Christmas Tree Festival – and the winners are:

Following another highly successful Christmas Tree Festival at St Paul’s church, we are delighted to announce that Lemon & Ginger were voted best decorated tree, winning the adult trophy, while 1st Brickhill Brownies won the children’s trophy for best tree, out of nearly 3000 votes. The awards were presented by Nick Kier on behalf of this year’s sponsor Lane & Holmes Estate Agents. Both groups excelled in their decorations featuring the theme of ‘Kings & Queens’.

Meanwhile the children’s competition sponsored by Times Tables Rock Stars were won by Alice (0-4 age group), Theo (5 -7 age), Keziah (8-10 age), Isabelle (11+ age ). All four receive book tokens for correctly spotting the eight themed characters on various trees.

Margaret Oakley, Festival Chair said: “The Festival theme is clearly a great inspiration for our many decorators who work so hard to create their imaginative ideas and the public enjoy casting their votes though the choices are hard to make for there are so many wonderful trees. The Brownies had lots of wise kings with camels ‘following the star’ while the knitters had fun producing every kind of royal theme including a Drag Queen and a Kingfisher.”

In early January, the Festival Committee will announce both the total figure raised to be shared between the Church and the Hospital Charity and Friends as well as next year’s theme so that decorators can get starting with their ideas.