❤️ We’d love your support

Help us to make Farsley Lantern Parade an annual community event!

✨ view last year’s gallery, follow us on instagram & find out more below! 👇

❤️ Fundraising for this year’s Lantern Parade has begun!

Grumpy’s loves hosting this amazingly wholesome community project, what a lovely experience for all!

The parade itself has over 300 participants and thousands of spectators.

What’s more; behind the scenes local volunteers, West SILC college students and Farsley’s Primary School children have come together. For weeks they have poured hours of work, time and care into creating this wonderful celebration of our community!

Last year local residents raised £700 to contribute towards the project’s materials, which was gratefully received!

To reduce costs Grumpy’s also provided workshop & storage space and owners Alex & Cass gave their time in kind towards the project. Grumpy’s also paid for a local artist to facilitate the project’s Volunteer Workshops; their work taught our community the skills they need to create these wonderful lanterns! Total costs were around £2500.

  • We’d love to flood Town Street with beautifully designed giant handwritten envelopes, complete with whimsy homemade Christmas stamps and twinkling fairy lights!

    You can sponsor a small (£15), medium (£30) or large envelope (£45) to be displayed in the parade with the name & address of your business or organisation.

    Letters can also be sponsored by residents who wish to celebrate an individual member of the community ie. a family member or friend.

    Once you have made a donation in the form below we will send you an email to confirm the name and address you would like on your envelope. You can even choose the design for your stamp if you like!

    All donations go towards covering the material and staffing costs associated with the Lantern Parade & are gratefully received!

  • This year’s giant puppets will be designed around the fairytale characters who feature in the book.

    We would love to be able to create all six….

    • Baby Bear

    • Red Riding Hood

    • Mr Wolf

    • Humpty Dumpty

    • The Gingerbread Boy

    • Santa’s Reindeer

    Sponsorship of a giant Puppet is £100 & includes:

    • Your business logo displayed in the parade next to the puppet

    • Mentions & tags in our social media and PR

    • Links from our website to yours

    • Mentions and thanks in 3 local primary schools’ newsletters

    • A warm & fuzzy feeling that you’ve made a contribution to your community’s spirit!

    To sponsor a Giant Puppet use the donations form in the section below.

    If you’d like to choose which puppet you sponsor please let us know by emailing Alex via hello@grumpysleeds.co.uk

  • You can also make a general donation that will go towards the material and staffing costs of the project. Simply choose ‘custom amount’ on our donations form below, all amounts are welcome no matter how small, anything you can give is gratefully received!

We’d love your help to help sustain & develop the Lantern Project!

2026’s Lantern Parade theme will be The Jolly Christmas Postman, this much-loved classic children’s book brings together this joy of letter writing with British charm, fairy-tale fun and Christmas magic. Find out below how you can sponsor this year’s props & lanterns!

❤️ Make a donation

All contributions go towards materials, staffing & artist costs associated with the Lantern Parade.

Any outstanding costs associated with the Lanterns are kindly paid for by Grumpy’s Leeds Ltd.

3% Cover the Fee

❤️ Thank you so much for your support! Full value of your donation contributes towards the material and staff costs of Farsley's Lantern Parades.

Join our Willow Workshops
& help make the giant lanterns for the parade!

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Last year more than 500 members of the community came together to create Farsley’s first ever Lantern Parade!

We’d love to keep that momentum going again this year,
sign up to take part!

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Why take part?

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    The Lantern Parade is managed and organised by Grumpy’s owners, and founders of ‘Farsley Community Project’;
    Alex & Cassie Rogerson.

    Our time and that of our lovely volunteers is given in kind to this brilliant community event.

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    Farsley Lantern Parade aims to bring our community together through creativity and inclusion.

    The project strives to enhance Farsley’s much loved & long standing Lights Switch On event. The new edition of the Lanterns ensures the event is kept engaging and collaborative.

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    Where funding isn’t secured any outstanding costs associated with the Lanterns are kindly paid for by Grumpy’s Leeds Ltd.

    Contributions help us to keep the Lantern Parade sustainable for years to come.