Winners

Each year the visitors to the Festival vote for their favourite trees, the children take part in special competitions and there are raffles for various goodies.

Each visitor to the festival is given a voting form on arrival and selects their favourite tree and at the end of the festival our amazing volunteers then collate and count all the votes. After careful checks we are delighted to announce that the 2018 Brightlingsea Christmas Tree Festival winners are:
WINNERS

CHILD INDIVIDUAL

Florence Andrews “The Hama-tree”

CHILD GROUP

Wong/Totenhofer family “Chemis-tree”

ADULT INDIVIDUAL
Payne Gunfield “A Spanner in the Works”

ADULT GROUP
Oaklands Care Home “The NHS Angel”
RUNNERS UP – Highly Commended

Adult Group – French Marine “Sleigh Drive”

Child Group – 4th B’Sea Scouts “Tree Prepared”

The winners of the 2017 competitions were:

Favourite Christmas Tree, was won by

Adult Group – Brightlingsea Litter Pickers with ‘The Litter Tree’

Adult Individual – Zoe Aldridge with ‘The Tree of Life’

Children’s Group – Brightlingsea Junior school with ‘On the Twelfth Day of Christmas’

Child Individual – The Ryder family with ‘Joseph’s Carpen’tree’

The Rock Hunt was won by

  • Max Parkinson aged 11 yrs.
  • Isabelle Day aged 6 yrs.

The Raffles were won by

  • Hamper – The French Family
  • Village Snow Scene – A Etheridge

The winners of the 2016 competitions were:

TREE WINNERS

Child individual Isabelle’s Christmas Tree Isabelle Day

Child group Owl I want for Christmas Brightlingsea Junior School

Child/Runners-up (Highly Commended) It all begins with ABC Childminding Group and A Fishmas Tree Brightlingsea Infant School Kids Club & Nursery

Adult individual Angel Delight Zoe Aldridge

Adult group A Christmas Tree-t WoolyBuly Craft Group

Adult/Runners-up (Highly Commended) Notes on a Tree Sing Brightlingsea and Helping Hands at the Heart of the Community First Responders

CHILDREN’S QUIZ WINNERS

Quiz 8/11: Gracie Hempstead-Smith, age 11; Megan Plummer, age 9

Quiz 5/7: Cody Buck , age 7; Sullivan French, age 5

Guess the Lamb’s Name : Marie Murphy, age 5 – Lamb’s name “ Angel”

HAMPER WINNER
Vivien Chapman

DEER WINNER
Bev Aldridge

CHRISTMAS CAKE WINNER
Bob and Rose Gudger

The winners of the 2015 tree competition were:

Children’s Section

Child Group – Forestree, Colne Community School
Child Individual – The Night before Christmas, Hamilton Family
Highly Commended – Christmas Tree Under the Sea, Brightlingsea Infant School
Highly Commended – Individualitree, Brightlingsea Junior School

Adult Section

Adult Group – The Night Before Christmas, WoolyBuly’s Craft Group
Adult Individual – Have a Merry Berry Christmas, Bridge Ladies
Highly Commended – We Three Kings, Brightlingsea Beach Hut Association

In addition there are competitions run for the children in the church during the festival. The winners of the 2015 competitions for children were:

Children’s Competitions

Gold Bar Competition – Samuel Smith and Sophie Thorne
Rhymes and Riddles – Oscar Finbow and Amber

Well done to everyone who took part and congratulations to Samuel, Sophie, Oscar and Amber