Christmas Activities

Village Christmas lights switch-on events.

We welcomed the festive season to Seaton Valley with our annual switch-on of the Christmas lights in our five villages.

The events started in Seghill on the 25 November and were followed by Seaton Sluice, Seaton Delaval, Holywell and the final event at New Hartley on the 3 December.

There was a fantastic turnout of residents to support the switch-on events, and it was great to return to our full events programme following the restrictions over the past couple of years.

Christmas lights competition

Each year we hold our annual Christmas lights competition held in conjunction with the village First Schools.

Children take part in a competition to design a decorative Christmas Light.  The winner from each school gets their winning design made into a light, and they get to switch their light on at their village event. They are joined by the runners up to switch on the lights of the village Christmas tree.

Unfortunately, some of the winners were unable to come to the switch-on events this year.  Pictured below are the winners, who were there, switching on the lights with Seaton Valley ward councillors:

Christmas shop window competition

We hold an annual Christmas Shop Window Competition and invite businesses in Seaton Valley to decorate their windows and enter the competition.

There was a great variation in the decorating themes in the windows this year, making the judging very difficult.

A Million Dreams from New Hartley were declared the winner, and Fred and Gingers from Seaton Delaval were awarded the second prize.  There were joint winners for the third prize, ML Estates and Tilly’s Teapot, both in Seaton Delaval.

Below are Denise and Ethan Myers from A Million Dreams, pictured receiving their winning certificate from Cllr. Eve Chicken.