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Press Pause 2023

Safe In Our World is fundraising this October 27-31st to celebrate ‘Press Pause’ 2023, their annual fundraiser, in partnership with Elgato. Press Pause is about the idea of pressing pause on life by pressing play in-game. Escapism is a huge...

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Safe In Our World and BAFTA to Host Games Industry Mental Health Summit

We are thrilled to be partnering with arts charity BAFTA to host a mental health summit for games industry professionals. Taking place at BAFTA’s iconic London headquarters at 195 Piccadilly, London from 9.00 am BST on Monday 22nd May, attendees...

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Introducing Discord Discussions on our Safer Together Discord

We’re thrilled to introduce Safe In Our World Discord Discussions, which will be hosted on our Safer Together Discord Server! The Discussions will be exploring the ins and outs of the games industry from a variety of speakers, in a...

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Celebrating our 3rd birthday at Safe In Our World

We are delighted to celebrate our 3rd birthday at Safe In Our World on World Mental Health Day 2022. We can hardly believe it’s been three years since Safe In Our World launched, and just how far we have come...

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Press Pause with Safe In Our World

To celebrate our 3rd birthday this October, Safe In Our World present a new fundraising event: Press Pause. Press Pause is about the idea of pressing pause on life by pressing play in-game. Escapism is a huge part in why...

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Be in Safe In Our World’s Video Campaign

Safe In Our World is calling all gamers out there to help us champion everyone’s mental health throughout our industry. Through games and play we share the stories that billions of people across the world engage with. We want to...

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A Celebration of Play Your Way and Mental Health Month

Over May 2022, we celebrated Mental Health Awareness Month with our #PlayYourWay Initiative, asking gamers to play the games that mean the most to them, whilst embracing the discussion around mental health and our connections between our games and how...

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Is BioShock a Christmas game? How Rapture helps me through the festive period following the death of my uncle by Joe Donnelly

The festive season is a time for giving. A time for family and for friends, for pulling crackers, wearing silly paper crowns and reading aloud even sillier jokes. It’s a time for watching too many novelty television specials that haven’t...

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Safe Space Podcast in 2021: Wrapped & Reflected

Today feels like a good day to sum up our Safe Space Podcast in 2021! The Safe Space Pod discusses the games industry and the link between games and mental health through hosting a variety of wonderful guests. Let’s look...

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Safe In Our World Is Hiring New Trustees

A fantastic opportunity has come up at Safe in Our World for new Trustees to join our Board. See our Job Role Description here. To complement our current board members, we are particularly interested in hearing from people with skills and...

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Safe In Our World Celebrates 2nd Anniversary As New Initiatives Drive Progress Towards Helping Millions Worldwide

On World Mental Health Day 2021, Safe In Our World officially celebrates it’s 2nd anniversary! From expanding the initial target of training 50 community managers to delivering mental health first aid training to nearly 200 community managers globally by the...

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My.Games Launch Mental Health Survey with Safe In Our World

Following our recent partnership announcement with My.Games, we’re delighted to have launched a mental health survey to gather more information on gamers across the world. Through both My.Games in-game mobile opportunities, and through this link you can access and take...

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Sightseeing in Spider-Man: how ditching web-slinging for walking photography saved my mental health during lockdown by Joe Donnelly

I crane my neck and stare in awe at the art deco skyscraper before me, 102 stories of limestone and granite towering over the busy New York City streets below. I’ve passed this building countless times before, granted, but from...

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MY.GAMES announces partnership with video games mental health charity Safe In Our World

The partnership will support a series of initiatives to create awareness for the charity and help gamers and game developers around the world access important mental health resources. Global gaming brand MY.GAMES is delighted to announce that it is extending...

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Official Safe In Our World Merchandise

We have launched our official Safe In Our World merchandise in partnership with Seven Squared! You can now support the charity through purchases of our classic line of merch, including t-shirts and hoodies in various brand colours. Click here to...

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Gina Jackson OBE Joins Safe In Our World As New CEO

We are pleased to announce Dr. Gina Jackson OBE has joined the charity as CEO. Dr. Gina Jackson OBE is a Video Games Industry pioneer, becoming an OBE in the 2020 Queen’s Birthday Honours, she was a recent recipient of...

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Lockdown Connections: How Gaming Has Brought Us Together In The Year of Being Apart

How the Video Games Industry united through Lockdown Nobody could have ever predicted how 2020 and 2021 would play out. A pandemic hit the world that would change the lives of everyone in many ways. Society felt like it would never be the same again. It wasn’t all darkness, though. A light shone through as the...

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Game Changer: How embracing the new in videogames can help us adapt to real-world changes by Ian Collen

We’re often told that change is a good thing, whether that’s in videogames or in real life. New is fresh and exciting, and any kind of break from the same-old should be embraced with enthusiasm. However, change can also be...

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How to Combat Loneliness in a Sea of Solitude by Georgie Peru

Loneliness is a personal feeling, so everyone’s experience of loneliness will differ. Being alone doesn’t by proxy make you lonely; loneliness breeds from an emotional state of loss, whether that be loss of social contact, loss of a person, or...

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An Interview With Joe Donnelly, Author of Checkpoint

We were delighted to interview Joe Donnelly, who is the author of Checkpoint, which explores how video games can contribute positively to our mental health through personal journeys, discussions and interviews. Safe In Our World was able to be a...

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Hub World – Change

Hub World – Change (March) Welcome back to Hub World! This month, at Safe In Our World we have been thinking about change. Change can be a terrifying prospect – of course, nothing stays the same and in essence there...

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Safer Together: Safe In Our World Launches Community Focused Discord

We are delighted to be launching our very first public Discord server, Safer Together. Looking to join Safer Together? Click here or go to discord.gg/safertogether Safer Together will launch during the London Games Festival and continue beyond, with the...

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Genetic Haemochromatosis & Music Escapism by Steven Coltart

Across 2016-2017, I worked as Audio Lead on ‘Planet of the Apes: Last Frontier’. A massive personal undertaking, and a project I am still especially proud of for a number of reasons. I was individually responsible for not only composing the...

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Finding Your Own (Virtual) Happy Place by Ian Collen

It’s no big secret that video games can be great for offering a virtual retreat within which to interact and connect with others, and you’ll often find some familiar titles listed. However, there are also plenty of hugely rewarding experiences...

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