Christmas Tree Festival
Friday 11th - Sunday 13th December 2026
Christmas Tree Festival 2025
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
From Friday 12th to Sunday 14 of December hundreds of families and residents of Tarring came to the Church and stepped through the wardrobe into Narnia! They also enjoyed a range of fabulous stalls, a memory tree, live music and a pop-up nativity!
Father Christmas dropped in to the Narnia grotto, every child who met him was given a copy of The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe suitable for their age, and chocolate. St Andrew’s Church is at the centre of the village of Tarring and very much at the heart too, we have families who need to use Chestnut Tree House Hospice for children, it seemed only right to support this charity too. Our raffle raised over £1,000 and we sent £800 to Chestnut Tree House.
In conclusion many joined us, made memories, and stepped away from the madness of the Christmas rush; and like Lucy for a short time, stepped through the wardrobe and felt the magic.
In 2025 we themed our Christmas Tree Festival to be “The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe”, by C.S. Lewis, marking 75 years since the publication of this magical story. We put out the theme and many people from the community as well as the Church family took up the vision of building Narnia and became involved, “Men in Sheds”, brilliant artists, florists and many more, making this year’s Festival a community event.
We invited local businesses, community organisations, clubs, charities and schools to provide and decorate a Christmas tree in the church for display during the festival. We encouraged them to decorate their Christmas Tree to reflect a favourite Children’s story. Creativity was encouraged, and nobody let us down; with Christmas Tree's inspired by stories from A very hungry Caterpillar to a classic like Alice in Wonderland. Our windows were also decorated as different stories, for children to guess the story. Didn’t stop some adults joining in!
The Theme for 2026 …
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JOIN IN 2026
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We invite all local businesses to decorate a tree based on the the festivals theme for the year.
You must be able to supply your own 6ft tree and decorate it yourself.
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We need plenty of prize draw hampers for the Grand Draw. If you can offer a full hamper or something to go in a hamper please get in touch.