Game Therapy UK - the therapeutic gaming charity.
NEWS
It's a
Game Changer
UP COMING EVENTS
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March 27th 2024- British Academic Conference on Therapeutic Gaming
Game Therapy UK hosts the first British Academic Conference on Therapeutic Gaming with 'Dungeons & Dragons in Higher Eduction'. This FREE EVENT will be a hybrid event and can be attended both face-to-face and online.
To register interest in tickets click here.
13th April 2024- Salute51, London Excel
Game Therapy UK will have a stand at Salute 51, at London Excel. Do pop over and have a chat with our volunteers.
WEDNESDAY 24 MAY
Stand Up for Game Therapy UK
Join us for our third fabulous fundraiser, a fantastic night of comedy at The Comedy Store, Leicester Square. There will be another incredible line-up of top comedians with all money raised going to support Game Therapy UK.
The line-up will soon be announced, so follow us on newsletter and socials, but check the previous years shows below! It's going to be another cracking night.
2022!
31 May-2nd June 2024- UK Games Expo, Birmingham NEC
Game Therapy UK will have a stand at UK Games Expo51, at Birmingham NEC. Do pop over and have a chat with our volunteers.
We will also be presenting a panel 'A definitive Guide to Therapeutic Gaming' at 10am on 31 May 24. The guests are yet to be announced.
10th-13th June 2024- DSET, Bristol
Game Therapy UK will have a stand at DSET, Bristol. Do pop over and have a chat with our volunteers.
PAST EVENTS
20-22 nd January 2024- CON-tingency
Game Therapy UK had a blast at CON-tingency. Huge thanks to our volunteers and all the folk we chatted to.
2nd December 2023- Dragonmeet
Game Therapy UK had a blast at Dragonmeet. Huge thanks to our volunteers and all the folk we chatted to.
Special thanks to the legend LUKE GYGAX who kindly signed the Critical Kit 'chonk' dice which is to be auctioned for the charity.
We were also thrilled to win the IAN LIVINGSTONE INNOVATION IN GAMES AWARD and have it presented to our chairman Gary Colman by Sir IAN LIVINGSTONE CBE, founder of Games Workshop, Warhammer, Fighting Fantasy and White Dwarf
27-29th October 2023 MCM Comic Con
Game Therapy UK had a blast at MCM Comic Con at London Excel. Huge thanks to our volunteers and all the folk we chatted to.
And a huge thanks to Chris from Critical Kit for the 'chonk' dice that Steve Cox, our volunteer and Chair of our veterans group TAG, managed to get signed by Critical Role! Proceeds from the raffle will go to Game Therapy UK TAG project.
October 2023
Delighted to announce the launch of Tactical Advance to Game (TAG)- the online TTRPG club supporting military veterans and serving personnel.
July 2023
Delighted to announce that we have been selected as one the charities to receive support from Games Aid this year.
This will be a huge help in allowing us to deliver therapeutic gaming projects to young people in 2023.
10th-11th June 2023
Huge thanks to Fantasy Guild Hall who ran a charity TTRPG event, where a proportion of the proceeds went to Game Therapy UK.
Big thanks to all the players, GMs, and the very generous Claire Starey of Fantasy Guild Hall.
WEDNESDAY 24 MAY
Stand Up for Game Therapy UK
Join us for our second fabulous fundraiser, a fantastic night of comedy at The Comedy Store, Leicester Square. There will be another incredible line-up of top comedians with all money raised going to support Game Therapy UK.
Our amazing line up currently includes:
– Milton Jones (Mock The Week, Live At The Apollo, Michael McIntyres Comedy Roadshow)
– Kerry Godliman (Mock The Week, Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow, Taskmaster)
– Mark Thomas (Mark Thomas Comedy product, Manifesto)
– Sindhu Vee (Mock The Week, Would I Lie To You, Have I Got News For You)
– Ria Lina (Mock The Week, The Now Show, The News Quizz)
– The Raymond and Mr Timpkins Review
With guest comedian to be announced!
