The 2021 Christmas Tree Festival will take place from Friday 19th to Tuesday 23rd November. That’s the weekend of the town’s Christmas Fair. Plans are taking shape, read on for more information and photos of previous years’ festivals.
A highlight of the 2019 festival was the Saturday night Come & Sing concert – a scratch choir of nearly 50 singers with the wonderful Ross Town Band.
We’re back on again in 2021, so here goes:
Entering a tree in the 2021 festival
We welcome offers from any business, organisation or individual wishing to display a tree in the 2021 Festival. There’s no charge for this and no particular requirements other than that you bring it along and decorate it any time between 3.00 p.m. on the Thursday and lunch time on the Friday immediately preceding the event. If you’re entering a tree as an organisation or business please feel free to use it as a means of advertising your organisation by decorating the tree in an appropriate theme.
Behind the Speaker’s Chair – Friday 19th
An evening of political commentary from Quentin Letts (The Times) and Jason Beattie (Daily Mirror) in St Mary’s Church, Friday 19th November, 6.30pm
Jason Beattie, the Political Editor for the Daily Mirror and great grandson of former St. Mary’s Rector Ernest Beattie, 1926-1936, will join How Caple’s own Quentin Letts, the political sketch writer for The Times, for an opinionated discussion of current events and Q&A evening moderated by St Mary’s own unopinionated (for the evening) Professor Adrian Kendry, former NATO Senior Economist. All proceeds go to the upkeep and enhancement of Ross-on-Wye’s Parish Church. Wine and refreshments will be available.
Come & Sing concert with Ross Town Band – Saturday 20th
Trees entered in 2019
We are grateful to the following organisations and individuals who entered trees in the 2019 festival
| 1st Ross Rainbows |
| 2nd Ross Guides |
| 3rd Ross Brownies |
| Abbottsfield & Dawes Funeral Partners |
| Ashfield Park Primary School Class 1A |
| Ashfield Park Primary School Class 1M |
| Ashfield Park Primary School Year 3 |
| Bible Society |
| createROSS |
| Crossfield Creations |
| Dawley Services Ltd |
| Essential Sewing Services |
| Firebird.com Ltd |
| Herefordshire & Mid Wales Philatelic Society |
| Herefordshire Computing Support |
| HLS Compliance Ltd |
| Judith Landau |
| Julia Bussell & Louise Jarvis |
| Kyrle Probus Club |
| Lizzie Bunting Ltd |
| Made in Ross |
| Micross Automation Systems |
| Miles Morgan Travel |
| Mooch Pooch |
| Oak House Nursery School |
| Okells Francis Law LLP |
| Oxfam Ross on Wye |
| Penyard Probus Club (Ladies) |
| Practical Farm Ideas |
| Rehau |
| Rocky-Lee’s little Feet |
| Ross & District Royal British Legion |
| Ross & District U3A |
| Ross Community Larder |
| Ross Court |
| Ross Garden Store |
| Ross Ministry Team |
| Ross on Wye Lions Club |
| Ross Pre School Playgroup |
| Ross Quilters |
| Ross Reel Club |
| Ross Town Band |
| Ross Vaga Probus Club |
| Ross Walking Group |
| Ross Young Carers |
| Ross-On-Wye Bowling Club |
| Ross-on-Wye Fairtrade Town steering group |
| Ross-on-Wye Tourism Association |
| Ross-on-Wye Town Council |
| Sing out Strong |
| Sparkling Wye WI |
| St Mary’s – Sunday Kids |
| St Mary’s – The Friends of St Mary’s Church |
| St Mary’s Bellringers |
| St Mary’s Chaplain to Commerce & Industry |
| St Mary’s Choir |
| St Mary’s LEAF |
| St Mary’s Mothers’ Union |
| St Mary’s Open the Book |
| St Mary’s Toast & Toddle |
| St Michael’s Hospice |
| The Ross on Wye Horizon Centre |
| West Mercia Womens Aid |
| Wye Tots Childcare |
| WyePlay |
The Ross Parishes: Ross-on-Wye, Walford & Brampton Abbotts 