The fourth Christmas Tree Festival has opened at Alderley Edge Methodist Church today with a lunchtime concert featuring Hallé Soloists.
The church looks amazing, lit up with 57 trees of various shapes and sizes. Each has been beautifully decorated by a local organisation, school or businesses in a theme personal to them.
The Christmas Tree Festival, which is open until Sunday, 2nd December, is being held to help raise funds for the Church's Spire Appeal.
Judy Povey, church secretary, said "This is the 4th Christmas Tree Festival and we hope that this one will prove equally successful in attracting the community to come into the Church and view a magical display of Christmas trees."
A whole programme of events has been put together for the weekend, including a concert by the Macclesfield Male Voice Choir this evening. This concert starts at 7.30pm and includes some audience participation by way of joining in some carol singing.
On Saturday evening Leyland Brass Band, who were runners-up in the National Championships, will perform a concert and the festival will close with carols round the trees on Sunday afternoon.
Judy added "A donation from this afternoon's collection will be given to East Cheshire Hospice, and the remainder of the profit from the weekend will be in aid of the Church's Spire Appeal, which still has something in the region of £30,000 outstanding before the Church can truly say the repair and renovation work on the spire has been truly paid for and completed."
See our events calendar for full details of this weekend's programme.
Click next photo above or play the slide show to see a collection of photos of this year's beautiful trees.
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