As we move to the Christmas Break, we want to offer a massive THANK YOU! To everyone who braved the cold on Saturday 3rd December and attended our Christmas Lights Switch On.
We were delighted to learn that across the day we had over 8,000 additional visitors to the High Street. That’s back to pre-covid level and we could not be more thrilled.
Over 350 children performed from across the borough on our Main Stage, and live music throughout the day organised by The Sound Lounge on the lower stage near ASDA. Walkabout acts including Naughty and Nice Elves, Stilt Walkers, Circus Workshop, Gingerbread Men and the Grinch entertained up and down the High Street and FREE face painting was on offer throughout the day.
We delivered activities inside our St Nicholas Centre too with pop up dance and singing performances, walk about acts and a FREE circus workshop.
It was a great event to take us into the Festive Season for our High Street and we hope those who came to visit will return and spend some more time with our businesses who fund this event through the BID every year. We deliver this event to drive footfall and interest to our Town Centre and give a pre Christmas boost to our many business members. Given the difficulties of the past couple of years, it was important that this event delivered. With so much coming up for 2023 by way of events and projects to deliver for our district, this was a great day to end 2022 and drives us even more to make next year even better!
Thank you to all our performers
Flying Colours
Joogleberry
Devonshire Primary School
Presto Performing Arts
iSutton
Make Believe Sutton
Grayes Dance Academy
Pure Vibez Dance Academy
Joanne West Dance Academy
Sutton Community Dance
Camp Closet and the absolutely fabulous Laura Vatraction
The wonderful Fayon Dixon for her presenting throughout the day, the Worshipful Mayor of Sutton, Councillor Trish Fivey and last but by no means least the 20 children who won our Design a Christmas Lights competition against 65 other designs and were able to attend and switch the lights on for us.
Name: Rose Kenneally
Age: 5 years old
Name: Cheer Leung
Age: 7 years old
Name: Mukei Choi
Age: 9 years old
Name: Mia Scotney
Age: 10 years old
Name: Effie Lau
Age: 6 years old
Name: Cheffy Lau
Age: 10 years old
Name: Kylie Pang
Age: 6 years old
Name: Aezrielle Valentino
Age: 2.5 years old
Name: Kailey Pang
Age: 8 years old
Name: Dimitar Panayotov
Age: 8 years old
Name: Amber Lo
Age: 8 years old
Name: Alba Lo
Age: 10 years old
Name: Linda (Hau ling pang)
Age: 6 years old
Name: Chin Yau Li
Age: 8 years old
Name: Hannah Chung
Age: 7 years old
Name: Alex Scotney
Age: 6 years old
Name: Atharv Malik
Age: 8 years old
Name: Aadhya Malik
Age: 5 years old
Name: Nicolas Pok Sum Chau
Age: 7 years old
This type of event takes a lot of organisation and running on the day, and we could not have done that without the help of a lot of local businesses and volunteers, so another well deserved thank you to:
The staff and Management at St Nicholas Centre https://www.stnicssutton.co.uk/
Bluelight Security https://www.bluelightgroup.uk/
Man and Van on the Move https://www.facebook.com/ManandVanontheMove/
Just Smile Events https://www.justsmile.co.uk/
LEDhouse https://www.ledhouse.tech/
Samiart https://www.samiart.co.uk/ + https://www.facebook.com/samiartis
Orchard Hill College https://orchardhill.ac.uk/
Sutton MET Police Cadets https://www.met.police.uk/
London Borough of Sutton https://www.sutton.gov.uk/
Cllr Ed Parsley and Cllr Louise Phelan https://www.sutton.gov.uk/
Jeff Richards – Local Legend and organiser of Sutton New Town Festival https://suttonnewtowncommunityfestival.org.uk/
St Johns Ambulance https://www.sja.org.uk/