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Over 1,000 Santas descend on central London
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12/15/2024
Around 1,200 cycling Santas descended on central London on Saturday (Dec 14) adding a splash of colour to the capital as part of a fundraising event to support a children’s charity.
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Around 1,200 cycling Santas descended on central London on Saturday, adding a splash of colour
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to the capital as part of a fundraising event to support a children's charity.
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Onlookers gazed on in amazement as the army of Santas cycled down Paul Mall towards Buckingham
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Palace.
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Dressed in red Santa suits, some as elves with faces painted green, they toured the
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capital to collect money.
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The event marked the 10th edition of annual Santa Cruz, set up by BMX cycling enthusiast
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Stéphane Wright, who got the idea for the event after receiving support from the ECHO
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charity after his son was hospitalised after suffering a heart attack aged only six months.
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Originally, this was started ten years ago, Tommy was in hospital, he had been hospitalised
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due to a near-fatal heart attack, when I was in hospital we received charity from ECHO
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in the form of somewhere to stay up in London, and this was just me paying it forward, I
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wanted to do something for the charity, and so we decided to do a ride out just for Christmas
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time in aid of that, and it grew each year from there, that was in 2014, there was 200
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people on that ride, there's probably 1,200 on this ride, it's grown organically every
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single year.
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On London's Oxford Street, the cycling Santas squeezed past London black cabs and buses
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standing out from the crowd of pre-Christmas shoppers on one of the busiest days of the
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year.
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