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The UKGI Slack Annual Pin fundraiser is back for 2025!
The first UKGI Slack pin badge drive was in 2019: a charity fundraiser that also gave UKGI Slack members a piece of limited edition merch to wear at events, to signal their membership in our community. This is our fifth edition!
To date our wonderful community has raised over £11,000 for incredibly worthy causes.
The Cause
This year we’re supporting the absolutely incredible charity ‘CRADLE’.
CRADLE is a national Mental Health charity providing support to anyone affected by the death of a baby during pregnancy, or termination of pregnancy. Their goal is to prevent feelings of isolation and loneliness that can often follow a traumatic pregnancy experience and to build a community of support for those who are looking to connect with others who may have a shared experience.
They work nationally with the NHS to create and deliver services, and CRADLE pathways of support that begin during clinical care and continue long after a patient is at home recovering.
You may not have heard about CRADLE, and that's exactly why we selected them. There's so many charities out there that desperately need extra funding, and we think this is an incredibly worthy cause - especially given the restrictive funding of the NHS and the current global situations regarding safe abortion access.
You can find out more about them at https://cradlecharity.org/
The Pin
Our 2025 pin has been designed by the wonderful Rob Bedford at Juiced Studio LTD. This year we’ve gone retro, and is there anything more retro than a floppy disk (probably yes but shh). Look at its lil eyes and smile! Nothing screams games industry more.
The UKGI Slack admin team are so thankful to Juiced Studio LTD for offering their time and many iterations on the design of this pin. We love it and we know you will too!
And finally, HUGE thank you to Chandler Wells for supporting our fundraiser by producing and purchasing the pins. All of our supporters mean every penny goes to CRADLE.
Fill in your postage details
We just need you to fill in the address section of the below form so we know where to send it to. Postage is being covered by the wonderful team at Kepler, so your entire donation goes directly to CRADLE.
Please don't donate anonymously!
Please fill in the form at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSesJsy_WkS_5zMsZHX4wXJE9oyAlIUQeXnu0rr5f0VF9mBcig/viewform It’s very short as we just require your postage details and a way to match up donations with JustGiving and postal addresses.
We’ll also be doing collections at Develop Brighton in July – but please input your address just in case we miss you