Soaring electricity prices combined with the cost of living crisis means many homes won’t be lit up this Christmas and the charities could see their donations going down by at least £500,000
The Christmas lights are going out all over Britain because of the cost-of-living crisis â and the biggest losers are charities.
Kindhearted residents are scrapping their dazzling domestic displays this year as electricity bills â along with most other bills â push them to a dark place.
Charity bosses reckon the switch-off will reduce donations by at least £500,000 â and probably more.
May Proctor, 72, and her husband Rod, 73, whose spectacular show with thousands of lights was dubbed the most Christmassy house in Leeds last year, have raised £2,000 from visitors for their local Lions Club in two years. But this year they simply cannot afford to turn the lights on.