Heather Bellamy spoke with Francis Goodwin from churchads.net

Francis: Well the best one to go to is "Christmas Starts With Christ", that's www.christmasstartswithchrist.com - and you get all of the posters, the radio ads and then there's a whole series of other resources as well, which we constantly update, of how you can use the campaign in your area. You can use the logo, take the logo - everything's free, as I said. Take the logo, put it on your hymn sheets, put it on your fliers that you put door to door and be part of a bigger movement that's running through the country: to remind people that Christmas does start with Christ.

Heather: And just looking at the issue of Christmas a little wider than simply the adverts, in previous years there have been moves by a number of councils in the UK to change the name of Christmas to things like Winterfest, so do you feel it's still appropriate to celebrate Christmas as a nation, when we're so multicultural?

Francis: Absolutely. In fact, if you look at other faiths, they're all very happy for the Christians to celebrate Christmas and they like to join in as well. I don't really think there's a major move to turn it into Winterval or whatever - but there is definitely a growing secularisation of Christmas. Shops have Christmas materials in very early. The first ad I think appeared in July for Christmas. And there's a tendency to think it's just about the presents and the office party and the food that you're going to buy. So we need to remind people that it's not just about that and there's a higher meaning to it.

Heather: So what does Christmas mean to you?

Francis: Well, obviously it's a celebration for me: the birth of Christ; it's time with the family; it's a time to have fun like everybody else does, food and drink is important as well. But I have a year-round Christmas because we're all volunteers, so we only have a certain amount of time, so Christmas for me starts in January. We have a meeting in January, a 24-hour meeting with all the team, there's about 15 of us, and we go away for 24 hours and we discuss what happened in the year before and we start the planning for the following year. So Christmas 2015 starts in mid-January for me. It's a long run.

Heather: It sounds it!

Francis: It's still special - I still go to Mass on Christmas Eve and I still get the same sense of wonder that other people do.