SKIPTON Craven Rotary Club is getting ready for Christmas.

Its fundraising activities will start with the Santa Fun Run on Sunday, which will set off from the town's Aireville Park at 11am.

Full details are available at skiptonsantafunrun.com/event-details.

And members will be helping Santa with his sleigh collections. The tour will begin in the Sackville Street area next Thursday, December 4, before moving to the Greatwood and Shortbank Road area next Friday.

Santa's itinerary then takes him to Bradley on Monday, December 8; the Regents estate on Wednesday, December 10; Carleton on Thursday, December 11; Burnside, Friday, December 12; Moorview and Hurrs Road, Monday, December 15; Embsay, Thursday, December 18; Horse Close, Cawder Ghyll and Keighley Road, Friday, December 19; Raikes and Tarn Moor, Monday, December 22; and Rockwood, Gargrave Road and Gainsborough Court, Tuesday, December 23.

There will also be Santa supermarket collections at Morrisons, Skipton, on December 6, 13 and 14 and Tesco on December 7 and 21. In addition, the club will man a roll-a-penny stall at Grassington Dickensian Festival over the next three Saturdays.