Cooking Up Support for Teddy Rocks

In May this year, Blandford Grange Nursing Home proudly joined a host of local businesses in supporting Dorset’s award winning Teddy Rocks Festival, held from 2nd to 4th May 2025. The home contributed to the community funded catering effort that kept the festival’s volunteers and crew well fed throughout the three day event.

Founded in 2011 as a modest pub gig, Teddy Rocks has grown into a nationally recognised, family friendly music festival that this year alone raised £164,233 for Teddy20, the Blandford based charity helping children and families affected by cancer, pushing the event’s cumulative fundraising total well past the half million pound mark. Entirely volunteer run, the festival now attracts thousands of music lovers each spring to Charisworth Farm, with every penny of profit going to the cause.

Working alongside other generous local businesses, Blandford Grange, part of Healthcare Homes group, donated towards the daily food budget and sent its own Head Chef, Sharon Cork, to join the evening cooking rota. Together with volunteers from other companies, Sharon helped serve up hot, hearty meals for the hundreds of people who gave their time to keep the festival running smoothly.

“Teddy Rocks is powered by volunteers and by the goodwill of many Dorset businesses,” said Sharon Cork. “It was a privilege for us to be one part of that bigger team effort.”