Hodgson Family Lights Christmas 2024: The brightest house in Leeds

The Hodgson family give us a tour of their Christmas light experience in Cross Gates which supports Martin House Children’s Hospice.

Transcript

00:00hi everybody we are the Hodgson family and you're here again at Hodgson family

00:04lights after our amazing Halloween we're back for Christmas we've got over 36,000

00:10lights we've got eight interactive stations we talk about all year we work

00:14at it all year I'm part of a group called the European lighting fanatics we

00:18have zoom calls where we train people how to do this every week for free on

00:22zoom so we're talking about this in February basically we've been adding a

00:25lot more interactive elements this year so we've got a lot more buttons not

00:29gonna give too much away because the whole idea is you gotta come you gotta

00:31press and hold a button and then you gotta find out what it's doing but yeah

00:35we've been putting a lot more into sort of some homemade crafty sort of things

00:39which we're really excited about if we just kept it the same I think it'd be a

00:43bit boring so we just try and say what can we add what can we do that's a

00:46little bit different and we focused on interactivity let the kids have a play

00:50with it yeah a bit of light entertainment we've got some popular

00:55songs Disney songs and some Christmas songs obviously there's some yes some

01:01very cheesy Christmas songs Scout's favorite Christmas robot that if

01:05listening to it too many times it gets stuck in your head even more so for me

01:08because I program it so then I have to listen to it again and again and again

01:11as I'm programming it to the sensory sessions on Tuesdays Fridays Saturdays

01:16and Sundays the it's it's lower music not as flashy and you know everybody's

01:23welcome to that it's a lot quieter as well we are we're extremely happy with

01:27the reaction that we get from the community and from everybody and we just

01:30want to keep raising money and that's that's why we do it just a bit of fun

01:33and bring some light to the streets Leeds and if you don't come you will

01:45make an eight-year-old cry so you know it's been incredible for the charity for

01:52the community we really just want to thank everybody for supporting this

01:55crazy stupid house full of lights