Take part in a streaming challenge to raise funds for people experiencing homelessness.
Calling all streamers, gamers and content creators - you can make a difference!
Livestream for Crisis and raise vital funds to help people find a safe and stable place to live. Whether you want to game, bake, play music or just chat – plan your stream, go live and have fun!
Whatever you decide to do, the funds you raise will help people take their first steps out of homelessness.
Register
You can do this as an individual or as part of a group.
Plan
Plan the activities you'll do and what platform you'll be going live on!
Fundraise
Start raising vital funds to end homelessness.
By signing up to Stream for Crisis , you will be helping to end homelessness for good. Go the extra mile and get and your family, friends and people within your community to support you in your efforts. The more you raise, the more we can help people leave homelessness behind through our year-round, life-changing services.
could go towards someone's travel costs, making attending a flat viewing or job interview possible, and helping them to start their journey out of homelessness
could help someone access expert support from a clinical psychologist, helping them to improve their mental wellbeing and rebuild their life
could help fund one of our support workers to support someone trapped in temporary accommodation look for affordable and settled housing
could buy a household starter kit, filled with essentials someone might not be able to afford, to help them settle into their new home
We also have a range of social sharing graphics to let your friends, family and followers know that you are fundraising for Crisis.
Choose a gaming or streaming challenge and raise funds to help end homelessness. You can do it solo or get your friends and family involved.
Set up a fundraising page on Tiltify or JustGiving or raise funds through your own methods.
Promote your stream to your friends, family and followers. We can help with promotion if you let us know when you're going live.
It's completely up to you when you do your charity stream. We recommend allowing some time to plan and promote your livestream to make sure you get the best possible audience.
Integrating your stream into Tiltify or JustGiving page makes it really easy for your friends, family and followers to donate directly to Crisis.
Tiltify provide easy to use tools and Crisis is set up to directly receive funds raised by your stream on any of your preferred platforms that connect to Tiltify (e.g., Twitch, YouTube, or Facebook Live).
In-stream incentives, rewards and challenges can be worth extra donations.
If you already have a JustGiving account, you may prefer to use that platform for your fundraising. You can also connect your Twitch livestream to JustGiving. Check out their resources page for more information.
You may also use the built-in fundraising tools provided on YouTube and/or Facebook (i.e. Youtube, Facebook donation button, Facebook fundraiser). If you use one of these platforms, please let us know.
Money raised will support our year-round work across Great Britain, helping provide housing, employment, education and wellbeing services; and ensuring more people move out of homelessness.
If you want to make suggested donation amounts to your audience or set your target, below are some examples of how money raised through streaming will help people experiencing homelessness:
🤝 £10 could provide a warm welcome to a Crisis service and help someone take their first steps out of homelessness.
👥 £25 could support someone to access volunteering opportunities, helping them to give back to society and gain valuable work experience.
🍽 £50 could provide someone with the basic essentials they need to settle into a home, such as a kettle, pans and microwave.
💙 £100 could help someone improve their mental and physical wellbeing, building resilience through group sessions and one-to-one psychological therapy.
🏠 £250 could provide specialist advice and one-to-one support to help someone find a place to call home and leave homelessness behind for good.
Tiltify is a livestream fundraising platform that provides tools for streamers to easily raise money for a charity. Once registered on the platform, you can begin raising money to support Crisis through your Twitch, YouTube, or Facebook Live.
Tiltify has a useful library of support resources if you have specific questions about the platform.
Under 18s can take part only with the express permission of a parent or guardian.
Crisis takes the safety and wellbeing of children and young people very seriously. If you have any questions or concerns about a fundraising page or livestream you have seen, please get in touch with the team.
Absolutely – please get in touch with the team and let them know your event date, so we can make sure items reach you in time.
In the meantime, why not use some of the downloads available above or check out our digital fundraising resources to help spread the word.
Of course. If you need to cancel or postpone your event, for any reason, please let us know.
You may also need to cancel or remove any associated pages on third party platforms, depending on your event.
Please contact us and the team will be pleased to help.
Yes, we are happy to promote your livestream on our supporter-led Twitter channel, @CrisisPeople. You can also let people know it's going on using our Discord channel
You can also tag our main accounts into your posts on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook to ensure that we are aware. We will promote further where possible.
We can also provide resources and information to help you raise awareness of your stream and our work.
Yes, we do! We're just getting started, so please join and help us to get the conversation going: https://discord.gg/39hjJqsBpd
