Big Give Christmas Challenge
and Giving Tuesday

There's a great chance for us to really grow acorns into trees, as it were, with the Big Give's Christmas Challenge 2025!

This is a HUGE event and a chance to double whatever you can donate to a charity of your choosing.  Truly Christmas magic!

This double effect runs between 12pm midday on the 2nd December and 12pm midday on the 9th December 2025 UK time.

The Christmas Challenge champions a wide range of charities and their causes. Every donation has the power to be doubled. - charities can make an even greater impact!

There are many different categories e.g. Health/Wellbeing, Hospitals/Hospices, Mental Health, Homeless/Refuge, Sports/Recreation, Armed Forces/Emergency Sevices, Disaster Relief, Cancer and Arts/Culture/Heritage to name a few.   The “Filter” button will help you find the sort of charity you want to help.

To help you, we've put the links to the Animal Charities and the Environment/Conservation charities below. You'll see that some charities are in both groups!

If you can, please donate

Whether you can or cannot donate please...

Share so that others can have the chance to donate and double their impact

1. Find out more about the charities involved

2. See what else you can do to help

3. Increase your knowledge by finding out more about them

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Some of the charities taking part in this year's Big Give Christmas 2025 include:

• The Ferne Animal Sanctuary: Winter Welfare

• Forever Hounds Trust: Help a hound

• RSPCA Bath & District Branch: Transforming lives with trust and love

• OneKind: Turning compassion into Action for Animals

• Ebony Horse Club: Riding towards a brighter future

• Retraining of Race Horses: Retraining of Racehorses welfare programmes

• Hearing Dogs for Deaf People: Help us create more life-changing partnerships

• Veterans with Dogs: Saving lives, one wet nose at a time

• Cotswolds Dogs & Cats Home: Gift a second chance this Christmas

• Canine Partners: Help us train more life-changing assistance dogs

• By 8 Below Husky Rescue: Pounds for Poundies Appeal

• Together for Animals: Give the gift of a better life to animals in need

• Streetvet: Pets = Life GIve the Gift of Care and Companionship

• Fetcher Dog: Rescue to rehome!

• Windmill Hill City Farm: Give local children a chance to grow

• Park Lane Stables RDA: Ho! Ho! Hay! Support our stables this winter

• Traffic International: Stop Wildlife Trafficking, Save the Wild

• The Chesterfield Canal Trust Limited: Restoring our canal for Wildlife and Community

• Suffolk Wildlife Trust: Mission 2030 Christmas campaign

• Beaver Trust: Beavers in Britain? Yes, we can!

• Margaret Green Animal Rescue: Specialist vet and behaviour care = brighter futures

• David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation: Ivory: Still on Demand

• Friends of the Earth Charitable Trust: Make big polluters pay ore for a better future

• Suffolk Wildlife Trust: Mission 2030 Christmas campaign

• Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust: Action for Wildlife

• Sea Life Trust Limited - Cornish Seal Sanctuary - Fund our Future

• Shepreth Wildlife Conservation Charity - SWCC Hedgehog Hospital

• Pelorus Foundation: Help protect the Javan Rhino from Extinction

• Northumberland Wildlife Trust; Wonderful Water voles

• Save the Rhino International: Paws on patrol: dogs saving rhinos

• Bats without Borders: Classrooms without walls (CwW)

• Friends of Westonbird Arboretum: Westonbirt Arboretum, a space for our times

• CPRE: Speaking up for Fairer Land Use

• International Otter Survival Trust; Otter Conservation and Training Workshop, Chile

• Earth Trust: Help Winter Wildlife Thrive

• Tusk Trust Ltd: Aquatic Africa

• Brent Lodge Wildlife Hospital: Give a second chance to hedgehogs

• Friends of Inti Wara Yassi: Protect Wildlife in the Bolivian Amazon

• Wildlife Vets International: Putting animal health at the heart of conservation

• Worcestershire Wildlife Trust: More Woodland for Wildlife

• People for Animal Care Trust (Pact): Small Lives Matter - Wildlife Recovery Project

• Wild Trout Trust Limited: Healthier rivers for people and wildlife

• Cheetah Conservation Fund UK: Empower Communities, Save Cheetah Cubs

• The Glacier Trust: Help Nepalese farmers adapt to climate change

• The Pangea Trust: Create a sanctuary for Europe's elephants in need

• Argyll and the Isles Coast and Countryside Trust: Save nature, connect people

• Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland: Unlocking the plants of the past

• Royal Zoological Society of Scotland: helping people and wildcats thrive together

• RSPCA Warrington Halton and St Helens Branch: RSPCA WHS Campaign for Replacement Vehicle

• Yorkshire Dales Rivers Trust: Rivers2U Big Give Christmas 2025

• The Rivers Trust: Fixing Rivers - together

• Whitley Fund for Nature - Support Grassroots Conservation

• Space for Giants: Help save Africa's wild spaces

• The Born Free Foundation: Comfort and Joy - Enriching rescued animal lives

• Devon Wildlife Trust: Farming for nature's recovery

• RSPB: Help ensure Turtle Doves aren't just for Christmas

• Herts & Middlesex Wildlife Trust: Protect local woodlands

• Scottish Wildlife Trust: Saving Scotland's red squirrels

• Southern Thailand Elephant Foundation: Free Veterinary Care for Endangered Elephants

