Teddy Rocks Festival started with a small gig in 2011 to raise money for Teddy20, a children's cancer charity founded by Tom Newton and his family after he lost his 10 year old brother Ted to a very rare bone cancer.

The gig was put on by Tom's friends and family in the restaurant of The Greyhound pub in Blandford and raised £400. This was used to fund the very first Teddy Rocks event at The Corn Exchange in 2012, which raised £2,500.

By 2013, Teddy Rocks had grown and needed more space, so they moved back to The Greyhound pub, raising £6,500 and £15,000 in 2014. In 2015, Teddy Rocks almost doubled this, raising an amazing £24,000.

In 2016 the festival moved to a new site with a bigger capacity and the total raised was a staggering £42,800!

In 2017 the festival moved again to a site large enough to facilitate car parking and camping alongside 4 stages and raised an immense £76,000.

Now the box office team are tasked with doing their bit the only way they know how... gaming of course!

On September 7th 2017 please come view us on Twitch at:

twitch.tv/teddyrocksthejoypad

or on youtube at:

tinyurl.com/teddyrocksthejoypad

We will be streaming the entire 24 hours so again come and watch us dick about and shoot some aliens in the face! but above all please donate and help us smash this target like Tom and co do every year at Teddy Rocks!