Get sponsored to visit historic churches on foot, by bike or other means. It's a fun way to fundraise for your own local church too. Half the sponsor money goes to the church named by the person taking part.If you are taking part, St Peter's, Buntingford, St Mary's, Aspenden and St Mary the Virgin, Westmill will be open for visitors. Please note, the churches at Buntingford and Aspenden have kitchen and toilet facilities. Visit the Herts and Beds Historic Churches Trust website HERE
With over 500 visitors through the doors over the 3 days, and again a fabulously positive vibe in and around the village as the sun shone, we were able to have another wonderful weekend.Of our 55 exhibitors, displaying 380 pieces of work, we are delighted to say that 47 of them sold at least one piece with many selling more so we have lots of happy artists too. We are hugely grateful to Alex who plans the entire event, to all the volunteers, sponsors and artists. We couldn't do this without you. We have received some lovely emails of thanks from a number of artists, asking to pass on their thanks to everyone involved for their hard work & effort in contributing to what they also saw as a very successful event.
On Shrove Tuesday we held our third Pancake Day event at St Peter's Church. There was plenty of competition and laughter. Great to see so many people joining us, some who have joined us every year and some new for this year. We also had our new massive TV screen to use. We are looking forward to making further use of this once we consider where and how, to install it. Thank you to everyone who made this event possible.
Thank you to everyone who helped and supported our Christmas Fair. Big thanks to Amanda & Ed, and Sue too for making it happen.The church looked wonderful and all afternoon people were visiting and getting some Christmas gifts as well as a well-deserved piece of cake and tea. Thank you, we couldn't do this without you.
We would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who supported this joyful and creative event. To all our Christmas Tree entries from across our community who created such wonderful eye-catching creations. Seeing was believing.Over the weekend our visitors had the opportunity to vote for their favourite 3 trees in our ‘Peoples Choice Vote’, many found this difficult to choose but we did have 3 winning Christmas Trees.1st Buntingford Gardening Club, A beautiful creation of handmade wreaths with seasonal foliage displayed to make a Christmas tree shape. The attention to detail with handmade creatures we would find in our gardens, watering cans made to look like they were watering the foliage, a scarecrow sitting on top taking watch over this wonderful creation.2nd Little Lambs of Westmill Church with their ‘While Shepherds Watch their 'Little Lambs' by Night.’ As the children and adults gather weekly every Wednesday at St Mary the Virgin Church, one activity they had been working on was creating some beautiful sheep to make everyone just smile with joy.3rd Lil Foster and her 'Food Glorious Food' tree beautifully decorated with hand knitted foods from fruit & veg to burgers & cakes and so on. The attention to detail and hand crafted work is outstanding.Listed below are all those who submitted a tree and we thank you all for the time, effort, imagination and creativity every Tree a master piece. Tree No Name of Tree Presented by 1 The Memory Tree St Peter’s Church 2 Buntingford Gardening Club Buntingford Gardening Club 3 Food Glorious Food Lil Foster 4 Remember, Remember the Songs of December Alzheimer’s Society 5 All things Millfield Millfield First & Nursery School 6 Forever Young Layston Grove Care Home 7 Ding Dong Merrily on High Aspenden Bellringers 8 Time to Sparkle The Luxury Brand Watches & Jewellery 9 Sweet Treats Aspenden Parish Council 10 EHAAT East Herts Air Ambulance Trust 11 Home-Start Home-Start Royston Buntingford & South Cambs 12 Helping you Feel your Best this Christmas Attend2Health 13 What Brings Us joy at Christmas Time Edwinstree Middle School 14 Buntingford Guides and Rangers Buntingford Guides and Rangers 17 While Shepherds watch their Little Lambs by Night Little Lambs 18 Dental Health Matters Buntingford WI 19 The Gift of Reading Buntingford Library 20 Your Town, Our Community, Its People Buntingford Town Council 23 Lest We Forget Royal British Legion, Buntingford Branch 24 Weddings with Us St Mary’s Aspenden, St Mary the Virgin Westmill & St Peter’s Buntingford 25 Westmill Croquet Westmill Croquet 26There is room at the Inn Sword Inn Hand 27 Enhancing your Property Marketing Needs Property Photo Services 29 Cougars under 10’s football Cougars 30 The Children of Aspenden We would also like to thank everyone who put this event together and helped with refreshments, making cakes, meeting and greeting visitors and getting the church ready. Thank you On behalf of St Mary’s Church Aspenden.
New for 2026. We will be praying Morning Prayer at each of our 3 churches at 9am. Tuesdays at St Peter's Church, BuntingfordWednesdays at St Mary the VirginThursdays at St Mary's, AspendenWe pray the Church of England Daily Prayer using either a phone or a book (when at St Peter's). This is a quiet and reflective start to the day, you'd be very welcome to join us at any of the churches. https://www.churchofengland.org/prayer-and-worship/join-us-service-daily-prayer