Cuckfield Christmas Tree Festival

Welcome to Cuckfield Life’s Cuckfield Christmas Tree Festival event page. Here you will find our most recent information for the Holy Trinity festival.

The first Cuckfield Christmas Tree Festival was in 2003 and it has been held almost every year. The Festival is set in the beautiful Holy Trinity Church in Cuckfield, West Sussex.

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Holy Trinity Church, Cuckfield

Cuckfield Christmas Tree Festival 2024

The 2024 Cuckfield Christmas Tree Festival will take place Friday 6th to Sunday 8th December. The usual array of live trees will fill Holy Trinity Church from local schools, clubs, societies, and businesses. There will be the live musical programme as well as refreshments throughout, a ticketed concert by The Rock Choir on the Saturday evening and the festival will close on the Sunday with our annual Carol Concert. The charity being supported this year is called Hope Charity Project (www.hopecharityproject.org).

Opening times:
Friday 6th December 2024: Festival open 11.30am to 7.30pm.

Saturday 7th December 2024: Festival open 11.30pm to 6.00pm.
The Festival is followed by a concert by THE ROCK CHOIR at 7.45pm.

Sunday 8th December 2024: Festival open 11.30am to 5.30pm, followed by a Carol Service at 6pm, followed then by mulled wine and mince pies in the Old School.

Cuckfield Music Festival

Welcome to Cuckfield Life’s Cuckfield Music Festival event page. Here you will find our most recent information for the festival.

Cuckfield Music Festival is a Registered Charity which exists to bring a programme of musical events to Mid Sussex, working with professional, semi-professional and amateur musicians, schools and colleges, to encourage people of all ages to engage with and perform live music.

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Next year’s information will be coming mid-2025!

Cuckfield Music Festival 2024 By David Spear

After months of planning we launched the festival on Thursday 13th June with a brilliant Organ Recital in Holy Trinity Church Cuckfield, by Mollie Hord. At just 19 years old Molly is the Junior Organ Scholar at Pembroke College Cambridge.

Her recital was also shown on screen so all could see her amazing skills on the keys, stops and peddles. Followed in the evening by our combined Schools concert; featuring students from Warden Park, Oathall Community College, St Paul’s Catholic College, and Brighton, Hove & Sussex Sixth Form College (BHASVIC) in a delightful line up of soloists and groups, covering a wide range of styles and genres.

Our free lunchtime concert on Friday 14th June with Paul Gregory on classical guitar was very well attended. Paul is originally from Cuckfield and he was thrilled to be ‘back home’ playing for us. As were the audience.
The evening concert titled ‘DIVA’ was much louder! Celebrating iconic female artists with music by Barbara Streisand, Tina turner, Whitney Houston and more. Performed by Sarah Rolph, Simon Ankhorn, Stu Barbour, Sam Nixon and friends. There was much dancing in the church that evening leading to a glorious ABBA finale.

On Saturday we were delighted to have our Patron Katie Derham join us, with her good friend Claire Martin OBE, the world-famous Jazz singer, for an evening of soft Jazz, backed by the Montepelier Cello Quartet from Brighton, who Claire last worked with a decade ago. We enjoyed music from the likes of Cole Porter, to Carly Simon and David Bowie.

This wonderful concert brought a lovely end to this year’s music festival.

We would like to express our genuine thanks to our sponsors who without, the festival simply would not have taken place. Thank you to Adelphi Holdings, P&S Gallagher, Jo Jo Boutique, The Talbot, our Patron Katie Derham, and of course our committee and all the wonderful volunteers.

Cuckfield Bookfest

Welcome to Cuckfield Life’s Cuckfield Bookfest event page. Here you will find our most recent information for everything Bookfest.

As a community interest group, Bookfest relies on the generous support from sponsors, benefactors and friends to help them host brilliant writers and new talents every year.

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Cuckfield Bookfest 2025 dates

We’ll be back next year over the weekend of October 3rd – 5th so do please put the date in your new diary now!

More info to come next year!