• The Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire: Ancient Woodlands - Wilder Future Fund

• Scotland: The Big Picture: Making rewilding happen for nature, climate and people

• Wild Oxfordshire: Community Meadows and Margins

• River Action UK; Help us rescue Britain's rivers from pollution

• Campaign for National Parks: National Parks - now and forever

• Gwent Wildlife Trust: Winter Action for Wildlife

• Surfers against Sewage: The People vs Plastic. Time to take on polluters

• The Rainforest Foundation UK: 'Tis the season to tackle rainforest threats

• Borneo Nature Foundation International: Kids! The future of conservation

• The Shark Trust; Help our ocean wanderers: Indian Ocean Appeal

• Bat Conservation Trust: A voice for bats

• Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust: Dead Wood Society

• WWT: Protect wetlands and wildlife against climate change

• Garden Organic: Staying alive: the people's seed bank

• Lake District Foundation: First aid for Lake District Fells

• Soil Association: Boost trees on farms and protect nature and climate

• Hope for the Future: Connection Communities for Climate and Nature

• Sumatran Orangutan Society: Help critcally endangered orangutans thrive

• Kent Wildlife Trust: Wider Blean: Wilder Woodlands

• Surrey Wildlife Trust: Hope for Habitats

• Butterfly Conservation: A future for the Dark Bordered Beauty

• Orangutan Foundation: Celebrating 35 years of orangutan conservation

• Fauna & Flora: Restoring Romania's ecological connectivity

• Pollinating London Together: Support urban pollinators and their environment

• The Reef-World Foundation: Christmas Coral Conservation Appeal

• Epping Forest Heritage Trust: A thriving Epping Forest for people and nature

• Essex Wildlife Trust Limited: Wilder Wrabness

• Sand Dams Worldwide Limited: Protecting livelihoods and ecosystems in Ethiopia

• Western Sussex Rivers Trust: Action for our Riverscapes

• The Earth Community Trust; Let's make ecocide an international crime!

• Size of Wales; Protecting tropical forests, taking climate action

• Atlantic Salmon Trust; Save a keystone species - wild Atlantic salmon

• Bristol Zoological Society: African forest appeal

• Project Seagrass: Seagrass and Sleigh Bells!

• UK Wild Otter Trust: UK Wild Otter Trust

• Badger Trust; Badgers Deserve Better

• Freedom for Animals: Exposing Captivity - Animals' Need for Freedom

• Heart of England Forest - 'Big Forest Plant 2025' - give to grow today

• Rainforest Saver SCIO - Regenerative Farming in Cameroon & Ecuador

• Working for the Wild: Fighting Wild Fires in Senegal

• Plant your Future: Planting Trees with Amazon Communities

• A Rocha UK: Flourishing Nature, Flourishing People

• Derbyshire Wildlife Trust; Bring Back Lost Species

• Wildlife Trust for Lancashire, Manchester and North Merseyside: Bringing Turf Nest Farm Back to Life

• Field Studies Council: Inspire a new generation of nature protectors

• The Vincent Wildlife Trust: Seeing in the dark better - for people and bats

• RSPCA: Halifax, Huddersfield, Bradford and District Branch CIO: The Really Big ReFURb

• Conserve Global: Conserving Africa's vital wild spaces & wildlife

• Polden Puckham Charitable Foundation: The Climate and Nature Bill for a liveable future

• SongBird Survival: Take action for UK songbirds

• Blue Marine Foundation: Safeguarding Sharks - our Mediterranean Mission

• The Mammal Society: The Big Small Mammal Mission

• Vale Wildlife Hospital and Rehabilitation Centre: Helping Us to Help Britain's wildlife

• CPRE Hertfordshire: Hertfordshire Hedgerow Heroes

• Creating Natures Corridors: Rory's Wood a new wood with 15,851 trees

• Botanic Gardens Conservation International: Protecting Plants, Empowering gardens

• Sea Watch Foundation, the Cetacean Monitoring Unit: Raising Awareness of Britain's Whales & Dolphins

• Chiswick House & Gardens Trust: Our trees need you!

• Westcountry Rivers Trust: Water Worth Working for

Whether you donate to help save a species such as the godwits with the WWT, or the turtle dove with the RSPB, help rhinos or big cats, red squirrels or otters, there will be a cause we can help. Be it dogs and cats, help pine martens, wildcats, songbirds, elephants, or cheetahs, there will be something we can all do. We can help habitats such as rainforests, rivers, wildlife corridors, oceans, and gardens.

The idea of Giving Tuesday is that the day encourages people to do good. In 10 years, it's grown into a huge global movement, encouraging and inspiring people to give, to work with others and to celebrate generosity.

You can volunteer, donate, give your skills, campaign for a cause you care about, organise an event to raise funds, do a litter pick... there are plenty of options. Whatever you do, please do something on the 2nd December 2025!