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This project successfully funded on 14th November 2025, you can still support them with a donation.
Light Up The Palace 2025
London, Greater London, United Kingdom
Aim
Help fund a beautiful Christmas tree for Crystal Palace, a festive choir, our switch-on, and historic iron railings restoration by the tree.
Bringing the Twinkle back to the Triangle!
What’s it all about?
In 2023, the community first came together to fund 36 beautiful town centre light motifs for our lampposts. Thanks to this epic achievement, Croydon Council will now test our motifs, put them up and take them down, and then store them each year for free. This fundraiser adds a beautiful town centre Christmas tree, festive lights switch-on events and celebrations, and pays for the power costs for all motifs and tree lights for this year and hopefully next year's too! We are also funding the full restoration and painting of the historic Victorian iron railings on Church Road which is where we showcase the Christmas tree.
Rewards
All funds raised count towards our total - small and large - they all help. There are amazing rewards up for grabs for community and business sponsors alike. These include sponsoring a lamppost, major sponsor promotions, and special limited edition rewards too. Watch this space for more info.
Lamppost sponsor rewards in 2023:
A HUGE THANK YOU TO OUR GROWING LIST OF MAJOR SPONSORS and SUPPORTERS:
THANK YOU TO OUR FABULOUS LAMPPOST SPONSORS WHO ARE HELPING:
AND A MASSIVE THANK YOU TO ALL OUR AMAZING COMMUNITY SUPPORTERS and web THANK YOUS:
Who's doing this?
Light Up The Palace was formed in 2023, a community interest company (CIC) set up to manage festive events and Christmas lighting for Crystal Palace town centre. Run by local volunteers, we wish to bring festive cheer and community celebrations to the Triangle every year.
Why restore the ornate railings? Well, they are historic, Victorian, and much-loved as our "Wee Triangle" or "Wee T"! The site of the old public toilets, it is the only viable public space in the town centre to power our wonderful Christmas tree, so it's where we hold the fabulous festive switch-on events.
Just a large 3-sided traffic island in the eyes of the Council, but we love this pretty triangle within a Triangle. And it has our very own heritage lamppost kindly installed by Croydon to support multiple community gatherings.
What are the core costs?
If we hit our target of £7,000 we will cover the costs for a special town centre Christmas tree, power for all the lamppost motifs and tree lights, plus celebrations and performances to welcome in the festive season. We hope to fully restore the historic Victorian iron railings using highly skilled local specialists to bring this heritage community asset back to its former glory.
Core costs include organising our cross-border switch-on event, Public Liability Insurance costs, direct fees to operate as a Community Interest Company (CIC), and marketing.
Our volunteer-led Light Up The Palace team work hard all year round to ensure we are able to bring festive cheer to Crystal Palace in the run up to Christmas and beyond. We are kindly supported by key people in the community and special thanks to Tim Sharville of Gunpowder Studios for all the evocative artwork.
Is there a stretch target?
Yes! With additional funding, we can get a community Christmas tree next year too, as well as power for lighting the tree and motifs, and more elaborate switch-on events. We would love to have wall fixings installed to allow "cross-street" lights and we will be busy investigating possibilities for this.
The stretch target also helps us build a small contingency fund for lights breakages and repairs. Because we own all our motifs, we can plan for enhancing them in future years too.
Stay in touch or why get involved: [email protected]
Funding method
Keep what you raise – this project will receive all pledges made