An afternoon of family fun and live entertainment, for the BIG Lytham Christmas Lights Switch On ´Light Up Lytham’. Featuring music, entertainment, lantern parade and something for everyone!
Lytham Christmas Lights Switch On
Saturday 15 November 2025 from 2pm in Clifton Square, Lytham, FY8 5JP
Enjoy street entertainment during the afternoon, a parade and then a fabulous show in Lytham Square. Watch dancing groups, musical theatre students, performing arts, music clubs and choirs at various points up and down Clifton Street.
The event is hosted by DJ Paul O’Brien and switch on will be performed at around 5pm by a cast of local performers. Followed by an evening of great entertainment, ending at around 8pm
- 1:30pm Clifton St Closed for vehicles
- 2pm Performance zones start on Clifton Street
- 4:45pm Lantern Parade
- 5pm Light switch on
- 5:15pm Showtime
- 7:15pm Touch the Pearl
- 8pm Clifton St reopens to vehicles
*Times are approximate
All the artists give their services for free, as does the organising group of volunteers. The end result is a wonderful afternoon and evening of fun, and the start of Christmas for the children! However, the costs to be covered include promotion, staging, lights and costumes. Production, festive trees, health & safety and insurance.
Please support the event with a donation and come along on the day! Every single donation helps ensure this community event keeps happening, and can be enjoyed for years to come. Thank you very much for your support.
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Please contact the organisers for further details about this event.
Can you contribute to Christmas in Lytham?
The organisers rely on financial help from the local community to make the town festive in winter. If everyone that came to the switch on gave £1 they would reach the target in no time!
It costs a whopping amount of money to stage a Lytham Christmas Switch-On event and to keep the lights shining throughout the festive shopping period.
The artists donate their time and there’s a great army of volunteers. But the infrastructure is costly and must be run safely. There’s also the cost of the lights, both installing them and keeping them lit for the duration of the festive period.
Organisers are appealing to you to make a donation toward this cost.
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We Need Your Help
We Need Your Help
The Friends of Lowther are planning an event at the Lowther Pavilion in Nov 2019 and want to know when the Christmas light switch on will be this year as we don’t want to conflict
Christmas lights in the middle of November. Utter madness!
Where are next year’s hot cross buns, Maybe tomorrow perhaps, or have I missed them already.