News Published: 12 December 2024

The BigGive Christmas Challenge is the UK’s biggest collaborative fundraising campaign, championing a wide range of charitable organisations. Whatever the cause, from global poverty to gender equality, from climate change to mental wellbeing, every donation has the power to be doubled. Enabling thousands of charities to make an even bigger difference.

Our campaign ran from the 3rd -10th December 2024 with donations going towards our Global Botanic Garden Fund. The GBGF drives plant conservation, especially focusing on under resourced gardens from high biodiversity areas of the world. The fund disburses between 30-40 grants per year, each individual grant ranges from USD$1,000-10,000 (depending on the grant). To date, BGCI has disbursed 180 grants totalling USD$631,000.

We are delighted to say that we smashed our target and raised a total of £20,210 for plant conservation! If you missed it don’t worry, you can still donate to the Global Botanic Garden Fund.

A huge thank you to everyone who donated and, of course, to The Reed Foundation who generously providing matched funding.