🎄 Big Give Christmas Challenge 2025 | What a Week! 🎄

A group of around 12 smiling Kenyan school children holding mugs and flasks of porridge aloft. Text reads "Wow! And incredible week! £16,369 raised. Thank you!". Big Give and African Children's Fund logos also feature.

Once again, the Big Give Christmas Challenge has demonstrated itself be the single most phenomenal week of fundraising in our whole year. To each of you who have so kindly donated to this year's Kenyan Porridge Clubs appeal, we're sending you the biggest THANK YOU. We're beyond overwhelmed to have received donations from over 100 different individuals and we're so very grateful for your support.

🎁 Our thanks are also extended to those of you who have taken the time to like, comment on or share our social media posts. Our reach isn't the biggest, so we're delighted that you've helped us spread the word!

🎁 Now for the drumroll moment... in total, you've raised a phenomenal £16,369 plus Gift Aid and exceeded our £16,000 target for our most successful Big Give Christmas Challenge ever. This consisted of £8,369 from 113 donations during the Big Give Christmas Challenge week which unlocked a further £8,000 of match funding, courtesy of our anonymous pledger and the wonderful Coles-Medlock Foundation.

🎁 The funds raised will be enough for our partner, Watoto Kwanza, to provide 181,877 mugs of porridge to children in Kenyan schools. What an extraordinary impact! These mugs of porridge will improve school attendance which, in turn, ensures children have a better chance to gain skills, confidence and qualifications which, consequently, give better opportunities for a brighter future.

Thank you very much again for your kindness. Will we see you at the same time, next year?!

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