Celebrate Christmas in Cleveleys

Find out what’s happening as we celebrate Christmas in Cleveleys this year – with a wonderful festive season!

Celebrate Christmas in Cleveleys – What’s on in 2025

Cleveleys Experience Christmas Raffle

The Christmas Raffle 2025 will be drawn at the Christmas Lights Switch On on Saturday 22 November. A range of different, fabulous prizes are up for grabs, all thanks to the generosity of a variety of people. HUGE thanks to all of the companies who have so kindly donated prizes for this years raffle. Winners will get an amazing Cleveleys experience! Find out more here – including stockists and link to buy them online. Get your tickets at the Care for Cleveleys Shop.

Cleveleys Christmas Switch On

Saturday 22 November 2025 from 10am to 4pm – at Princess Road event space and Victoria Road West

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas! Come along to the town centre for the Cleveleys Christmas Switch On!

It’s another brilliant event organised by volunteers at The Town Centre Group – otherwise known as Care for Cleveleys. With activities and entertainment all day. Enjoy Thornton Brass Band, craft stalls and family entertainment then the party moves to Poundland for music, singing and the big Switch On Moment!

Christmas Tree Festival and Fayre 2025

St Andrews Church celebrates the festive season each year with their Christmas Tree Festival and Christmas Fayre

Enjoy a fabulously festive Christmas Fayre from 9am-2pm on Saturday 29 November with all kinds of stalls and entertainment. Don’t forget to vote for your favourite tree! There are loads of really imaginative entries each year, transforming the church hall into a winter wonderland.

The Christmas tree festival is in full swing during the Fayre, continuing Sunday 30 November and Monday 1 December from 12-3pm. Refreshments are available.

Get into the Christmas spirit with all the family at the Annual Cleveleys Christmas Tree Festival and Christmas Fayre at St Andrew’s Church. There will be many stalls selling an array of Christmas goodies, and cascade of prizes and raffles, hot food, games, tombolas, kids’ activities and much more.

All within a forest of beautifully decorated Christmas trees set up by many local businesses and organisations. They’re all competing for the title of Cleveleys Christmas Tree of the Year 2025, voted for by those who attend. FREE ENTRY!! At St Andrews Church, Rough Lea Road, Cleveleys

Capricorn Singers Christmas Concert

Saturday 6 December at 2pm at St Andrews Church

Another Community Christmas event worth going to – an afternoon of beautiful festive music with this talented ladies choir. Enjoy carols and Christmas songs, refreshments and a raffle.

Meet Santa at Morrisons

Father Christmas and his helpers from North Fylde Rotary will be outside Cleveleys Morrisons, spreading festive cheer and collecting for local food parcels. Meet them and drop a few coins in the box.

Monday 15 to Friday 19 Dec from 4pm to 6pm. Also Saturday 20th Dec from 10am to 4pm. Their nominated Charity is the Young Blackpool Carers.

Carol Singing with Santa in Cleveleys

Saturday 13 December 2025 from 11am to 3pm

As Christmas Day approaches, most of the big events are over and done with, but not in Cleveleys! Make a date for this big December community event for all the family! Head to Princess Road event space for Carol Singing with Santa. Enjoy the music of Thornton Brass Band, and join in with a big community Christmas sing-song! There’s also festive donkey rides for the little ones and Santa’s Grotto complete with special gifts! This is another Care for Cleveleys event.

Care for Cleveleys

Do you care for Cleveleys? Would you like to join the people who are making an amazing difference in looking after our town?

• Join the Care for Cleveleys Facebook group, where you can find out what’s currently happening, and how you can get involved. There’s something for everyone, and don’t forget to call into the Care for Cleveleys Shop to pick up all kinds of bargains and local gifts.

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Christmas Lights and Decorations in Cleveleys

Decorating Cleveleys at Christmas is notoriously difficult for one reason and another, hence why it’s not been especially festive in past years. However, in 2019 that all started to change when the local community came together to work hard together to change it! We put on our thinking caps on, joined forces and went on a mission to make Cleveleys Christmassy.

2019 – When the Community reclaimed Christmas!

Christmas Cheer in Cleveleys, the Association of Traders and the Coastal Community Team worked together, asking churches, schools, community groups, retailers and individuals to join in! In 2019 Christmas in Cleveleys was reclaimed! Reclaimed by the community that lives, works, learns and visits here – and reclaimed as in environmentally friendly!

• Christmas Cheer in Cleveleys fundraised – to put lights in the planters and subsidise some little Christmas trees above the shops
• The Association of Traders held a Snowman competition
• The Coastal Community Team (precursor to Care for Cleveleys) made recycled decorations to trim up the town
• North Fylde Rotary Club hosted a Santa collection in the town centre in December

Trimming up the Town

For the first time we made our own decorations by re-using and re-purposing the things that we find, Wombles style… People made decorations at home and at a community making day. Take a look at what the people of Cleveleys did in 2019

Snowman Competition

Cleveleys Association of Traders organised a recycled Snowman Competition. The best Snowman, as voted by the public won the annual trophy to display in their shop. Here are some that our town centre shops have made in previous years –

2022 – Gearing up a Notch!

Fast forward a few years to the end of the Covid-19 pandemic and the Care for Cleveleys Team is getting into full swing!

Festoon lights had been on the towns wish list for a long time – and at Christmas 2022 the first part of the wish was finally granted. Find out more about the long-running work to get festoon lights into Cleveleys town centre. They might not have looked much to many towns standards, but marked a huge step forwards in spreading festive cheer through the town.

2023 – Christmas Lights are Spreading!

The new Christmas Lights for 2023 marked another step forward in spreading Christmas Cheer and brightening up the town for the festive season. The new infrastructure will also allow seasonal decorations to be installed throughout the year too.

New Christmas lights in 2023 included festoon lights at the two alleys from Victoria Road West to Aldi/Rough Lea Road car park. New lights at the green canopy over New Look/Superdrug and a new maypole-look for the clock garden.

2025 – Consolidation – and More Lights!

In 2025 Care for Cleveleys took over organisation of the towns Christmas lights, buying services and products in from different suppliers. It’s an opportunity to take stock over what we’ve got in the way of equipment, repairing anything as necessary. Some lighting sets have been replaced, others renewed and some new features added.

Most notably, for Christmas 2025 the festoon lights on the lighting columns have been completed from the Coffee Bar to Claytons Jewellers. It’s all looking fabulously festive!

Elsewhere in the Area…

Christmas Lights and a Switch On event are generally organised in nearby Thornton. (Although there wasn’t any activity in 2025 as previous organisers retired).

And there’s usually been a Christmas tree and Switch On event at Marsh Mill