Who Am I?
My name is Debbie Sides (aka Vixzen), and I currently reside in North Wales with my husband and our pet rats.
My hobbies/passions are video games, alcohol, crafts (particularly cross-stitching and latch-hook), music, movies, reading, and theatre.
As a (technically) middle-aged, female, married, non-parent; I think this is basically my version of a mini mid-life crisis. Hope you all enjoy! :)
What Is This About?
Having completed a number of charity streams playing video games for Extra Life, Macmillan Cancer Research, and SpecialEffect (and raising over £1400 between each of the events!), I enjoyed the process so much that I thought it may be an opportunity to carry on raising money for charity whilst playing games I either enjoy, or have never played.
How To Find Me?
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Supported Charities
Below is a list of the charities that will be supported during my streams, or on my YouTube videos, and links to the individual JustGiving pages which contain more information about why I support each charity.
For a summary of all of the charities I support and the money I have raised so far for each one, please visit my JustGiving vixzen.me.uk team page. If any charities jump out at you in particular, please feel free to donate! :)
I have previously collected for Coeliac UK and RNLI, however I have decided to focus on a smaller number of charities going forward for my fundraising, and will support these other charities on a personal basis.
Since Vixzen.me.uk launched on 17th March 2019, I have raised the following (as of 17th March 2021):
£110.00 + £7.51 Gift Aid for Race for Life for Cancer Research UK on 9th June 2019.
£10.00 + £2.50 Gift Aid for SpecialEffect's One Special Day on 4th October 2019.
£40.00 + £5.00 Gift Aid for SpecialEffect in 2020 for completing the Dark Souls: Remastered Playthrough on YouTube.
£10.00 + £2.50 Gift Aid for Coeliac UK in 2020.
£40.00 + £10.00 Gift Aid for RNLI in 2020.
£10.00 + £2.50 Gift Aid for Mind in 2020.
£145.00 + £18.75 Gift Aid for The Christie in November 2020.
£120.00 + £22.50 Gift Aid for SpecialEffect's GameBlast21 on 26th-28th February 2021.
£120.00 for SpecialEffect's GameBlast22 in February 2022.
£299.95 + £56.00 Gift Aid for SpecialEffect's GameBlast23 in February 2023.
£110.00 + £27.00 Gift Aid for The Christie in November 2023.
£150.00 + £37.50 Gift Aid for SpecialEffect's GameBlast24 in February 2024.
A grand total of £1,164.95 + £191.75 Gift Aid split between a variety of different charities, as per the chart below.
My most recently completed full play-through of Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin, raising money for SpecialEffect, is available on YouTube below:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLWC2gI31vhL2Pot8_luoUvMNZKYv7pFJ