Make-A-Wish UK Turns Golf With Your Friends Into a Donation-Driven Live Tournament

Make-A-Wish UK is bringing the unpredictable energy of Golf With Your Friends off the screen and onto a real-life crazy golf course for a charity livestream built around audience participation. Golf With Your Friends Live, created in collaboration with Team17, will see content creators compete for the Make-A-Wish Cup while viewers use donations to shape the action as it happens.

The event follows Make-A-Wish UK's 2025 Overcooked! Live fundraiser, a previous gaming-inspired broadcast that was both successful and award-winning. This year's concept shifts from frantic co-op cooking to miniature golf, but it keeps the key ingredient that makes the game so memorable: chaos. The players may be aiming for clean shots and a tournament victory, yet the audience will be able to make their route considerably easier--or much, much worse.

Viewers will be able to watch Golf With Your Friends Live on Sunday, September 20, at 4pm BST. The equivalent start times are 11am EST and 8am PST. The broadcast will be hosted through Tiltify, the fundraising platform supporting the event, and donations can already be made before the show begins. Those early contributions will influence the opening round of the competition.

A real-world take on multiplayer mini golf mayhem

Golf With Your Friends has long leaned into the less-serious side of mini golf. Its appeal is not simply sinking the ball in the lowest possible number of strokes; it is the way multiplayer competition, unusual courses and disruptions can turn a simple putt into a disaster or an unlikely highlight. The live fundraiser is designed to translate that spirit into a physical tournament.

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Rather than merely watching creators play the video game, the audience will see a real-world crazy golf contest influenced by the same kind of mischief that makes a digital party game work. Participants will battle through the course in pursuit of the "prestigious" Make-A-Wish Cup, but the rules and conditions will not be entirely in their hands.

Donations will unlock two broad types of audience intervention: Goodwill Wishes and Mischievous Wishes. Goodwill Wishes can give a contestant an advantage, while Mischievous Wishes are intended to sabotage competitors or otherwise complicate their game. Donation milestones will also trigger changes that can alter gameplay. The result is a format in which supporters are not passive spectators; their choices can directly affect who gets help, who faces a setback and how each round develops.

That structure should make the fundraiser especially suited to a live setting. In a conventional golf tournament, one player's score is largely the result of their own decisions and execution. Here, a well-timed donation can change the tone of a hole, force a creator to adapt, or give the chat a chance to rally behind a favorite contestant. The competitive stakes remain light-hearted, but the fundraising objective is central throughout.

Creators and hosts set for the fundraiser

The competing creator lineup includes TwoAngryGamers, CyborgAngel, Nikoheart and WorstPremadeEver. They will be trying to navigate the course and overcome whichever advantages, handicaps and rule changes viewers choose to unleash over the course of the broadcast.

The show will be co-hosted by Inel Tomlinson and AlicesPixels. Tomlinson brings experience as a comedian, presenter, actor and video game voice artist. AlicesPixels returns after hosting the previous Make-A-Wish UK gaming event and is known for her work as an actress and cosplayer, as well as her enthusiasm for nerd culture. Together, they will guide viewers through the tournament and the donation-fuelled turns that are expected to disrupt it.

The format gives every part of the stream a clear role. The creators provide the on-course competition, the hosts can keep track of the escalating twists, and the audience holds considerable power over the conditions. Crucially, donations do more than simply sit beside the entertainment: they are incorporated into the event itself. That connection between giving and gameplay means supporters can see their contributions lead to immediate, visible moments on the course.

Why the fundraiser matters

The livestream is raising money for Make-A-Wish UK, a registered charity established in the UK in 1986. Its work focuses on creating life-changing wishes for children living with critical illness. For many children and families, illness can mean long periods in hospital, intensive treatment and a future marked by uncertainty. Those experiences can restrict everyday choice, family time and the freedom to look beyond a diagnosis.

