We held a Christmas Tree Festival on 3rd, 4th & 5th December. We had 15 trees decorated by groups from Church and the Community – a cheese & wine opening evening with entertainment by the Cowcliffe Community Singers – a coffee morning/craft fayre.

We were open on Saturday and Sunday for the trees to be viewed with 2 Children’s activities and refreshments available.

We raised £965.61 for Church funds

A HUGE THANK YOU to all involved – people gave freely their time, effort and money and without such enthusiastic commitment the event would not have been so successful

Wednesday, Thursday & Friday were spent getting ready

Ian opened the Festival on Friday evening

Then we were entertained by the Cowcliffe Community Singers

Then we had a lovely cheese & wine supper

Saturday was our monthly Coffee Morning with lots of crafts for sale

We had a good attendance despite the dreadful weather.

We had 15 Christmas trees for viewing

We even had an outdoor tree

We ran a raffle over the weekend

There were lots of additional Christmas decorations

We had a children’s activity “Look for Mr Frosty’s friends”

We even had a Christmas Bear!!

We had more visitors on Sunday

And finished the weekend with a Christmas Tree Service with carols