Jingle Jam donors have funded over 150,000 calls to CALM's helpline.

The CALM helpline provides a vital life-line 365 days a year for those struggling with suicide. Each case is unique and nearly all are highly sensitive, but we see the impact every day through the responses from those we’ve helped. Here are some user quotes:

‘A 15 minute call with CALM is the reason I am here today. It helped me realise I’m not alone, people do care, there is a reason to stay. CALM saved my life.’

‘I rang you in a time my life was unbearable. Talking to someone made a huge difference. I have a lovely life now. I have directed others to your site since.’

‘A little chat saved my life tonight.’

Become is the national charity in England fighting for care-experienced young people. One of those young people explained how a Jingle Jam-funded Community Link Up event helped:

“If you’re care-experienced, you get used to figuring things out on your own. Education, work, housing, finances… It can be tiring, and it’s hard not to feel defeated sometimes.

I’ve gone to Become’s community Link Up…they remind you that you’re not navigating everything alone. It’s nice to just be in the presence of people who have a mutual understanding of the ups and downs that come with navigating the care system.

When you’ve grown up feeling a bit different, meeting people who understand parts of your experience without needing a long explanation can feel relieving.”

WWF is working to secure mountain gorilla population gains, which have increased from an estimated fewer than 400 in the early 1980s to more than 1,000 today. Making sure their environment stays healthy for the wildlife and people that depend on it.

This includes strengthening protected area management across the entire 785km² of mountain gorilla habitat in the Greater Virunga Landscape, through support for ranger-based monitoring, park cleaning, and transboundary coordination, as well as more recently undertaking the latest census survey of the mountain gorilla population in the Bwindi-Sarambwe ecosystem.

It also includes empowering communities living alongside protected areas, helping them to sustainably meet their needs and reduce pressure on mountain gorilla habitats through a range of livelihood activities, including agroforestry, livestock farming, community gardens, and Village Savings and Loan Associations, as well as ensuring that communities share equitably in the benefits generated through responsible tourism.

We've funded the forthcoming, brand new Patient Hotel at Bristol Children's Hospital. This will be the UK's first purpose-designed long-stay hotel for children and their families, and is due to open for its first patients by the end of 2027.

In 2020, Sara went through every parent’s worst nightmare: her three-year-old son George suffered a stroke in the part of the brain that controls movement.

The family assumed they would be in Bristol Children’s Hospital for a few weeks, but their stay lasted three exhausting months while George underwent intensive therapy.

“When I heard about the Patient Hotel, I was so excited because it will be life-changing for the children who need it, as well as their parents. While it wouldn’t have changed what happened to George, it would have made the following months of rehabilitation infinitely easier to cope with.”

We can't wait to see Patient Hotel open and helping children and families in similar situations to Sara and George.

Thanks to Jingle Jam Cool Earth supported 9,740 people in 22 rainforest communities to protect their forests and improve their lives, helping keep 89 million trees standing in the Peruvian Amazon.

When devastating floods swept through local communities in 2024, destroying the homes and crops, Cool Earth used our support to send immediate emergency funding to CARE, a local Indigenous organisation. Within hours, they delivered food, clean water and clothing to families in desperate need.

"I want to express deep gratitude to allies like Cool Earth," said CARE's leader Angel Pedro Valerio. "Supporting forest communities in crisis ensures they can continue protecting the forests we all depend on."

Jingle Jam funding also paid for fire training to help tackle wildfires, the number one cause of deforestation. We’ve helped train 50 community members in forest fire management, and assisted in creating digital mapping to record key wildlife spots and identify locations of threats.

Jessica died aged just 19 in June 2024 after being diagnosed with Ewing's sarcoma, a type that most commonly affects children and young adults. She had a tumour the size of a grapefruit in her upper body.

Patrick, Jessica’s father, says: ‘Jessica is remembered and missed every day. With no known cause and insufficient research, there is an urgent need to better understand sarcoma, which is a devastating disease.’

Jingle Jam donations are funding pioneering research to develop better treatments for Ewing’s sarcoma. One promising study is exploring how 'cancer-bursting' oncolytic viruses could be used to directly kill Ewing sarcoma cells or activate the body's immune system to fight them.

Through research like this, we hope that future families won’t face the heartbreak that Jessica’s loved ones have endured.

War Child’s innovative ‘Can’t Wait to Learn’ app uses custom gaming technology to provide a solution for children who have no access to education. We funded the programme in Ukraine when the current conflict began there, enabling tens of thousands of primary school children and teachers to use the app to support learning in Maths and Reading.

Viktor, a primary teacher in Kyiv, recalled a missile attack during the school day: “We’ve become so used to sirens; we knew exactly what to do.” While they hid in a bomb shelter for a terrifying five hours, they played Can’t Wait to Learn games on tablets and solved math problems.

"‘I’m learning, not waiting’ is the motto—and so they did. It distracted them from the violence outside and offered an escape when they needed it most.”

We funded RNIB to help make sure children with visual impairment had equal opportunities to fulfil their potential, and to build an accessible gaming toolkit for game developers.

A parent on the Parent Pathway course for children said: “I signed up to the course because I was trying to gain a better understanding of the new world my daughter had been catapulted into. It's been incredibly valuable to find out what support is available and just to chat to people who understand vision impairment! It was nice to feel understood and to speak to other parents who are going through a similar situation.”

The Devkit, Design for Every Gamer, is still under development but the prototype and information about its development and testing can be found here. It's designed to help developers integrate access features into their projects. It offers in-depth guidance on implementing features like menu narration, high-contrast modes, scalable UI, and haptic feedback ensuring seamless gameplay for users with sight loss.

We funded re-greening charity Justdiggit to develop a new mobile app to accelerate delivery across sub-Saharan Africa, as well as directly restoring 1,600 hectares of land in Tanzania.

So far, over 50,000 trees have been restored over 1,000 hectares in Tanzania, benefitting over 3,000 people, while the app, which uses indigenous techniques, mobile technology and communication to inspire farmers to restore their land has over 20,000 active users.

Shaban Abrahman Swella, a farmer from Kinambiri village who took part in training with scores of others from Mkalama district, Tanzania, said:

"I personally benefited from the Kisiki Hai [treecovery] training. When I get back home, I believe my family and community will also benefit from the knowledge gained. I will work with the community to bring changes from the ward level, district level and the nation at large, to make sure that our region becomes greener. It could have been expensive to get this knowledge, but we got it here for no cost. So, the community will benefit through raising their income, and improvement on the farms that have been affected by gullies that they can restore in a shorter time once we start implementing the training."