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Smosh Games, ChrisMD, WillNE, ArthurTV and Mongraal amongst first wave of creators announced for Jingle Jam 2025
- Two-week festival of online entertainment aims to raise millions for eight charity partners and is set to be biggest Jingle Jam yet
- Over 300 content creators already registered to fundraise, including major first-time names ChrisMD, WillNE, ArthurTV, Zentreya and Mongraal
- Returning creators also include prominent names such as Smosh Games, Talia Mar, FreyzPlayz, Jack Manifold, RT Game and The Spiffing Brit, as well as the event’s founders The Yogscast
Thursday 6 November: Jingle Jam, the two-week festival of entertainment that raises millions for charity each December, announced today that more than 300 content creators have already registered to participate and fundraise in next month’s event, including several major international stars joining for the first time.
These creators include ChrisMD, Mongraal, Zentraya, WillNE and ArthurTV, joining a host of stars returning from last year, such as Smosh Games, Talia Mar, FreyzPlayz, Jack Manifold, along with Jingle Jam stalwarts The Spiffing Brit, RTGame, and the event’s founders, The Yogscast.
Between them, these creators have over 80 million followers and tens of billions of views on YouTube and Twitch. Each will use their reach to fundraise for one or all of Jingle Jam’s eight partner charities in a host of ways: from gaming and IRL streams, to pre-recorded video and more.
Jingle Jam unites the world’s best games, creators, and their communities for a fortnight of entertainment, raising millions of pounds for charities to make the world better for children and young people. Taking place 1-14 December, this year’s event will raise funds for Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM), War Child, Autistica, Become, Make-A-Wish, The Trevor Project, Wallace & Gromit’s Grand Appeal and WWF.
More well-known creators who have so far registered include High Rollers DnD, cakejumper, Outside Xbox, Rin Penrose, robcdee, HollyRex, Two Angry Gamers, Little Bunny, Simon Clark, Zealand, Koji, Just Create SMP, as well as voice actors Jennifer English and Aliona Baranova, and the European Speedrunner Assembly. They join over 300 content creators signed up to fundraise, with that number set to double over the coming weeks.
To join these creators and register as a fundraiser for Jingle Jam 2025, all you need to do is visit the Jingle Jam Tiltify page: https://jinglejam.tiltify.com/. Anyone can join; Jingle Jam is inclusive to all.
Jingle Jam is made unique by its Games Collection, a bespoke, premium collection of games donated by developers and publishers annually. Registered Jingle Jam fundraisers can add the Games Collection to their Tiltify campaign pages, and all donors who give £35 or more to their campaigns will receive keys to the selection of games . The 2025 Games Collection will be revealed in the coming weeks.
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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.
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 creating safe spaces for children to play, learn, and access psychological support. War Child will never give up on children affected by conflict.
About Autistica
Autistica is the UK's leading autism research and campaigning charity. Their vision is a world where every autistic person lives a happy, healthy, long life. They fund and carry out research-based solutions, shape policy, and work with autistic people to make more of a difference.
Autistica have committed to creating a more enabling world by 2030. Through their six ‘2030 Goals’, they will create effective health and social care, meaningful employment, accessible public spaces, and inclusive attitudes.
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 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 615,000 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.
https://www.make-a-wish.org.uk/
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.
https://www.thetrevorproject.org/
About Wallace & Gromit’s Grand Appeal
The Grand Appeal is the dedicated charity for Bristol Children’s Hospital, which cares for 140,000 babies, children and teenagers each year from across the South West and South Wales.
The Grand Appeal runs a multi-million-pound portfolio of investment for Bristol Children’s Hospital and its Patient Hotel, Jingle Jam Building, is the latest development in the charity’s 30-year partnership with the children’s hospital. The innovative development will enable patients to stay with their families and receive outpatient ongoing therapy and rehabilitation once they no longer require around the clock in-patient care in hospital.
It is set to be transformational for young patients and their families across the South West and South Wales, and enhance the expert treatment, therapy and rehabilitation offered in the children’s hospital.
https://www.grandappeal.org.uk/
About WWF
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.
