Tickets are still available for the annual McLardy McShane Reach Christmas Lunch, featuring singers Emmanuel Kelly from The X Factor and Darren Percival from The Voice.

More than 570 people have already booked to attend the event at Melbourne’s Docklands on Wednesday, which is now in its fourth year.

The broker aims to raise at least $145,000 for the Reach youth charity, taking the total pledged at Christmas lunches since 2009 to $500,000.

Reach program participants will share their stories at the event.

The event’s theme is “celebrating resilience”, recognising a challenging year for the charity after the death of its co-founder, Jim Stynes.

In honour of Mr Stynes’ Irish origins, return tickets to Dublin will be given away in a raffle to support Soar, an Irish youth charity inspired by Reach.