Why become a Big Give Champion?
When you want to make a positive change in the world, we have a way to double the difference you can make. By becoming a Big Give Champion, you have the opportunity to focus your personal giving on the causes close to your heart. Whether your passion lies in supporting small, local charities or global NGOs, there is a diverse array of impactful organisations and causes for you to support. You can also consider bringing your current charities on board to amplify the reach of your philanthropy.
What are the benefits of becoming a Champion?
Create your own personal portfolio of high-impact charities
You can support a vast range of causes, from combatting cancer and climate change, giving children the best start in life or protecting endangered animals. Our network of over a thousand charity partners ensures you can choose who you want to support, and your gift will have *double the impact. *Depending on the match funding model, your investment could be multiplied by 4 or even 5 times to support charities.
Our experienced team cover all the charitable due diligence
All checks are done for you, including reviewing charity commission information, charity accounts and reserves. We ensure there is a full audit trail to demonstrate this, so choosing a cause area or specific charity you want to support is simple and easy.
We can work with you directly or with your Donor Advised Fund or Family Office
We work within your requirements, and you can be as engaged as you wish with the charities you support in your portfolio. We tailor your reporting requirements so you can see exactly what impact your philanthropy has had.
Invitations to a range of events with expert speakers
Join our community and engage with fellow philanthropists and changemakers who share a commitment to making an extraordinary impact on the world.
We’re experts in match funding
Since 2008, we’ve had the privilege of collaborating with a diverse range of Champions, spanning from well-established family foundations to esteemed government bodies. Our Chairman, James Reed, recognised with a CBE for outstanding contributions to both business and charity, underscores our commitment to excellence. We are happy to provide additional impact data and case studies for your thorough review.
Marketing and promotion
Our marketing and PR team is committed to showcasing your generosity and support. Through strategic marketing campaigns and targeted PR efforts, we collaborate with you to amplify the campaign’s presence and enhance its impact. Your level of publicity is entirely in your hands, granting you the option to be named publicly or remain anonymous.
How to become a Champion
Choose your campaign
We have opportunities for you to match fund throughout the year, including our biggest campaign, the Christmas Challenge. Don’t see an opportunity that suits you? We’ll work with you to establish your own bespoke campaign. Explore our campaigns in the list below.
Build your charity portfolio
We support our Champions in building a portfolio of charities to match fund. For specialist campaigns, like our Green Match Fund, we partner with sector experts to help establish a pre-selected portfolio of best-in-class charities.
Watch your generosity multiply
We provide you with the tools to track the progress of the campaign and your selected portfolio in real-time and share impact reports with you once the campaign has closed.
Explore our match funding campaigns
The Christmas Challenge is the UK’s biggest collaborative fundraising campaign, which supports a wide range of charitable organisations in all cause-areas. It is our flagship, annual, 7-day online match funding campaign, which raised over £33m for 1,077 charities and facilitated 94,000 donations in 2023.
Funding agreements required by: September 2024
The Christmas Challenge utilises our ‘Pledge Model’ of match funding – it works on a double-matching principle. Charities receive 25% of their target from their Champion funder, provided they have another 25% secured from their own major donor ‘Pledges’. This 50% is then unlocked by public donations given through Big Give’s online fundraising platform during the week of the Christmas Challenge campaign.
With this unique match funding model, Champion funds are multiplied at least 4x to support the work of their selected charities. (In fact, the multiplier is often 5x or more when Gift Aid and additional donations are included).
Become a Champion today and join our community of like-minded changemakers
The Green Match Fund is a 7-day online match funding campaign focused on the environment. The campaign is the UK’s biggest movement in collective environmental philanthropy, which raised over £4.3m for 178 charities and facilitated 22,500 donations in 2023.
The need to increase philanthropic capital flows to environmental organisations has never been more important. Less than 2% of philanthropy is deployed to counter climate threats.
Funding agreements required by: January 2024
The Green Match Fund utilises our ‘multi’ model of match funding. Environmental charities apply to Big Give, and their application is assessed by Big Give and our partners, Environmental Funders Network (EFN). Successful charities are 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 Green Match Fund campaign (coinciding with World Earth Day, 22nd April).
With this unique match funding model, Champion funds are multiplied at least 2x to support the work of a wide range of high-impact environmental organisations; it’s why we’re referred to as the“generosity multiplier”.
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The Arts for Impact Fund is our latest 7-day online match funding campaign, focused on arts and culture charities with social impact. We are partnering with New Philanthropy for Arts & Culture (NPAC), a network of arts supporters who are passionate about increasing philanthropic support of the arts and culture sector. The campaign is aiming to raise £2m in our first year.
Funding agreements required by: December 2023
The Arts for Impact Fund utilises our ‘1:1’ model of match funding. Arts and culture charities apply to Big Give, and their application is assessed by Big Give and our partners, NPAC. Successful charities are 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 Arts for Impact campaign.
With this unique match funding model, Champion funds are multiplied at least 2x to support the work of a wide range of high-impact arts and culture organisations; it’s why we’re referred to as the“generosity multiplier”.
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A 7-day online match funding campaign, focused on charities improving mental health as part of their work. The UK is experiencing a mental health crisis. In a recent survey, 78% of people said the cost of living crisis is impacting their mental health – with increasing problems for those with existing mental health issues. Accessing mental health support can have a huge, meaningful impact on individuals, and their families.
Funding agreements required by: March 2024
Kind²Mind utilises our ‘multi’ model of match funding. Mental Health charities apply to Big Give, and their application is assessed by Big Give and our panel of experts. Successful charities are 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.
With this unique match funding model, Champion funds are multiplied at least 2x to support the work of a wide range of high-impact mental health organisations.
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Our Women and Girls match fund supports high impact, female- focused charities. We are partnering with Philanthropists who are passionate about increasing philanthropic support for the women and girls sector, which according to latest research, receives only 1.8% of funding.
Funding agreements required by: July 2024
The Women and Girls Match Fund utilises our ‘1:1’ model of match funding. Women and Girls charities apply to Big Give, and their application is assessed by Big Give. Successful charities are
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.
With this unique match funding model, Champion funds are mutiplied at least 2x to support the work of a wide range of high-impact Women and Girls organisations.
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When global catastrophes, natural disasters and humanitarian crises strike, our fast-response emergency campaigns help people get what they need in the aftermath.
Funding agreements can be received at any time
The Emergency Fund utilises our ‘collective’ model of match funding. The Collective model is where the total match funding pot is shared between charities. By pooling match funds, every charity in the campaign can benefit from having their donations matched.
With this unique match funding model, Champion funds are multiplied at least 2x to support the work of pre-selected, high-impact disaster-response charitable organisations.
Become a Champion today and join our community of like-minded changemakers
Our bespoke campaign setup is perfect for champions interested in creating their own match fund. With our proven strategies and customisable approach, we’ll help you reach your goals and make a real difference for the causes closest to your heart.
Funding agreements can be received at any time
The Bespoke Fund allows you to choose which match funding model you’d prefer for your campaign.
With our unique match funding models, Champion funds can be multiplied at least 2x, or up to 4 or 5x depending on the model selected. All funds raised will go to supporting the work of your chosen charities.