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20th
July
2010

Joystick Junkies are 10 years old!!

Joystick Junkies, the British fashion label, are celebrating their 10th birthday in style at the stunning Home House on Portman Square in aid of children’s charity DEBRA and GAMESAID

Thursday 22nd July Home House,21 Portman Square, London. W1H 6LW 7pm-3am

Expect two floors of our legendary party antics and a summer soundtrack to remember.

With Disco Funk & House from - Carlone - Katya - Robin Burrowes & special guests!

Play Room with - LOST Junkies Photobooth - The Joystick Junkies Girls Xbox 360 challenge - Joystick Junkies Twister! (fresh from Los Angeles!)

Plus - International Magician Kasrani - Ian Livingstone’s Pocket Aces Poker Tournament for GamesAid - Joystick Junkies fashion show

Dress Code – cool and relaxed, but the more outrageous the better!

It all kicks off at 7pm and for those who get there early we've got a free cocktail before 8pm.

Tickets: As this is a charity event we’ll be asking for a donation (anything helps) at the door or you can donate £10 per ticket online through Justgiving.com to receive a free cocktail and limited edition 10th anniversary Joystick Junkies pendant on the night.

You can decide who your ticket money goes to...

To buy a ticket in aid of GamesAid www.justgiving.com/joystickjunkiesgamesaid

To buy a ticket in aid of Debra www.justgiving.com/joystickjunkies

100% of proceeds from tickets and cash donations on the night go to charity, cash on the night will be split equally between both charities. Please be flash with your cash on the night, we’ll make sure you laugh when you remember how you spent it!

If you have any questions, please call us 0207 724 9243 or email chris@joystickjunkies.com

20th
July
2010

Third Annual GamesAid Charity Poker Tournament raises £3,500

We are proud to confirm GamesAid has raised £3,500 from the third annual charity poker tournament, held at the Develop Conference in Brighton. Sponsored and brilliantly organised by Relentless Software and GamesAid Ambassador, Mark Ward from Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. This year’s tournament took place on the evening of Tuesday 13th July at the Grosvenor Casino in Brighton, and was attended by more than 60 members of the games industry. The winners were as follows: first place went to Glenn Broadway from Metismo, second place to Lee Hutchinson from Double Eleven, third place to Simon Barratt from Four Door Lemon, fourth place to Dan Marchant from Obscure Consultancy, and fifth place to Miles Jacobson from Sports Interactive.

We are extremely grateful to the sponsors for organising this event every year. It’s really has become a major highlight in the GamesAid fund rising calendar

8th
July
2010

The 2010 GamesAid/Develop Poker Tournament

The fifth GamesAid Charity Poker Tournament will take place from 8pm on the evening of Tuesday 13th July 2010 at The Grosvenor Casino, Brighton Seafront.

The game is Texas Hold 'Em No Limit with a £50 buy-in. Cash re-buys and add-ons will also be available on the night and a number of exciting prizes can be won, including £400 for first place, £200 for second place , £100 for third place, Blu-ray and DVD films for fourth place and tickets for a Liverpool FC Stadium tour for fourth place.

TO TAKE PART KINDLY REGISTER YOUR £50 BUY-IN ON THIS JUSTGIVING PAGE TODAY!

Many thanks to our friends at Relentless Software and Eurogamer for their help in making this year's tournament happen and to you for your continued support of GamesAid.

Best of luck on the night!

7th
July
2010

Get ready to nominate the charity of your choice!

It has been a while since our last newsletter, and since then we have seen England leave the World Cup, Nadal win Wimbledon, the industry seeing a bigger and successful E3 and, GamesAid members and Ambassadors raising lots of money to disburse to charities of your choice.

This year's charity nominations opens on July 19th and can be done by logging on to www.gamesaid.org, and following the instructions. For our new members, and as a reminder of what is required in order to submit a charity, can I please ask you read the following details, and action accordingly.

"GamesAid looks to support UK based smaller charities focussed on children and young adults who can let you, the members, know what the money raised is going to be spent on, and that maximise the amount of money spent on the cause that they are set up for.

With that in mind, we've come up with some simple due diligence guides to help you when nominating a charity.

1) The charity should have a turnover of no more than £5m annually

2) The charity should be spending at most 30% of their turnover on administration costs. This can be worked out by taking the % of income that is spent on charitable activities.

