Over 1,000 Santas descend on central London

The Manila Times

Over 1,000 Santas descend on central London  Around 1,200 cycling Santas descended on central London on Saturday, December 14, adding a splash of color to the capital as part of a fundraising event to support a children’s charity.  Onlookers gazed on in amazement as the army of Santas cycled down Pall Mall towards Buckingham Palace. Dressed in red Santa suits, some as elves with faces painted green, they toured the capital to collect money.  The event marked the 10th edition of annual Santa cruise, set up by BMX cycling enthusiast Stephane Wright, who got the idea for the event after receiving support from the Echo charity after his son was hospitalized after suffering a heart attack aged only six months.  REUTERS VIDEO  Subscribe to The Manila Times Channel - https://tmt.ph/YTSubscribe  Visit our website at https://www.manilatimes.net    Follow us:  Facebook - https://tmt.ph/facebook  Instagram - https://tmt.ph/instagram  Twitter - https://tmt.ph/twitter  DailyMotion - https://tmt.ph/dailymotion    Subscribe to our Digital Edition - https://tmt.ph/digital  Sign up to our newsletters: https://tmt.ph/newsletters   Check out our Podcasts:  Spotify - https://tmt.ph/spotify  Apple Podcasts - https://tmt.ph/applepodcasts  Amazon Music - https://tmt.ph/amazonmusic  Deezer: https://tmt.ph/deezer  Tune In: https://tmt.ph/tunein   #themanilatimes #worldnews #christmas #london

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00:00They've got flares as well, but I don't know if we're going to...

00:27Originally, this was started ten years ago. Tommy was in hospital. He had been hospitalised

00:52due to a near-fatal heart attack. When I was in hospital, we received charity from ECHO

00:59in the form of somewhere to stay up in London. This was just me paying it forward. I wanted

01:04to do something for the charity.

01:15And so we decided to do a ride-out just for Christmas time in aid of that, and it grew

01:18each year from there. That was in 2014. There was 200 people on that ride. There's probably

01:231,200 on this ride. It's grown organically every single year.

02:48The public today in London have been very, very good. They've dug deep, and they've been

03:05very, very generous, but it's just a nice little stop towards the end of the day now.

03:11It's been really, really good to see everyone.

03:41It's been really, really good.

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