The Winter Lights at Trengwainton Garden

Published:: 05 September 2023

Following a review of our staffing levels and conservation priorities in the garden, we’ve made the difficult decision to cancel our Winter Lights event at Trengwainton Garden for 2025.

The Winter Lights at Trengwainton will not take place in 2025

Please see details below.

Background to the decision

For 12 years, our staff and volunteers have enjoyed putting on this nature-inspired evening event. We’re proud of the way our local community has always been at the heart of the Winter Lights, with lanterns made by local schools, community groups and artists and feature-lighting provided by students from Falmouth University.

Like many charities though, a year of significant economic challenges means we’ve needed to take stock and determine where we focus our limited resources. The garden usually closes at the end of October half-term and reopens for February half-term, so the Winter Lights has been a special event outside of our normal open season.

Plans for the future

We understand that the decision to cancel the Winter Lights will come as a disappointment for many, but we feel that this year we need to concentrate on putting our energies into our core open season.

As the 2026 season progresses, we’ll be looking at all the relevant circumstances again and hope to be able to deliver the Winter Lights once more in December 2026.