About Game Heroes

Game Heroes is now on Tiltify! You can take part in our classic 24hour Marathon Challenge or try something new... Check out our Perfect Run and Your Stream, Your Way challenges .

Hit the sign up button and set your date or register on our Tiltify site! Then it’s up to you. Gather your virtual squad or go solo. Go for a 24 hour marathon or do it in big chunks. Stream the mayhem and madness on Twitch, or live tweet it.

The only essential is to let ALL your people know you’re taking on this challenge for a great cause, so they can donate and support you like the hero you are!

We think 24 hours is the ultimate challenge but you can choose how you complete it. So, feel free to set yourself a good and achievable challenge – not forgetting, of course, that you’ll need to take breaks to stay fuelled, hydrated and (ahem) comfortable.

You can sign up to Game Heroes on our Tiltify site to easily stream all your gaming activtiy. We also have a useful guide to setting up a stream. Once registered, we also recommended linking your Twitch account to your Games Heroes profile page – it means you can stream and collect donations at the same time.

Please make sure you connect the Twitch account you’ll be using for your Game Heroes stream

If you’d like to set up a team page, one member of the team can register in the teams name or alternatively each team member can register individually.

Easy. When you sign up, you’ll create your own Game Heroes profile page. When it’s ready, send your friends, family and colleagues a link to it. It’ll have all the details of the challenge you’re taking on – and lets people sponsor you and donate straight to Macmillan, quickly and easily online.

Check out our fundraising DLC, designed to help you maximise your donations.  

And if people like your nan have given you your sponsor money in cash, you can pay it in on your page yourself, or send a cheque with a completed sponsorship form to:

Game Heroes,
Macmillan Cancer Support,
89 Albert Embankment,
London SE1 7UQ

To disconnect your Twitch from your fundraising page. Please follow the steps below:

• Sign in to your fundraising page
• Click on My Account
• Edit page
• Twitch > Disconnect Twitch
  
  

Make every £1 worth 25p more at no extra cost to you. It’s just a little box to tick but gift aid makes a huge difference when it comes to how much money we can raise to support people living with cancer.

To be eligible to add gift aid to your donation, you must be a UK taxpayer and understand that if you pay less income tax and/or capital gains tax then the amount of gift aid claimed on all donations made in that tax year it’s your responsibility to pay any difference.

This option will be there on your fundraising page, but if you could mention it to your sponsors, you could help raise much more money to support people living with cancer. Find out more about Gift Aid here.

The money you raise will help provide physical, emotional and financial support to people whose lives have been affected by cancer.

Please see our how it helps page for more information about how the money raise really will matter.

If you choose to use Facebook as a fundraising platform, or in order to complement or top up donations for your Game Heroes, please note we may not be aware of this fundraising activity.

If you raise money on Facebook and want us to acknowledge this, please get in touch; you can email fundraising@macmillan.org.uk or send us a private message through Facebook.

Get in touch by emailing gameheroes@macmillan.org.uk or calling 0300 1000 200. Then please visit Just Giving Help & Support page to cancel your Game Heroes profile page and find out how to refund people who have already donated to support you.

You will need to connect a Twitch account to your fundraising page. Simply go to your store on Xbox or PlayStation and install the Twitch app and login. Once you’ve done this, you can connect your Twitch account to your fundraising page. 

If you’d prefer to link to your Mixer or PlayStation Live, copy and paste the stream link to your story section on your page.

Click forgotten password when you go to login to receive an email from JustGiving to access your account.

Still having trouble? Please visit Just Giving Help & Support page for help logging into your account.

Game Heroes is only open to participants aged 18 and over. Macmillan takes the safety and wellbeing of children seriously.

JustGiving's (JG) top priority is to ensure that transaction and supporter data is kept secure at all times.

That’s why JustGiving maintains the highest possible standards of data security. It’s why we’ve implemented key international standards of best practice in online and data security, including:

• MasterCard®SecureCode™
• Verified by Visa (VbV)
• Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard.

We take an active role in the overall reduction of identity theft and fraud on the internet by ensuring the security of our IT systems, personnel and infrastructure.

Our employees are trained in all aspects of web application security, including infrastructure vulnerabilities, cross-site scripting, secure data storage, and using the software development lifecycle to maintain and improve security.

JG has been certified PCI compliant by Trustwave, an official Visa Qualified Security Assessor. This means our systems and services comply with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard and that we actively protect our customers' identities, personal information and financial details.

Find out more

Just email us at gameheroes@macmillan.org.uk or give us a bell on 0300 1000 200.