The annual lantern walk was held in parks and streets across the country on Friday night, to raise awareness of the work of the Leukaemia Foundation.

The Dubbo event, now in it's second year, featured musical entertainment as well as a jumping castle and face painting for the kids, and community organisations, including the Country Women's Association (CWA) and Rotary, were out in force to show their support.

Participants held aloft coloured lanterns - gold to remember someone, white for their own journey, or blue to show they care - and one of the organisers Rhonda Lonney said it was a lovely night.

"There would easily have been three-to-four hundred people I think," Ms Lonney said.

"The aim was to bring attention to the work the Leukaemia Foundation does.

"The research that they do and the help that they give the families, the special accommodation that they provide in Sydney - in particular for a very long time, and just the help they give to anyone with blood cancer."

Dubbo resident Nick Willetts knows first-hand the value of the Leukaemia Foundation's low cost accommodation for patients and their families.

Mr Willetts, who has lymphoma, spent six months living with his mother at the Leukaemia Foundation accommodation in Waverly while he underwent radiation and stem cell replacement therapy earlier this year.

While patients are able to have chemotherapy here in Dubbo, many patients are forced to spend long stints in Sydney for other one-off, or ongoing, treatments, Ms Lonney said.

She said Light the Night was a wonderful moment for those patients to feel the love and support from the Dubbo community.

"It's lovely. I have [myeloma] and it's nice that people come and that people care," she said.

"Thanks to everybody that came because without everybody coming we wouldn't have an event. It was nice to see people there, and people that had been last year as well."