Fireshow 2022 – Plea to support local charities
Fireshow 2022
Plea to support local charities
Visitors to this year’s Carlisle Fireshow are being asked to dig into the bottom of their pockets and support local charities.
Although the event is free to attend, a charity collection is held each year. All donations go towards the Rotary Club of Carlisle South (which donates most of its fundraising efforts to local good causes), and the Mayor’s Charity Fund, whose main beneficiaries this year are Carlisle Key, CFM’s Cash for Kids and Jigsaw, Cumbria’s Children’s Hospice.
Sara Oldham – CFM Cash for Kids, said:
“We are so delighted that this year’s Fireshow will raise funds to help support CFM Cash for Kids.
“Our mission here at CFM’s Cash for Kids is to respond to the needs of children in our local communities and we aspire to enable all children to live life to the full and to achieve their individual potential. In Cumbria and SW Scotland, 1 in 4 of our children are in child poverty. Your donation will stay right here within Cumbria and SW Scotland and will benefit local children who are sick, disabled and disadvantaged.
“Each year CFM Cash for Kids reaches into the darkest corners and turns on the lights. With your help we can light up the lives of even more disadvantaged children in our area. Your effort can turn tears into laughter, your generosity can rescue dignity from despair and your support can break down barriers to create a brighter future for all young people.”
Eleanor Viney, Fundraising Manager at Jigsaw added:
“We’d like to say a big thank you once again to the Mayor of Carlisle for choosing Jigsaw as one of his chosen charities for the year and involving us in the spectacular Carlisle Fireshow.
“We’re really looking forward to the show and thank everyone who is able to make a donation on the night; this generosity will help us continue to care for children and young adults from across Cumbria with life-limiting illnesses and support their families at a time when they need it most.
“A day’s care in Jigsaw costs £2,126.46 so the funds raised from events like these are really important in helping us to carry on providing the dedicated and specialist care we do.”
Volunteers will be holding charity buckets on the entrance to the event and organisers are asking the Fireshow’s adult spectators to consider giving at least £2 each.
This year’s Carlisle Fireshow will celebrate the 1900th anniversary of Hadrian’s Wall.
The sparkling event is part of the Hadrian’s Wall 1900 Festival and will be held in Bitts Park on Saturday 5 November, starting at 6.30pm.
The centre piece bonfire will be Roman themed and more than 2,000 spectacular sparkling fireworks will also light up the sky.
It will be the 33rd Fireshow event staged by Carlisle City Council and is organised in conjunction with Merlin Fireworks Ltd.
This year’s event programme has been extended to include a fairground funfair in Castle car park (formerly known as Devonshire Walk car park) between Wednesday 26 and Sunday 30 October.
On the day of the Fireshow, there will be no fairground and Castle car park will change into a ‘Fireshow Village’, offering food and family entertainment to families attending the Fireshow between 5pm and 8.30pm.
More than 35,000 people are expected to attend the City Council event.
For information about the event, visit www.discovercarlisle.co.uk
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