Tipping family's festive house in Cottam raises more than £8,000 for four local charities
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The Tipping family - dad Mark, mum Nicola and brothers Sam (12), Joe (11) and eight-year-old Issac - have trimmed their house in Valentines Meadow to support Rosemere Cancer Foundation, in Preston, Derian House Children’s Hospice, in Chorley, Preston Headway and the Jordan Grant 18 Memorial Fund (CRY – Cardiac Risk in the Young) for the past six years.Passers-by, who are stopped in their tracks by the spectacle, throw what spare change they can afford into a wishing well collection bucket, amounting to £8,300. Altogether, with the money raised over last Christmas and this New Year, the family has been able to share more than £50,000 among the charity quartet and is hopeful of reaching their £60,000 milestone this coming Christmas 2018.Their light show has also earned the Tippings a British Citizenship Award and in 2015, then Prime Minister David Cameron invited them to share his Downing Street Christmas lights switch-on with his own family from inside Number 10 after presenting them with his “Point of Light” award, a prime minister’s office award that recognises outstanding volunteers.