I’ll admit I didn’t know about Jingle Jam, and since I stumbled across it on the pages of some of the participating developers, I figured I’d dig a bit deeper and gather some info.
Through this platform, it looks like you not only get to support a good cause, but you can also bring home a bundle packed with top-tier turn-based RPGs and Strategy Games. But let me tell you more.
Jingle Jam, the annual games-focused fundraising event, is back for 2025 and once again using Tiltify to turn livestreams, communities, and game bundles into real-world impact for children and young people around the globe.
Now a registered charity in England and Wales, Jingle Jam unites creators, game studios, and players under one banner: raise as much as possible in two packed weeks of streams and digital events.
The 2025 edition runs from December 1–14, with hundreds of streamers and community organisers invited to launch their own Tiltify campaigns and direct donations toward one or more of Jingle Jam’s eight partner charities.
What really matters for us here is the Jingle Jam 2025 Games Collection, which lets you bring home 15 top-tier games, including titles like Tactical Breach Wizards, Chaos Gate: Daemonhunters, Old World, and Rogue Waters.
This year’s lineup covers mental health support, care-experienced young people, children affected by conflict, LGBTQ+ youth, conservation work, and more: Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM), War Child, Autistica, Become, The Grand Appeal, Make-A-Wish, The Trevor Project, and WWF.
As part of the 2025 campaign, anyone who donates at least £35 through participating Jingle Jam campaigns can unlock a curated Games Collection containing a large bundle of PC titles.
Coverage of this year’s bundle highlights a familiar model: a minimum donation threshold to claim the collection, with the option to give any amount if supporters simply want to contribute to the total without receiving games.
According to the charity, supporters have now helped raise more than £27.5 million for good causes, with the event focusing on four main areas: inclusion of neurodivergent, disabled, LGBT+ and diverse young people; improving young people’s mental and physical health; supporting those affected by global crises like poverty, disasters and conflict; and safeguarding the planet by tackling climate change and protecting animal welfare.
Jingle Jam funding is also backing research into new sarcoma cancer treatments, a new toolkit for autistic students waiting for diagnosis, a major new facility at Bristol Children’s Hospital, and education projects that empower young conservationists and protect endangered river dolphins.
The event’s roots go back to 2011, when Yogscast founders Lewis Brindley and Simon Lane asked their audience to donate to charity instead of sending Christmas presents.
That simple idea grew into the Yogscast Jingle Jam, a December fundraising staple that repeatedly broke its own records and eventually spun out into an independent charity. Today, the annual event is organised by subsidiary company Jingle Jam Promotions, which passes 100% of event proceeds to the Jingle Jam charity for distribution to its partners.
For this year’s campaign, creators can register via the official Jingle Jam page on Tiltify, set up a solo or team campaign, and choose how they want to support the eight charities on the roster.
Streamers can plug in their preferred platform, set milestones and incentives, and lean on familiar Tiltify tools, overlays, alerts, polls, and more, to keep viewers engaged throughout the two-week push.
Viewers, meanwhile, can support Jingle Jam 2025 by donating to any participating campaign, sharing streams and links on social media, or simply tuning in and boosting visibility for the charities involved.
