AN event which aims to bring festive cheer to Wylam will not go ahead this year.

Light Up Wylam has been parked for 2022 due to the cost of living crisis and other community commitments from organisers.

The campaign, which first launched in 2020, was the brainchild of residents Anna Allan and Sarah Grainger. It encouraged shops and homes to put up festive decorations to win prizes, as well as other community festive activities.

The event raised money for charity and looked to bring the community together over Christmas.

It is hoped it will run again in the future years. 

A spokeswoman for the Wylam Parish Council said: "The parish council has supported the project for the last couple of years, through paying for the hire of lights but, last year, also agreed that moving forward it would work with the individuals involved to become a constituted body, with all the necessary safeguards that would bring, which would enable the organisation to receive grant funding from the parish council and other funders.

"If Sarah and her colleagues still plan to do this, then the parish council will, of course, support them in whatever way it can."

The parish council has put up its Christmas lights on Charlie's Corner at the Wylam Institute.