The streets of Stockport will be filled with a little extra Christmas cheer this year after Vantage Hyundai Stockport announced a new partnership with Santa to supercharge his sleigh.
Vantage has provided the Rotary Club of Stockport Lamplighter with a specially decorated van to tow ‘Santa’s sleigh’ around the town for the club’s annual Christmas charity collections throughout December.
Pictured left: Bernadette Holgate, President and Chair of Fundraising, Tony Ashurst and at the Rotary Club of Stockport Lamplighter, and Paul Sharp, Centre Principal at Vantage Hyundai Stockport.
Santa visited the dealership on Saturday (29th November) to pick up the keys to his new ‘reindeer’, a Hyundai iLoad, which will carry Santa and his sleigh on a journey to fundraise for local charities.
For the past thirty years, at Christmas time, members and friends of The Rotary Club of Stockport Lamplighter have collected for local charities, raising a total of £23,000 over the last three years alone. Those who have recently benefited from the fundraising include Beechwood Cancer Care, Stockport Cerebral Palsy and numerous local children’s charities and primary schools.
Paul Sharp, Centre Principal of Vantage Hyundai Stockport, said:
“Christmas is a time for giving and sharing with those less fortunate than ourselves. We’ve known about the fantastic work of the Rotary Club of Stockport Lamplighter for some time and we are delighted to be able to contribute in any way we can. We hope that the decorated van helps the Rotary Club to achieve even greater success in their fundraising efforts this year.
“They raise money for a variety of wonderful causes and I’m looking forward to being around Stockport and spotting Santa’s specially supercharged sleigh!”
Bernadette Holgate, Chair of Fundraising at the Rotary Club of Stockport Lamplighter said:
“We can’t thank Paul and Vantage enough for providing us with this van to pull Santa’s sleigh for 2014. We’ve been doing this for a long time and Vantage’s contribution has ensured that this year’s collections have a particularly festive flavour.”
Santa and his Vantage powered sleigh can be seen across Stockport throughout December, including on Bridge Street in Stockport town centre on the 6th, 7th, 20th, 21st and 23rd
Morrisons’ Bredbury on the 2nd, 13th, 14th and 18th
and will be making door-to-door collections across the Four Heatons and Cherry Tree Estate Romiley.
Over the past year Vantage Motor Group’s turnover has grown from £65m to more than £200m and the group has increased its number of sites from seven in Yorkshire and Lancashire to 19 across the North of England and the West Midlands. The group employs 400 people.