Father Christmas heading to Ryedale on annual tour
Father Christmas’s tour will start at the Pickering Christmas lights switch-on on Saturday 3 December.
After that, Santa will be speeding off around the towns and villages of north Ryedale to make it a Christmas to remember for hundreds of children who come out to see him.
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Hide AdSanta’s elves from the Lions Club will be with the sleigh and collecting door-to- door in its biggest fund-raising event of the year for local charities, hoping to top the record £8,000 collected last year.
Money raised will go to help St Catherine’s Hospice, Marie Curie Cancer Care and Ryedale Special Families, plus other local good causes.
Ryedale Lions organiser Brian Johnson said: “The smiles on the faces of so many children meeting Santa make it a great night to remember and the money that local people donate will make it a better New Year for many others in need locally.”
Full details of Ryedale Lions Santa sleigh schedule (subject to weather) are:
Saturday 3 December
Pickering switch-on 4.30pm
Sunday 4 December
Helmsley (South) 4pm
Helmsley (North) 6.30pm
Monday 5 December
Rosedale 5pm
Cropton 5.40pm
Wrelton 6.30pm
Middleton 7.40pm
Tuesday 6 December
Beadlam 5.30pm
Nawton 6.45pm
Kirkbymoorside (Lund Lane and Parkers Mount) 7.45pm
Wednesday 7 December
Appleton 5.30pm
Spaunton 6.10pm
Lastingham 6.40pm
Hutton 7.20pm
Keldholme 8.10pm
Thursday 8 December
Oswaldkirk 5.30pm
Ampleforth 6.50pm
Friday 9 December
Thornton Dale 5pm
Saturday 10 December
Kirkbymoorside (East) 5pm
Sunday 11 December
Pickering (South West) 4pm
Pickering (East) 6.30pm
Monday 12 December
Nunnington 5.30pm
Harome 6.30pm
Wombleton 7.50pm
Wednesday 14 December
Wilton 5.45pm
Allerston 6.30pm
Ebberston 7.30pm
Thursday 15 December
Salton 5.30pm
Normanby 6.10pm
Marton 6.50pm
Sinnington 7.30pm
Friday 16 December
Pickering (North) 5.30pm
Saturday 17 December
Pickering Market Place 11am – 2pm
Kirkbymoorside (West) 5.15pm
Sunday 18 December
Gillamoor 5.40pm
Fadmoor 6.20pm
Great Edstone 7pm