MERSEYSIDE DANCE INITIATIVE TASKED TO RAISE £5000 BY 31 OCTOBER

Liverpool based dance organisation Merseyside Dance Initiative has been tasked with raising £5000 in pledges before 31st October as part of the national Big Give Christmas Challenge.

The organisation’s Dance and Health programme 'Move on Up' was selected for the scheme by Big Give bosses who were impressed with the organisation’s outreach work, which also won them a MOBO in 2010. Through the Big Give Scheme, MDI will see the initial pledges effectively quadrupled over a series of fundraising challenges as long as they reach each target. However, this will only happen if the organisation reaches its £5k target this week.

The first step of MDI’s Challenge is to gather pledges from supporters including private donors and from large organisations. These pledges will then be combined with an equivalent level of funds from an external sponsor, which will be used to double online donations made by the public in the Big Give Christmas Challenge 2011 Week in December. Once the pledges have combined with the sponsor funds and this is matched with donations made online the initial pledge will be worth up to four times its original value.

he Big Give Christmas Challenge gives us a real opportunity to raise money to fund this work by increasing the value of pledges by up to four times as much! It would be fantastic to have the backing of local businesses and communities and for them to know that their pledges will, through our projects make a real difference to people in Merseyside in 2012"

To make a pledge you simply need to fill out a form by 31st October 2011 at: http://new.thebiggive.org.uk/pledge/MDILiverpool