St Mary’s Christmas Tree Festival takes place every two years, our next one will be in 2025. The 2023 Christmas Tree Festival was a tremendous success and raised about £6,500 for us. Entry is £3 (children are free). There’s delicious homemade soup every lunchtime with cakes, tea and coffee available all day. With music, Christmas gifts, a children’s nativity trail and a special service of Evensong (Sunday 6pm), the festival has something for everyone. A Saturday concert with the Mellstock Band below was a great success in 2023.
Entering a tree in the 2025 festival
We welcome offers from any business, organisation or individual wishing to display a tree in the 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.
Christmas in Mellstock
Saturday 25th November in St Mary’s Church, surrounded by trees.
Follow the Mellstock Band as they go their Christmas rounds in deepest Wessex, encountering strange visitors, pious beasts, wrathful squires and sweaty dancers. There are supernatural visions, harmonious song and curious musical instruments, all depicted in the wonderful words of Thomas Hardy and William Barnes.
Trees in 2023
We are grateful to all these people, organisations and businesses who provided a tree.
| 1st Ross Rangers |
| 2nd Ross Guides |
| Age UK Ross on wye |
| Agincare |
| Andrew Norledge |
| Art Studio Ross |
| BeFibre |
| Border Belles |
| Brampton Abbotts CE Primary school |
| Bridstow CE Primary School |
| Chaplain to Commerce & Industry |
| Christian Life Church, Ross |
| Churches Together in Ross-on-Wye and District |
| Craft @ St Mary’s |
| Dawleys |
| Dor’s Garden |
| EnviroAbility |
| Grow Youth Group (St Mary’s) |
| Gwyn James Solicitors |
| Harrison Clark Rickerbys Solicitors |
| Hereford & Mid Wales Philatelic Society |
| Holland and Barrett |
| Howden Joinery |
| HSL Compliance Ltd |
| Jill Atkins |
| John Kryle High School |
| John Kyrle High School LGBTQ+ Club |
| Khaos nail bar |
| Lea Play and Chat baby and toddler group |
| Little Saplings |
| Made in Ross |
| Mary Deaville & Vanessa Rhead Artists |
| Messy Church |
| Miles Morgan Travel |
| Milly & co |
| Mohawk Cub Pack, Ross-on-Wye |
| Morris Bricknell |
| Mothers’ Union |
| Reds Hair Company |
| Ross & District Royal British Legion |
| Ross 3rd Brownies |
| Ross Baptist Church |
| Ross Bellringers |
| Ross Community Larder |
| Ross Garden Store |
| Ross Meeting Centre |
| Ross on Wye Lions |
| Ross Penyard Singers |
| Ross Preschool Playgroup |
| Ross Quilters |
| Ross Rainbows |
| Ross Reel Scotish Dancers Club |
| Ross Rotary club |
| Ross Rowing Club |
| Ross Tennis Club |
| Ross Town Band |
| Ross-on-Wye Choral Society |
| Ross-on-Wye Tourism Association |
| Ross-on-Wye Town Ambassadors |
| Ross-on-Wye Town Council |
| Scope Charity Shop |
| Security Alarm Services (UK) Ltd |
| Sparkling Wye WI |
| St Joseph’s RC Primary |
| St Mary’s Choir |
| St Mary’s Garden Village Residents |
| St Mary’s Ministry Team |
| St Michael’s Hospice |
| Stanwells & Gorgeous Grooming |
| Susan Long |
| The Cookshop |
| The Ross-on-Wye Horizon Centre |
| Thrings LLP |
| Toast & Toddle |
| Truffles Delicatessen |
| u3a Ross & District |
| u3a Ross & District |
| Walford Open the Book |
| Walford Primary School |
| walsingham support |
| Warm Welcome Ross On Wye |
| Waterpump Shutterbugs |
| Westbank Residential Home |
The Ross Parishes: Ross-on-Wye, Walford & Brampton Abbotts 