What is Santa's Season of Goodwill?
Like every year in December not only do we do unique, memorable, intimate Santa Home Visits, but we endeavour to make Christmas a little bit special for some families and do some acts of kindness for local charities.
These range from special visits giving gifts and making memories to some families that have had a particularly difficult year. We have also done visits to the NI Childrens Hospice and done Food Shops for the Newtownabbey Food Bank.
All of this is possible through the kindness of donations and our fundraising raffles.
In 2022 we raised around £1200 through a fundraising raffle with some great prizes. This was used to get gifts for 6 special family visits, a £500 Newtownabbey Food Bank Shop and gifts for the children at the NI Childrens Hospice.
2023 fundraising raffle was extremely ambitious as we are set a target of £3,000 in order to help make memories for over 10 families with home visits including gifts for all, a Newtownabbey Food Bank Shop, Gifts for the NI Childrens Hospice, a special donation and visit to Claires Creature Comforts and a £500 Toy Shop for the Community Toy Drive at The Listening Ear. This target was reached and pretty much blown away as the donation to the NI Childrens Hospice was combine with local UDR & RIR Veterans and Santander to bring a total donation of £2000 to them. Santa also had the pleasure of meeting Daithi at the Hospice who was a right little character.
100% 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘺 𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘚𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘢'𝘴 𝘚𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘎𝘰𝘰𝘥𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭. 𝘕𝘖 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦 "𝘊𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘖𝘳𝘨𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘴", 𝘕𝘖 𝘛𝘳𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦.
Season of Goodwill 2024
This years fundraising will be focusing on "ONE NIGHT with SANTA & FRIENDS". Money raised from this event will go into the Season of Goodwill pot which will be split between a NI Children's Hospice Donation, donation to Kilcreggan Homes Mid Ulster Sanctuary, a shop for the Newtownabbey Food Bank and toys for the Community Toy Drive. It will also go towards making some special memories for the special visits Santa does also.
Tickets will go on sale in September!
The "ONE NIGHT with SANTA & FRIENDS" event will take place on 30th November at The Standard. Entertainment from Christine Surgenor, Jim Clarke as Erasure, Robert Herdman the comedy Hypnotist and Santa will be singing also. Raffles and fundraising cards will be on tables. There will also be the chance to get your photo with Santa!
Tickets now on sale. Message to get them.