CHARITY PARTNERS TO BENEFIT FROM TK MAXX PRESENTS LYTHAM FESTIVAL 2025

This year’s charity partners for TK Maxx Presents Lytham Festival have been announced.

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 02 to Sunday July 06 and is expected to attract up to 115,000 people. 

Every year, each night of 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 2025 and the nights they will partner are: 

For 2025 Lytham Festival will support Lancashire and Fylde coast-based charities who make a big impact in the communities they serve.

Lancashire’s Heartbeat North West Cardiac Care provides specialist exercise and rehabilitation classes for people living with heart, lung and circulatory conditions. On the Fylde coast, they support local residents through weekly classes held in Lytham and St Annes, helping individuals regain strength, improve confidence and manage their health long-term in a safe and supportive environment.

Trinity Hospice is celebrating 40 years of exceptional palliative and end-of-life care for people across the Fylde coast. For 40 years, Trinity has existed because of the people who choose to support it – supporters like those who attend Lytham Festival who allow the charity to deliver its mission and provide excellent hospice care and support to all who need it in Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre.

Also local to Lytham Festival is Homeward Bound who attend found pets, both alive and deceased, across Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre with the aim of reuniting them with their owner. The charity also attends injured and abandoned pets with the aim of getting them vet attention, rehabilitation rehoming.

Two Lytham-based charities have also been selected. The Bobby Ball Foundation was founded in 2021 following the loss of beloved entertainer and charity champion Bobby Ball during the COVID-19 pandemic. Set up by his wife Yvonne, family, and close friends, the Foundation continues Bobby’s legacy of laughter, love, and giving back to his community of Lytham.

Also Lytham based is Two Pints Deep – a suicide prevention charity committed to improving men’s mental health by breaking stigmas and ensuring accessibility to all levels of support across the UK. Their mission is to create opportunities for open conversations, highlight vulnerability as a strength, provide financial support for community initiatives that support men, and enhance accessibility to mental health services by bridging the gap between those in need and existing professional resources.

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 Lytham Festival.  

Festival co-founder Peter Taylor said: “Once again we are delighted to be working with five brilliant charities to give them the opportunity to not only raise vital funds, but to promote their incredible work to the Lytham Festival audience and beyond.

“We are inundated with applications each year and it is no easy task to reduce that to just five partners, but the five we have chosen for 2025 are all charities that we believe have a positive impact both to our local Lytham community as well as the wider Fylde coast.”

Last year generous music fans donated more than £23,000 and since the festival’s inception in 2010 charity partners have received more than £140,000 in donations. 

And all five charities selected to be part of the 2025 festival are delighted.

Dr Sally Seed (PhD), fundraising lead at Heartbeat NWCC, said: “Being selected as a partner means the world to us – it’s a recognition of the life-changing work we do every day for more than 1,000 people across the North-West.”

Gemma Webster, community engagement officer at Trinity Hospice, added: “We are absolutely delighted to have been selected as a charity partner for Lytham Festival and can’t wait to meet the crowds enjoying Stevie Wonder and chat to them about our work.

“Lytham Festival is an incredible night for our charity, and we know that guaranteed entertainment will be signed, sealed and delivered.”

Meanwhile Yvonne Ball, president of The Bobby Ball Foundation, said: “We feel incredibly privileged to have been chosen, and truly honoured that The Bobby Ball Foundation has been selected to be part of something so special.”

Luke Barrow, founder and CEO of Two Pints Deep, said: “As a charity in its infancy, being selected as a charity partner means the world to the whole Two Pints Deep team and will be pivotal for us in raising awareness and starting conversation in a much needed space that is men's mental health.”

And Wendy Embisu Mulela, founder and chair of trustees for Homeward Bound, said: “Homeward Bound is thrilled to be chosen as a partner for Lytham Festival. As a local charity serving the local community of pet owners and their pets, it’s fabulous to be recognised for the work that we do.”

For more information about Lytham Festival go to lythamfestival.com