One of the most popular events in the UK games industry’s annual events calendar, the GamesAid Third Annual Charity Golf and Spa Day, has sold out. The event, which takes place on May 27th, is already on target to smash the 32,024 raised at last year’s event. Attendees include Microsoft, …
Read More »GamesAid confirms supported charities
UK video games industry charity body GamesAid has announced the results of its vote on which charities are to receive at least 11,000 in funding as a result of its recent fundraising activities. Five organisations have been named – the Royal Hospital for Neuro Disability, The Willow Foundation, Action for …
Read More »MCV Awards 09: GamesAid winners
Gamesaid organisers have thanked attendees at this year’s MCV Awards for their excellent support of a fund-raising raffle. A total of 1,325 was raised on the night and it is hoped that people will now feel encouraged to add Gamesaid ideas to their own industry events going forward. The raffle …
Read More »Win big at MCV Awards with GamesAid
The games industry’s charity is hoping to raise both its profile and much-needed funds at this week’s MCV Awards in London. Up for grabs are a PlayStation 3 with SingStar Queen, a Nintendo DSi console, a Logitech Pure-Fi Dream speaker dock, a Logitech HD Powerline kit and 500Gb media server …
Read More »GamesAid raises £125,000 for charity
GamesAid, the UK games industry charity, today announced that it has raised over 125,000 since October 2008 through a number of industry-led initiatives, alongside the appointments of Andy Payne as Chairman and Sarah Seaby as Vice Chairman. Mark Ward from Bastion and Richard Stickler from Gem Distribution have also been …
Read More »UK games industry raises £1m for Paddington Academy
GamesAid, on behalf of the Entertainment Software Charity, has announced that benevolent donations from the games industry in support of the Paddington Academy have reached 1 million – following a new payment of 214,000. The video games industry adopted The Paddington Academy back in 2005 due to its focus on …
Read More »New developer-supported UK charity launches
Relentless and Sports Interactive put weight behind GamesAid
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