Jingle Jam announces charity partners for 2026 and presents 2025 awards

 Long-term partners Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM) and War Child UK joined for the first time by Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) Charity. Also included are WWF, Make-a-Wish, Become, The Trevor Project and returner SpecialEffect. 

Jingle Jam also presented awards for achievement in Jingle Jam 2025 to key content creators and games industry partners, including The Spiffing Brit and RTGame, Facepunch Studios and Trust in Rust, Fireshine Games, and Miniclip.

Wednesday 17th June, London, UK: Annual charity event, Jingle Jam, last night formally announced its eight charity partners for December 2026 while celebrating the achievements of Jingle Jam 2025. 

At a packed venue in central London, hundreds of creators, game studios and industry representatives came together to witness the 2025 Jingle Jam awards presentation and meet the 2026 charities, launching the build-up to Jingle Jam 2026.

The eight charity partners for 2026 include long-term strategic partners Campaign Against Living Miserably and War Child UK, returning 2025 partners WWF, Become,The Trevor Project and Make-A-Wish, and a Jingle Jam debut for Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) Charity. Gamers’ charity SpecialEffect returns to the event to complete the set of eight.

All eight partners are already planning creator-led livestream events for December's Jingle Jam. Last night's event, held in London for the first time, stepped up that work by facilitating discussions between scores of game studios, creators and the charities.

Jingle Jam 2025 was the second most successful event in its 15-year history, raising over £3.5m for charity. To celebrate this and recognise the fundraising efforts of major contributors, Jingle Jam Chair of Trustees Rich Keith presented awards to participating game studios and the top fundraising creators, including:

• The Trust in Rust team of Facepunch Studios and Rustoria, who together raised £295k in Jingle Jam 2025 (photo asset attached)

• Fireshine Games, who donated Core Keeper to the 2025 Jingle Jam Games Collection and held a 24-hour Survive-A-Thon relay supported by creators around the world.

• Jingle Jam 2025’s leading match-fund donor, Miniclip.

• Creators who raised tens of thousands or more in Jingle Jam 2025, led by Jingle Jam Ambassadors The Spiffing Brit and RTGame.

Fundraising platform Tiltify also presented The Spiffing Brit with a $1m lifetime achievement award.

Jingle Jam Chair Rich Keith said: "Jingle Jam is an extraordinary, global community of like-minded donors, streamers, gamers and fundraisers who come together every December to raise millions for charity. Tonight's event gave us a chance to thank the incredible supporters and partners who made Jingle Jam 2025 such a success, and to look ahead to Jingle Jam 2026, which is less than six months away. The world is a scary and challenging place right now for so many children and young people, and we're determined to raise as much money as possible to help our eight charity partners do as much as they possibly can to help."

Jingle Jam 2026 will unite the world’s best games, creators, and their communities for two weeks of entertainment to help make the world better for children and young people. The event takes place from 1st - 14th December, with fundraiser registration opening from early September. Registered fundraisers will unlock the famous Jingle Jam Games Collection, available to donors who support their streams.

Jingle Jam 2025 saw over one thousand creators participate in fundraising festivities alongside founders The Yogscast, achieving over 3m watch hours and nearly 8m views on Twitch and YouTube together. The event raised £3.5 million, pushing the initiative’s lifetime total past £31 million. The 2025 Games Collection featured 15 premium PC titles across a range of genres including Core Keeper, Dungeons of Hinterberg, Tactical Breach Wizards and a special Train Sim World 6 Collection Pack, all of which were available to donors giving £35 or more.

To get involved or find out more, visit Jingle Jam or email contact@jinglejam.co.uk.

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About Jingle Jam

Jingle Jam unites the world’s best games, creators, and their communities for a fortnight of entertainment that raises millions of pounds for charities to make the world the best place it can be for children and young people.

Since 2011, donors have turned up in their thousands to donate to their favourite creators and support causes they care about, often in return for the unbeatable value offered by the games industry-led Jingle Jam Games Collection. 

https://www.jinglejam.co.uk/

About Campaign Against Living Miserably

Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM) is a suicide prevention charity fighting to reduce the devastating impact of suicide in the UK. They run a life-saving helpline for anyone affected by suicide or suicidal thoughts. It’s free, anonymous and open from 5 pm to midnight every day.

Their website has loads of tools and resources packed with practical, non-clinical advice to make talking and managing mental health easier. CALM also runs vital campaigns to increase awareness, smash stereotypes, and change the culture around mental health and suicide.

About War Child UK

Using 30 years of experience and proven methodologies, War Child aims to reach children as quickly as possible when conflict breaks out and stay long after the cameras have gone to support them through their recovery. 

Every day, its local teams are in communities and refugee camps in 13 countries around the world, creating safe spaces for children to play, learn, and access specialist psychological support. War Child will never give up on children affected by conflict. 

About Become

Become is the national charity dedicated to supporting every child and young person with experience of the care system in England. Young people tell Become what’s not working. Together, they fight to make change happen. 

Every child and young person deserves support, stability – and love. In care, that doesn’t always happen. Become exists to help every single care-experienced young person, so they get the support they need.

About Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity (GOSH Charity)

Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity (GOSH Charity) helps give seriously ill children the best chance and the best childhood possible. Together with supporters and fundraisers, the charity funds groundbreaking research, cutting-edge medical equipment, child-centred hospital facilities and essential support services for patients, families and staff.

GOSH Charity helps Great Ormond Street Hospital go above and beyond for seriously ill children, enabling kinder and better treatments, bringing hope for children with the rarest and most complex illnesses, and making hospital a little bit easier and a lot more fun for the thousands of children who are treated there every year.

About Make-A-Wish

Make-A-Wish creates life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses. Founded in 1980, Make-A-Wish is the world’s leading wish-granting organization, having granted more than 650,000 wishes in nearly 50 countries worldwide. 

When a child is diagnosed with a critical illness and becomes eligible for a wish, their life changes. Wish experiences can restore the childhood stolen by a diagnosis and improve physical and emotional well-being. Together with donors, supporters and more than 27,000 volunteers around the globe, Make-A-Wish brings the power of a wish-come-true to children and their families when they need it most.

About SpecialEffect

BAFTA-winning UK charity SpecialEffect find ways for physically disabled gamers to play to the very best of their abilities. From custom controller setups for individual gamers to collaboration with leading games industry companies, their innovation is inspiring a new level of accessible gaming across the world.

About The Trevor Project

The Trevor Project is the leading organization working to end suicide among LGBTQ+ young people in the U.S. and beyond. The nonprofit operates several programs to help prevent and respond to the public health crisis of suicide among LGBTQ+ young people, including 24/7 free crisis services, innovative research, advocacy, public education, and peer support. 

About WWF UK  

WWF (Worldwide Fund for Nature) is one of the world’s largest independent conservation organisations, active in nearly 100 countries. 

Their supporters – more than five million of them – are helping WWF to restore nature and to tackle the main causes of nature’s decline, particularly the food system and climate change. WWF works to ensure a world with thriving habitats and species and to change hearts and minds so it becomes unacceptable to overuse our planet’s resources.