Creativity shines through at Mull Christmas Tree festival

Some highly creative trees were crafted for this year’s event, including a tower of biscuits from Island Bakery, a tree of trees from the Dervaig garden and a nativity tree.

But the runaway winner came from last year’s runner-up, Mull Riding with the Disabled, with 82 out of 400 votes. Nobody else came close. 

The tree was created from models of one of the charity’s ponies, Brodie, a beloved steed by their riders who meet weekly at Killiechronan. 

Club chairperson Sue Penny said: "To win is lovely because there’s so many great trees. 

"We picked Brodie to model just because he’s the most photogenic. I just had so much fun making it!"

For their win the charity received a £100 prize, which will go towards their running costs and to a new compost toilet.

Organiser Donna Dugdale said: "Everyone’s loved it, the kids especially were going ’wow this is amazing!’.

"Thanks to everyone who attended, to our carollers, volunteers, and to everyone who entered trees. We had a lot of new organisations entering which was great to see."

Watch below to see Mull Gaelic Choir perform Silent Night/Ciuin an Oidhch’ and Taladh Chriosda.