Illuminated Christmas houses that raise funds for charity
Howard Lake | 18 December 2014 | Blogs
Lights! Christmas! Fundraising action!
If you are going to spend weeks decorating your house with Christmas lights and then attracting visitors from near and far to your road, you might as well do it to raise funds for charity. At least that might placate the neighbours as the crowds descend to stare and enjoy the spectacle.
Some Christmas light displays nowadays are achieving remarkable effects, often with thousands of coloured lights, sound, and movement.
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Here are just some of the striking charitable Christmas light displays we have come across.
1. Best of Star Wars in Newark
Tom BetGeorge in Newark, USA, has used over 100,000 lights to create this stunning son et lumiere performance around his house.
The money raised, presumably from visitors’ donations, is given via his church to help poor and homeless people.
2. Frozen in Dagenham
Andy McNab (not the author) and his family have decorated their house and those of several of their neighbours in the style of Disney’s ‘Frozen’. The crowds of visitors are being invited to donate to the children’s burns unit at the Broomfield Hospital in Chelmsford, Essex.
[Video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4YbT1mWh_0 no longer available].
3. Haughton illuminations
The villagers of Haughton, Staffordshire, put on a large display at Christmas involving lots of houses. Here is their 2012 display. Residents typically raise £5,000 in donations to charity each year.
Do your charity’s supporters have anything that can beat this? Have they raised large sums in this way?
Let us know in the comments below. Even better, post a link to a video of them.
Photo: house Christmas lights by Romakoma on Shutterstock.com
About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.