As well as promoting the region's excellent food producers, Alnwick Lions has collected money alongside the Alnwick Food Festival to raise money for deserving local causes.

The chosen charities for the 2009 festival will be posted here.

2008
The Toma Fund was selected as the beneficiary charity for the 2008 festival. Jordan David Thompson (aka Toma) was a teenager from Newcastle-upon-Tyne who was diagnosed with acute myloid leukaemia (AML) on Valentines Day of 2006 at the age of 13. He died aged 15.

In the light of Jordan's many achievements, his family have set up the Toma Fund in his name. This charity will carry on what Jordan started - raising awareness and funds for the Teenage Cancer Unit (set up by the Teenage Cancer Trust) at Newcastle’s RVI hospital.

2007
The Bubble Foundation was the chosen charity of the 2007 Alnwick Food Festival. A total of £6,000 was raised and presented to Denise Robertson, GMTV’s This Morning program’s agony aunt and president of the Bubble Foundation UK. Read more, click here.

The Bubble Foundation is a registered charity that works to save the lives of babies and children born without an immune system. Children born with Severe Combined Immune Deficiency Syndrome, or SCID have to stay in a clean bubble of air beacuse they cannot fight infection. The only way for a child to build their immune system is by having a bone marraw transplant, the bubbles make this possible by keeping the child in a completely sterile space during their treatment.

Newcastle General Hospital has one of only two units in the UK and Ireland that can provide the extensive medical and nursing care that these children need.

Denise Robertson appeared in the Celebrity Ready Steady Cook-style show at the Playhouse.