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Topshop And Teenage Cancer Trust Team Up For Summer Bandstand Picnics

• 17th May 2010

This year, throughout the month of June, Topshop will be hosting Topshop Bandstand Picnics for Teenage Cancer Trust, a series of very special events around the UK, a string of gloriously unique outdoor picnic events in aid of Teenage Cancer Trust featuring the cream of the new musical crop performing in the loveliest green spaces in London, Bristol, Liverpool and Birmingham.

So, kicking off on June 12 in the lush environs of Regents Park, we’ll find a mix of white hot musicians and DJ’s playing live to raise money and awareness for Teenage Cancer Trust amongst the nation’s youth, all of whom have very generously donated their time for the shows. Musicians such as electro trio of the moment Chew Lips, Welsh indie popsters Los Campesinos!, hotly tipped dream Summer Camp, rapidly ascendant pop-rockers I Blame Coco, critically acclaimed singer-songwriter Blue Roses, the swoon inducing Slow Club, and the gorgeously folky haze of Goldheart Assembly, along with the likes of Girlcore, Goldilocks, New Young Pony Club, The Cocknbullkid and Blonde Ambition among others numbering the DJ ranks.

The music, however, is only part of the equation, with the surrounding locale transformed into a classic, pincnic style playground, complete with Native Faces providing festival face decoration with Topshop Make Up, Sk8 House roller skate hire, and sports day games such as wang a welly, egg and spoon, and sack races with special prizes up for grabs. Attendees will pack up a picnic and bring along their Neon Rose picnic blanket that is available instore when you spend £60 or more. As well as this there will be the opportunity to chill out in the sun-shade area, complete with sun-cream samples. There will also be Vitamin Water and LOLA’s cupcakes on sale with all profits donated to the charity, as well as one-off Topshop/ Teenage Cancer Trust rain ponchos, which will be on sale with all the proceeds going back to the charity, all of which will combine to make these events completely unmissable in their own right.

Further to this, the Bandstand Picnic events will be branching out into selected stores from the 9th – 13th June and 16th – 20th June. London Oxford Circus, Birmingham, Liverpool, Bristol, Cardiff, Newcastle, Edinburgh, Sheffield, Manchester Arndale and Glasgow will be playing host to live DJ sets, daily raffles, instore competitions as well as a limited edition giveaway of a specially designed picnic blanket.

Also supporting both the picnics and instore activity for Teenage Cancer Trust will be a bespoke collection produced exclusively for the charity, instore from 17th May. Pieces will include a kaftan, headband, summer bag and friendship bracelets all reflecting the summer trends with exclusive bright, fun prints, with a percentage of sales going to Teenage Cancer Trust.

Every day in the UK six young people are told they have cancer. Being a teenager is tough enough, without having to deal with a serious illness that takes away your normal life at home, at school and with friends. Young people often feel isolated when facing a cancer diagnosis and rarely meet others going through the same experience. Teenage Cancer Trust is devoted to improving the lives of young people with cancer and believes teenagers shouldn’t stop being teenagers because they have cancer. They fund and build specialist units in NHS hospitals where teenagers are treated together in an environment designed specifically for young people. These units are not like other hospital wards, with facilities that keep young people occupied during long gruelling stays whilst offering the best specialist treatment and allowing young people to gain support from each other.

Incidence rates for melanoma (a form of skin cancer) and cases in teens and young adults have doubled in the last 20 years. Eighty per cent of total exposure to the sun takes place by the age of 21 and it’s the damage done to the skin in the early years that can lead to skin cancer in later life. Skin cancer is now the second most common cancer among people ages 15-34, which is why it’s so important Teenage Cancer Trust gets the message across to this age group to protect their skin in the sun. To push this message home the Summer Bandstand Picnics will include special shaded Teenage Cancer Trust areas where guests can come and relax on sun loungers with free sun tan lotion and skin care products on hand. Indeed, as summer approaches it’s key to be aware and Shun Burn – slap on the suncream, wear a hat or cap, cover up your skin, slip on the shades, and chill out in the shade when the sun’s rays are strongest!

Tickets will be sold for the events in selected Topshop stores:
London, Oxford Circus store
Bristol, Cabot Circus store
Liverpool, Church Street store
Birmingham, Bullring store

With all of the proceeds going back to Teenage Cancer Trust.

Topshop Bandstand Picnics for Teenage Cancer Trust

Tickets – £10 each, 500 available for each venue
On sale from May 21

Available Topshop stores of hosting cities

LINEUP:

London June 12th
Regents College, Inner Circle, Regent’s Park, NW1 4NS
Live:
Chalotte Hatherley
Chew Lips
Goldheart Assembly
Stricken City

DJs:
Special guest DJ
New Young Pony Club
Girlcore

Bristol June 13th
Castle Park Bandstand, Castle St Entrance, Bristol BS1 (subject to licence)
Live:
Chalotte Hatherley
Chew Lips
Slow Club
Goldheart Assembly

DJs
Cocknbullkid
Goldilocks
Blonde Ambition

Liverpool June 19th
‘Isla Gladstone Conservatory’, Stanley Park, Anfield Road, Liverpool L4 0TD
Live:
Los Campesinos!
I Blame Coco
Blue Roses
Summer Camp

DJs:
Abi Harding & Candie Payne
Blonde Ambition
Plus Special Guests

Birmingham June 20th
The Vale Village, Church Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 3SX
Los Campesinos!
I Blame Coco
Eliza Doolittle
Summer Camp

DJs:
Broken Hearts
Blonde Ambition
Plus Special Guests