What would be the best idea for collecting the actual money for charity, do you think?
....So local community groups and charities will each decorate one tree and they will all be displayed in a church or hall. The general public will come for a nosy over a two or three days, and listen to local choir/music groups, scoff mince pies etc
I could maybe charge people on the door, then ask them to vote (via those supermarket plastic coins?) for their favourite tree. The winner of the best tree gets all the dosh collected to go towards their charity/community group.
Or would it be best to just selec one charity at the start of the event who would get all the proceeds? Or a mixture of these two ideas?!