WasteAid joins The Big Give Christmas Challenge – double your impact this festive season

 

This December, WasteAid is delighted to once again take part in The Big Give Christmas Challenge – the UK’s biggest annual match-funding campaign. This is a powerful opportunity for you to double the impact of your donation and help us scale up our work tackling the global waste crisis.

Why this matters

Worldwide, around 1 in 3 people are forced to dump or burn their waste – a harmful practice that spreads disease, pollutes the oceans, and accelerates climate change.

At WasteAid, our mission is to turn that around: we work with local partners to build inclusive, community-led waste management, recycling and circular-economy solutions – protecting the environment while creating sustainable livelihoods in vulnerable communities.

This Christmas, your support has the potential to go twice as far.

How the match-funding works

The Big Give Christmas Challenge uses a “pledge-match” model: participating charities secure a portion of match-funding from their own supporters (pledgers) and from Big Give’s “Champion” funders.

Once the match fund is secured, public donations made through Big Give’s platform during the campaign week are matched pound-for-pound – so every £1 you give becomes £2 for WasteAid.

For example, a £30 gift could become £60 – enough to fund a variety of impactful interventions in communities that need it most.

What your doubled gift can achieve

With your doubled donation, WasteAid can:

• Empower more communities to separate, collect and recycle plastic, organic, textile and electronic waste – reducing pollution, disease risk and climate emissions.
• Support local entrepreneurs via our “Wastepreneur” and circular-economy programmes, enabling people to earn a stable income from waste collection, recycling and reuse.
• Scale up our global reach, ensuring more people benefit from inclusive waste-management solutions, improved public health, and sustainable livelihoods.

Every gift – whether large or small – can help transform lives and protect our planet.

How to take part

Visit our WasteAid page on The Big Give when the Christmas Challenge opens (from midday on 2 December to midday on 9 December 2025).

Choose the amount you’d like to give – and watch your donation immediately double, thanks to match-funding.

Consider sharing the campaign with friends and family – the more people give, the bigger the impact we can make together.

And don’t forget: if you’re a UK taxpayer, tick the Gift Aid box so WasteAid can reclaim an extra 25p for every £1 you give – at no extra cost to you.

Help us reach our mission — together

At WasteAid, we believe in the power of community, collective action, and sustainability. The global waste crisis is vast – but with your support, we can transform waste into value, protect vulnerable communities, and build a circular economy that works for people and planet.

This Christmas, you can help make a world of difference. Give once – create impact twice.

Thank you for being part of the solution.

Support us today