Community and Charity
STATION CHILDREN’S CHRISTMAS PARTY DEC 2021 Jan Holdsworth, SCSC, Community Support Team
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t last it was that time again! On Thursday 9th December we held our Station Children’s Christmas Party in the TCC. It was so lovely to be celebrating Christmas all together and get back to some form of normality after the tricky previous 18 months.
After some dancing and games, we had Xmas food in abundance, chicken nuggets and Christmas Tree Potato shapes and the adults had turkey and gammon rolls with all the normal Christmas Nibbles. Suddenly, we got a message that Santa was arriving, so we had everyone gathered outside
On arrival everyone had to make their way through a snowstorm (albeit not real snow!) in the entrance to the Community Centre which the Children absolutely loved. All our guests were welcomed by the Community Support Team with Christmas biscuits and juice for the children, a little warming Mulled Wine for the adults. We had the wonderful Dan Blaze who entertained the children with games and dancing. We had the photobooth which everyone loved and was a huge hit.
to see him arrive on a little carriage drawn by the very special Binksy the Shetland Pony (Rudolf in disguise!). Once the excitement had died down every child had the chance to go and visit Santa, who not only came for a sneaky early visit but also bought the children an early Christmas gift and a Selection Box. I am not sure that any of the chocolate bars in them managed to make their way home. The Children were over the moon to see Santa
and we are so grateful to him for coming to visit us early and allow the children
to have their photo taken with him on his carriage. To see the Children’s smiles and excitement is amazing and it gives us such pleasure seeing them so happy. 16
As you know these events take an awful lot of time to plan, so a huge thank you for the support of volunteers, Craig Makin, Victoria Taylor, Mandy Masters, Megan Davies, Rachel Munday, Michelle Corolla and Michelle Wright. An additional thank you must go to Meg Wickett, the CDO and Binksy the Shetland Pony from RAF Benson for providing Santa with transport and of course the amazing DJ Dan Blaze. Thank you to Gemma Hough who only started as our HIVE Information Officer that day – so it was a true baptism of fire. Well, that is it from me for now… till the next issue have fun and if you cannot be anything else in life be kind to each other. Mainpoint Spring 2022
