Target reached!
With more funding (in a stretch target) we can then get... a community Christmas Tr...
Light up the Palace!
London, Greater London, United Kingdom
Aim
Bringing festive lights to Crystal Palace Triangle each Christmas for many years to come!
Save Crystal Palace Triangle's Christmas Lights!
The Christmas lights of Crystal Palace Triangle could be gone for good unless we act now! We urgently need your help to fund new festive illuminations for all three sides of the Triangle. Every penny will help, and you can even sponsor a lamppost!
What’s it all about?
- After many years of Crystal Palace town centre Triangle being left unlit over Christmas, we have hit a crunch point for a festive Christmas, and Christmas yet to come.
- By funding a new set of festive motifs before Croydon Council's deadline in June, the council will commit to put up our new lights, and take then down, and test, and store all FREE of charge every year! So ensuring all three sides of the Triangle twinkle and shine for many years to come!
Why the urgency?
- If we miss this moment, the council will charge their normal lamppost motif installation fee per lamppost, which would be over £10,000 each year for the Triangle's 36 lampposts, in addition to the cost of purchasing any lights and motif storage fees.
- Light it, or lose it! We have just enough time to still nab our lamppost allowance... if the community can help and fund a new set of festive Christmas lights!
Who's doing this?
A new 'Light Up Team' has come together, made up of local residents and local community groups and traders, all helping as local volunteers to make this community fundraiser a success!
What are the core costs?
After a lot of supplier negotiations we can get 36 new motifs, with all the right fittings, for a core cost target of £9,600. These are1.5m tall motifs, to cover 36 eligible lampposts on three sides of the Triangle. This includes our direct costs (for flyers, banners, printing and our crowdfunder fees), and our first year's electrical power use fee (est. at £170). All our artwork is by Tim Sharville (from Gunpowder Studios game makers) and the huge effort by our "Light Up Team" has been very kindly provided for free. Lights proposed to be funded are Triple Staking Stars 1.5m (H) x 0.57m (W), rated 12W, for 36 eligible lampposts on Westow St, Westow Hill, Church Road in the Triangle.
Is there a stretch target?
YES! With additional funding (in a stretch target) we could get a community Christmas Tree this year (at a safe location), power for lighting the tree, help contribute to a "Switch-On" event, and (roll of drums) potential for new wall fixings installed to allow "Cross Street" lights or a banner over the road to be used in future years. The stretch target also helps build a small contingency fund for motif breakages / repairs and cover the annual power bill for the lights. As we'll own the new motifs, and we can enhance them in future years too!
Help make Crystal Palace Triangle twinkle and shine this and every Christmas!
LOTS OF THANK YOUS TO ALL OF OUR EPIC MAJOR SPONSORS for their fantastic support...
HUGE THANK YOU TO OUR LAMPPOST SPONSORS...
... and including Haynes Lanes resident group.
HUGE THANK YOU FOR HELP FROM OUR AMAZING COMMUNITY AND LOCAL SUPPORTERS...
... and a special thank to our previous Crystal Palace Chamber of Commerce who helped to get this opportunity to light up all of our Palace lampposts.
This project successfully funded on 30th June 2023