Dear John,

This week, Population Matters is raising funds for its essential campaigns - and giving you the chance to have your donation doubled.

The Big Give has pledged £5,000 for Population Matters to match with donations from our supporters - so we need your help. Please can you help us reach our £5,000 target? You can give from just £1 using the link below, and your donation will be doubled!*

Globally around 270 million women have an unmet need for modern contraception, most of whom live in poorer countries. On the flip side, in the richest parts of the world consumption, resource use and carbon emissions per person are far greater so choosing a smaller family is even more important. 

Despite such inequality and clear scientific evidence of per person impact, global governments have plans to fix our environmental crises that exclude population growth as a driver, and women's empowerment and access to family planning as a solution. Together, we can raise more support for population and the positive, available solutions that must form part of global commitments to save our planet.

Any gift you're able to make to Population Matters will be doubled* by The Big Give to help catalyse action to empower vulnerable communities across the world (especially disadvantaged women and girls) and spread the word that the choice to have a smaller family can ensure a better future for the generations that follow. 

The Big Give is the UK’s largest match funding platform. For this year's Green Match Fund donations will be matched pound for pound until 12 noon GMT on Friday 29 April (*or until the matched funding pot is exhausted. Once the £5,000 target it reached, you can still donate but your donation won't be doubled). 

Please support Population Matters via The Big Give and help enable women, girls and their communities across the world to choose - in pursuit of a better life for everyone on our planet, now and in the future. 

Thank you,

Izi Clery
Head of Fundraising and Engagement