Please note that we are aware that for some smaller and newer charities, their cost % may be higher, and in these cases the trustees will perform extra due diligence to see if the charity nominated can still be put through to the voting stage.

The figures for the charity you are going to nominate can be found at http://www.charity-commission.gov.uk/"

5th
June
2010

Special Effect on PS3 Attitude

Here's a lovely article from our friends at PS3 Attitude about one of the charities supported last year - Special Effect. Really good article and worth a read

http://www.ps3attitude.com/new/2010/04/specialeffect-charity-gaming/

4th
June
2010

Gem's Golf & Spa day smashes all records

We are delighted to announce the 3rd Annual Golf & Spa Day fundraiser, organised by Gem Distribution, was an overwhelming success.

Representatives from publishing, retail, and development gathered together with last year’s chosen charities at The Grove in Watford in a sell-out event raising over £50,000.

The event, sponsored by Gem, Logitech, The Hut Group, THQ, Xbox 360, and MCV, saw 135 people take part in the golf and more than 150 attend the evening’s dinner. A video was shown featuring the charities and individuals GamesAid has helped in the past year before prizes were awarded for the day’s golfing, and a live auction for a signed England shirt donated by SCE UK, which raised £2,500.

Richard Stickler, GamesAid Trustee, said: “I would like to extend my heartfelt thanks to the sponsors and everyone who took part in the event making it such an enormous success. I’m immensely proud to see the real difference events like this make when the money’s put to work”. He added: “Special thanks to Louise Powell and Emilie George for raising £2,500 selling golf balls and mulligans throughout the day, and the Promotional girls and HoneyandLime.com cocktail bar who donated their services raising £650 from cleaning dirty balls”.

Tony Samuel, Head of Fundraising and Communications for Winston’s Wish, added: “Every pound raised will make a huge difference. GamesAid has been a fantastic supporter of Winston’s Wish and the other charities here. On behalf of all the children and families that will benefit: many, many thanks”.

Rupert Loman, GamesAid Trustee, said: “Thanks to Gem, the Golf & Spa day sponsors, and everyone who attended the event, an astonishing amount of money has been raised for GamesAid. Nominations and voting will soon begin to allow the games industry to decide which causes GamesAid will support in 2010.”

Chris Peacock, Group Director of Gem, added: “This is a great endorsement for the industry. Every publisher, distributor, and retailer has been represented here and together we’ve achieved something truly amazing. My sincere thanks to everyone involved”.

Tickets and Sponsorship packages for next year’s event will go on sale shortly.

The charities supported by GamesAid this year, who also attended the event were: Willow Foundation, Special Effects, Winston’s Wish, Action for Kids, and the Royal Hospital for Neuro Disability.

A special note of thanks to the Lomans and EGTV for creating the video which you can see on the home page of this site

10th
May
2010

Grainger Games scores for GamesAid

Hats off to our friends at Grainger Games who organised a charity football match in aid of GamesAid at St James Park, Newcastle United’s home ground on the day after the General Election - May 7th 2010.

Grainger Games fielded 38 staff in the tournament in front of friends and family to cheer them on. Each of the players made a donation and a collection was held all with all proceeds going to GamesAid.

Phil Moore from Grainger Games who organised the event “We were delighted to be playing at such a prestigious ground and had a really fun day and are making a decent GamesAid donation”.

If you want to help the cause, you can donate online at http://www.justgiving.com/gamesaid/Donate.

23rd
April
2010

GamesAid hits the jackpot at the MCV Awards

Some games industry people will be recovering from the epic, the legendary, the gargantuan even MCV Awards last night, whilst others will be preparing for another day at the grindstone, but at least the sun is shining and the weekend is almost upon us.

Thanks to the GamesAid trustees in attendance Sarah and Caroline who did the leg work collecting the money, dealing with hecklers and smiling all the way, the 600 strong audience at the awards raised a whopping and equally gargantuan £2485 including 3, yes 3, £1 coins and a lovely pen, which is nice. That money goes into the GamesAid pot which you the members will vote as to where this goes again this year in the forthcoming poll. Incidentally, whilst we were a little down on our target of £6000, we did smash last year’s total of £1325, so that is fabulous news. Way to go as our American friends would say.

