Track Santa as He Heads Out on Tour!
He’s makin’ a list, checkin’ it twice, Gonna find out who’s naughty and nice, Santa Claus is Coming to Town!
Once again March Lions Club with the help of the Rotary Club of March are working together to take Santa on a tour of the streets of March.
All the money raised this year will support YPM – Young People March whose goal is to provide a safe and cared for environment in which 7 to 25 year olds can access positive experiences to enrich and capacitate their successful transition from childhood to adulthood. They are open six days a week offering drop in sessions targeted at a wide range of different groups. Alternatively, or indeed as well, we will be collecting unopened tins or packets of food with long best before dates for donation to March Foodbank. If you could please have these donations ready in a bag for volunteers to collect, it would be appreciated.
The dates we are going to be out and about March are:
Thursday 4th Dec – Berryfield, Dagless Way then County Rd, Norwalde Street, Robingoodfellows Lane, Acacia Grove, Ash Grove, Maple Grove, Robingoodfellows Lane, Regent Avenue, Hereward Street, Cromwell Road
Monday 8th Dec – Cavalry Park from The Avenue end, Worsley Chase, Kelsey Way, Fleetwood Close, Cavalry Drive, Fairfax Way, Cavalry Drive, Suffolk Way, Bretton Avenue, Hunter’s Chase and Cavalry Drive up to Upwell Rd mini roundabout.
Wednesday 10th Dec – Burrowmoor Road starting near the Police Station, Birchwood Avenue, Brewin Avenue, Cherrywood Avenue, Cherryholt Avenue, Ellingham Avenue, Gaul Road, Turnbull Road, Riverbank Close, Gaul Road, and Oxbow Crescent.
Tuesday 16th Dec – Creek Road, Foxglove Way, The Parks, Riverdown, Creek Road, St John’s Road and St John’s Chase.
Thursday 18th Dec – Eastwood Avenue, Upwell Road, Green Street, Asplin Avenue, Smith’s Drive, Papworth Avenue, Badgeney Road, Mallard Way and Badgeney Road finishing at the Co-Op.
Monday 22nd Dec – Elliott Road, Yarrow Close, Truman Avenue, Elliott Road, Peas Hill Road, Russell Avenue, Peyton Avenue, Russell Avenue, Norwood Road, Gresley Way, Southwell Close and Norwood Road finishing at Wisbech Road mini-roundabout.
We will also be stopping by Broad Street, near to the War Memorial, on December 24th between 9:30am and 12pm!
This year you can again track Santa’s live location and donate online! Detailed routes and a link to the tracker will be posted on our Facebook page, or you can visit march-lions.org.uk/santa for more information about this.
Each night we aim to be starting at about 6pm and to finish no later than 7:30pm.
If you miss us on our travels, March Lions will also be collecting with the sleigh for our Charitable Fund at Sainsbury’s on Saturday 13th December and Tesco on Saturday 20th December between 9am and 3pm.
We are also counting down the days until we unveil our overhauled sleigh – Santa’s elves are working hard to have the sleigh ready and we can’t wait to see what they have been up to!!
So why not come out and give Santa a wave.
We hope we will see you somewhere on our routes.
What is Santa on Tour?
Each December, March Lions (with the help of our friends at March Rotary Club) takes Santa and his sleigh on a tour of March, whilst also collecting for local charities nominated by each club. In recent years we have raised over £7,000 for charities including:
- BREAK
- CAMSAR (Cambridgeshire Search and Rescue)
- Parkinson’s UK
- Young People March
- 20Twenty Productions
- Christians Against Poverty
- MIND
- Papworth Hospital
- The Fen Tigers
- The Fenland Music Centre Association
- The East Anglian Air Ambulance
- No Gain No Pain UK
March Lions also helps Santa visit the local supermarkets on the Saturdays in December to collect for the club’s charitable funds. These funds are donated to charities locally, nationally, and internationally throughout the year.