The Mapperley community will take part in a worldwide Christmas Eve jingle bell event to spread joy after lockdown.
People in the community are being encouraged to come out onto their doorsteps at 6pm on Christmas Eve and jingle bells for Santa. If you don’t have any bells you can use a recorded sound or app.
This will then be followed by a community sing-a-long of ‘We Wish You a Merry Christmas’ and ‘Jingle Bells’ a
CO-OP Member Pioneer for Mapperley, Maria Narducci, is helping organise the event.
She said:”Jingle for Santa” is a worldwide event where at 6pm, anywhere in the world, people are encouraged to come onto their doorsteps and jingle bells as a community.
“It’s a way of bringing Mapperley together safely for a fun, joyful community event.
“The community of Mapperley will be ‘Jingling for Santa’, but we also had a few requests to sing a Christmas song as a community. A poll was held in the What’s On Mapperley’ Facebook group, and the community chose to sing ‘We Wish You a Merry Christmas’, followed by ‘Jingle Bells’.
Members of the community will be jingling bells and singing outside the Elmbank Residential Home on Robinson Road for the elderly residents to watch from the windows and join in safely from indoors.
Maria added: “Please help us to spread the word and bring our community together for some safe, fun and joy at such a difficult time.”
Instructions to join in…
- 6.00pm on Christmas Eve, stand on your doorstep or in your front garden and jingle your bell/s. if you don’t have any bells, you can also use a Jingling Bell app or recorded sound.
- At 6.05pm the community will sing ‘We Wish You a Merry Christmas’, followed by ‘Jingle Bells’.
- If you can play an instrument to accompany the singing – please do!
You can find the lyrics, music and jingling bells recorded sound in the ‘What’s On Mapperley’ Facebook group.
