Yogscast

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The Yogscast started their first charity live stream in December 2011 with the intention to raise money for Oxfam's Give a Goat programme to "send locally-sourced and vaccinated goats to families living in poverty." As part of their charity drive, the group hosted a live stream on Twitch every day in December while viewers were encouraged to donate to the charity through the JustGiving fundraising portal. The live streams were broadcast out of the basement of the house which Brindley, Lane, and Rutherford shared at that time. A total of £66,040.30 was raised, exceeding the target goal of £60,000. For this achievement, The Yogscast was named JustGiving's Most Popular Fundraiser of 2012.

For the 2012 holiday season, the Yogscast team conducted another charity drive for Oxfam called Honeydew's Honey Drive, with a target of raising £60,000. Improvements over the previous year included upgrading to a dedicated streaming studio in their new offices in Bristol, as well as the participation of other YouTube content producers such as Hat Films, TotalBiscuit, and Bachir Boumaaza. The charity drive was organised in aid of Oxfam's 'Plan Bee' to provide training and equipment for beekeeping in Ethiopia and '365 Emergency Fund' for the provision of urgent aid in emergencies. In addition to viewer donations through the JustGiving website, the team also raised additional proceeds through the sale of Twitch subscriptions, merchandise and Christmas songs to be donated to charity. As incentive to donate and at Lane's goading, Brindley agreed to cross-dress in a female bee costume should the charity drive reach their target goal. The goal was reached, and as promised, Brindley dressed up in the costume for Christmas Day. Honeydew's Honey Drive was successful in raising £240,568.25, more than triple that of the previous year. The group were again nominated for JustGiving's Most Popular Fundraiser of 2013, and received a Special Recognition Award at the JustGiving Awards ceremony.

In 2013, The Yogscast hosted the Dwarven Dairy Drive. Starting with this charity drive, donations were made through Humble Bundle instead of JustGiving, allowing donators to receive an assortment of games and in-game content as a token of appreciation. Donations were also distributed to benefit multiple charities rather than just one — in addition to Oxfam, the charity drive also supported GamesAid, Little People UK, Special Effect, and War Child. This charity drive attracted considerably more donators than previous livestreams, and raised a total of $1,159,746.33, triple that of the previous year.

The Yogscast Ukraine Fundraiser, held 9 August 2022, successfully raised £19,280.18 for War Child UK (humanitarian aid for children displaced during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine).

Subsequent years saw the charity drive break records in quick succession. The Yogscast Jingle Jam 2016 surpassed the previous year's total within the first week of the charity drive, and raised more than double their 2013 record, about $2.5 to 2.6 million. As with previous years, it featured a list of supported charities, but also enabled a new option for donators to pick another beneficiary from a list of thousands of charities.

The 2017 instalment was even more successful, raising $500,000 in the first hour, $1 million in the first day, Alt URL and breaking the 2016 record within the first week. It drew a peak of 60,400 concurrent viewers in the first week of December, and by the end of the month they had broadcast more than 700 hours of live streaming and were watched by 2.5 million people, amounting to 6.8 million viewer-hours or 779 viewer-years watched, making the Yogscast the most-watched channel on Twitch that month by time watched. The charity drive raised a grand total of $5,245,772, again more than twice that of the previous year. For their work with Whale and Dolphin Conservation, The Yogscast was awarded the Celebrity Charity Champion for the Third Sector Awards in 2018.

In 2018, The Yogscast launched the Yogscast Jingle Jam 2018, adding Save the Children and Call of Duty Endowment to the list of featured charities. Again, The Yogscast became the most watched channel on Twitch by hours watched, with 2.62 million viewer-hours watched from 30 November to 6 December. In addition, the first two days produced the best-performing broadcasts of the year for the channel. The Yogscast raised $1 million within the first two days and $1.5 million within the first three. Some of the live streams included a live baking stream on 5 December in collaboration with The Great British Bake Off contestant Briony Williams, during which they also hit a milestone of raising $2 million, Alt URL as well as a "Sex and Science" discussion panel on 22 December with Hannah Witton and Simon Clark. By the end of the charity drive, the Jingle Jam 2018 had raised $3.3 million for charity, for a cumulative total of $14,939,930.53 after 2018.

The Jingle Jam 2019 raised $250,000 in the first 8 minutes and $1 million within the first 24 hours. It was the second-most watched channel on Twitch for the week of 2 to 8 December 2019, attracting 1.9 million viewer-hours, second only to ESL Pro League. Its events included the inaugural Yogscast Game Jam, a 48-hour game jam, with the theme of the year of 'GIVING!'. Eventually, it raised $2.7 million.

The Jingle Jam 2020 switched its fundraising platform to Tiltify after 7 years on Humble Bundle, while continuing to provide game bundles in return for donations. It featured a longer list of twelve charities, with limited numbers of game bundles being assigned to each charity. The duration of the charity livestream was also shortened to 2 weeks, owing due to social distancing requirements during the COVID-19 pandemic and difficulty in content generation toward the end of the fundraiser. The fundraiser raised a total of £2,120,590 ($2,841,000), bringing the cumulative total to $20 million.

The Jingle Jam 2021, in its tenth anniversary, was organised for the benefit of 14 charities, with the new additions of Autistica, End Violence and Racism Against ESEA Communities, Global's Make Some Noise, and Lifelites. In addition, other content creators were invited to create their own community fundraising live streams alongside the main campaign, with their donators also able to receive the game bundle as a reward. It again raised more than $1 million within the first 24 hours, and a total of £3,342,063. Of this, more than £480,000 were raised by 215 community fundraisers.

The Jingle Jam 2022 was announced to benefit 12 charities, with the new additions of the British Red Cross, Campaign Against Living Miserably, Dogs for Autism, Huntington's Disease Association, Kidscape, Mermaids, Movember, Reset Mental Health, and Special Olympics Great Britain. It also bundled its largest games collection to date with a donation of at least £35 being rewarded with 90 games with a retail value of more than £1,000. In August 2022, Jingle Jam was registered as a charity in England and Wales, with the Charity Commission, independent of The Yogscast.

The Jingle Jam 2023 also announced 12 charity partners: Autistica, Campaign Against Living Miserably, Comic Relief, CoppaFeel!, Galop, Hello World, Justdiggit, Movember, the Royal National Institute of Blind People, Wallace & Gromit’s Grand Appeal, War Child UK, and Whale and Dolphin Conservation. In February 2023, Jingle Jam registered with the Fundraising Regulator.

The Jingle Jam 2024 was announced with 8 charities, some returning and some new: Autistica, Campaign Against Living Miserably, Cool Earth, Sarcoma UK, The Trevor Project, Wallace & Gromit’s Grand Appeal, War Child, and Whale and Dolphin Conservation. Campaign Against Living Miserably and War Child were announced as strategic partners and will be regular fixtures for Jingle Jam over the next three years.

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• The Yogscast (2015). 9781407163994, Scholastic. ISBN 9781407163994

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