{"id":2412,"date":"2020-11-05T08:45:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-05T08:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.specialeffect.org.uk\/news\/record-onespecialday-total-announced"},"modified":"2021-10-21T10:41:42","modified_gmt":"2021-10-21T09:41:42","slug":"record-onespecialday-total-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.specialeffect.org.uk\/news\/record-onespecialday-total-announced","title":{"rendered":"Record #OneSpecialDay total announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re truly humbled to announce the result of the fifth #OneSpecialDay. THANK YOU to all our amazing partners for your support. Here\u2019s today\u2019s press release:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Games industry unites to support SpecialEffect with most successful One Special Day ever<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Gamers\u2019 charity SpecialEffect is delighted to announce that, thanks to a record number of partners from the games industry, their One Special Day fundraising campaign on Friday 2 October has raised over \u00a3500,000.<\/p>\n<p>The charity, which has experienced an upturn in demand for their services since the first COVID-19 lockdown in March, are incredibly grateful to their friends from the worldwide games industry who have rallied to support their life-changing work. From donating UK income from mobile and PC games, to a special Humble Bundle and a series of socially-distanced \u2018virtual\u2019 challenges, industry partners large and small have raised vital funds to help SpecialEffect continue to find cutting edge solutions to help people with physical challenges play and avoid isolation.<\/p>\n<p>SpecialEffect\u2019s CEO and Founder, Dr Mick Donegan said \u201cAll of us at SpecialEffect are delighted and humbled at the outcome of our fifth and most successful One Special Day 2020 ever and are massively grateful to our friends throughout the games industry. They\u2019re not only ensuring that we can carry on meeting the ever-growing demand to help disabled gamers to play, but also the demand to help developers all over the world to make their games more accessible to all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More information about One Special Day can be found at <a href=\"https:\/\/onespecialday.org.uk\/\">www.onespecialday.org.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3106 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.specialeffect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/osd_1000.jpeg\" alt=\"\u00a3500,000\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.specialeffect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/osd_1000.jpeg 1000w, https:\/\/www.specialeffect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/osd_1000-250x141.jpeg 250w, https:\/\/www.specialeffect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/osd_1000-700x394.jpeg 700w, https:\/\/www.specialeffect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/osd_1000-768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.specialeffect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/osd_1000-120x68.jpeg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re truly humbled to announce the result of the fifth #OneSpecialDay. THANK YOU to all our amazing partners for your support. Here\u2019s today&#8217;s press release:n&#8212;nGames industry unites to support SpecialEffect with most successful One Special Day ever Gamers\u2019 charity SpecialEffect is delighted to announce that, thanks to a record number of partners from the games industry, their One Special Day fundraising campaign on Friday 2 October has raised over \u00a3500,000.nThe charity, which has experienced an upturn in demand for their services since the first COVID-19 lockdown in March, are incredibly grateful to their friends from the worldwide games industry who have rallied to support their life-changing work. From donating UK income from mobile and PC games, to a special Humble Bundle and a series of socially-distanced \u2018virtual\u2019 challenges, industry partners large and small have raised vital funds to help SpecialEffect continue to find cutting edge solutions to help people with physical challenges play and avoid isolation.nSpecialEffect\u2019s CEO and Founder, Dr Mick Donegan said \u201cAll of us at SpecialEffect are delighted and humbled at the outcome of our fifth and most successful One Special Day 2020 ever and are massively grateful to our friends throughout the games industry. They&#8217;re not only ensuring that we can carry on meeting the ever-growing demand to help disabled gamers to play, but also the demand to help developers all over the world to make their games more accessible to all.\u201dnMore information about One Special Day can be found at www.onespecialday.org.uk and if you would like more details about the 2021 campaign (on 1 October 2021) please contact Nick Streeter at nick@specialeffect.org.uk &#8212;<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Record #OneSpecialDay total announced - SpecialEffect<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.specialeffect.org.uk\/news\/record-onespecialday-total-announced\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Record #OneSpecialDay total announced - SpecialEffect\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"We\u2019re truly humbled to announce the result of the fifth #OneSpecialDay. 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