The Tree Festival springs to life!

The pillar trees went up last week, and today the sponsor and participant trees started to go up! Here's a sneak preview of our progress. The large tree, sponsored by Coes, is also now up. We can't wait for you to see it!

Last year's "Virtual Festival"

If you are getting impatient waiting for this year's festival "Trees at the Tower" to begin, last year's Virtual festival is still available online! Recipes, activities, articles and lots of Christmas trees!

It's all here! 

Trees at the Tower on the Radio!

Our new vicar, the Rev'd. Tom Mumford was on the radio earlier today talking about the Christmas Tree Festival. If you want to listen, click the picture below, and scrub to 1:39:40 .

Not long now!

"Angel bombing" Ipswich!

St Mary le Tower is working with other Ipswich churches this Advent and Christmas seasons to “Angel Bomb” Ipswich. 

There will be all sorts of Angel projects going on, and as part of our preparations for the Christmas Tree festival: "Trees @ the Tower" we have chosen to try to make a chain of Angels holding hands and encircling our church. We will be able to display these around the boundaries of the St Mary le Tower. 

The Choristers and Choral Scholars will be getting involved, but we wanted everyone who can join in to make some. We will laminate them to make them weatherproof and join them all together in a continuous chain. The hope is that we can make enough to go right around the boundary! 

Trees at the Tower!

St Mary le Tower has been running its Tree Festival at the start of the Advent season for over ten years. It is a celebration of the life and community of Ipswich, in 2019 we had more than 115 real and artificial trees placed by a whole variety of businesses, charities, community groups and individuals, and over 3,500 visitors to the church to see the trees, visit the cafe and enjoy the events and activities which are part of the Festival! 

Last year, due to the COVID-19 crisis we sadly had to cancel our real-life festival, at a time when the need for community and belonging had never been more important. We went ahead with a slimmed down virtual festival instead, which you can still visit here https://smltxmastreefestival.blogspot.com.