# Green Match Fund becomes Earth Raise and opens for applications

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2025/12/23/green-match-fund-becomes-earth-raise-and-opens-for-applications/
- Published: 2025-12-23T11:52:46+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**Earth Raise, a seven-day online match funding campaign dedicated to helping charities
playing a role in tackling pressing environmental issues, is open for applications
from charities wishing to take part in 2026.**

Run by The Big Give in partnership with Environmental Funders Network, it is the
next step in the growth of the [Green Match Fund which was launched in 2021](https://fundraising.co.uk/2021/02/16/applications-open-for-big-gives-new-green-match-fund-campaign/).

Earth Raise is the UK’s largest collaborative environmental fundraising campaign.

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The aim from the start was to curate a portfolio of high-impact environmental charities
and, for one week around **World Earth Day**, double public donations through match
funding from generous philanthropists and funders.

 * **[Big Green Match Fund total up 46% on 2023](https://fundraising.co.uk/2024/04/26/big-give-green-match-fund-total-up-46-on-2023/)(
   26 April 2024) **

Since its inception the Green Match Fund has raised millions of pounds for charities
working to protect our planet. The need for urgent environmental action continues
to grow, so Earth Raise is increasing its ambition.

## How does it work?

Environmental charities apply to Big Give and can select either the 1:1 or Pledge
Model of match funding. Their application is assessed by Big Give and their partners,
EFN.

Selected charities are then awarded a sum of match funding which is ring-fenced 
for their organisation. This match funding is unlocked by public donations given
through Big Give’s online fundraising platform during the week of the campaign.

You can watch an explanation on how Earth Raise’s ‘Multi Model’ works:

_Video: 1:1 Model (Earth Raise)_

Video: Pledge Model (Earth Raise)

Earth Raise’s name is a nod to ‘Earthrise’, “the photograph that launched the environmental
movement”. It was taken on Christmas Eve 1968 by the crew of Apollo 8 and shows 
the colourful, illuminated and fragile planet Earth against a wholly dark background,
rising above the lunar horizon.

[Earth Raise applications](https://biggive.org/earth-raise/) are open until **16
January 2026**.

 * **[Big Green Match Fund raises £2,7 million](https://fundraising.co.uk/2022/05/12/big-green-match-fund-raises-2-7mn/)(
   12 May 2022)
 * **[Big Give’s Green Match Fund raises £8.1 million](https://fundraising.co.uk/2025/04/29/big-gives-green-match-fund-raises-8-1-million/)(
   29 April 2025)
 * **[Big Give’s Earth Raise campaign aims for £10mn for 330 environmental charities](https://fundraising.co.uk/2026/04/10/earth-raise-campaign-for-330-environmental-charities/)(
   10 April 2026)**