After hearing the great work our very own, Philip Brown and his friends at the Beeston Round Table are doing in raising money for charities this year, we thought it would be great to use our newsletter to raise awareness. Given the tough year it has been for local people, groups and charities, donations are expected to drop this year due to the pandemic and additional knock-on factors.

We as a company have decided to contribute £500.00 to their collections. If any one would like to donate they can do so by the Paypal link below:

www.paypal.me/Beestonroundtable

If you are in the local area be sure to keep a look out for Santa & his sleigh!

Santa's Coming to town but will be keeping a safe distance.

Beeston Round Table work with local youth and sports groups each year to put on 12 Santa's Sleigh routes to raise money for a range of local charities, youth organisations and Christmas food hampers for local vulnerable, elderly people in the community. In 2019 they raised over £8,000 which along with donating to the above groups, money from it was donated to buy fabric for a local group to turn into PPE used through out the pandemic at the QMC University hospital. In previous years, money from the Santa's Sleigh has been donated to the Air Ambulance Service and local food banks.

Last year the local youth organisations used the donated money to buy new training equipment for the football teams and even fixed a flat roof on a community scout hut.

This year, while they will be still running the Santa's Sleigh routes, the normal youth helper groups won't be able to join them and they will not be knocking on doors. Instead they will be looking to spread Christmas Cheer across Broxtowe, bringing Santa to as many people as possible and asking people to donate online or if comfortable to do so, by standing at the end their driveway to donate by cash or card from a safe distance.

The remaining sleigh routes for 2020 are as follows:

9th December- Chilwell

10th December- Attenborough Village

14th December- Beeston Hillside

15th December- Beeston

16th December- Bramcote

You can see all of the routes and track Santa's location live each night via our Facebook page - Beeston Round Table Santa.

To donate online please visit www.paypal.me/Beestonroundtable