017)
 * **[Localgiving distributes £100,000 in Magic Little Grants funding](https://fundraising.co.uk/2018/02/02/localgiving-distributes-100000-magic-little-grants-funding/)**(
   2 February 2018)

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