THERE are only three more weeks to go until Christmas and the festive event season is in full swing.
Below you'll find listings of various events including fairs, markets, concerts, pantos and parties which are taking place in the area over the next few days.
You can find more upcoming festive events here, and you can also tell us about anything not currently listed by commenting below.
- Do you fancy taking the kids to meet Santa, learning how to make that perfect Christmas floral centre piece – and get some money off the shopping too? Then get to Pennell's garden centre on Tuesday, December 4, where from 5pm you can do all that and more, while raising money for local branches of Mind and the Motor Neurone Association. Admission is £2 for adults or £1 for children. Visits to Santa – including a toy – are £5.  - The Grimsby and District Electronic Organ Society will hold its December Concert – Mince Pie Night – on Wednesday, December 5. It will take place at the Cromwell Banqueting Suite, Kings Road, Cleethorpes. Guest Organist will be Andrew Nix, and the music begins at 7.30pm. Admission costs £8 for guests, £1 for members, with annual membership details on request. Refreshments – including mince pies – are available, and there will be a raffle. More information is available on 01472 316936.  - A beauty salon is helping make wishes come true this Christmas. Staff at Beauty Barn, in Bargate, Grimsby, will be raffling a hamper of the finest creams and treatments worth £150 to raise money for When You Wish Upon A Star. Tickets will be available at the salon's shopping evening on Wednesday, December 5, from 4pm to 8pm. Tickets will cost £1. For more, call 01472 357333.  - Parkway Cinema in Cleethorpes is hosting a festive musical spectacular with all the trimmings. It's Bloomin' Christmas Again, the second annual Cleethorpes In Bloom Christmas Concert is taking place on Thursday, December 6. The show will include performances of classic songs from the big West End musicals as well as rousing renditions of Christmas carols. Returning for this year's show are classical singers Leroy Vickers and Martin Jackson, and the Kingsway Printers Cleethorpes Band, while appearing for the first time are the Louth Male Voice Choir and 17-year-old soprano Jodie Watson. Compere for the evening will be Compass FM presenter Richard Lyon. Tickets for It's Bloomin' Christmas Again are £12.50 and £11.50 for concessions, and are available online at www.parkwaycinemas.co.uk, by calling on 01472 290100 or in person from the Parkway Cinema in Kings Road, Cleethorpes.  - Carols by Candlelight at the Grimsby Minster is on Thursday December 6, at 6pm in St James' Square. Entry is free.  - Christmas is coming early to Grimsby's Abbeygate. On Thursday, December 6, there will be entertainment from St Martin's School Choir, Earth Bound Misfits, A&M Freedom Freestyle Dance Academy, celebrity guest appearances and a charity Christmas Wish Tree from 5pm to 7.30pm. There will also be hot roast sandwiches, mulled wine and mince pies.  - Acclaimed West End actor James Hyland, brings his unique stage adaptation of the classic Charles Dickens novel to the Ropery Hall, Barton, in the run up to Christmas. The production on Thursday, December 6, begins at 7.30pm and tickets cost £10 in advance or £12 on the door. They can be booked online at www.roperyhall.co.uk, by phone on 01652 660380 or in person at Ropery Hall's Craft Gallery. Parental discretion is advised for children under seven.  - TV's 'Queen of Clean' Kim Woodburn takes the role of the Wicked Stepmother in this year's blockbuster pantomime at the Grimsby Auditorium. Be transported into the mystical, magical land of fairy godmothers, 2 very ugly sisters, a lovable Buttons to pull on your heart strings, a dashing prince and of course the beautiful Cinderella. Watch as Cinderella is transformed into a dazzling princess before going to the ball. Along with the exquisite costumes, real ponies and a multitude of pulsating pop songs, you will not want to miss this year's show. Performances start on Friday, December 7 and continue until Boxing Day. Tickets are £16 for adults and £12.50 for children and concessions. To book call 0844 871 3016  - The Orpheus Male Voice Choir are joined by the Kingsway Printers Cleethorpes Band for an evening of seasonal entertainment on Saturday, December 8 at 7.30pm at Grimsby Central Hall. Christmas is never complete without a selection box and this one will be full of musical delights. One layer will have choice numbers from the Orpheus' repertoire; another will have some golden nuggets from the Kingsway Printers Cleethorpes Band, and there will be some tempting clusters as band and choir unite. Tickets cost £10 for front circle, £8 for back circle and £6 for stalls. They can be bought from Central Hall box office, call 01472 355025.  - Caistor will be packed with festive cheer next weekend as the annual Christmas tree festival gets underway. Organised by Caistor Parish Church, the event will take place from Friday, December 7, to Monday, December 10, at the Parish Church. All proceeds are for the church and St Andrew's Children's Hospice. For more information, call 01472 851001.  - The Caistor Christmas gift and food fair will take place on Saturday, December 8 from 10am to 4pm at Caistor Town Hall and Market Place. Festive food, hand-made jewellery, trees and decorations, meet Father Christmas, lots of crafty gifts, sweets and treats. For more details call 01472 851679.  - A festive carol service will take place on the village green in Barnoldby-le-Beck at 6pm on Saturday, December 8. All residents are invited to attend and are asked to bring a torch and wrap up warmly. A collection will be taken for St Helen's Church.
