# Jingle Jam gaming event raises almost £1 million for charity in first two days

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2020/12/03/jingle-jam-gaming-event-raises-almost-1m-for-charity-in-first-two-days/
- Published: 2020-12-03T08:09:11+00:00
- Author: Melanie May

**Annual games charity event Jingle Jam has raised almost £1m (just over $1m) for
good causes in its first two days, after raising half of that in just a few hours.**

[Jingle Jam](https://www.jinglejam.co.uk/)’s 2020 fundraising season spans the first
two weeks of this month and sees streamers across the globe raise funds for 12 charitable
projects in both the UK and internationally including [The Grand Appeal](https://www.grandappeal.org.uk/),
[Access Sport](https://www.accesssport.org.uk/), One25, Open Bionics, Safe in Our
World, and [SpecialEffect](https://www.specialeffect.org.uk/).
 

> Well that's day 1 of [#JingleJam2020](https://twitter.com/hashtag/JingleJam2020?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw),
> what a huge success!
> We officially raised $1 Million for charity on day 1 folks!(
> $1,070,648.45 to be precise).Kicking off day 2 with some Christmas Colony Crew!
> [https://t.co/FPccpW4X1l](https://t.co/FPccpW4X1l) [pic.twitter.com/wbd1tNbYx1](https://t.co/wbd1tNbYx1)
> 
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> 
> — Jingle Jam (@jinglejam) [December 2, 2020](https://twitter.com/jinglejam/status/1334089238942519296?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

 For example, people can choose to donate to The Grand Appeal for a new state-of-
the-art facility at Bristol Children’s Hospital, to The Mental Health Foundation
to fund research to improve the wellbeing of gamers, to SpecialEffect to fund two
new games with EyeGaze, to Access Sport to give 5,000 disabled children access to
sport near their homes.

Jingle Jam asks participants to donate £25 or more to one of the projects via [Tiltify](https://jinglejam.tiltify.com/)
to access the _Jingle Jam 2020 Games Bundle_ of 35+ PC games and add-on content 
worth over £400 individually. This includes content for titles such as Among Us 
and Call Of Duty, as well as full titles such as Starbound and Transistor. There
are also official Jingle Jam livestreams, which can be followed at [https://www.twitch.tv/yogscast](https://www.twitch.tv/yogscast).

 The total at the end of day two was £945,642.46, and since its inception in 2011
it has raised over $17.6 million for good causes around the world.

Jingle Jam is recognised as the world’s biggest charity gaming event, and regularly
reaches 250,000 unique users over the month, including more than 60,000 live concurrent
users at its peak.