Make-A-Wish UK aims to restore some of what critical illness can take away by helping children and families experience meaningful wishes and make lasting memories together. The organization emphasizes the value of giving children the chance to choose, to dream and to enjoy time with the people closest to them.

There are around 134,000 children in the UK living with a critical illness who could potentially be eligible for a wish. The scale of that figure is stark: it would be enough to fill more than 11,000 games of Golf With Your Friends simultaneously. The need is also ongoing, with another child diagnosed every hour.

Make-A-Wish UK receives no Government funding, making fundraising initiatives and public donations particularly important to its work. The live golf event uses a playful, recognizable game concept to encourage viewers to get involved, whether that means granting a helpful wish, selecting a mischievous twist or contributing before the competition starts.

Golf With Your Friends Live is built so that every donation can become part of the show, turning viewer participation into on-course consequences while supporting wishes for children living with critical illness.

How audience participation will work

Anyone planning to watch should expect the tournament to evolve as donations come in. The fundraiser's Goodwill Wishes and Mischievous Wishes create two different ways to influence the contest, allowing viewers to either support a player or make their life harder. As fundraising totals reach specific milestones, further gameplay-changing events can be activated.

That setup should encourage the kind of alliances and rivalries common in multiplayer gaming streams. A creator who has become an underdog might inspire viewers to provide assistance. Another who is leading the tournament could become a tempting target for sabotage. Because these choices play out in real time, no competitor should be able to assume a comfortable lead is safe until the cup is decided.

For people who want to make an impact without waiting for the stream, the event's Tiltify fundraising page is already accepting donations. Pre-show contributions will affect round one, so the audience can begin setting the tone before the hosts and players are live. Once the broadcast begins, donations and milestone triggers will continue to create opportunities for unexpected turns.

What to remember before the stream

• Date: Sunday, September 20.
• Start time: 4pm BST, 11am EST and 8am PST.
• Where to watch: The Make-A-Wish UK fundraiser on Tiltify.
• Featured creators: TwoAngryGamers, CyborgAngel, Nikoheart and WorstPremadeEver.
• Hosts: Inel Tomlinson and AlicesPixels.
• How donations affect the event: They can unlock Goodwill Wishes, Mischievous Wishes and milestone-based gameplay changes.
• Early participation: Donations made before the broadcast can influence the first round.

A community effort behind the cameras

The event has also been supported by a mix of companies, individual contributors and volunteers from across the games industry. Rob Small, CEO of Miniclip, is among those contributing to the production. Mountain Pictures is providing film crew support, Arena Media UK is involved as media agency, Supernaut Studio is serving as creative agency, and Shed Wilson from Boost Comms is stage manager.

Sponsors include Xsolla, Guillotine, Breddos and Patty & Bun. Their support helps make a more ambitious live production possible, from the physical event setup to the broadcast elements needed to connect the course, the creators and the audience's fundraising choices.

A volunteer team of games-industry professionals is also helping deliver the fundraiser. Jinesha Ghandi is volunteer lead producer, Veronika Glova is volunteer producer, and Sally Kevan is the TVG Events games industry event specialist. The wider team includes event manager Lauren Shotten, games PR and events veteran Emily Britt, games marketing consultant Sam Possible of Jump Economy, and game audio composer Paul Bondy of InsideInfo.

That combined effort reflects a growing willingness across gaming communities to use familiar games, creator culture and interactive livestream tools to support charitable causes. The appeal of Golf With Your Friends Live is its promise of unscripted mini-golf mishaps, but the purpose underneath the spectacle is more substantial. Each audience choice is an opportunity to help fund wishes and create meaningful experiences for children and their families.

For viewers, the event offers an unusual kind of live gaming entertainment: a tournament where the chat does not just react to chaos, but can help create it. Whether supporters choose kindness, mischief or a mixture of both, the final result will be a real-world game of mini golf shaped by the community and dedicated to Make-A-Wish UK's mission.