{"id":14094,"date":"2026-02-03T13:27:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T13:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pattinghamchurch.org.uk\/web\/?page_id=14094"},"modified":"2026-02-04T17:15:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T17:15:19","slug":"santa-at-st-chads-2025","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.pattinghamchurch.org.uk\/web\/news-and-events\/santa-at-st-chads-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Santa at St Chad&#8217;s &#8211; 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Father Christmas comes to St Chad&#8217;s on St Nicholas&#8217; Day<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pattinghamchurch.org.uk\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Santa-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pattinghamchurch.org.uk\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Santa-1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Santa arriving\" class=\"wp-image-14096\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pattinghamchurch.org.uk\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Santa-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.pattinghamchurch.org.uk\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Santa-1.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The Santa at St Chad&#8217;s event took place in church on Saturday 6th December 2025. It included carols, a nativity puppet show, meet Santa plus free gift, craft activities and food and drink. There were upwards of 60 people, including 33 children, plus 12 helpers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There was a great atmosphere with highlights being the puppet nativity and appearance of Santa along with the full size polar bear and reindeer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We hope that this will become an annual event so we look forward to seeing you next year!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<br class=\"clear\">\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pattinghamchurch.org.uk\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/santa-with-reindeer_480.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pattinghamchurch.org.uk\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/santa-with-reindeer_480-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"Santa with a reindeer\" class=\"wp-image-14105\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pattinghamchurch.org.uk\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/santa-with-reindeer_480-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/www.pattinghamchurch.org.uk\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/santa-with-reindeer_480.jpeg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pattinghamchurch.org.uk\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Santa-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pattinghamchurch.org.uk\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Santa-2-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Santa\" class=\"wp-image-14095\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pattinghamchurch.org.uk\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Santa-2-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.pattinghamchurch.org.uk\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Santa-2.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<br class=\"clear\">\n\n\n\n<p><em>Photography by Alan Smith and Dorothy Smith<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Father Christmas comes to St Chad&#8217;s on St Nicholas&#8217; Day The Santa at St Chad&#8217;s event took place in church on Saturday 6th December 2025. It included carols, a nativity puppet show, meet Santa plus free gift, craft activities and food and drink. There were upwards of 60 people, including 33 children, plus 12 helpers. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pattinghamchurch.org.uk\/web\/news-and-events\/santa-at-st-chads-2025\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Santa at St Chad&#8217;s &#8211; 2025&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":165,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-14094","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pattinghamchurch.org.uk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pattinghamchurch.org.uk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pattinghamchurch.org.uk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pattinghamchurch.org.uk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pattinghamchurch.org.uk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14094"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.pattinghamchurch.org.uk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14106,"href":"https:\/\/www.pattinghamchurch.org.uk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14094\/revisions\/14106"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pattinghamchurch.org.uk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pattinghamchurch.org.uk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}