All over the country, people are gathering in warm halls and community centres to repair their Christmas clutter for free, share tea and cake, and feel, well, human again. McAlley cares deeply about the movement and the way it cuts waste during a season that often encourages the opposite. The city’s designer Christmas trees, now in their fourth year, showcase its Unesco City of Design status without felling a single fir. “We kind of made an instrument out of instruments,” Forbes says. Making a wreath is a way to celebrate what the season is giving us.” Main image: cottonbro studio