Rochester Santa Fun Run fundraises for charity

The annual Christmas fun run raises money for Macmillan Cancer Support. Daisy Page reports.

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00:00Santas have filled the streets of Rochester as the Thomas Avings School hosts its annual

00:07festive fundraiser. Students put on their best red bobble hats and walk or run to raise

00:12money for Macmillan Cancer Support.

00:14We raised thousands of pounds over 12 years for Macmillan Cancer Support. We've been

00:19supporting them now for 12 years and we feel like we need to carry on supporting them to

00:22carry on their brilliant work. We've had 85 students run this today and they've done

00:27such an amazing job. Like I said earlier, this is a charity that's really close to

00:31our heart, Macmillan, and a lot of our families have been supported by that.

00:35The Santas behind me are walking and running through Rochester to raise awareness for the

00:39charity that supports people living with cancer and their loved ones.

00:43And their work doesn't stop there. They provide a vast range of information and campaign to

00:49influence decision makers on cancer-related policies.

00:52The Santa Fun Run supports the work that they do, and each student taking part is helping

00:57to make a difference one step at a time.

01:00Students get so much out of this. It's one of the biggest events that we do at Thomas

01:03Aveline for Resolute House and it really connects with some of them because a lot of their maybe

01:10parents or grandparents have had help from the charity Macmillan and they really love

01:16to support it and they get really excited about it as well.

01:19After filling the streets with Christmas spirit and sprinting to the finish line, how

01:23do the students feel?

01:24Tired.

01:25Very tired.

01:26We walked.

01:27Did a bit of both really.

01:28We walked mostly.

01:29But what does it really mean to the students to support the chosen charity?

01:33It's important because there's people suffering out there that this money will help to go

01:38towards because it will help them and it's easier for us just to go out running where

01:43it's not easy for them to get better with a click of the fingers so the money helps

01:47them get better.

01:48Doing something that you like whilst doing something to help others as well so that's

01:51really nice.

01:52It's good. Cancer affects so many people. If you can raise as much money as possible

01:55just to help that little bit more it's really good.

01:58It's very good and I think it's like because we're raising money for charity so it's very

02:04heartwarming.

02:05Well it's just, it helps. It's really important that we should be supporting into these things

02:11and I think we should do a bunch more.

02:12What will you be doing to share Christmas cheer this season?

02:16Cheering!

02:18Daisy Page for KMTV.