Appeal for Santa’s helper to switch on Britain’s Biggest Lemax Winter Village
The team at a South Leeds garden centre are on the lookout for someone to help Santa switch on the UK’s biggest single display of Lemax collectables next week.
With a display covering 52m2, the Winter Village at Tingley Garden Centre features over 600 miniature pieces, thousands of lights, interactive elements and a unique festive footbridge and charity wishing well.
“Mini in model size, but massive in magic, the Lemax Winter Village at Tingley Garden Centre opens at 10 am on 11th October, and Santa needs someone to help him with the big switch on, said Yorkshire Garden Centres’ marketing manager, Harriet Hardiment.
“He is making a special early stop straight from the North Pole to visit our Winter Village and needs a special little helper to press the giant red button and switch on the magic. Do you know a very special little one who deserves to meet Santa and officially open our Winter Village? Simply email marketing@ygcgroup.co.uk and tell us the name of the little helper you are nominating, along with an adult’s name and a contact phone number. There will also be a treasure hunt to win a limited edition Arthur Bear.”
The free to visit interactive display, which includes a ski village, a miniature town, Santa’s magical wonderland, a forest, a park and a carnival, features 49 new collectables for 2025. The village is also home to three lakes and will be the first Lemax display in the UK to feature a festive footbridge over a wishing lake where visitors can toss in a coin to make a wish. All of the coins will be collected and donated to Yorkshire Garden Centre Group’s charity of the year, Martin House Children’s Hospice.
Tingley Garden Centre is part of the Yorkshire Garden Centres family that comprises Tong, Tingley, Otley, Bingley and Shelley Garden Centres plus Dean’s York and Scarborough.
There will also be Lemax Winter Village displays at Tong, Otley, Dean’s York and Pennine Garden Centres, as part of the group’s series of family-friendly festive events which start with a Sparkle late night shopping event at Tong Garden Centre on 9th October.
Lemax was founded in 1990 and is one of the world’s leading makers of animated and illuminated miniature village pieces for Christmas and Halloween displays.