GamesAid is a UK games industry charity for children and young people.
They have announced that thanks to their members and supporters, they raised over £80,000 last week.
GamesAid this year are helping these non-profit charities:
Action For Kids (AFK) – actionforkids.org,
Jigsaw4u – jigsaw4u.org.uk,
Lifelites – lifelites.org,
Volunteer Centre Sutton: MAPS – mapsmentoring.co.uk,
SpecialEffect – specialeffect.org.uk,
and The Willow Foundation – willowfoundation.org.uk.
These charities change every year, and if you are part of the games industry you can become a member of GamesAid, and so nominate for a charity you would like to be supported next year.
The voting opens on the 30th July 2012 (3 days) and will remain open for 2 weeks, so get thinking!
The Develop Poker Night sponsored by Relentless Software and organised by Mark Ward raised £4,470.
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The London 10K team of twelve runners sponsored by NCsoft with runners from Target Media, Bethesda, Konami, NCsoft and Microsoft raised £2,302.
Samantha Whale (UKs first professional salaried female gamer) also ran and raised £840.
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The GamesAid Quiz Night organised by Jamie Firth and Richie Churchill and sponsored by 505 Games raised £1,080
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The Gem GamesAid Golf & Spa day organised by Richard Stickler, Emilie George, Keeley Munden and Louise Powell and July has raised £70,000 so far.
This has been a truly amazing month so far for GamesAid. If you can help, please do.
