It’s Christmas Eve, preparations ought to now be full as all of us flip our consideration to the large day itself. Before the person himself dons that huge pink swimsuit, we might wish to share a modern-day, heartwarming Father Christmas story of types from our associates over at Game Swap Shop UK, who, for the fourth yr in a row, have accomplished a fundraiser for the youngsters of London’s world-famous Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH).
Every yr since 2020, the neighborhood of the UK-based video game-swapping platform has come collectively to lift cash to purchase GOSH the most recent and biggest in video gaming, which permits the kids and sufferers to proceed to benefit from the pastime all of us share while visiting the hospital.
Daryl Williams, the founding father of Game Swap Shop UK, makes use of the funds raised to purchase the entire gaming goodies and delivers them personally to the London-based youngsters’s hospital just some days earlier than Christmas.
This yr, the corporate targeted on getting the kids an incredible PS5 arrange, managing to lift over £1,000 to purchase a model new PS5, an additional controller (Purple to go together with the Great Ormond Street Hospital aesthetic), and over 20 model new video games.
They additionally purchased a few the most well-liked Nintendo Switch video games which have come out this yr — Super Mario Bros. Wonder & The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom — to maintain their Switch assortment updated as a result of in 2022 the fundraising targeted on getting GOSH the final Nintendo Switch arrange (pictured above), getting them a brand new OLED Switch, two purple Switch Lites, further Joy-con and round 15 AAA titles together with Zelda, Mario, and Pokémon.
Since 2020, Game Swap Shop UK has raised over £10,000 in money and gaming goodies for the Children’s Hospital and plan on doing far more within the years to come back.
Founder Daryl Williams says, “It’s fast become a Christmas tradition to do this for Great Ormand Street Hospital and I love every second of it, it is such an honour getting to go down and hand over everything we get them, every year I’m blown away by the community’s generosity and I’m so proud to be a part of it.”
We applaud Daryl’s dedication to a trigger that’s clearly essential. The reward of video video games is a nice factor certainly, and we hope us sharing his story will encourage others.
Ho, ho, ho.
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