Hall & Woodhouse (H&W) has extended its headline sponsorship of Teddy Rocks Festival until at least 2028. The local brewer has been the headline sponsor of the three-day festival since 2019.

Teddy Rocks is a multi-award-winning family-friendly charity festival, taking place from Friday 2nd to Sunday 4th May 2025 at Charisworth Farm in Blandford. All profits made over the May bank holiday weekend go directly to the festival’s charity, Teddy20, and other children’s cancer causes.

H&W operates all seven bars at the festival with more than 100 H&W team members and their families volunteering at the event. Paul Rowbottom, H&W’s Business Partner at The True Lovers Knot pub in Tarrant Keyneston, and owner of Monaco Marquees, is fundamental is to the festival’s operations team. Paul and his team help build all H&W’s bars on site and volunteer their time during the weekend.           

‘The Royal Ted’, H&W’s pub-like experiential bar, returns this year with its own curated stage. Guests can enjoy more music than before with a second ‘secret garden stage’ which is found through a hidden door.

Festivalgoers will also see new self-pour Badger beer machines in the woodland bar, and a range of cocktails served from Edmunds and Thatchers. Additionally, the brewer will bring its Outland Stout to the festival for the first time.

Ben Holden, regional manager at Hall & Woodhouse, said: “This year we aim to donate £200,000 to Teddy Rocks, enabling sizable donations to four cancer charities. One of them is Ted’s Fund; a research fund set up in Ted’s name by Bone Cancer Research.

“It’s thanks to the support from our entire community that we’re able to put on a great party in Dorset and raise such an amazing amount of money for an incredibly deserving cause.”

Ben Holden and Anthony Woodhouse, chairman of H&W, were recently appointed as directors of Teddy Rocks. They join founder Tom Newton, and three other long term Teddy Rocks Festival supporters, to provide access to H&W’s expertise to reach this year’s fundraising target.

Tom Newton, founder of Teddy Rocks Festival, said: “H&W is fundamental to both Teddy 20 and to Teddy Rocks. It isn’t even about the huge amounts of money that they donate; it is all the added benefit that they give and the great working partnership that has helped drive us on.

“Working with Anthony and the team every year is a real highlight and everyone from the bar team to the team in the brewery understand and get behind the cause.”

Over 100 acts take to the eight stages at Teddy Rocks Festival this year. To find out more about Teddy Rocks, visit www.teddyrocks.co.uk . For more information about Hall & Woodhouse’s charitable support, please visit: www.hall-woodhouse.co.uk