Organisers of the hugely popular Jack Up The Summer festival set to take place this August have revealed that they will be helping to raise valuable funds and awareness for local children’s charity Beaulieu Respite.
Support will be achieved not only via the staging of the family-friendly festival, but other feel-good retro-themed events already planned for 2020.
Based in Newport, just down the road from Jack Up’s North Fairlee Farm site, Beaulieu House is the Island’s children’s home and overnight respite centre for young people with severe and challenging disabilities.
The charity provides essential funds for toys, funding trips, specialist equipment, minibuses, parties and even the home’s own sensory room and soft play area.
The funds raised at Jack Up events will go directly towards making the children’s lives a little bit nicer.
In its seven-year history Jack Up has helped raise in excess of £30,000 for a whole range of charities and local good causes with organisations such as the Earl Mountbatten Hospice, Hampshire & Isle of Wight Air Ambulance, Prostate Cancer UK, Oxfam, the Joe Ellis Trust, Wight Crystal, The Wight Brainy Bunch and IW Scouts all benefitting.
Last year the festival supported the various Woman’s Institute’s from across the Island via the provision of a tea tent enabling them to raise valuable funds for their charity.
Event Manager Sarah Moss said:
“Jack Up is a homegrown Island event run by Island people and as such the ethos of our fun Summer festival has always been to give something back to the local community in which it is held.
“This is just one of the things that makes our festival unique!
“Every year we never fail to be amazed by peoples’ generosity of spirit when it comes to supporting the numerous good causes we welcome along to the event.
“The Jack Up team have sat down with Mark King from Level 42 who has been a great supporter of our retro festival and we’ve put our heads together.
“With council budgets increasingly tight we wanted to do something to further contribute and ensure the sustainability of the incredible work and facilities offered by Beaulieu Respite so as to help give children on the Isle of Wight and their families a brighter future.”
Tony Wake, Chairman of the charity said:
“We are absolutely over the moon to be chosen as Jack Up’s charity of the year.
“This is yet another lovely local event supporting our little ones.
“Our band of volunteers can’t wait to dress up in their costumes to sell our fluffy bees and other merchandise.
“We’re also going to have some silly fun games going on throughout the festival weekend.”
Mark King, Patron of Beaulieu Respite commented:
“How wonderful that Jack Up Events have chosen Beaulieu Respite as their nominated charity for 2020!
“An amazing Island festival benefitting an amazing Island charity and great news to start the New Year.
“Thank you all from Beaulieu Respite.”
Jack Up The Summer takes place on 7-9th August.
In line with its family-friendly policy, kids aged 12 and under are able to attend the festival for free! Teen tickets for 13-17 year olds are available at half the price of adult tickets.
Artists confirmed as appearing so far include M People’s Heather Small, Heaven 17, Big Country, Aswad, From The Jam, The Strangler’s frontman Hugh Cornwell plus a huge 80’s opening party with Doctor & The Medics, Black Lace and Jive Bunny.
Another string of acts are due to be announced in the coming week.
Early Bird tickets remain on sale until 31st January and are available online at jackupthesummer.co.uk as well as over the counter at the County Press office in Newport.
The earlier you buy the more you save!
Island visitors can save 20% off of Wightlink and Red Funnel ferry travel when purchasing their festival tickets via the Jack Up The Summer website.
Jack Up The 70s disco party night takes place on Saturday 22nd February – more information about this event can be found at jackupthe70s.co.uk
Great way to raise funds for local needs. I only wish all this overseas aid could now stay in the UK, as half of the third world now live here and are expanding at frightening rates, our need will soon be greater than theirs as we are bred into their overcrowding poverty and crime.