The #Big200 Campaign

Thanks to the combined fundraising ideas of Stacey Varkel and Cara Saven, The Big Issue was able to launch the #Big200 Campaign in 2015. The aim of the campaign has been to get 200 people to pledge R200 per month to The Big Issue in support of our work, so we are able continue to do the work we’ve been doing for the past 21 years.

As detailed elsewhere on our website, The Big Issue not only produces a fantastic monthly magazine for budding micro-entrepreneurs to sell on the street, we also provide social and skills support and training to ensure that our programme participants are able to maximise income from magazine sales.

As with most non-profit work, we need your support to be able to achieve what we do. Your membership of the #Big200 would go a long way to making a BIG difference.

Spread the Message

Spread the message as far and wide as you can – if each one of you gets at least 5 friends/ colleagues/ family members to pledge their R200 per month, we’ll get there in no time. And it’s so easy to do.

There are two ways to join the #Big200:

Set up a monthly stop-order from your bank account to our bank account
Account name: The Big Issue
Bank: Standard Bank
Account number: 072027282
Branch: Blue Route, Tokai
Branch code: 025609
Account type: Current
Reference: Your name/BIG200

Use our Snapscan QR code each month to contribute R200 each time, or you can contribute the full amount of R2,400 as a once-off contribution.
Once you have selected your preferred method of support, we would appreciate it if you could email finance@bigissue.org.za and/or md@bigissue.org.za to confirm your membership of the #Big200, and to provide your full contact details so that we can:

Add your name to our #Big200 Wall of Fame on our website (PLEASE let us know if you would not like us to)
Send you a Section 18A tax certificate at the end of the financial year in which your contribution was made.
Please tweet, Retweet, post it on Facebook, Like it, talk about it, email it – help us get the message out there. Thank you for your support – and a really Big Thank You from all our vendors!


David Bullard	Steve Katz	Louise van Rhyn	Anonymous	Nicola
Diamond family	Arelisky family	Blackwell	Mark Hibbert	RBM
Stuart Kantor	B Excell	Helen During	Lunsky family	Donvay Wegierski
Phumzile Van Damme	Sarah Britten	Les Ruhrmund	Gootkin family	Barbour family
The Cohen Family		Viv Gordon	Goldstein family	Philip Hirschson
Cara Saven	Davies family	The Lou Singer Charitable Trust	The Kurgan Trust	W Stay
The Leo and Patricia Fine Foundation	Coffee Right	Sally Phillips	Anonymous	Steven D’Agiuar
Brenda Doyle	Leisha Davies	Mazor Aluminium	Anne Marie van Buuren	Seven C
Craig Nain	Martindale-Tucker	DK Smith	Neil Tillemans	Guy Harris
The Egg Trust	Doug Jackson	MJ Smith	Anonymous	Nicky Wilton
Jayson Chin	Lynne Smit	Maze Clothing	Debra Gouws Attorneys	Brendan Manca
Anonymous	Anonymous	Laura Markovitz	Eliot Osrin	Susan Bourne
Alice & Jack Torres	J M Flannagan	Joanne Walsh	Isa-Lee Jacobson	Ian & Dalene Morris
Harris	EA Reynolds	Simon Hudson	Coast & Country	Veritas Wealth
Baalbergen family	Marli	Victoria Reuvers	Michelle Perrins	Marja Roodt
Nation Clothing	Openfield Marketing	Alon Lits	Anli van Jaarsveld	Anton Ferreira
Dani de Beer	Joanne Walsh	Fiona Ross	Mark and Ca	Kanan Wealth
Keswick Family	MacDonald family	Marja Roodt	Roger Graham	N Wilton
Nation Housing	Stein family	R Hirsch	Terry & Barbara Bell	Rose Cohen
Rubridge	Simon Hudson	Sormani	The Ballantynes	Giant Bicycles
Catherine Adonis	Craig Howie	Daguair	Gawronsky	Jill
K Little	Michelle Baartman	Naylor	Phirschohn	R Maskell
RL Roux	Shoot Out Crew	Smallberger	Susan Platt	Uthando3

We’d also like to thank the following donors, who recently contributed to The Big Issue: David Bullard, Anne Welsh, Naett Atkinson, Bronwynne Wiehl, Eileen Janeke, Venetia Paulse, Nicole Dodd, Stuart Thomas, Marthalize Tredoux, Adam Barnes, Bianca Tait, Annelie, Hennie Coetzee, Rachelle Bricout, John Perlman, Mike Wilter, Gareth Morgan, Johann Botha, Burbidge, Viv Gordon, Cohen family, Sheila Duchenne, R Ronnie, O Osborne, Sally Phillips, Favish, Bravo, Zoom, Rael Levitt, Sheila, Family Baalbergen, Davies, Beth Silbert, Elise and Romain Sormani * If any of these donations are ongoing monthly contributions towards the Big 200, please let us know by using the reference Your Name/Big 200.

Change is in your pocket

The Big Issue is a socially responsible non-profit organisation that enables willing unemployed and marginalized adults to take responsibility for their own lives through development employment programme.