Blandford festival Teddy Rocks, which raises funds for children’s cancer charity Teddy 20 and was forced to cancel its 2020 event, has secured a new sponsorship deal which will hopefully ensure that it can go ahead from Friday, April 30 to Sunday, May 2 2021 at Charisworth Farm, Thornicombe.

Dorset-based online marketplace OnBuy has sponsored the festival since 2018, and the new deal offering further sponsorship will mean that it will in total have donated £120,000.

Cas Paton, founder and CEO of OnBuy, said: “Knowing the impact cancer has on a family, I feel a strong affinity with the incredible work of the Teddy20 charity.
The pandemic has had an immense impact on not-for-profit organisations and charities, meaning many are unable to continue providing the services and care they have done for so many years. I wanted to ensure that Teddy Rocks Festival had the funds to operate for the next couple of years to continue the great work it does for many years to come.”

The annual festival was launched by Tom Newton in 2012 as a way of raising money for the charity set up and run by his parents, Owen and Kim Newton, after their younger son Ted was diagnosed with a rare form of bone cancer and died at the age of ten.

Tom said: “2020 has been incredibly hard for us. Having to postpone the festival this year was devastating, but we are buoyed up and raring to go for 2021 and OnBuy’s donation has set us in good stead for it to be an epic weekend.
Cas and the OnBuy team always go above and beyond to help the festival in any way they can.
So far, that help has ranged from helping with design and sourcing event supplies, to standing in the crowd and singing along to the bands. Without the support of sponsors, financial or otherwise, we simply couldn’t put the festival on. The money that OnBuy has donated has helped us get to where we are now and helped us raise hundreds of thousands of pounds for Teddy20.”

To find out more about the event or book tickets, see teddyrocks.co.uk.

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