MANORLANDS is on course for a cracker of a Christmas thanks to activities at Keighley’s Airedale Shopping Centre.

Hundreds of families have visited a Santa’s grotto run by the Sue Ryder hospice in the centre’s Brunswick Arcade.

Also, funds are being raised through a gift-wrapping service and donations are being dropped into a wishing well.

Manorlands senior fundraiser Andrew Wood said the programme of festive activities was on target to raise £4,000.

“After just the first weekend in December we’d already broken the £1,500 barrier through the grotto and the other things we’ve got going on,” he said.

“We can’t thank the Airedale Shopping Centre enough for how much it has helped and supported us.”

“We really do appreciate all its support.”