matched giving

Localgiving.com will match fund £375,000 in donations to local charities across England during March. Each charity can have up to £2,500 in donations matched.

Localgiving.com, the online giving service for small local charities and community groups in the UK, today begins its Christmas Match Fund.

Standard Chartered and the UK Government will each double the value of donations from UK readers to this year's Financial Times Seasonal Appeal in aid of Sightsavers.

The University of Leeds' Big Match campaign has generated nearly £25,000 in pledges from alumni in just over a week, with £11,000 of that being raised on one night (26 October).

In response to the typhoon, a tsunami and two earthquakes that struck parts of the Asia-Pacific region within five days of each other, philanthropist Alec Reed created a matched fund on theBigGive.org

The project to rebuild Belfast's Lyric Theatre has received a boost with the offer of a £500,000 grant from a US-based charitable foundation, on the condition that the theatre raises £800,000.

The Clydesdale and Yorkshire Bank has launched a matched giving Christmas fundraising campaign to support local hospices through Help the Hospices.