What is the Green Match Fund?
Find out how this national initiative will help fund Born Free’s vital tiger conservation work, by doubling your donations between the 18th and 25th April.
This April, we’ve teamed-up with the Green Match Fund to double your donations towards protecting wild tigers in India. For seven days, from the 18th to the 25th of April, Born Free supporters who donate towards our tiger conservation work can have their donations matched by the Green Match Fund. As part of The Big Give, the Green Match Fund aims to support a range of charities – including Born Free – which play a vital role in tackling pressing environmental issues.
We’ve set a target to raise £40,000 in a week for tigers and you can help us reach our goal. Your support will unlock the match-funding tigers need – so for every £10 you give, we will receive £20 to help tigers!
WHAT IS GREEN MATCH?
The Green Match Fund is a fundraising event which takes place each April and is specifically designed to help environmentally-focused charities like Born Free, by doubling the donations made by supporters during the week of the event. It’s part of The Big Give, a platform which offers people the unique opportunity to double the difference they can make in the world for the causes close to their heart.
For a week each April, charities apply to be part of the Green Match Fund, and set a fundraising target for a specific area of work – this year we are raising money to help protect India’s tigers – and during the week, every donation towards Tigers in Crisis made by supporters will be doubled, up to the value of £40,000.
If the target is reached, donations will no longer be doubled but will still be greatly appreciated.
HOW CAN I DONATE?
To take part and have your gift doubled, you need to make a donation to Born Free’s Tigers in Crisis campaign page on the Green Match Fund website between midday on Thursday 18th April and midday on Thursday 25th April. Donations made via the Green Match Fund website during the campaign period will then be doubled!
Please note that donations made offline (such as via BACS transfer or by cheque in the post) or on other websites (including the Born Free website) cannot be doubled, but will be greatly appreciated.
VISIT THE GREEN MATCH FUND WEBSITE
HOW WILL MY MONEY HELP TIGERS?
tigersintheforest.co.uk
Tigers are in crisis. In the past 100 years, 95% of the world’s tigers have been wiped out, and now as few as 4,000 remain.
With ever-growing human populations and shrinking habitats, wild tigers are forced to live increasingly close to people, where they may attack livestock for food and retaliatory killings can occur. Tigers are also killed for their fur and for their bones, and the illegal market in body parts gives a dead tiger high value, meaning an ever-present threat from poachers.
But, there is hope – where we have been working in India, tiger numbers have doubled, and the country is now home to 75% of all wild tigers!
To survive they need connected forests. Central India has one of the largest areas of remaining viable habitat. Born Free works with a network of local partners to protect tigers and their forest homes, and supports local communities to reduce conflict and potential threats.
LEARN MORE ABOUT OUR TIGER CONSERVATION WORK
SAVE THE DATE!
Don’t forget, the Green Match Fund will only double donations made between midday on Thursday 18th April and midday on Thursday 25th April, and they MUST be made via the Green Match Fund website in order to qualify.
With your help and support, we hope to meet our fundraising target of £40,000 which will make a huge difference for India’s tigers.
A future without tigers is simply unimaginable. With your help, our work can make twice the impact this April!