A huge thanks to Stuart and Kathryn at Intent Media for making this happen, to Richard at Gem Distribution and the lovely people at Logitech, who donated the prizes, the rather wonderful Squeezebox Radios, there will be 10 lucky people tuning into the internet radio today via their wi-fi, enjoy!

21st
April
2010

MCV Awards 2010

Fresh on the heels of the support for GamesAid shown by The British Inspiration Awards, we have news that more companies are helping us help our chosen charities

Thanks to our lovely friends over at Intent Media, Gem Distribution and Logitech, GamesAid are raffling 10 brilliant Logitech prizes tomorrow night at the MCV Awards. So if you're going to the MCV Awards, make sure you bring an extra tenner for our very good cause.If you put your £10 you get the chance to win a brilliant prize offered by Gem Distribution and Logitech.

All tenners collected with a name and table number written on them will go into a raffle to win one of 10 Squeezebox Radios worth £160 each. Envelopes will be provided on every table and there will be unmissable GamesAid helpers collecting the donations. All prizes will be given out on the night.

"We're delighted that everyone at the MCV Awards will have the opportunity to put a little cash into GamesAid’ commented MCV publisher and Intent Media boss Stuart Dinsey."Just think, if everyone there put in £10 then Gamesaid could make as much as £6,000 on the night. So don't even think, please just give." For those of you attending the awards, have great fun and enjoy the evening.

19th
April
2010

The British Inspiration Awards 2010

Celebrating the people and the achievements that have helped put the Great into Great Britain, The British Inspiration Awards have been created to recognise those who have contributed to our country’s economic, social and artistic development through creative endeavour.

British excellence around the world is to be recognised in Film, Television, Music, Fashion, the Arts, Design, Science and Technology and Interactive Entertainment. There is also Special Recognition and Innovation, Enterprise and Industry awards.

http://www.britishinspirationawards.co.uk/about.html

The British Inspiration Awards are supporting GamesAid and The Dallaglio Foundation and at GamesAid we raise our hats to them and wish them the very best of luck!

23rd
February
2010

Tekken in real life (size)

GamesAid are auctioning a set of life size Tekken figures courtesy of the lovely people at Bandai Namco for GamesAid available now at eBay

http://tiny.cc/DXTGw

15th
February
2010

Please support Sport Relief Cycleslam

It has been a long time since I have done any specific charity challenges, too long really. Indeed I really miss the various Kilimanjaro climbs and London Marathons that I have done with some of you and so when a good friend of mine asked me if I would like to join him on the fifth and final leg of the Dallaglio Sport Relief Cycleslam, I thought it was a good idea and would get me back in the groove, so to speak. The challenge for me and the people in our team is simple, cycle 549 km starting on March 5th from Rosslare in Ireland via Croke Rark, Dublin to Murrayfield, Edinburgh, in time to see the Scotland vs England Calcutta Cup match on the 13th of March.

The whole jaunt is being organised by England and Wasps rugby legend, Lawrence Dallaglio and we are raising money for Sport Relief and the newly formed Dallaglio Foundation – our target is a nice round £1,000, 000. Lawrence is leading the team through all 5 stages, over 2800 Km in all. Each stage takes in a Six Nations stadium or two, in fact you may have seen the team start on Friday 12th February – riding through the first snow in the Rome area for 25 years!

The good news is that I am looking forward to cycling with my good friend David Yarnton. The not so good news is that I am taking the place of a rider who has had to drop out very much at the last minute. I actually agreed to have a go at this cycling caper last week, and as you will see from the picture on the website, I have not had time to kit up properly yet, http://www.dallagliocycleslam.com/participants/stage-5 let alone do the training. So I am relying on the support of Mr Yarnton and of course my sponsors to drive me on. That is where you could come in....

If you would like to support me and Sport Relief and The Dallaglio Foundation who in turn support Cancer Research UK, Help for Heroes, RPA Benevolent Fund, DebRA, and Leukaemia Research, I would really appreciate it – you can do this simply and efficiently on line at our Just Giving page, http://www.justgiving.com/David-Yarnton-AussieDogonWheels

You can follow the fun(?) and follow our exploits at www.twitter.com/percyblakeney 63 if that rocks your boat. Every penny counts, so don’t be shy, we need all we can!

