# UK Aid Direct launches first Twitter & LinkedIn pages

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2018/01/22/uk-aid-direct-launches-first-twitter-linkedin-pages/
- Published: 2018-01-22T11:00:21+00:00
- Author: Melanie May

**DFID challenge fund UK Aid Direct launches on Twitter and LinkedIn for the first
time today (22 January).**

 

The channels will support potential and existing grant holders, and provide information
for anyone interested in the delivery of the UK’s development priorities through
the fund.

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[UK Aid Direct](https://www.ukaiddirect.org/) will share information and news from
the fund, updates from DFID and progress towards achieving the Global Goals, as 
well as grantee and beneficiary stories and learning materials through the pages.

 

The UK Aid Direct Twitter handle is [@UKAidDirect](https://twitter.com/UKAidDirect)
and the LinkedIn company page can be found at: [www.linkedin.com/company/uk-aid-direct/](http://www.linkedin.com/company/uk-aid-direct/).

 

UK Aid Direct is DFID’s five-year, £150 million challenge fund designed to support
the UK’s commitments to achieving the Global Goals. It is DFID’s main funding channel
for small and medium sized civil society organisations (CSOs), with grants available
for UK and international CSOs working to reduce poverty overseas.

 

The three grant types currently available are:

 

 * [Impact grants](https://www.ukaiddirect.org/apply/impact/) for between £250,001
   and £4m
 * [Community Partnership](https://www.ukaiddirect.org/apply/community-partnership/)
   for up to £250,000
 * [Small Charities Challenge Fund](https://www.ukaiddirect.org/apply/sccf/) for
   up to £50,000

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