Santa Sleigh 2016
Posted by on 7 November 2016
On the 13th December the club for its fifth year will join the Beeston Round from 6pm in its annual Santa Sleigh bringing joy to the local community and to collect funds for local charities and good causes.
The club members are invited to join in the collection which meets on Banks Road/Sandown Junction from 6pm.
Please see below more information on how the funds collected are distributed:
Beeston Round Table have been bringing the joys of Christmas to the streets of Beeston, Chilwell, Stapleford, Bramcote, Toton, Beeston Rylands and Attenborough for the past 30 years, and 2016 will be no different. This is a big highlight locally and is enjoyed by the children and the Grown-ups alike.
Members of Beeston Round Table take to the streets with their Santa Sleigh during the Christmas festive period, this year from the 29th November to the 15th December in a bid to raise money from the local community, which is then re-distributed to worthy local causes in the community. We couldn’t do this alone and so invite local community groups to assist each evening, by helping each group receive a donation; at special presentation evening in January.
Last Year Beeston Round Table collected a record breaking £7500, covering an estimated 70 miles over 13 nights in our local community, all our members give time for free to make this achievable.
We have an established Facebook Page; we have a live Beeston Round Table Santa Sleigh tracker for each of the routes so the public knows exactly where we are on any given evening.
As well as the Santa Sleigh runs we also collect food at a local Sainsbury’s store in Beeston, from this 1 day collection, we make up 100 xmas hampers which are then distributed to the elderly in our community, within the hampers is also an invitation to attend an all inclusive xmas dinner in January, supplied and put on by the members of Beeston Round Table, we also provide a vintage singer and bingo and raffle on the day.
Mr Oscar Austin, the current Chairman of Beeston Round Table said “This year we have had a local community group assist in upgrading the Sleigh and we are aiming to collect and beat last years takings, which only means that we are able to support more local projects within our community”.