Take care and all the best, see some if not all of you at Murrayfield! Andy Payne

1st
February
2010

Special Effect moves from strength to strength....

David Cameron has backed Special Effect which was one of the charities that GamesAid members voted to sponsor recently.

For the full story, see Gamesindustry.biz

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/cameron-backs-accessible-gaming-charity

27th
January
2010

GamesAid Golf & Spa Day sells out!!

Annual entertainment industry charity golf and spa event sells out in record time

Thanks to the success of last year’s event, the 3rd Annual Charity Golf and Spa day set for the 27th May 2010 sold out in a record three months thanks to great support from those attending. Those involved and attending the day include the likes of Microsoft, Nintendo, Sega, Asda, Logitech, Game, Namco Bandai, EA and Codemasters, along with many more.

GamesAid would like to thank all those who are participating in the event in May and are proud to announce that the event is on target to smash last year’s charitable donation of £32,024.

Although the Golf Day is sold out there are still spaces available for the Spa and the evening’s Awards Dinner. The Spa Day is a great way to incentivise your staff and the dinner is the perfect opportunity to take your clients to a prestigious networking event with key figures in the industry.

“You get a great buzz when your event is a sell out, especially a charitable one,“ commented Richard Stickler, GamesAid Trustee. “I cannot thank people enough for taking part in this years event. Without the industry‘s support, we would not be able to do all the amazing things with the money raised - evidence of which will be shown at the evening awards dinner. It would be amazing if we could sell out on the Spa day too. What a great way to treat yourself or incentivise your staff as a prize, with all proceeds going to a fantastic cause.“

Get involved and play your part, for more information on the Entertainment Industry’s Annual Golf and Spa Day 2010, and to register for the Spa Day and Dinner, please contact Richard Stickler on 01279 822832.

13th
January
2010

Relentlessly helping GamesAid

Happy new year to one and all, let's hope 2010 brings health and hope all round.

A massive thank you to Relentless Software who have donated a whopping £1400 to GamesAid, the money they saved by not buying and sending out Christmas cards last month. Hats off to the boys and girls from Brighton for making the season of goodwill the season of helping others who are less able to help themselves. Thank you from all at GamesAid!

26th
November
2009

Modern Ways of helping those affected by war

Activision & Infinity Ward have just announced a new initiative in conjunction with Game and Xbox Live in support of the charity War Child, called Game for good.

During the weekend of the 5th & 6th of December if over 600,000 UK users log on to play Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2, a donation will be made to War Child of £150,000, with £25,000 donated for every 100,000 users after that, up to a maximum of £250,000

GAME will also be selling War Child wrist bands instore, and Xbox Live Gold Membership will be free on that weekend, to ensure that as many people as possible are able to play the game online.

For more information about the initiative, about War Child, or to get a Twibbon to show your support, a Facebook fans page has been set up at www.facebook.com/GameforGood

18th
November
2009

So where does the money go..?

We gave you the news that GamesAid will be supporting the following charities this year and that we would give you all some more information about how the money will be spent, well here it is:-

Royal Hospital for Neuro Disability

This charity specialises in assessing and providing rehabilitation for young adults who have a high dependency as a result of long term neurological conditions or acquired brain injuries incurred.

The £11,000 donation from GamesAid will help to purchase essential electronic Assistive Technology, for 226 patients and residents currently cared for by the Hospital.

The Willow Foundation

This charity is a national charity that provides special days for seriously ill young adults.

The £12,800 GamesAid donation will help to give eight young adults living with muscular dystrophy the chance to choose a special day which will fulfil a unique wish that wouldn’t otherwise be possible. It would cover the organisation of the day from transport, accommodation, physical adaptations or medical support required.

Action For Kids

This charity works both locally and nationally to assist children and young people with physical, sensory and or learning disabilities to lead full and independent lives. This is done by a number of various from funding mobility equipment, family support service; work related learning placements for disabled young people and training for independence.

The £11,000 GamesAid donation will help 8 children who need mobility equipment to help them improve their quality of life.

Special Effect

This charity is one of which some of you may be aware of. It is dedicated to helping ALL young people with disabilities to enjoy computer games. For these children, the majority of computer games are simply too quick or too difficult to play, and we can help them and their parents to find out which games they CAN play, and how to adapt those games that they can't.

