The votes are in, they have been counted and verified and the awards for the best-decorated trees at this year’s Bedford Christmas Tree Festival have been announced.
With a theme of ‘Kings and Queens’, over 60 trees were on display in early December as part of the annual festival. Trees were decorated by community groups, charities, businesses and schools and visitors were asked to vote for their favourite tree in the ‘adult’ and ‘children’ categories.
Lemon & Ginger, a group of talented knitters, crocheters and crafters, were voted best-decorated tree, winning the adult trophy, while 1st Brickhill Brownies won the children’s trophy for best tree, out of nearly 3,000 votes.
The awards were presented by Nick Kier on behalf of this year’s sponsor Lane & Holmes Estate Agents.
Meanwhile, the children’s competition sponsored by Times Tables Rock Stars was 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: “This year’s Festival theme was clearly a great inspiration for our many decorators who work so hard to create their imaginative ideas.
“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 amount 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 started with their ideas.
