Helensburgh Christmas Lights

Helensburgh's Christmas lights spectacle consists of 140 features on lampposts, two overstreet features, a magnificent thirty foot tree in the square along with sixteen living trees lit with fairy lights and a very popular 'heritage' crib. The lights are switched on 23rd November and stay on until the second week in January. The sixteen trees in the square remain lit until the end of March. This display benefits residents, visitors, businesses in fact anyone who comes into Helensburgh town centre in the darkest of winter months. The display is the envy of many small towns and is known as 'The Best in the West'. It gives the town a tremendous economic boost and creates a sense of community and feel good factor for all our residents who can enjoy being part of a successful project totally run and financed by voluntary input. We want to keep repeating sense of well being for the foreseeable future but it is becoming quite challenging to raise public donations because household budgets are tight. Our guiding principle is to provide Christmas lights for the town with a switch on event which is free to everyone, no child of any age should be denied seeing Santa and the lights because of lack of funds, so we continue to be ticket free with everyone welcome. The Switch On event is now self financing attracting over 9000 people last year. We just need to raise the annual funds needed for the lights installation such as cherry picker hire, insurance, fuel and associated costs. All our team are volunteers and donate thousands of man hours to the project over the year, for example meeting once a week to do repairs on the features.

Who Benefits

All Helensburgh residents, visitors, and local businesses during the winter months