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Bristol, UK – 28th November, 2022 – Jingle Jam,
the world’s biggest games charity event, returns later this week, with its
biggest-ever fund-raising push.
Kicking off at 5:00 pm
GMT on Thursday, December 1, Jingle Jam 2022 will herald two wonderful weeks of
epic and heart-wrenching fundraising streams across multiple channels and sees
the return of the annual Jingle Jam Games Collection - a special
collection of almost 90 Steam games offered by a huge range of developers and
publishers which are provided as a reward for a charitable donation.
But it’s not about the
receiving: Christmas is a time of giving, and Jingle Jam has been doing that
for the last 11 years, with over £20m raised for charities prior to this year’s
event.
Jingle Jam 2022 runs
until 14 December on the fundraising platform Tiltify with the Jingle Jam Games
Collection limited to 100,000 copies. Delivered via e-mail as individual keys
to be redeemed on Steam (that’s over 9.1m individual codes), the games can be given
away or shared over the holiday season but must be activated before the end of
December.
The Yogscast Twitch
channel will feature streams hosted by members of the Yogscast and their
friends and features some of the most popular creators on Twitch and YouTube
including Lewis and Simon, Sips, The Spiffing Brit, RTGame, and many more.
A Yogscast Video where they play You Suck at Parking from the YouTube
channel
Additionally, content
creators the world over are encouraged to host their own streams pushing
donations to the charities closest to their hearts. Last year saw 215 community
fundraisers as other creators, charities, and games companies ran their own
Jingle Jam streams, raising over £480,000. This year anyone will be able to
register from 1 December on Tiltify and take part.
This year’s Jingle Jam
Games Collection is the biggest yet: with almost 90 games worth over £1,000,
and is available to anyone who donates over £35 (about $42) here. There’s something for everyone within
the collection, from AAA blockbusters like A Total War Saga Troy and Age of
Wonders: Planetfall through to celebrated indie darlings such as PlateUp!, You
Suck At Parking and Bonfire Peaks.
There are many more
and on top of the games, everyone who donates above the £35 minimum will also
receive discount coupons for Jingle Jam partners Fanatical, Displate, FRESH,
and the Yogscast Store.
“Once again we are
humbled by the generosity and passion of the global games industry. Jingle Jam
is always the highlight of the year for us here, and with this collection of
games we’re confident we’ll top last year’s enormous figure,” says Lewis
Brindley, co-founder, The Yogscast and Jingle Jam Trustee. “This year’s
charities span a range of diverse, important issues – we urge you to find out
more about each and every one of them. We know times are tough right now for a
lot of people, so if you are not in a position to donate this year, please
don’t worry about it, come and watch the live streams online and join in the
fun. But if you are in a position to donate and can find it in your heart to
donate generously, you’ll be raising funds for some hugely important causes.”
You can keep up to
date with all things Jingle Jam on Twitter at https://twitter.com/jinglejam
Follow the official
Jingle Jam live streams in December at https://www.twitch.tv/yogscast
More information at https://www.jinglejam.co.uk/
About the Jingle Jam
Jingle Jam is the
world’s biggest games charity event, taking place every year. Since its
inception in 2011 the Jingle Jam has raised over £20 million, all for
charitable projects across the world.
Organized and hosted
entirely by volunteers, in the first week of December twitch.tv/yogscast
was the biggest channel on Twitch. The opening three-hour stream of Jingle Cats
was watched by over 1m unique viewers and the event is featured heavily on the
Yogscast YouTube network and social media platforms with tens of millions of
subscribers.
Over 50 Jingle Jam
streamers are involved in special events - such as cooking, painting, poker,
karaoke, and more. In addition, this year will see community streams across the
world raising funds for their chosen charitable project.
This year’s Jingle Jam
fundraising period and Jingle Jam charity games collection will support the
following charity projects:
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British Red Cross
Providing critical aid to those affected by the
conflict in Ukraine and to young people who have found safety in the UK.
●
Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM) To
stand together with teenagers and young adults by providing advice and support
that helps break down the stigma around suicide, stands up to the stereotypes
that surround it, and shows that life is always worth living.
●
Dogs for Autism Springboard the work of Dogs
for Autism's 'Autistic Youth Independence Programme', transforming so many more
lives, one cheeky puppy at a time.
●
Huntington's Disease Association Help, advice,
and support for over 300 children and young people currently impacted by the
effects of the rare, hereditary, degenerative, and complex neurological
disorder, Huntington's disease.
●
Kidscape Provide life-changing, practical
support to children and families impacted by bullying, helping to reach more
young people, including those in diverse communities.
●
Mermaids Create more opportunities for
transgender, nonbinary and gender-diverse children and young people to connect,
be themselves, experience trans joy, and thrive.
●
Movember
Tackling some of the most complex health issues facing
men today, including prostate and testicular cancer.
●
RESET Mental Health Improve the mental
well-being of young black adults from underfunded and underserved black
communities through the delivery of free mental health services.
●
SpecialEffect
Bring fun and inclusion to 100s more disabled gamers
and seriously ill children in 2023.
●
Special Olympics Great Britain To send a team
of Special Olympics GB athletes to represent Great Britain at the Special
Olympics World Summer Games 2023 in Berlin – the world’s largest inclusive
sporting event which uses the power of sport to transform the lives of people
with intellectual disabilities around the world.
●
Wallace & Gromit's Grand Appeal To fund
Jingle Jam Building, a pioneering and transformational development for the
young patients at Bristol Children's Hospital.
●
Whale and Dolphin Conservation
Protecting Honeydew and other whales and dolphins in
their natural habitat in Scotland.
About Tiltify
Tiltify is a
fundraising platform that empowers communities, charities, and companies to
impact change across the globe. Tiltify specializes in video-based fundraising
tools that drive authentic engagement on social platforms like TikTok, Twitch,
and YouTube.
Article by: Susan N.
