Alan MacMillan
Alan's ThanksGaming 2015
Fundraising for Glasgow Children’s Hospital Charity
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Last year through CalmDownTom I managed to raise £255 for Yorkhill Children's Charity. Collectively our group of enthusiastic gamers and writers managed to raise over £3000! This year we aim to do it again.
So what do we do? Well we go without sleep and play videogames for 24 hours. Sounds like fun and it is but it is also long and gruelling, much like the hard work done by the Yorkhill Childrens Charity. So to support them in their incredibly important work we would like to do what we can to help them. If we can use our hobby and passion to raise money for them then we will!
Last year we chose an optional theme of 'Bad Games'. This year our theme is 'Back To The Classics'. If you can think of a classic game I may not have played then suggest it to me with a donation! I may pick it up. However for most of the 24 hours I will be playing a new game called Cities: Skylines. It's a city simulator where funnily enough you create your own city. If you donate to me I will create and name parts of the city in your honour!
Donation Rewards:
- Under £5 - I will name a small feature of the city after you (in a naming convention of my choice!). Features include important buildings like universities or fire stations, parks, shops etc
- Over £5 - I will name a district after you. Districts will be large residential, commercial and industrial areas. Again the naming convention will be of my own witty creation.
- Over £10 - A large feature of the city will be made and named in your honour. This could be something like a stadium, a skyscraper or the Statue of Liberty.
- Over £20 - Your choice of the above and you also get to choose the naming of it!
Yorkhill Children’s Charity provides and supports excellence in paediatric, obstetric and neonatal healthcare enhancing the treatment, care and wellbeing of children and their families through The Royal Hospital for Sick Children at Yorkhill and other hospital and community based services. This year the hospital will be moving from it's 100 year home in Yorkhill, to the new Glasgow South Hospital Campus. With millions of patients set to pass through its doors in the years to come, the new children’s hospital provides extraordinary opportunities for Yorkhill Children’s Charity. They have already committed more than £5 million of enhanced equipment and services to the new children’s hospital.