THREE Oxfordshire charities will benefit from this year’s Cornbury Festival.

The West Oxfordshire music festival’s nominated charities will be the Banbury Young Homeless Project, Respite Nursing for Oxfordshire’s Sick Youngsters (Rosy) and Oxford’s Helen & Douglas House hospice.

The event was previously held at Cornbury Park, Charlbury.

This year it is set to attract 20,000 people to the Great Tew Estate, near Chipping Norton, on July 1-3.

Organiser Hugh Phillimore said: “Cornbury Festival has a long tradition of supporting charities working in the footprint of the festival.

“Our festival-goers are lovely, generous, big-hearted people, who I’m sure will be only too pleased to support these worthy organisations.”

Homeless project spokesman Pam Linzey-Jones said: “The BHYP team is very much looking forward to working at Cornbury Festival.

“I hope people will come along to our stand and celebrate our 21st birthday, take part in our raffle and find out more about the work we do with young people in the area.”

Mary Boullin, community fundraising manager at Helen & Douglas House, said: “The support that Helen & Douglas House receives from events like this is absolutely essential.”

And Rosy spokesman Ali Wills said: “We’re really pleased to be able to come to Cornbury Festival and spread the message about what we do for families in Oxfordshire who are in need of extra help to care for a sick child.”