Visitors to this year’s Carlisle Fireshow are being asked to support local charities.
Although the event is free, a charity collection is held each year. All donations go towards the Rotary Club of Carlisle South 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.
Eleanor Viney, fundraising manager at Jigsaw, said: “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 November 5, starting at 6.30pm.
The centrepiece 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 staged by Carlisle City Council and is organised 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 October 26 and Sunday October 30.
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.
