Secretary Mike reports that starting in 1985 the Round Table’s Sleigh has toured the streets of Scarborough and surrounding districts for 10 nights every December except when this was not possible because of the nationwide lockdowns in the time of Covid.
The sleigh has for many years been used to collect Santa from the harbour and deliver him to Boyes Store in Queen Street and to take him to visit the primary school in Barrowcliff to give out presents to the school children donated by the school authorities.
The sleigh has been rebuilt and continually maintained initially by members of Round Table and more recently by members of 41 Club who also paid for the last rebuild 5 years ago.
Sadly this year due primarily to the dwindling number of members in Round Table it was decided to operate for 5 nights only but still collect Santa from the harbour and visit Barrowcliffe school. Despite the reduction in the number of nights the sleigh was operational even in these high cost of living times Santa’s Elves still managed to collect £2,151. A record result!
Thanks to those members of 41 Club who gave up their evenings to enable the sleigh to operate and as a result had the chance to witness the happy smiling faces on the hundreds of children who came out to see Santa many of whom handed him their Christmas list of presents they hoped to receive.
Like all successful events the sleigh requires a lot of hard work behind the scenes the majority of which has been done for the past 25 years by our own Ben Kitto (or Rudolf as he is known to Santa).
Merry Christmas
Santa
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