Games for the Weans declares new gaming fundraiser Play It Forward

Glasgow, UK – April sixth, 2026 – Glasgow Children’s Hospital Charity is delighted to announce a brand new Games for the Weans fundraiser, Play It Forward, has launched right this moment. 

The week-long occasion, sponsored by Devolver Digital, welcomes players, content material creators, and fundraisers to tackle a gaming problem between April sixth and April twelfth to lift funds for Glasgow Children’s Hospital Charity’s hospital gaming programme, Games for the Weans.  

“We’re so grateful for everything the Scottish gaming and streaming communities have done to create special moments of joy for children and their families who are going through so much,” said Steven Mair, Gamer-In-Residence at Glasgow Children’s Hospital Charity. “By supporting our upcoming campaign, Play it Forward, you can help to continue this this amazing service for years to come.” 

“We believe games can be small acts of magic. Supporting Games for the Weans means helping children find adventure, laughter and company – even on the hardest days,” said Sarah Seaby, Director of Marketing at Devolver Digital. “If we can help give them space to play, explore and just be kids, that matters to us.”   

Since 2023, Games for the Weans has raised over £200,000 for the kids and younger individuals handled in Scotland’s busiest hospital with help from Devolver Digital, US-based charity Child’s Play, and the UK video games trade. Funds raised have gone in the direction of funding up to date gaming gear, new video games for sufferers, and the introduction of the hospital’s Gamer-in-Residence – the primary of its variety in a UK kids’s hospital – who ensures each baby in hospital has a Player Two. 

If you’re serious about getting concerned with Play It Forward or any of the Games for the Weans occasions in 2026, contact our Gamer-in-Residence for extra info: steven.mair@gchc.scot 

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About Games for the Weans 

The online game fundraiser for younger kids in hospital, Games for the Weans raises funds to purchase tailored gaming gear, consoles and video video games for the girls and boys on the kids’s hospital in Glasgow. Fundraising additionally helps the hospital’s Gamer-in-Residence – in order that kids in hospital all the time have somebody to play with. 

About Devolver Digital 

Devolver Digital is the world’s main impartial online game writer. Since its founding in 2009, the corporate has labored with greater than 80 growth groups to publish over 130 video games on a dozen totally different platforms. 18 of its video games have offered over 1,000,000 copies, some many extra. 

Devolver Digital was established as a developer-first sport publishing enterprise, initially for the digital PC gaming market, adopted later by different platforms. Quite a lot of its printed titles have additionally been made obtainable in bodily codecs. 

About Glasgow Children’s Hospital Charity 

Glasgow is house to one of many nice kids’s hospitals of the world. Every day, 500 kids from throughout Scotland obtain life-changing care behind its doorways. Glasgow Children’s Hospital Charity is the driving power behind most of the progressive tasks and companies that make the kids’s hospital such a pioneering place. Whether kids are in hospital for long-term remedy of circumstances similar to most cancers or kidney failure, or arrive in an emergency, Glasgow Children’s Hospital Charity guarantees to be by their aspect all through their hospital journey.  

For extra info, go to www.glasgowchildrenshospitalcharity.org 

Twitter & Instagram – @gch_charity 

Facebook & LinkedIn – @GlasgowChildrensHospitalCharity 

TikTok – @GlasgowChildrensHospital 

For Further Information: 

For media enquiries, please contact Glasgow Children’s Hospital Charity:  

Rach Macpherson, Marketing Officer  

rach.macpherson@glasgowchildrenshospitalcharity.org | 07761038591