- Do you fancy taking the kids to meet Santa, learning how to make that perfect Christmas floral centre piece – and get some money off the shopping too? Then get to Pennell's garden centre on Tuesday, December 4, where from 5pm you can do all that and more, while raising money for local branches of Mind and the Motor Neurone Association. Admission is £2 for adults or £1 for children. Visits to Santa – including a toy – are £5.  - The Grimsby and District Electronic Organ Society will hold its December Concert – Mince Pie Night – on Wednesday, December 5. It will take place at the Cromwell Banqueting Suite, Kings Road, Cleethorpes. Guest Organist will be Andrew Nix, and the music begins at 7.30pm. Admission costs £8 for guests, £1 for members, with annual membership details on request. Refreshments – including mince pies – are available, and there will be a raffle. More information is available on 01472 316936.  - A beauty salon is helping make wishes come true this Christmas. Staff at Beauty Barn, in Bargate, Grimsby, will be raffling a hamper of the finest creams and treatments worth £150 to raise money for When You Wish Upon A Star. Tickets will be available at the salon's shopping evening on Wednesday, December 5, from 4pm to 8pm. Tickets will cost £1. For more, call 01472 357333.  - Parkway Cinema in Cleethorpes is hosting a festive musical spectacular with all the trimmings. It's Bloomin' Christmas Again, the second annual Cleethorpes In Bloom Christmas Concert is taking place on Thursday, December 6. The show will include performances of classic songs from the big West End musicals as well as rousing renditions of Christmas carols. Returning for this year's show are classical singers Leroy Vickers and Martin Jackson, and the Kingsway Printers Cleethorpes Band, while appearing for the first time are the Louth Male Voice Choir and 17-year-old soprano Jodie Watson. Compere for the evening will be Compass FM presenter Richard Lyon. Tickets for It's Bloomin' Christmas Again are £12.50 and £11.50 for concessions, and are available online at www.parkwaycinemas.co.uk, by calling on 01472 290100 or in person from the Parkway Cinema in Kings Road, Cleethorpes.  - Carols by Candlelight at the Grimsby Minster is on Thursday December 6, at 6pm in St James' Square. Entry is free.  - Christmas is coming early to Grimsby's Abbeygate. On Thursday, December 6, there will be entertainment from St Martin's School Choir, Earth Bound Misfits, A&M Freedom Freestyle Dance Academy, celebrity guest appearances and a charity Christmas Wish Tree from 5pm to 7.30pm. There will also be hot roast sandwiches, mulled wine and mince pies.  - Acclaimed West End actor James Hyland, brings his unique stage adaptation of the classic Charles Dickens novel to the Ropery Hall, Barton, in the run up to Christmas. The production on Thursday, December 6, begins at 7.30pm and tickets cost £10 in advance or £12 on the door. They can be booked online at www.roperyhall.co.uk, by phone on 01652 660380 or in person at Ropery Hall's Craft Gallery. Parental discretion is advised for children under seven.  - TV's 'Queen of Clean' Kim Woodburn takes the role of the Wicked Stepmother in this year's blockbuster pantomime at the Grimsby Auditorium. Be transported into the mystical, magical land of fairy godmothers, 2 very ugly sisters, a lovable Buttons to pull on your heart strings, a dashing prince and of course the beautiful Cinderella. Watch as Cinderella is transformed into a dazzling princess before going to the ball. Along with the exquisite costumes, real ponies and a multitude of pulsating pop songs, you will not want to miss this year's show. Performances start on Friday, December 7 and continue until Boxing Day. Tickets are £16 for adults and £12.50 for children and concessions. To book call 0844 871 3016  - The Orpheus Male Voice Choir are joined by the Kingsway Printers Cleethorpes Band for an evening of seasonal entertainment on Saturday, December 8 at 7.30pm at Grimsby Central Hall. Christmas is never complete without a selection box and this one will be full of musical delights. One layer will have choice numbers from the Orpheus' repertoire; another will have some golden nuggets from the Kingsway Printers Cleethorpes Band, and there will be some tempting clusters as band and choir unite. Tickets cost £10 for front circle, £8 for back circle and £6 for stalls. They can be bought from Central Hall box office, call 01472 355025.  - Caistor will be packed with festive cheer next weekend as the annual Christmas tree festival gets underway. Organised by Caistor Parish Church, the event will take place from Friday, December 7, to Monday, December 10, at the Parish Church. All proceeds are for the church and St Andrew's Children's Hospice. For more information, call 01472 851001.  - The Caistor Christmas gift and food fair will take place on Saturday, December 8 from 10am to 4pm at Caistor Town Hall and Market Place. Festive food, hand-made jewellery, trees and decorations, meet Father Christmas, lots of crafty gifts, sweets and treats. For more details call 01472 851679.  - A festive carol service will take place on the village green in Barnoldby-le-Beck at 6pm on Saturday, December 8. All residents are invited to attend and are asked to bring a torch and wrap up warmly. A collection will be taken for St Helen's Church.
