For those that havent guessed it yet, YES will still be visiting the boys and girls in Bicester on his sleigh this year!

We have been working hard over the last few weeks, making a list (of COVID safe operations) and checking it twice (with the local authorities) and are pleased to say that we will still be operating our sleigh this year, following our risk assessments to ensure the safety of you the public, our amazing volunteers and the big man himself.

Unfortunately, in order to do this we have had to change some of our long-standing traditions, so you may notice some differences this year...

1 Our famous black jacks and fruit salad sweets will not be handed out this year.

2 We will not be knocking on your door, so please keep your eyes and ears open so that you know we are outside and get chance to see Santa!

3 To reduce the possibilities of crowds forming we will not be advertising our routes each night or using the Santa tracker this year, instead we will be a magical surprise when you see us outside.

If the volunteers on shift notice a crowd forming, we will have no option but to move away from the area immediately which may result in streets being missed out. So we encourage you to stay on your own property as much as possible and embrace the Round Table Space, Wave, Donate initiative.

Our routes start on Wednesday 2nd and run each evening through to Wednesday 23rd December.

Mon Fri we aim to start by 6pm, Saturdays at 5:30pm and Sundays from 4:30pm.

As we are not carrying out door to door collections this year, our fundraising efforts for local charities and worthy causes will naturally be lower than usual.