Christmas Trees at the Portal 2025

Seagate Rotary again held the "Christmas Trees at the Portal" project during Christmas 2025. The idea was to brighten up Christmas in Irvine and bring together various businesses, schools, and local organisations.

Local businesses and organisations were asked to sponsor a tree. Twenty-seven trees were put on display. Each tree had a standard placard ‘organised by Rotary’ with an area for each sponsor’s name. Sponsors were offered the chance to bring their brand to public attention and/or to give a community group the opportunity to decorate a tree. The tree dressers were challenged to be inventive, to do things that will bring smiles to faces, to surprise people, to impress people.

A Sponsors Evening was hosted on Wednesday 10th December where our sponsors and tree decorators enjoyed mince pies & coffee while being entertained by musicians from Irvine Folk Club. Past President Hugh Hutchison thanked them all for their support and explained how their donations would go to help various local organisations & charities.

The public were asked to vote for their "Favourite Tree". The winner was 1st Irvine Boys Brigade with Irvine Lasses Burns Club the runner-up

The Trees were on display from 27th November 2025 to 7th January 2026.