Santa will be taking to the streets of Farsley on Thursday 14th December to once again raise funds and to collect door-to-door food donations for our local food bank!
This year we'll be raising money for Pudsey Community Project; a local charitable organisation started from Pudsey Parish Church to provide community, youth and poverty resources for Pudsey and the immediately surrounding area.
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Online Donations
If you would like to support this year’s Christmas Appeal we'd love for you to donate any amount you can online in advance to Pudsey Community Project via our Give As You Live fundraising page! All donations go towards helping PCP stock their Food Bank and keep up the essential work they do in the community!Farsley Light Switch On
Leading up to the event you can also drop food off at our stall which will be outside Saint Jude on Wednesday 29th November.
Collections on the Night
Join us from your door steps on the evening of the 15th December to hand Santa your tinned and packaged goods as he passes by! Click the link below for ideas of the kind of things the Food Bank would like!Click here to view our map of the route - plus Santa’s Shopping List!
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Would you like to join us on the evening of the 14th December to help collect donations?
You’ll need to be able to walk for a bit of a distance (we do the tour of Farsley on foot) and ideally you’ll be happy to look as festive as possible!The Food Drive will start around 5pm and finish around 8pm, feel free to join us for some or all of the route!
Fill in our Volunteer form below and we’ll be in touch!
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Would you like Santa to stop off at your house on his route of Farsley on the 14th December to deliver presents to the children in your household?
✨ How to enter the competition…
Follow @FarsleyCommunityProject on Instagram (Grumpy’s Community Page)
Follow @PudseyCommunityProject on Facebook
Leave a online donation to the Food Bank on our Give as You Live page (no amount is too small - and greatly appreciated!)
Fill in the form below so we can contact you if you win.
We’ll be contactcting 4 lucky winners on Monday 11th December!
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We’d like to ensure that everyone volunteering at the Food Drive looks as festive as possible!
Join us in the Weaving Shed at Sunny Bank Mills on Mondays from 6pm - 8pm and get crafty creating fun outfits for the volunteers to wear on the evening!
Plus, we’ll be simultaneously be making Willow Lanterns in Scrap to help turn the Food Drive into a magical parade!
Festive Outfit Making
No experience necessary!You’ll be given a stash of materials, tinsel and lights and let loose with a glue gun, it’s just good festive fun!
Monday 13th November, 6pm - 8pm: The Weaving Shed
Monday 20th November, 6pm - 8pm: The Weaving Shed
Monday 27th November, 6pm - 8pm: The Weaving Shed
Monday 4th December, 6pm - 8pm: The Weaving Shed
Monday 11th December, 6pm - 8pm: The Weaving Shed
Willow Crafting
Help us to create lanterns out of willow to carry during the parade!
This event is self lead and a bit trickier, so suitable for the more experience crafter!
Monday 20th November, 6pm - 8pm: Scrap Reuse Project
Monday 27th November, 6pm - 8pm: Scrap Reuse Project
Monday 4th December, 6pm - 8pm: Scrap Reuse Project
Monday 11th December, 6pm - 8pm: Scrap Reuse Project
No booking needed!
Message us on instagram via @farsleycommunityproject for more info or to say hello!
How it all started.....
Back in December 2020 Grumpy's joined forces with Alaina of Baere Accessories, Sarah Sax from Farsley Fire & Smoke, Matthew Laidler and Paul from Farsley Scaffolding to create a Community Lights Switch On during Lockdown in Farsley.
During the outdoor event Santa took to the streets on the back of Paul's van accompanied by Sarah and her Saxophone to bring some well needed Christmas cheer to the local community during the pandemic.
2022’s Cost of Living Crisis brought the team back together in December to raise funds for vulnerable people in the community, raising over £1300 plus a generous car load of food donations for Leeds North and West Food Bank.
Santa toured the streets in December last year to collect non-perishable food donations door to door. More than 10 locals volunteered on the evening including Councillor Peter Carlill and local artist Steph Heath and her husband Guy.
Many residents joined in with the spirit of the event, waving and cheering Santa and Sarah Sax on from their windows and doorsteps whilst those who had heard the news of the project were waiting with bags of food to kindly donate, all of which were kept safe in two festively decorated vehicles provided and driven by Paul of Rodley Scaffolding and his wife Angela (who also dressed as elves for the evening and personally donated gifts and 170 selection boxes to the project!)
Project organisers Alex and Alaina hope that the event may become an annual tradition in Farsley, growing each year with the success of the last!