matched giving

The Localgiving.com Spring for a Year campaign has raised over £20,000 plus Gift Aid for local charities and community groups in Sussex in just three days.

First Direct, the division of HSBC Bank plc, has launched 'the first conversation appeal' to help fund ChildLine's Schools Service.

The UK government's Aid Match scheme will match fund public donations to ActionAid's 'Ready for Anything' campaign which starts next week.

Local charities in England have received a total of £1.2 million through Localgiving.com's Grow Your Tenner campaign which matched small donations.

The Big Give Christmas Challenge 2012 gets underway tomorrow at 10am, with the aim of doubling online donations to hundreds of charities to match pledges from the charities' major donors.

Localgiving.com, the online giving site which supports local charities and community groups, is offering to match up to £10 of donations made, up to £500,000.

The UK government's Department for International Development is to match fund UK public donations to Islamic Relief's 2012 Ramadan appeal, up to £5 million.

Telecomms company Vodafone is urging its employees to raise £1 million for UK charities over the summer using JustTextGiving, the mobile giving service it has developed and funded in partnership with

Online giving service The Big Give Christmas is to match up to £1 million in donations to charities via its site in its 2012 Christmas Challenge.

Localgiving.com's latest matched giving campaign reached its target of £375,000 in just two days.