Since 1966 Santa Has Sat Upon His Sleigh In Cheam, Surrey,

as it went around the neighbourhood collecting money for local charities,

and a good job he made of it to, the picture above taken in 2006 and it is business as usual, up till now collecting more than £130,000, the Cheam Round Table's fund raising float has been a highlight of the festive calendar, the float used to travel at walking pace around residential streets of Cheam and Worcester Park with a volunteer dressed as Father Christmas on top of it in the three-week run up to Christmas, in recent years the fund raising float has been taken over by the Rotary Club of Cheam,

enter Cheam Rotary Club president Stephen Cunningham, 52, from Wallington, who has qualifications in health and safety, he has decided that the new float this year was too dangerous for Santa to sit on the chair which was bolted to the top of the float, despite Peter Bright, 71, from Banstead, who is an honorary member of the rotary club and former member of the round table, confirming that he found a company that would insure the sleigh with Father Christmas on top, Santa will have to walk along side his sleigh, the kids will just have to make sure which side of the float he will be walking by if they wish to see him, I guess if you are the president of a Rotary club and you have qualifications in health and safety you can ruin peoples Christmas if you wish,

as Sara Palmer, 43, from Sutton commented, 'not having him on top for three weeks  of the year is ridiculous, the kids were like "where's Santa?" it's just taking the magic out of it and they raise so much money for charity, it was always the highlight of Chrisitmas'

responding to negativity from some ex-Round Table members, Cunningham said: ‘they were doing it 30 or 40 years ago when health and safety wasn't such a big issue, you have to adapt to changing times', bring back the old days I say.