UK Aid Match: appeals matched during 2011-12 pilot phase
Organisation
Name of
appeal
Communications
Partner(s)
Save the
Children
Born to Shine
Opportunity
International
UK
Sightsavers
City AM
Christmas
appeal 2011
Christmas
appeal 2011
Sport Relief
2012
ITV through the “Born
to Shine” series (Aug
2011)
City AM
Comic Relief
Match
Funding
Grant amount
£514,999
Grant purpose
£721,092
Enabling access to financial services for households, farmers
and small businesses in Malawi.
Financial Times
£841,486
BBC and other major
media partners.
£10,500,000
Supporting Sightsavers’ global programmes for improved eye
health services
Improving the lives of people living in urban slums in subSaharan Africa
Improved health and nutrition for women, babies and children
under 5 in Liberia, and Niger.
CAFOD
Lent Appeal
2012
Catholic newspapers,
churches and schools
£9,189,714
Improved access to safe drinking water, sanitation and water
resource management across 8 countries
Trocaire
Northern
Ireland
Lenten
Campaign
2012
BBC Northern Ireland
and the Mirror
Northern Ireland
£900,000
Sustainable livelihoods and land rights promotion in northern
Uganda
Christian Aid
Christian Aid
Week 2012
National, regional and
religious print media,
network of volunteer
door to door
collectors.
£5,000,000
Improved livelihoods and health outcomes in Burma and 6
African countries.
UNICEF
Soccer Aid
2012
ITV
£2,300,000
Improved health and nutrition leading to reduced child mortality
rates in the Sahel region of Africa.
1
Organisation
Name of
appeal
Communications
Partner(s)
Match
Funding
Grant amount
£1,204,360
Grant purpose
Water Aid
The Big Dig
35 commercial radio
stations.
World Vision
West Africa
Appeal
“Cybher” bloggers
network
£367,458
Two Wheel
Appeal
Motorcycle News
£317,385
Islamic Relief
Ramadan
appeal 2012
Google , Emel , Islam
channel
£5,000,000
READ
Foundation
Adopt a
School
Islam Channel
£281,177
Promoting
Equality in
Africa Schools
(PEAS)
Retrak
Progressive
Media Group
Appeal
Mumsnet,
Progressive Media
Group magazines
£621,893
Food aid and building community resilience to future food
insecurity, for people affected by the 2012 Sahel Food Crisis in
Niger, Mali and Senegal.
Training health workers to ride and maintain motorbikes which
enable them to reach and deliver health services to rural
communities in Kenya and Zambia.
Improving food security by improving livelihoods, water and
sanitation and climate change adaptation in Niger, Bangladesh,
Kenya, Yemen, and Pakistan.
Improving school facilities, equipment and sanitation in the
Kashmir region of Pakistan, and training for teachers and other
school staff.
Increased access to relevant, quality secondary education to
children from poor communities in Uganda
Riders for
Health
Zero Appeal
2012
£187,716
Helping street children in Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda to rebuild
their lives, receive education and develop livelihoods skills.
Opportunity
International
2012 Appeal
Banking on
Africa (2012
Christmas
appeal)
Love Food
Give Food
Manchester Evening
News , Manchester
Police & Fire Services
City AM
£2,110,996
Restaurant, Clear
Channel (free poster
advertising)
£805,623
Access to financial services and financial management training
for farmers and small businesses in 6 countries in sub-Saharan
Africa. Target groups for services are women, youth and the
rural poor.
Improved access to food and nutrition for people in Niger,
Burkina Faso and Liberia.
Action Against
Hunger
2
2 projects increasing access to safe water and improved
sanitation, and providing hygiene interventions for poor people in
rural and urban Malawi.
Organisation
Name of
appeal
Communications
Partner(s)
Action Aid
Ready for
Anything
Laithwaite’s Wines
Match
Funding
Grant amount
£1,361,150
3
Grant purpose
Helping people in Afghanistan, Myanmar, Nepal and Malawi to
reduce their vulnerability to natural disasters and climate
change.