The £11,000 GamesAid donation will help fund the GameOn4EveryOne Roadshow for disability groups in the Thames Valley. There will be 16 shows, which will reach 250 people with disabilities. Equipment will be purchased to make these roadshows go ahead, and between each of the roadshows, it will be available for occasional use at the Helen and Douglas House Hospice to help young people with life limiting conditions at the hospice. The Game for Helen Special Effect computer games suite will help a further 300 guests at the hospice.

Winston’s Wish

This charity provides professional services to children, who have been bereaved of a parent or sibling, to enable them to live with their grief, build confidence and reach their full potential. The £11,000 GamesAid donation will provide 5 children and their families to benefit from a unique programme of support.

4th
November
2009

We've even got the shirt off his back

Hats and shirts off to Rosemary Dalton and the PES team at Konami for donating a signed framed Fernando Torres shirt for GamesAid to auction. We are currently figuring out the best way to do this, but any creative ideas are most welcome!

3rd
November
2009

Keep on Running

Congratulations to Rebecca Lindon at Bethesda who recently ran the Birmingham half marathon and Thomas Fide who ran the Stroud half marathon on the 25th October, both raising money for GamesAid. We salute you!

29th
October
2009

And the winners are

Apologies for the enormous time lapse between communications, it was back in August that we last wrote to all the members, but we can finally announce the charities that you have voted to support.

More detail will follow early next week, plus a list of thank yous for all the work done by members and others since last time. GamesAid have decided to award a minimum of £11,000 each to the following charities. We still have one charity to announce, which we are still working on. So here goes, in no particular order of votes cast:- • Royal Hospital for Neuro Disability • The Willow Foundation • Action for Kids • Special Effect • Winston’s Wish

28th
August
2009

GamesAid CC take to the crease

The GamesAid cricket team have boiled and pressed their whites in readiness for the annual cricket match against the amazingly distinguished "Pitney B". Each year it's a close tricky battle with the hopes of many resting on a knife edge. This year each of the players are contributing their match fee to Games Aid. If you would like to contribute as well - we would be incredibly grateful... So please dig deep and donate now. http://www.justgiving.com/Games-Aid-CC/

13th
August
2009

GamesAid 3 Peaks success

The Mastertronic and Just Flight team conquered the 3 Peaks last weekend and a massive thanks to all of you who sponsored them.

The team of Martyn Northall, Dermot Stapleton, Richard Slater and Matthew West-Robinson completed the challenge in 27 hours 20 mins which is completely brilliant.

Martyn Northall commented “As with any challenge, we had our fair share of setbacks and complications but we managed to overcome these and achieve a very respectable time. We are delighted to have raised a total of £530 for GamesAid so far, making the aches and pains seem all the more worthwhile! We are already planning our next fundraising challenge, suggestions ranging from the Pennine way to the Marathon des Sables! But for now we are enjoying the comfort of being back behind our PCs....”

The detail on the trek worked out like this:- Snowdon – 5hrs 01min Scarfell – 5hrs 47mins Ben Nevis – 7hrs 02mins Total climbing time – 17hrs 50 mins Snowdon->Scarfell – 4hrs 30mins Scafell->Ben Nevis – 5hrs Total driving time – 9hrs 30 mins Total time = 27hrs 20 mins

Hats off to all 4 of them and a massive thanks from all of us at GamesAid!

7th
August
2009

GamesAid and BAFTA link up to help young people in games

Many members of GamesAid have asked us if they can help good causes by giving up some of their time. Well we have listened to you and have hooked up with fellow charity BAFTA to help with their completely brilliant mentoring scheme. So if you fancy giving up some of your time to mentor young people in video games design then contact fellow GamesAid member Kelly Smith kellys@bafta.org . The deadline to complete your application to take part is Monday 24th of August and after that there is a training session on the 15th of September. The mentoring programme itself takes place during London Games Festival (26th - 29th October). We would hope that your companies would help you with time off to do this!

5th
August
2009

GamesAid and the 3 Peaks

The Mastetronic/Just Flight team who are attacking the 3 Peaks are greasing their limbs and packing their kit as we type. They need all the sponsorship help we can muster - so if you are able to sponsor them, please dig deep.

