# The Big Give Christmas Challenge in numbers

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2017/11/29/big-give-christmas-challenge-numbers/
- Published: 2017-11-29T13:22:17+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**This year’s Big Give Christmas Challenge has raised over £4 million on its first
day. Here are more statistics on this year’s campaign, and past Christmas Challenges.**

 

[The Big Give](https://secure.thebiggive.org.uk/) was founded in 2007 by Sir Alec
Reed, founder of reed.co.uk, and has helped to raise £83 million for UK-registered
charities. The platform enables you to discover charities and projects of interest,
make donations, and offers the opportunity to double your donations through match
funding campaigns run throughout the year.

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## Big Give Christmas Challenge 2017

 

This year’s Christmas Challenge was timed to launch on Giving Tuesday.

 

The stats so far are:

 

• First 5 mins: **£500k**

 

• First 15 mins: **£1m**

 

• First hour: **£1.8m**

 

• Midnight of the first day – **£4,042,201** from **9,068** donations.

 

This year **550 charities** are taking part, nearly 200 more than last year.

 

> The [#ChristmasChallenge17](https://twitter.com/hashtag/ChristmasChallenge17?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)
> is now LIVE! We are doubling [#donations](https://twitter.com/hashtag/donations?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)
> for a limited time only. 500 [#charities](https://twitter.com/hashtag/charities?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw);
> One donation, twice the impact. [https://t.co/2R9EHP5nKL](https://t.co/2R9EHP5nKL)
> [pic.twitter.com/2qHR91g6o5](https://t.co/2qHR91g6o5)
> — Big Give (@BigGive) [November 28, 2017](https://twitter.com/BigGive/status/935478632872472576?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

 

 

 

## Christmas Challenge 2016

 

• First five minutes: **£1,007,277.50**

 

• Total after seven days: **over £7.2m** for **332 charities**

 

 

 

## Christmas Challenge 2015

 

• Total **£7.2m** raised for the **258** participating charities. 

 

 

 

## Christmas Challenge 2014

 

• Total **£11.2m** raised for **367 charities**.

 

 

 

## Christmas Challenge 2013

 

• Total **£11m** raised for **387 charities**.

 

## Christmas Challenge 2012

 

• Total **£10.5m** for **350 charities.**

 

 

 

## Christmas Challenge 2011

 

• Total **£12m** raised for **424 charities.**

 

 

 

## Christmas Challenge 2010

 

• Total £9.3 million raised for 323 charities.

 

## Christmas Challenge 2009

 

• Total **£8.5m** raised for **175 charities.**

 

 

 

## Christmas Challenge 2008

 

• First 45 minutes: **£2m** for **240 charities**

 

 

 

## 2007

 

The Big Give website was launched in October 2007.

 

## Other match funding campaigns

 

There are plenty of other fundraising achievements for The Big Give. This year alone
has seen:

 

• March: Emergency match fund for East Africa raises **over £445,000**

 

• April: Match funding campaign for Marlborough College raises **over £264,000**
to restore its memorial hall

 

• May: ‘[Summer Give](https://fundraising.co.uk/2017/05/24/childhood-trusts-summer-give-raises-778000-london-children/)’
match funding campaign for vulnerable London school children run in partnership 
with Childhood Trust raises **£778,680**

 

• June – September: [Grenfell Tower appeal](https://fundraising.co.uk/2017/09/07/big-give-grenfell-appeal-raises-2-6m-biggest-ever-total-individual-cause/)
launched in partnership with The Kensington & Chelsea Foundation raised **over £
2.6 million**

 

• October: Emergency match fund for Rohingya people fleeing Myanmar raises **over
£242,000**

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