Santa’s Saunter 2024

Santa’s Saunter is back for 2024 on Sunday the 8th December.

Possilpark & Ruchill Loves Christmas has been a brilliant annual event involving lots of community partners across Possilpark & Ruchill and North Glasgow over the last few years.

This year things are running a little differently but Boom! Community Arts are delighted to be able to still deliver Santa’s Saunter in Ruchill and Possilpark. This is now an annual tradition for us and definitely one of the highlights of our year.

Santa and his elves will be making their way from Ruchill through to Possilpark on Sunday 8th December. Check out the planned route below, and on the day you’ll be able to see where he is on our live map.

Santa’s Saunter Route

Use our interactive maps below to check if Santa will be passing by your house! You can zoom in and out using the plus and minus buttons on the maps.

We will do our best to get Santa to every stop on the route, but we may need to take some detours depending on weather and road conditions. Stay up to date with Santa’s location over the weekend using the live Santa tracker!

Sunday 8th December:
Ruchill & Hawthorn

Remember these are rough timings only!

Santa’s Saunter will start at Shuna Street around 11am and walk up towards Curzon Street, Right on Brassey Street and Stop at Ruchill Golf Course Pavillion around 11.20am for around 20 minutes.

From here we are hoping to go down to Bilsland Drive and either make our way through the new Belway Homes estate or through the Park to Panmure Street (confirmed on the day).

We will head up Panmure Street, across Balmore Road and round to Hawthorn House (Care Home) for around 12:40pm where we will stop for another 25 minutes before heading to Hawthorn Housing at Finlas Street for 1.20pm. Santa and his elves will meet the local community here but will also be having a wee rest and refuel before the next step of the journey.

Sunday 8th December:
Possilpark, Hamiltonhill and Westercommon

Remember these are rough timings only!

After Santa, George and the elves have filled up on mince pies and carrots they will return to the road about 2pm.

We will leave Hawthorn Housing and travel back down Bardowie Street before travelling up Saracen Street to Killearn Street. We will make our way to The Back Garden for about 2.20pm where we will stop for around 25 minutes.

At around 2.45pm we will walk up towards the Claypits LNR at Ellesmere Street and after a short rest we will travel down Ellesmere Street to Westercommon Drive (by the high flats).

Once we are back on Panmure Street we will turn right and travel up towards Lidl as we make our way to our final stop by 4pm.