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Home » Support Our Work » Big Give Match-Funding Campaign

Big Give Match-Funding Campaign

Our Big Give Christmas Challenge 2025 campaign is not open yet, but we want to thank everyone who donated to our 2024 appeal, and helped raise over £20,000 for our mental health project in Rwanda. Your generosity made it possible for a further 250 genocide survivors to receive life-changing counselling. Since the project’s inception in 2017, this brings the total number of survivors helped to over 2,000.

2025 – How You Can Get Involved:

  • Save the Date: Mark your calendar for 2nd to 9th December 2025 and prepare to make your donation during the Big Give online giving week.

  • Become a Pledger: If you are able to, consider committing to be a Pledger for our £5,000 target. Your support will help us unlock matching donations and multiply the impact of every pound.

  • Spread the Word: Help us raise awareness by sharing our campaign with your network. Together, we can inspire more people to join this cause and make a real difference.

If you would like to discuss this further, please contact us by telephone: 0203 951 0863 or via email: information@network4africa.org.

How the Big Give Winter Challenge works

The Big Give Winter Challenge is an annual match funding campaign that Network for Africa has taken part in since 2012.

The initial match funds come from two sources –

  • Network for Africa needs to secure promises of funding (also known as pledges) over the summer (which are then collected in the winter); and
  • A Big Give Champion who contributes to the match fund.

This collective pot is used to double donations from online supporters when the campaign goes live.

Progress So Far

Please see what Network for Africa and our partner SURF have been able to achieve in previous years, thanks to our supporters and the donations they made.

From 2017 to 2023

A counselling group

During this period, you have helped Network for Africa to raise over £158,000 for our SURF project in Rwanda. While the 1994 Rwandan genocide is well known, less understood is the conflict’s lingering impact on survivors’ mental health and therefore their ability to lead normal lives and support themselves. Many orphans had to raise their siblings, some are single mothers, and others have been cheated out of their inherited property by distant relatives and strangers. The funds have helped to train Rwandan counsellors and lay counsellors so they can provide counselling to genocide orphans, in fortnightly group therapy sessions and one-to-one counselling.

In the years 2012 – 2016

You helped Network for Africa to raise over £70,000 for our Patongo Counselling Community Outreach (PCCO) programme in northern Uganda, where the recent civil war left many people traumatised. The PCCO transformed people’s lives by alleviating the effects of post-traumatic stress disorder and its associated social and economic problems.

Our Big Give Champions

Network for Africa is grateful to our Big Give Champions who have helped us to raise large sums of money over the years through their donations:

The Coles-Medlock Foundation | Friends of the Reed Foundation | Human Rights Fund | Reed Foundation – International | The Step Up Fund

Make a Donation

With your financial support Network for Africa can give the counselling training needed to help resourceful and resilient community members leave the harmful legacy of conflict behind.

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Network for Africa UK

14 Saint Marys Street, Stamford
Lincolnshire PE9 2DF

Phone: 0203 951 0863
Email: information@network4africa.org

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PO Box 6609
Charlottesville VA 22906

Email: information@network4africa.org

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Network for Africa is a charity registered in the UK - 1120932.

Network for Africa is a 501(c)(3) and our tax ID is 26-1502938.

Network for Africa is a charity registered in both the USA and the UK, but we use the spelling most commonly used in Africa on this website.

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