Bristol’s Santa Float cancelled for 2024

The organisers of the Santa’s Christmas Float say it will not take place this December for what would have been its fifth year.

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00:00A popular Santa float that runs through Bath, Somerset and Bristol has been cancelled this

00:07Christmas. The organisers of the Santa's Christmas float say it will not take place

00:13this December for what would have been its fifth year in the city. The float raises money

00:19for charities, including more than £15,000 for Suicide Prevention UK, but in a statement

00:27on Facebook, the organisers of the Santa's float said, there is too much red tape to

00:33carry on. 2023 saw two floats come through the city of Bristol. The first was the original

00:42Santa's float which raised money for Wallace and Gromit's Grand Appeal and Time is Precious

00:47and Santa's float 2023 which raised funds for Suicide Prevention Bristol. But 2024 will

00:54see no Santa's floats this Christmas in Bristol.