Monarch launches search for Santa
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Yorkshire children supported by ten charities and organisations across the region last week went on a search for Santa in the sky, marking the start of the festive season with Monarch and Leeds Bradford Airport.
More than 150 children, their carers and parents joined the special ‘Search for Santa’ flight. Beforehand, there was a children’s party in the Yorkshire Premier Lounge with face painters and a magician entertaining the guests before they boarded the flight. Staff from across the airport dressed in costumes to ensure there was plenty of Christmas cheer throughout the fun packed day.
Once in the air, the Monarch flight soared above the Yorkshire landscape and coastline and Santa made a surprise appearance so everyone could have a sing-a-long together and on arrival back into Leeds Bradford Airport Santa gave gifts to all of the children.
Pauline Prow, chair of the Monarch Foundation, said: “We are delighted to be working with Leeds Bradford Airport again this year on the Search for Santa flight that helps make Christmas extra special for remarkable children and their families. Our teams on the ground and in the air have loved making it a day to remember for everyone including those families from our Monarch Foundation charities – Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity, Macmillan Cancer Support and Blind Veterans UK. The children really are an inspiration to all the Monarch teams involved.”
The charities and organisations taking part were:
- NHS Leeds Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust
• Martin House Children’s Hospice
• Multiflight and guests from Children’s Heart Surgery Fund and Yorkshire Country Cricket Club
• Reuben’s Retreat
• One In A Million
• Cancer Research UK
• Bradford City FC and invited guests from Bradford Teaching Hospitals
• Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity
• Blind Veterans UK
• Macmillan Cancer Support
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