Since 2011, The Yogscast have organised a series of live streams every year in December to benefit charity. The idea began when fans would send presents to Brindley and Lane during the Christmas season, but they would instead insist that the money be donated to charity. The Yogscast started their first charity live stream in December 2011 with the intention to raise money for
Oxfam's Give a Goat programme to "send locally-sourced and vaccinated goats to families living in poverty." As part of their charity drive, the group hosted a live stream on
Twitch every day in December while viewers were encouraged to donate to the charity through the
JustGiving fundraising portal. The live streams were broadcast out of the basement of the house which Brindley, Lane, and Rutherford shared at that time. For the 2012 holiday season, the Yogscast team conducted another charity drive for Oxfam called ''Honeydew's Honey Drive'', with a target of raising £60,000. Improvements over the previous year included upgrading to a dedicated streaming studio in their new offices in Bristol, as well as the participation of other YouTube content producers such as
Hat Films,
TotalBiscuit, and
Athene. Honeydew's Honey Drive was successful in raising £240,568.25, more than triple that of the previous year. The group were again nominated for
JustGiving's Most Popular Fundraiser of 2013, and received a Special Recognition Award at the JustGiving Awards ceremony. In 2013, The Yogscast hosted the
Dwarven Dairy Drive. Starting with this charity drive, donations were made through
Humble Bundle instead of JustGiving, allowing donators to receive an assortment of games and in-game content as a token of appreciation. Donations were also distributed to benefit multiple charities rather than just one — in addition to Oxfam, the charity drive also supported GamesAid, Little People UK, Special Effect, and
War Child. This charity drive attracted considerably more donators than previous livestreams, and raised a total of $1,159,746.33, triple that of the previous year. The
Yogscast Ukraine Fundraiser, held 9 August 2022, successfully raised £19,280.18 for
War Child UK (humanitarian aid for children displaced during the
2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine).
Jingle Jam }} In 2014, The Yogscast named their live stream charity drive the
Yogscast Jingle Jam, which has remained the theme for every year's charity drive since then. The
Yogscast Jingle Jam 2015 invited special guests to the live streams including fellow YouTube celebrities
Adam Montoya ("SeaNanners"),
Jordan Maron ("CaptainSparklez") and
Toby Turner ("Tobuscus"). Subsequent years saw the charity drive break records in quick succession. The
Yogscast Jingle Jam 2016 surpassed the previous year's total within the first week of the charity drive, and raised more than double their 2013 record, about $2.5 to 2.6 million. As with previous years, it featured a list of supported charities, but also enabled a new option for donators to pick another beneficiary from a list of thousands of charities. $1 million in the first day, and breaking the 2016 record within the first week. It drew a peak of 60,400 concurrent viewers in the first week of December, and by the end of the month they had broadcast more than 700 hours of live streaming and were watched by 2.5 million people, amounting to 6.8 million viewer-hours or 779 viewer-years watched, making the Yogscast the most-watched channel on Twitch that month by time watched. The charity drive raised a grand total of $5,245,772, again more than twice that of the previous year. For their work with
Whale and Dolphin Conservation, The Yogscast was awarded the Celebrity Charity Champion for the
Third Sector Awards in 2018. In 2018, The Yogscast launched the
Yogscast Jingle Jam 2018, adding
Save the Children and
Call of Duty Endowment to the list of featured charities. Again, The Yogscast became the most watched channel on Twitch by hours watched, with 2.62 million viewer-hours watched from 30 November to 6 December. The Yogscast raised $1 million within the first two days and $1.5 million within the first three. Some of the live streams included a live baking stream on 5 December in collaboration with
The Great British Bake Off contestant Briony Williams, during which they also hit a milestone of raising $2 million, as well as a "Sex and Science" discussion panel on 22 December with
YouTubers
Hannah Witton and
Simon Clark. By the end of the charity drive, the Jingle Jam 2018 had raised $3.3 million for charity, for a cumulative total of $14,939,930.53 after 2018. The
Jingle Jam 2019 raised $250,000 in the first 8 minutes and $1 million within the first 24 hours. It was the second-most watched channel on Twitch for the week of 2 to 8 December 2019, attracting 1.9 million viewer-hours, second only to
ESL Pro League. Its events included the inaugural Yogscast Game Jam, a 48-hour
game jam, with the theme of the year of 'GIVING!'. Eventually, it raised $2.7 million. The
Jingle Jam 2020 switched its fundraising platform to Tiltify after 7 years on Humble Bundle, while continuing to provide game bundles in return for donations. It featured a longer list of twelve charities, with limited numbers of game bundles being assigned to each charity. The duration of the charity livestream was also shortened to 2 weeks, owing due to
social distancing requirements during the
COVID-19 pandemic and difficulty in content generation toward the end of the fundraiser. The fundraiser raised a total of £2,120,590 ($2,841,000), bringing the cumulative total to $20 million. The
Jingle Jam 2021, in its tenth anniversary, was organised for the benefit of 14 charities, with the new additions of
Autistica, End Violence and Racism Against ESEA Communities,
Global's Make Some Noise, and Lifelites. In addition, other content creators were invited to create their own community fundraising
live streams alongside the main campaign, with their donators also able to receive the game bundle as a reward. It again raised more than $1 million within the first 24 hours, and a total of £3,342,063. Of this, more than £480,000 were raised by 215 community fundraisers. The
Jingle Jam 2022 was announced to benefit 12 charities, with the new additions of the
British Red Cross,
Campaign Against Living Miserably,
Dogs for Autism,
Huntington's Disease Association,
Kidscape,
Mermaids,
Movember,
Reset Mental Health, and
Special Olympics Great Britain. In August 2022, Jingle Jam was registered as a charity in England and Wales, with the
Charity Commission, independent of The Yogscast. In February 2023, Jingle Jam registered with the
Fundraising Regulator. The
Jingle Jam 2024 was announced with 8 charities, some returning and some new: Autistica, Campaign Against Living Miserably,
Cool Earth,
Sarcoma UK,
The Trevor Project, Wallace & Gromit's Grand Appeal, War Child, and Whale and Dolphin Conservation. Campaign Against Living Miserably and War Child were announced as strategic partners and will be regular fixtures for Jingle Jam over the next three years.
List of Christmas live streams ==Awards and nominations==