Every pound counts just go to http://www.justgiving.com/MastertronicThreePeaksChallenge/

1st
August
2009

The Poll has closed!

The voting has now closed and the votes are being counted. It was a very close run thing indeed and the Trustees will be announcing the results soon. Thanks to everyone who took the time to nominate the charities and thanks also to every member who cast their vote.

31st
July
2009

Voting closes in 10 hours

Less than hours to go for GamesAid's membership to vote for their charity of choice.

So far, 35% of the membership has cast their votes, which means we are on course to beat the UK electorate's percentage at a General Election. There's still time, so cast your vote now, don't delay! Every vote will count in this really tightly contested poll!

28th
July
2009

The votes are coming in

So far we have had votes from 41 members - so 18% of the votes have been cast thus far. Only 77 hours to go! It is going to be very, very tight and every vote will count.

28th
July
2009

For those of you with appalling memories

Thanks to our GamesAid member and web genius Craig Munro, you will very soon be able to re-set your passwords. In the rush to become GamesAid members, some of you have forgotten passwords. Fear not help is on it's way. You will be able to re-set them within the next 24 hours so you can indeed go to the voting ball.

27th
July
2009

IDEF Charity Run

Rory Donnelly from THQ France is a very good friend of GamesAid and he along with one or two others decided to organise a charity run at IDEF in Cannes and it was a massive success!

Over 200 people ran the race on the main drag in Cannes, with police motorbikes leading the way and bringing up the rear. The streets were barricaded off for the runners and the scene was completed by a swathe of brazilian dancers, TV and press. The noble jaunt raised over €68K for the charity Centre Francais pour Protection d'Enfance (French Center for Child Protection). Rory commented, ' It was a lot of work but great fun and well worth it. I think everyone experienced a huge 'feel good factor' and next year's run is already being planned. I reckon we are likely to get a lot more people'. You can check out the photos at

http://www.jeudonne.org/galerie-photo.html

27th
July
2009

GamesAid and the 3 Peaks will meet!

GamesAid Tackles the 3 Peaks

Just Flight and MasterTronic Take on Three Peaks Challenge for GamesAid - an intrepid team of four from Just Flight and Mastertronic will be tackling the tough Three Peaks Challenge on 7th August 2009.

Martyn Northall, Richard Slater, Matt West-Robinson and Dermot Stapleton will trek over 26 miles in under 24 hours, up and down Ben Nevis (4406ft), Scafell Pike (3206ft) and Snowdon (3560ft), the three highest mountains in Scotland, England and Wales.

"We are delighted to be able to tackle the Three Peaks Challenge with the support of GamesAid. Hopefully together we will raise some money for a good cause," commented Richard Slater, Just Flight.

The GamesAid Three Peaks Challenge Team can be sponsored at http://www.justgiving.com/MastertronicThreePeaksChallenge.

27th
July
2009

GamesAid Poker Night at Develop

Thanks to the blinding efforts of Andrew Eades, Mark Ward (runner up!), Rupert Loman and all the staff at Relentless Software, GamesAid's Poker Night at the Develop Conference raised in excess of a whopping £5,000!

GamesAid will be running another tournament to co-incide with the London Games Festival in October. More details will follow soon.

27th
July
2009

GamesAid voting closes soon

Don't forget that all GamesAid members have until 11.59 on Friday 31st of July to place their unique vote for one of the nominated charities. Please don't forget to vote, many charities are waiting to hear the outcome of the very first poll. The top 6 charities that get the most votes will benefit and your vote will count! Thank you on behalf of all the good causes put forward so far. You can vote here at the voting page.

15th
July
2009

GamesAid voting now open!

Vote for your favourite charity on the voting page.

14th
July
2009

eBay Action

A big thanks to Frances Shortt who sent in a load of merchandise from Atari and Caroline Van Venrooij from Sega. This is all going into our eBay shop which has raised £724.60 so far thanks to those who have donated all sorts of lovely things.

Annoyingly, eBay have now put new rules on postage (see http://pages.ebay.co.uk/sell/april2009/pandp.html), as a result we have incurred £97.80 worth of postage, but going forward we will ensure we add postage into the starting price or the Buy Now prices so GamesAid and our chosen charities are not penalised.

