The Wren Project joins Big Give 2023: Doubling donations, for double the impact
We have some very exciting news to share with you all!
The Wren Project is taking part in this year’s Big Give 2023 - doubling your donations, thus doubling our impact for ONE WEEK ONLY.
We are committed to reducing the loneliness felt by people living in crisis as a result of their autoimmune disease, particularly over Christmas time.
Which is why we are delighted to be joining Big Give’s Christmas Campaign 2023 - giving us the opportunity to double our impact by doubling your donations.
Thanks to their match-funding promise, every donation made to the Wren Project between Tuesday, November 28 and Tuesday, December 5, 2023 will be doubled by Big Give - enabling us to grow our support to reach more people living with autoimmune disease.
Our goal is to raise £10,000, which with the Big Give’s match funding promise, will transform to £20,000 for the Wren Project. This sum will dramatically shape the impact we can make on the lives of people living with autoimmune disease.
To celebrate this opportunity, we have pulled together our ‘Supportive Christmas Gift Guide’ - an alternative feel-good guide to giving this Christmas.
We’ll be unveiling our Christmas ‘gift’ guide next week. But the premise is simple: select a charitable ‘gift’ from our gift guide and Big Give will match-fund your donation, doubling the impact you can make in supporting someone with a chronic condition.
Just £23.80 from you will be boosted to £47.60* by them, enabling us to train and support more volunteers, who offer our Wrens regular, empathetic listening sessions. With £41.25*, they’ll bump it up to £82.50*, which keeps our phone lines open for two weeks, increasing our availability to people in distress.
There are plenty of feel good gifts available to choose from; with £227* supporting someone in distress with their autoimmune disease for a month. While £59.13* ensures a trained member of our staff answers a call for help and £1,363* supports a Wren’s journey with us for six months.
* Each of these donations will be doubled by the Big Give, at no extra cost to you.
But here is the challenge: We have just seven days to make a real difference to our Wrens.
HOW YOU CAN HELP:
1. On Tuesday, November, 28th, we will send you an email letting you know that our Big Give campaign is live and where you can make a donation.
2. From 12pm, you will be able to select a gift from our gift guide, with the money you spend being doubled by them.
3. Share it with your friends, colleagues and on your social media channels to help get our appeal heard far and wide.
4. On Tuesday, December 5, at 12pm, our Big Give Campaign will close. We have just seven days to raise £10K, for the Big Give to match-fund this to £20k.
We are the only charity in the UK to offer support for all autoimmune diseases. We know that 83% of people who come to us are in distress. And we know what an impact we can have, with 99% of our Wrens reporting a positive experience when undergoing our support.
We are so grateful for your support. Please help us to reach our goal this Christmas.
Thank you,
The Wren Project team