9am: Christmas Lights Volunteer Working Sundays - Provisional
Wheatsheaf Inn
Meeting at the Wheatsheaf Barn.
ALL WELCOME! Please ensure you ‘sign in’ at Coffee!
Sunday 22nd Sept 9am Wheatsheaf Barn – Testing
Sunday 29th Sept 9am Wheatsheaf Barn – Testing
Sunday 6th Oct 8am Wheatsheaf Barn – Start street work
Sunday 6th Oct 8am Wheatsheaf Barn – street work
Sunday 13th Oct 8am Wheatsheaf Barn – street work
Sunday 20th Oct 8am Wheatsheaf Barn – street work
Sunday 27th Oct 8am Wheatsheaf Barn – street work ?Hoist
Sunday 3rd Nov 8am Wheatsheaf Barn – street work ?Hoist
Sunday 10th Nov 8am Wheatsheaf Barn – street work
(Remembrance Sunday)
Sunday 17th Nov 8am Wheatsheaf Barn – street work ?trees
SWITCH-ON??????
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Thornbury Christmas Lights Association (TCLA) is excited to announce that we are now accepting applications for our 2024 Christmas Lights Switch On event in November!
If your charity would like to be considered as this year's charity beneficiary, please apply via the link below.
This is a fantastic opportunity to be a part of a cherished community event and gain valuable exposure and support for your cause.
Application Deadline: 20 September 2024
Help us spread the joy and magic of the holiday season while supporting an important cause. We look forward to your applications!
Thornbury Christmas Lights Association are delighted to announce we will be hosting our annual switch-on event on Saturday 16th November 2024.
The event runs 2-8pm, with the switch on at 6pm.
Get ready to kick off the festive season with an afternoon full of holiday cheer!
Explore our Christmas market, enjoy live entertainment, and treat yourself to festive food and drinks.
The big moment will be at 6:00pm when we light up Thornbury with our dazzling Christmas lights!
Bring your family, friends and holiday spirit – it's going to be a magical event!
The best way to contact us at TCLA about anything relating to the work we do or how to get involved, please contact us at or via our social media pages on Facebook or Instagram.
If not, please contact us using the details below.
Chair: Sally Higgins
Secretary: Gill Dunkley, Tel: 01454 281801 or email:
Publicity: Emma Jane Higgins, Tel: 07703 410884 or e-mail:
Vice-Chair: Rex Davis Tel: 07934 560207
Treasurer: Fred Macey, 39 Squires Leaze, Thornbury, BS35 1TB Tel: 01454 418827
The photographs on this page are kindly supplied by RichMcD Photography.
Each one of the displays that TCLA display is made from scratch by our brilliant band of volunteers. We erect, service, maintain, take down and store the displays over the off-season and lovingly renew as required.
Without the volunteers of the Thornbury Christmas Lights Association this simply would not happen.
We do realise that a number of TCLA supporters are unable to offer any practical help with the lighting displays, but we are grateful to all and value your moral support. As a volunteer organisation we are funded by the support of the community.
To make a one-off donation please send a cheque direct to our Treasurer, Fred Macey or put your donation in one of the many collection boxes that can be found in many of the shops in Thornbury, who kindly support us.
Thornbury Christmas Lights Association was formed in 1991. Historically, Christmas lights displays had been provided since the 1960s by the then Thornbury Chamber of Trade.
When that body decided that it was no longer able to organise the annual High Street display, a group of volunteers came together to seek to rescue and continue what had already become a firm Thornbury tradition.
Over thirty years later TCLA is still run by volunteers with a number of the originals still among the ranks. Sadly, some are no longer with us, including Terry Press who worked tirelessly to keep the town’s Christmas lamps alight and chaired the association until his untimely death in 2007.
Throughout its history TCLA has continued to improve and extend the displays and the cooperation of the St Mary Centre management has ensured full coverage of the town. We have faced many challenges over the years, most recently in the face of the pandemic and restrictions on how we can run.
Although very much independent, the association could not carry on its work without the support of both Thornbury Town and South Gloucestershire Councils and also the many businesses, organisations and individuals who help in so many ways.
In 2013 local film-maker Catherine Dunn made a short film about our story - click here to see it on YouTube.
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