Don’t forget, if you have any unwanted games, merchandise, POS indeed anything we will be happy to sell it with all proceeds ex post going to GamesAid.

As a quick reminder send to:

The Producers
2 Stonehill
Stukeley Meadows
Huntingdon
PE29 6ED

13th
July
2009

GamesAid Golf and Spa Day

Big thanks to fellow trustee Richard Stickler and all the team at Gem plus fellow sponsors THQ, Xbox 360, Play.com, Logitech and Nintendo, have finished tallying up the money raised at the GamesAid Golf and Spa day. The event raised an amazing £32,061. Last year it was £20,000 and the year before £9,870. So we are going in the right direction despite being smack in the middle of a recession and all that credit crunchie stuff. Amazing.

13th
June
2009

GamesHorizon Conference Poker Tournament - Tuesday 23rd June

Register your place at the GameHorizon Conference charity poker tournament, for your chance to win a cash prize of £700.

Hosted by Ian Livingstone, this 007 themed party including a Texas Hold'em poker tournament, will take place at .Sea' night club, on Newcastle Quayside, and will start at 6.30pm.

A seat costs just £30, and all proceeds will go to GamesAid. The session will run from 6.30 - 10pm, with possible option for re-buys, which will be announced on the night. To book a place please register at http://www.justgiving.com/nickywilkinson1.

12th
June
2009

GamesAid extends charity nomination period

GamesAid, the UK games industry charity for children and young people, today extended the deadline for members to advocate their own chosen charities as recipients of GamesAid funding up until a closing date of 14th July 2009. Voting will then open on the 15th of July and then close at midnight on 31st of July 2009.

"We have decided to extend the deadline for two reasons. Firstly we have listened to our members who wanted more time to advocate their charities and canvass support. Secondly, we want more members aboard to get a broader church and therefore a more exciting election" commented Andy Payne, Chairman, GamesAid. "GamesAid needs your help. Tell your friends and colleagues in the industry to get involved and join up, the more members we get the better represented we are."

All fundraising donations are gratefully received at www.justgiving.com/gamesaid.

14th
May
2009

Gamesaid announces industry membership scheme

GamesAid, the UK games industry charity for children and young people, today launched a free industry membership scheme at www.gamesaid.org.

The GamesAid membership scheme will allow those working in the computer and video game industry to register to receive news updates and support fundraising events, as well as advocate their own chosen charities as recipients of GamesAid funding up until a closing date of 14th June 2009. Voting for charities then opens for two weeks and successful nominations will be announced at the Develop Awards in Brighton in July.

"The GamesAid membership scheme really underlines our mission statement to operate the charity as an all inclusive part of the games industry, in an open and transparent way, engaging as many different industry professionals as possible," commented Andy Payne, Chairman, GamesAid. "GamesAid will continue to encourage individuals, teams and companies to contribute through fundraising and events, big and small, and we believe the new membership scheme will afford everybody a voice in how the industry's charity is run. If you have any ideas for fundraising or which charities should benefit from GamesAid funds, sign up today on GamesAid.org. GamesAid is your charity, so have your say."

Recent fundraising events have included a successful Guinness World Record for 24 hour gaming by the Ready-up.net editorial team and an industry raffle at the MCV Awards.

Forthcoming events include a charity poker tournament at the Grosvenor Casino, Brighton on the eve of the Develop Conference & Expo in Brighton in July. Players of all levels can find further details at http://www.justgiving.com/gamesaidpokerdevelop09.

The GamesAid membership scheme launched today at www.gamesaid.org. All fundraising donations are gratefully received at www.justgiving.com/gamesaid.

16th
May
2008

GamesAid unveiled!

GamesAid has today been unveiled to the games industry. Many thanks to our friends at trade publications MCV, In-Stock and GamesIndustry.biz for their coverage.#

Via this website you will be able to find out what is happening with GamesAid and get involved. You will be able to suggest charities to be supported, find out what events are happening and also see where the money has been going.

If you have any suggestions or would like to pledge some money, please use our contact form - Our Just Giving page will be up and running soon.

We'll also make some graphics available for you to use on your websites and e-mail footers to help raise the awareness of GamesAid in the games industry. And to show your support and discuss GamesAid please join our Facebook group.

Thanks for your support!