Double your donation to Unfolding Theatre in Big Give’s Christmas Challenge 2022
Unfolding Theatre are taking part in the Christmas Challenge to raise £2,000 in just 1 week! These funds will be used for A Street Like This, a new music theatre production developed with 30 community co-creators in Sunderland.
Inspired and led by the interests and ideas of the community co-creators, A Street Like This explores the theme of unexpected friendships and the value of establishing connections with people from different political persuasions, backgrounds and ages. In the context of widening social divisions, A Street Like This is a timely production and group brings together a diverse range of people, including Brexit campaigners and Remainers, people aged 16 to 70+ and from a range of social economic backgrounds.
Unfolding Theatre will connect the residents from Sunderland with high-quality co-creation processes. A Street Like This will be an inventive mix of song, original music, electronic soundscapes and theatrical performance.
This artistically ambitious project promises to develop Unfolding Theatre’s co-creation artistic practice, ensuring that the community co-creators engage with every element of the creative process to shape an insightful, remarkable performance that will reach 2,750 audiences.
Donations to A Street Like This will be generously matched by The Big Give’s Champions during the campaign.
Michael Barrass, Executive Producer at Unfolding Theatre said:
“This year we’re looking to raise a total of £4,000. In order to access the £2,000 we have in the matching pot, we need to raise £2,000 in online donations. We hope everyone will give generously to help us reach our target, enabling us to work with the community in Sunderland and create something incredible for audiences to engage with.”
How can you get involved?
Visit theBigGive.org.uk and make a donation from 12pm (midday) on #GivingTuesday (Tuesday, 29th November). The campaign will close at 12pm on Tuesday, 6th December.
Set a reminder and add our campaign page to it so you remember not to miss your chance to double your donation.
About the Christmas Challenge
Big Give runs the UK's biggest match funding campaign, the Christmas Challenge.
For seven days, it offers supporters of participating charities the opportunity to have their donations doubled. Founded by entrepreneur and philanthropist Sir Alec Reed CBE, the Christmas Challenge has raised millions of pounds for thousands of charity projects since it first launched on the Big Give in 2008.
The Christmas Challenge is a match funding campaign where donations to participating charities are doubled. The match funds come from two sources - charities secure some of these (Pledges) over the summer. The funds are then boosted by funds from a Big Give Champion who contributes to the match fund pot. The collective pot is used to double donations from online supporters when the campaign is live.
#ChristmasChallenge22 // One donation, twice the impact.
About the Big Give
Big Give is a registered charity (1136547) whose mission is to promote causes and inspire people to give through theBigGive.org.uk, a crowdfunding platform for charities specialising in match funding.
Big Give features over 10,000 charities and has worked with some of the biggest names in UK philanthropy which provide match funding, including The Big Lottery Fund, Cabinet Office, People’s Postcode Lottery, ICAP TP, Candis Club Magazine, EQ Foundation, The Reed Foundation, The Childhood Trust, DCMS and others including high-net-worth individuals.
Since being founded by the entrepreneur and philanthropist, Sir Alec Reed CBE in 2007, Big Give has helped to raise over £190 million for UK-registered charities through online match-funding campaigns.
Big Give’s annual flagship campaign, The Christmas Challenge, is the UK’s biggest online match funding campaign. The Big Give has also run several cause-focused match funding campaigns, including raising £2.6m following the Grenfell Tower fire in 2017 and £3.8m for the DEC Ukraine Appeal.
Big Give has been awarded the 2015 Third Sector Award for ‘Best Charity Partnership’, the 2014 Charity Times Award for 'Fundraising Technology', and the 2013 Digital Giving Technology4Good Award and was nominated for ‘Best Use Of Digital’ in the National Fundraising Awards 2018.
Big Give is generously supported by reed.co.uk, which helps to provide a cost-effective service for both charities aiming to raise funds, philanthropists wishing to leverage their giving and individuals wishing to donate money online.