Winter Festival Raises More Than $45K For Local Nonprofits

The 2019 Lambertvville-New Hope Winter Festival raised a record-setting sum that was donated to local nonprofits, according to festival organizers.

Organizers announced they were able to donate more than $45,700 raised during this year's event. "This has been our best year ever," organizers said in an announcement on the festival website.

Since its inception, the Winter Festival has raised $511,569 for community nonprofits. This year's festival was the 22nd annual event.

Held each year in late January, the festival features a variety of events, including concerts, dinners, historic walks, pub crawls, and the popular Chili Cook-Off at Triumph Brewery.

Proceeds from the 2019 event were donated to the following organizations:Fisherman’s Mark Food Pantry; Solebury Township Parks and Recreation; Lambertville Recreation Commission; New Hope Park and Recreation; Bucks County Audubon Society; Central Bucks EMS; New Hope Eagle Fire Company; Friends of the Delaware Canal; Delaware River Towns Chamber of Commerce; Lambertville Historical Society; Lambertville Fire Department; Lambertville Police Department; Lambertville-New Hope Ambulance & Rescue Squad; Music Mountain Theatre; New Hope Celebrates; New Hope Historical Society; New Hope Chamber of Commerce; New Hope Police Department; Lambertville-New Hope Rotary; New Hope-Solebury School District Scholarship Fund; Solebury Police Department; Sister Cities Tours; South Hunterdon School District Scholarship Fund; and The Free Library of New Hope and Solebury.