Charities To Benefit From TK MAXX Presents Lytham Festival 2024

Five charities from across the North-West have been selected to be official partners of Lancashire’s largest live music event.

TK Maxx presents Lytham Festival returns for five nights from Wednesday July 03 to Sunday July 07 and is expected to attract more than 100,000 people.

Every year, each night of TK Maxx presents Lytham Festival is partnered with a charity giving organisations the opportunity to have a team of fundraisers on site collecting monetary donations.

The charities selected for 2024 and the nights they will partner are:

For 2024 Lytham Festival has chosen to support Fylde coast based charities who make a big impact in the communities they serve.

Based in the heart of Blackpool for more than 17 years TramShed is an inclusive theatre company and charity offering performing arts workshops, performances and training to all individuals irrespective of social diversity, backgrounds or needs. Local NHS charity Blue Skies Hospitals Fund aims to enhance patient care across Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre by purchasing equipment, refurbishing rooms and funding medical research. Brian House Children’s Hospice is the only children’s hospice on the Fylde coast, supporting children and young people who have a life-limited and life-threatening condition.

Two Lytham-based charities have also been selected. LiveLikeRalph was set up in memory 26-year-old Ralph Roberts, an avid skateboarder who died suddenly of a rare condition. LiveLikeRalph provides skateboards, equipment and lessons to young people across Fylde and beyond, as well as associated activities including art, dance, music and cycling. While the RNLI, which is celebrating it’s 200^th anniversary this year, is a vital Fylde coast charity. Since the establishment of the Lytham St Annes Lifeboat Station in 1931, the lifeboats have launched more than 1,640 times to rescue those in danger and almost 500 lives have been saved with hundreds more given assistance when needed.

The charities were chosen following an application process and those that have been selected will be given the opportunity to have a team of fundraisers on site at TK Maxx presents Lytham Festival.

Festival founder Peter Taylor said: “Each year we are inundated with applications all from very worthy charitable organisations that do so much for their chosen communities, so it is incredibly difficult to choose just five.

“But once again we have selected brilliant charities that we believe have an impact both to our local Lytham community as well as the wider Fylde coast and we encourage our festival audience to support them.”

Last year generous music fans donated more than £19,000 and since its inception in 2010 charity partners have received more than £120,000 in donations.

And all five charities selected to be part of the 2024 festival are delighted.

Zac Hackett, Artistic Director of TramShed, said: “The work that takes place at our organisation is vitally important to our community. This recognition will ensure we can share more about our inclusive practice and raise vital funds for our charity.”

Kila Redfearn, Head of Blue Skies Hospitals Fund, added: “We are thrilled to be chosen for the Thursday night with Shania Twain, which is also the eve of the NHS’ 76th birthday. Our team will be donning blue cowboy hats, so you won’t miss us. Let’s go girls!”

Neil Bayntun-Roberts, CEO of LiveLikeRalph, said: “To be selected for Lytham Festival is so positive for LiveLikeRalph. We are a relatively new Lytham based organisation and the Festival will not just help with much needed funds to support and develop the good work we do for young people, but also raise awareness of LiveLikeRalph across the North West in the heartland of where we operate.”

Linzi Warburton, Head of Fundraising for Brian House Children's Hospice, added: “We are over the moon to have been selected as the charity partner for the night that Madness comes to perform. It’s a great opportunity to showcase Our House as the only children’s hospice on the Fylde coast to thousands of festival-goers and hope that, for them, supporting our charity Must Be Love.”

And Tony Curtis, Lytham St Annes RNLI Fund Raising Branch Chairman, said: “The opportunity to help raise much needed funds for the RNLI is greatly appreciated.  As a charity we receive no money from any government to run the Lifeboat service and the £188 million needed each year is raised from the generous public with their donations and gifts.”