✨ What is ELLIEFEST?

Join us Saturday 19th April 2025 for ELLIE FEST! 🪩 A Festival-style charity fundraising event featuring local Live Music (to be announced), with a glitter staions, live rock and roll raffle with a generous selection of local prizes and much more! All in aid of Macmillan and Compassionate friends.  

✨ When is it?

4-11pm Saturday 19th April 2025

✨ Who is it for?

Suitable for all ages - family friendly, kids under 12 go free! 

✨ Why are we doing this?

To raise money for two incredible cancer charities: Macmillan cancer support and The Compassionate Friends. The event will be in the Echoes of Ellie Howorth from Portsmouth who passed away in 2021 aged 26, read her story below. 

This year would have been Ellie’s 30th birthday and, as a tribute, her friends and family would like to raise funds in aid of the two charities that helped both Ellie and subsequently her parents, Macmillan Cancer Support and The Compassionate Friends.

Can’t make it? Not a problem but we would love it if you could be kind enough to make a donation instead at https://www.justgiving.com/page/elliefest 🤍

Ellie’s story…

Who was Ellie? 

Ellie, a smart and very determined young woman, vivacious with a fantastic sense of fun and adventure. Loyal and with a love of socialising, friends and family were important. She especially liked going for bottomless brunches and cocktails. Her earliest passion was for cars, after passing her test at 17many hours were spent planning her next vehicle or looking at personalised number plates. Ambitious, wanting to succeed and always determined to reach for the stars one of her many goals in life was to own her ultimate dream car, an Orange coloured Lamborghini Murcielago, just one of them.

In the beginning of 2020 Ellie suffered the shock diagnosis of Cancer. The initial treatment was thought to be successful, but after subsequent tests found that this was not the case, the cancer returned. For the next 22 months she had to balance Covid tests,hospital visits, cancer treatment,studying for & then taking her accountancy exams, and working from home, so as a result there were many ups and downs. 

During this time, due to the Covid restrictions in place, Ellie had to carry the burden of the chemotherapy, radiotherapy appointments, hospital stays and additional procedures on her own, making what was already an extremely difficult time for the usually resilient Ellie, even more stressful and lonely for her.

The availability and support of the Macmillan nurses during this whole period of isolation and treatments was invaluable to Ellie. They offered comfort through a dedicated nurse contact, introduced her to others going through the same as her, advised on many aspects of her cancer journey and much more because of this she was forever grateful to them. 

Sadly in October 2021 when the world was opening up again after Covid, Ellie, recovering from yet more treatment succumbed to sepsis at the age of only 26. This year would have been Ellie’s 30th birthday and, as a tribute, her friends and family would like to raise funds in aid of the two charities that helped both Ellie and subsequently her parents, Macmillan Cancer Support and The Compassionate Friends.

Why did we choose these charities? 

Macmillan Cancer Support services were invaluable to Ellie and are there for everyone going through the trauma of cancer.

The Compassionate Friends an organisation run by bereaved parents, siblings and grandparents, offering support, friendship and a place to speak to other families who find themselves with the devastating loss of their daughter, son, sister, brother, granddaughter or grandson.

...Grab your tickets it's going to be BIG! 🪩✨
Can’t make it? Not a problem but we would love it if you could be kind enough to make a donation instead at https://www.justgiving.com/page/elliefest 🤍

THE MUSIC  LINE-UP 
Doors 4.00pm

4.30pm - 5.00pm
FABLES
5.15pm - 5.45pm
PHIL VINAL
6.00pm - 6.30pm
MARY RED
6.45pm - 7.30pm
MARLEY BLANDFORD
7.45pm - 9.15pm
CADENCY
9.30pm - 10.00pm
The Rock N Roll Raffle

DJ ETHAN OWEN
10.00pm -11.00pm 

Cadency 

Marley Blandford

Mary Red

Phil Vinall