This amazing charity event will take place on Saturday 9th December 2023 and we are so lucky that it comes right through Saundersfoot and other local villages.
Here’s the information from the organisers:
Charities to benefit this year are Firefighters Charity & Bowel Cancer UK.
We cannot give exact destination times as from past experience delays for various reasons have happened.
However, the convoy will definitely leave Folly Farm overflow car park at 5:30pm to give the best chance of the convoy hitting places at estimated times.
A rough guide of the route:
From Folly farm car park down to the A477 roundabout, down to Sageston roundabout, back up Gumfreston road to Tenby, down Marsh Road into Tenby, around Tenby one way past the fire station and back down Park Road. Out of Tenby via The Maudlins out to New Hedges. Through New Hedges village, down Broadfield, continuing down St Brides hill, through Saundersfoot. Continue out of Saundersfoot down to St Issells church where the convoy will go up the hill and loop round through Coppett Hall and back into Saundersfoot coming past the Royal Oak. The convoy will then go back through the village and exit Saundersfoot via Sandyhill Road where it will then turn right at the main road and continue onto Pentlepoir and onwards.
Our estimated time coming into Saundersfoot is between 6:15 & 6:30pm.
The plan for Santa’s sleigh is that it will be in the middle of the convoy and will break off from the convoy in Saundersfoot at the top of Milford Street, come down past the Kookaba and then turn onto and park on Cambrian Terrace as discussed whilst the convoy proceeds around the village. We estimate the sleigh will be parked up for about 15-20mins. It will then rejoin the convoy when it is coming back through the village to leave with the rest of the convoy.
With regards to donations, there will be collectors stationed in the village with buckets before the convoy arrives and also for some time after the convoy has been through the village. They will go into the pubs/shops etc around the village to collect any donations from the public. However, if any businesses in the village would like to make any larger donations then they can either donate cash at a later date or write out a cheque to Kilgetty and Begelly Tractor Run. All money will then be totalled and donated between the two charities at a later date.
Pembrokeshire Christmas Convoy has it’s own Facebook page which can be accessed by clicking here.
Don’t miss out on this fabulous event, it’s a real spectacle, and please support the charity fund raising by popping a few coins in the collection buckets! Thank you.
