Boosting Bolton and Beyond

11/11/2025

✨🎅🏻Book your Santa Experiences now!🎅🏼✨

It’s not too late to book some festive fun, you don’t want to miss out on our Christmas experiences this year.

Book now and secure you spot with Santa 🎄

Click the link in our bio to visit our events page and book your festive fun now!🤩

11/11/2025

Come and follow Boosting Bolton and Beyond and find out about some amazing local businesses and events in and beyond the Bolton area 😃🥂 🛍️ ✨

11/11/2025

11/11/2025

Wow check this out 🎶 ✨

LUMINISCENCE is making its UK debut and is set to captivate audiences with its unique immersive experience. 🤩

Find out more below👇

11/11/2025

🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼

🎉 40,000 Followers! 🎉
We honestly can’t believe it 😭💛

From the bottom of our hearts (and paws!) thank you to every single one of you who likes, comments, shares, donates, adopts, fosters and simply cares.
Your support means the world to us and to every dog and cat that comes through our doors.

Because of you:
🐾 Animals get second chances
🐾 Broken hearts are mended
🐾 Families are made
🐾 And hope is kept alive every single day

Behind the scenes we have a small team working their socks off to help those who need us most – but you are the reason we can keep going. Your kindness, your shares, your donations, your love… it all makes a real difference.

Here’s to 40,000 incredible supporters 🥹🐾
And here’s to continuing this journey together as we care for the ones who need us most 💛

Thank you all so much 💛🐶🐱
The Destitute Animal Shelter Team

11/11/2025

11/11/2025

🎄 Our festive calendar is live — and tickets are selling fast!

From magical moments with Santa to mischievous fun, there’s something for everyone this season.

A Festive Favourite Returns: Afternoon Tea with Santa – A heartwarming experience filled with treats, stories, and smiles.

Take a peek at our Christmas calendar (link in our bio) and start planning your festive days

11/11/2025

✨ Put Big Light On – Festival of Light ✨

Mars by Luke Jerram will be hosted at Bolton Central Library

Thursday 20th – Sunday 23rd November, 5–9pm, for a free festival of light featuring stunning installations across town:

📍 Borealis – Victoria Square
📍 Mars – Bolton Library and Museum Services
📍 Submergence – Newport Street
📍 Wave – Octagon Theatre Bolton
📍 Beacon of Hope – Elizabeth Park
📍 Celestial Carousel – Cheadle Square
📍 The Garden – Le Mans Crescent

Check on the map for street performances.

🚗 Road closures will be in place (including Le Mans Crescent).
♿ Disabled parking: Octagon Surface Car Park, Great Moor Street.

11/11/2025

There is just over a week to go before Big Light On Festival 2025 begins...

This year we are delighted to be hosting yet another artwork by the fabulous artist Luke Jerram. In 2023 we hosted The Moon, last year we hosted Gaia and this year, we will be hosting Mars a 6 metre installation which will once again be displayed at Bolton Central Library.

At an approximate scale of 1:1 million, each centimetre of the internally lit spherical sculpture represents 10 kilometres of the surface of Mars.

As always we have a whole programme of activity around it with films, storytimes, activity days, printing workshops, poetry and finally storyteller Gav Cross will bring the story of The War of the Worlds to life in front of the artwork itself - a truly unique experience.

Some of the events on the Mars Programme are bookable, please click here -https://tinyurl.com/2p8ypae7 for more details. NB if an event is not listed on Eventbrite, it is simply a drop in activity with no need to book.

11/11/2025

At the eleventh hour on the eleventh day of the eleventh month We Will Remember Them♥️

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember them♥️