26 April 2023
Game Therapy was featured in the April edition of New Scientist magazine along with a discussion of the new forms of psychological therapies available.
The New Scientist also made this short film about the work of Game Therapy UK, with interviews with our trustees Gary Colman, Finbar Westall and also one of our clients.
New Scientist talks to Game Therapy UK
24 April 2023
Trustee Dr Gary Colman chats to Steam Forged Ltd about the work of Game Therapy UK. Huge thanks to the folks at Steam Forged for the continued support of therapeutic gaming. Click here to read the chat.
16 April 2023
Game Therapy UK Ran our first pilot online training in 'Therapeutic Gaming for Military Populations'. We should be rolling out next courses ('Therapeutic Gaming for people experiencing homelessness' and 'Therapeutic Gaming for people living with neurodivergence') later in the year. Sign up to our newsletter and socials to keep updated).
Image used with artists permission.
12 April 2023
Game Therapy UK was featured in this documentary about therapeutic gaming made by LA production company TBWA.
Game Therapy with Dr Gary Colman
15 Mar 2023
We presented our findings of our Camden (London) project on therapeutic gaming for people experiencing homelessness, alcohol and drug addiction and survivors of modern day slavery at the International Symposium on Homeless Health Pathways from Homelessness London on the 17th March 2022.
14 March 2023
A lovely feature in Paper Pheonix Ink by Pheonix Kat talking to Game Therapy UK trustee Gary Colman about Role Playing Games, Therapeutic Gaming and... oddly... zombies.
22 Feb 2023
One of our trustees, Gary Colman, talks to Kaye Adams on BBC Radio Scotland about 'Session Zero', a documentary by Glaswegian filmmaker Carina Haouchine about how playing Dungeons & Dragons helped her brothers Sam and his pals cope with autism.
Click the link below to hear Carina and Thomas talk about their film, and the positive impact Dungeons & Dragons had on the diagnosis.
14 Sep 2022
A lovely feature in Dicebreaker by Tom Ana about 'RPGs as therapy: How fictional worlds help vulnerable people explore real-life emotions'. Gary Colman, one of our trustees talks about our work with people experiencing homelessness, addiction recovery, survivors of modern day slavery and also military veterans.
With images (by Steve Best) of our GM Rupert Greyling and RPG counsellor Alex De Ville at our Camden project.
MONDAY 16TH MAY
Stand Up for Game Therapy UK
To celebrate the launch of our new charity join us for a fantastic night of comedy at The Comedy Store, Leicester Square. There is an incredible line-up of award-winning, top tv comedians with all money raised going to support Game Therapy UK.
Our amazing line up currently includes:
– Al Murray (The Pub Landlord, and comedy legend)
– Shappi Khorsandi (Live at the Apollo, The Secret Policeman’s Ball)
– Nick Helm (Uncle, 8 Out of 10 Cats)
– Laura Lexx (Live at the Apollo, Hypothetical)
Plus,
– MARK STEEL (Star of BBC Rdio 4, Mock The Week, Have I Got News For You)
With more top comedians to be announced!
16 May 2022
We're very excited to announce our first comedy fundraising event with a host of top comedians at the fabulous Comedy Store in London's Leicester Square.
09 May 2022
A press release from the London Housing Foundation about our our new Game Therapy charity work with people experiencing homelessness and addiction recovery in Camden.
07 May 2022
A very lovely blog from the London Housing Foundation about our recent Game Therapy project at 220 Arlington Rd Hostel, Camden.
28 April 2022
We are running a project at 220 Arlington with One Housing hostel, Care Grow Live addiction services, and SHP Hostels.
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17 Mar 2022
We are presenting the findings of our first project Level Up (It's a game changer)- Camden at the international symposium on homeless health Pathways from Homelessness London on the 17th March 2022.
Jan 2022
Our first project, Level Up (It's a game changer)- Camden, starts at the Single Homelessness Project Camden for people experiencing homelessness. And the adventure begins...
