St Mary's Aspenden, Christmas Tree Festival

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

26

There 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.

To our visitors for your support and kind and generous donations made over the weekend, monies are still being counted but it is looking to be approximately £1000.

Thank you

On behalf of St Mary’s Church Aspenden.