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NEWS 13th March 2024

Sculpture reveal: Elmer Elaganza

With one month to go until Elmer’s Big Parade Blackpool, we’ve revealed one of the sculptures which will be on the art trail. Elmer Elaganza has been designed by interior designer

NEWS 25th January 2024

Remember loved ones through our art trail

We’re thrilled to reveal our latest and unique chance for people in our community to remember loved ones in a permanent piece of artwork. People can have their loved ones’ names

NEWS 22nd December 2023

Meet our first ever Vice President

We are delighted to introduce our very first Vice President. As he stepped down as a Trustee for Trinity Hospice after 12 years, Christopher Beverley was announced as the Vice President for

NEWS 5th September 2023

Save the date – Elmer art trail date announced

We are delighted to announce the date for the town’s first ever large-scale public art trail – Elmer’s Big Parade Blackpool. The free, family-friendly trail, which will see at

NEWS 1st September 2023

Beaverbrooks brings the sparkle to Blackpool’s Elmer art trail

Fylde coast-based Beaverbrooks has become the latest company to sign up as an official supporter of Elmer’s Big Parade Blackpool, helping to bring the resort’s first large-scale public

NEWS 11th July 2023

SSCL join Elmer’s Big Parade Blackpool as sponsor

Blackpool’s first large-scale public art trail has hit another major milestone as Shared Services Connected Ltd (SSCL) becomes an official supporter, helping to deliver the

NEWS 8th June 2023

Tower Insurance becomes official sponsor of the Learning Programme

A major art trail due to take to the streets in Blackpool next spring will also provide a mammoth learning programme to schools across the Fylde coast, helping local children and you people

NEWS 1st June 2023

Ameon announced as a Presenting Partner

Ameon pledges mammoth support to town’s first art trail: Elmer’s Big Parade Blackpool. North West-based Ameon has become a Presenting Partner of a major art trail which will boost

NEWS 1st June 2023

Partington’s sponsor first Elmer sculpture

Elmer, the patchwork Elephant, is already making new friends in Blackpool ahead of his Big Parade in the town next spring. And now organisers of the town’s first major public art trail are

NEWS 1st June 2023

Thompsons Contracts announced as a Presenting Partner

Blackpool-based Thompson Contracts has become the first Presenting Partner of Elmer Blackpool: the Fylde coast’s first major art trail which will boost the local economy and tourism,

NEWS 15th March 2023

We’re bringing Elmer to Blackpool!

We are thrilled to announce we are bringing Elmer, the much-loved patchwork elephant to Blackpool in a major event that will boost tourism and economy in the town, while raising vital funds

NEWS 9th December 2022

Santa Dash returns!

We saw a fantastic return of Blackpool Santa Dash as more than 1,800 Santas took to the prom for a dash which has raised £35,000 for Brian House. Santa Dash is a festive favourite on the