We are looking for ‘pledgers’ for our Big Give Christmas Campaign! Can you help us?
A pledger is a donor who is able to give a larger sum in a strategic and effective way. It’s a great way of making your money go further, as pledge gifts effectively quadruple in value throughout the campaign:
What’s this all about?
Christmas might seem a long way off, but we are already making plans to join the Big Give Christmas Challenge. The Christmas Challenge is the UK’s biggest match-funding campaign, and has proved to be an immensely successful platform for us to raise funds for some of the world’s most vulnerable children.
This year we are hoping expand the provision at our Casa Club centre in Guatemala and reach more children who are very vulnerable, and at risk of being recruited into gangs. We plan to expand our existing provision so we can reach at least 100 children in the next 12 months, including renovating our existing premises so we can offer more places to the many children on our waiting list. The Casa Club offers daily educational support, counselling, workshops and sports activities – a therapeutic space in which street-connected children can thrive. Offering a safe, consistent environment with positive role models is a strong protective factor against gang involvement and street influences.
We want to raise £60,000 through the Big Give Christmas Challenge later this year to launch this new project. Our first step is to raise £15,000 in pledges from individuals. A pledge is a promise to pay a given sum at a later date. We are looking for people able and willing to pledge a minimum of £1,000 before the end of August 2025. The money will not need to be paid to Global Care until after the Big Give Christmas Challenge ends in early December.
Pledge funding leads to champion funding
Once we have sufficient pledge funding, we use this to attract Champion funding from philanthropists working through the Big Give. These two types of gifts then comprise the match funding pot offered to donors during the Christmas Challenge. Champion funds are only awarded up to the total of a charity’s pledges, so confirming pledges is a really important first step.
If you would like to become a pledger on behalf of marginalised children in Guatemala City you can make your pledge on the Big Give website. This Christmas, you would see your donation effectively quadruple in value through the course of a successful Big Give campaign.
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