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This year, throughout the month of June, Topshop will be hosting Topshop Bandstand Picnics for Teenage Cancer Trust, a series of very special events around the UK, a string of gloriously unique outdoor picnic events in aid of Teenage Cancer Trust featuring the cream of the new musical crop performing in the loveliest green spaces in London, Bristol, Liverpool and Birmingham.

So, kicking off on June 12 in the lush environs of Regents Park, we’ll find a mix of white hot musicians and DJ’s playing live to raise money and awareness for Teenage Cancer Trust amongst the nation’s youth, all of whom have very generously donated their time for the shows. Musicians such as electro trio of the moment Chew Lips, Welsh indie popsters Los Campesinos!, hotly tipped dream Summer Camp, rapidly ascendant pop-rockers I Blame Coco, critically acclaimed singer-songwriter Blue Roses, the swoon inducing Slow Club, and the gorgeously folky haze of Goldheart Assembly, along with the likes of Girlcore, Goldilocks, New Young Pony Club, The Cocknbullkid and Blonde Ambition among others numbering the DJ ranks.

The music, however, is only part of the equation, with the surrounding area transformed into a classic, pincnic style playground, complete with Native Faces providing festival face decoration with Topshop Make Up, Sk8 House roller skate hire, and sports day games such as wang a welly, egg and spoon, and sack races with special prizes up for grabs. Attendees will pack up a picnic and bring along their Neon Rose picnic blanket that is available instore when you spend £60 or more. As well as this there will be the opportunity to chill out in the sun-shade area, complete with suncream samples. There will also be Vitamin Water and LOLA’s cupcakes on sale with all profits donated to the charity, as well as one-off Topshop/Teenage Cancer Trust rain ponchos, which will be on sale with all the proceeds going back to the charity, all of which will combine to make these events completely unmissable in their own right.

The Bandstand Picnic events will be branching out into selected stores from the 9th – 13th June and 16th – 20th June. London Oxford Circus, Birmingham, Liverpool, Bristol, Cardiff, Newcastle, Edinburgh, Sheffield, Manchester Arndale and Glasgow will be playing host to live DJ sets, daily raffles, instore competitions as well as a limited edition giveaway of a specially-designed picnic blanket.

Also supporting both the picnics and instore activity for Teenage Cancer Trust will be a bespoke collection produced exclusively for the charity, instore from 17th May. Pieces will include a kaftan, headband, summer bag and friendship bracelets all reflecting the summer trends with exclusive bright, fun prints, with a percentage of sales going to Teenage Cancer Trust.

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We have THREE pairs of tickets to give away for this Saturday’s picnic in London’s Regents Park. To enter, just comment on this article. Make sure you register with the correct email address, and we’ll be in touch with the three lucky winners.

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This competition closes at 4pm on Friday 11th June. Good luck!

Every day in the UK six young people are told they have cancer. Being a teenager is tough enough, without having to deal with a serious illness that takes away your normal life at home, at school and with friends. Young people often feel isolated when facing a cancer diagnosis and rarely meet others going through the same experience. Teenage Cancer Trust is devoted to improving the lives of young people with cancer and believes teenagers shouldn’t stop being teenagers because they have cancer. They fund and build specialist units in NHS hospitals where teenagers are treated together in an environment designed specifically for young people.

LINEUP: London June 12th Regents College, Inner Circle, Regent’s Park, NW1 4NS Live: Charlotte Hatherley Chew Lips Goldheart Assembly Stricken City DJs: Special guest DJ New Young Pony Club Girlcore

Bristol June 13th Castle Park Bandstand, Castle St Entrance, Bristol BS1 (subject to licence) Live: Charlotte Hatherley Chew Lips Slow Club Goldheart Assembly DJs Cocknbullkid Goldilocks Blonde Ambition

Liverpool June 19th ‘Isla Gladstone Conservatory’, Stanley Park, Anfield Road, Liverpool L4 0TD Live: Los Campesinos! I Blame Coco Blue Roses Summer Camp DJs: Abi Harding & Candie Payne Blonde Ambition Plus Special Guests

Birmingham June 20th The Vale Village, Church Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 3SX Los Campesinos! I Blame Coco Eliza Doolittle Summer Camp DJs: Broken Hearts Blonde Ambition Plus Special Guests