The Big Give: Women and Girls Match Fund

Overview

The women and girls sector is grappling with rising challenges and receives only 1.8% of UK grants from Trusts & Foundations. Our campaign aims to address this by empowering women and girls charities to excel in digital fundraising. They are passionate about helping women and girls to dream freely, achieve proudly, and live boldly. By enhancing digital fundraising skills and confidence, they aim to drive greater support and recognition to these vital projects.

How does the campaign work?

The Women and Girls Match Fund utilises their ‘1:1’ Model of match funding. Women and Girls charities apply to Big Give and have their application assessed. 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 campaign.

• Stage 0: The Raise
  • Big Give starts to secure match-funding commitments from champions.
• Stage 1: Initial application
  • Big Give markets the opportunity to charities. The application involves completing the information for the project charities are seeking to raise funds for.
• Stage 2: Vetting and Notification
  • Big Give completes due diligence checks on all applications and passes them on to a panel of experts who will review and assign Champion funding to charity campaigns. The total amount of Champion funding allocated to a charity makes up their match funding pot for the campaign.
• Stage 3: Marketing
  • Big Give provides a free suite of resources to help support charities to maximise the opportunity and market the campaign.
• Stage 4: Campaign
  • All donations to participating charities are doubled. The Champion funds are used to match online donations. Any donations raised over the overall target count as extra, unmatched, unrestricted donations to a charity’s campaign.
• Stage 5: Post-Campaign
  • Learning and impact assessments are sent out, along with Champion reports and charity reporting requirements.

The Women and Girls Match Fund follows their 1:1 model

When the public donates to a charity through a Big Give campaign, they ask funders (philanthropists, foundations or corporates) to match that donation.

So £50 from a member of the public, becomes £100 for a good cause.

Learn more about match funding works
 

Eligibility criteria:

• UK-registered charity with a Charity Commission, OSCR or NI Charity Commission number, or tax-exempt status
• Have an annual income of at least £25,000 (as per last filed accounts on the Charity Commission).
• Charities which are registered on BigGive.org (free to register).
• Charities seeking to raise either £2,500, £5,000 or £10,000 in public donations (to be doubled by the match funds). Charities are able to use the campaign to raise unrestricted funds.
• Charities working to to improve the lives of vulnerable, disadvantaged or underrepresented women and girls within the UK and internationally.
• Charities that are led by, for and with women and girls. To assess this, they will look at whether your governing documents specifically mentions women/and or girls, whether you have a majority female board, who your beneficiaries are and your web presence (if your organisation has one).
• They would encourage applications from charities that are led by Black and minoritised women and girls, LGBTQI women and girls, or Disabled women and girls. These applications will be prioritised in their assessment process.