Engaging - The PACE Manningtree quiz night (Image: PACE Manningtree)History - The deep time walk (Image: PACE Manningtree)This year's event involved 42 organisations, presenters and hosts, with more than 550 tickets booked for activities. Festival co-ordinator and PACE Manningtree trustee Halford Hewitt said: “Each year the festival has grown, but this year's response has exceeded all our expectations. Creative - Time and Tide writing workshop (Image: PACE Manningtree)Family - Nature crafts in the grounds of Lawford Hall (Image: PACE Manningtree)“The numbers are encouraging, but what matters most is what they represent. “What makes the Manningtree Earth Festival special is that it isn't something brought in from outside," she said. Although the festival has now ended for another year, PACE Manningtree says it will continue bringing people together through projects supporting nature, the community and local action.