# Sick Kids Save Point charity gaming marathon reaches £100,000 landmark

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2016/11/08/sick-kids-save-point-charity-gaming-marathon-reaches-100000-landmark/
- Published: 2016-11-08T10:25:46+00:00
- Author: Melanie May

**[The Sick Kids Save Point](https://sickkidssavepoint.com/) charity gaming marathon
has now raised a total of £100,000 for the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Edinburgh.**

The event has just been held for the seventh year running, beating its total to 
raise £11,000, and bringing the overall total in this time to £100,000.

Sick Kids Save Point is organised by avid gamer Tom Freeman on behalf of the [Sick Kids Friends Foundation](https://www.edinburghsickkids.org/),
and encourages as many teams of families as possible to get involved annually. Participants
can take part on a console, computer, mobile phone, on social media or by playing
board games, and can do so as part of a team with family and/or friends or on their
own from their own living room.

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Freeman said:

> “The whole thing started in 2009. My daughter was just a baby and I wasn’t getting
> much sleep anyway, so the idea of playing games for 24 hours seemed like a novel
> fundraising idea for a vital local charity. I had no idea it would snowball into
> an annual event which has seen hundreds of people take part from around the world,
> and I am so overwhelmed and proud that it has now raised an incredible £100k.”

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