Free for every community group
Every December, one town asks the same question.
“Is Santa coming to my street?”
santatracker.uk turns your club’s sleigh rota into a proper live tracker page — a map, a countdown, the full route, add-to-calendar and your donate link. It takes an evening to set up, it costs nothing, and it lives on your own website.
Find the sleigh nearest you
Type your postcode or town. We’ll show you which of Santa’s helpers is out near you, and when the bells are due down your road.
No app. No sign-up. Works on any phone.
Set your club’s tracker up tonight
- The whole tracker, free — not a trial
- Embeds on the site you already have
- Nobody needs to be “the technical one”
Rotary · Round Table · Lions · Scouts · Churches · PTAs · Village committees
Built for the people who actually tow the sleigh
Rotary clubsRound TablesLions Scout groupsChurchesSchool PTAsVillage committees
What your town gets
A blurry PDF and a Facebook post,
replaced.
Everything below is on the free tier. All of it. On your own web address, in your club’s colours.
“Is Santa coming to my street?”
A search box over your whole rota. Someone types Briar Lane and gets a night, a time and a “roughly 40 minutes after he sets off”. No more phone calls to the club secretary.
A map people can actually read
Every stop pinned, tonight’s route drawn in, and the next stop glowing. Tap a pin, get the detail underneath. It works on a five-year-old Android in a cold front garden.
A countdown to the next street
Days, hours, minutes. Then, on the night, a live status line: out now · Forest Town · heading for Briar Lane. Children will refresh this page more than you would believe.
Add to calendar, in one tap
Every stop is a calendar event. Parents put it in their phone in October and get a reminder in December. Nobody misses the bells because they were putting the bins out.
A donate button that gets tapped
Your JustGiving, Enthuse or Local Giving link, right beside the countdown — at the exact moment someone is thinking about your collection bucket. Plus a running total, if you want one.
It lives on your website
One line of code and the tracker appears inside your club’s own page, under your own banner. Your traffic, your donations, your credit. No santatracker branding shouting over yours.
Live across the country
One map. Every one of Santa’s helpers.
Santa has an extremely long list and only one night to finish it. So all through December he sends his helpers out ahead of him — with sleighs, bells and buckets — and every single one of them checks in with the workshop. This is that map.
Every glowing dot is a helper sleigh. The dotted line running north is their check‑in to the workshop.
Helpers near NG18
Sorted by how close they are to you tonight.
- Mansfield RotaryForest Town · 1.2 miles away Out now
- Kirkby Round TableKirkby‑in‑Ashfield · 4.8 miles 6:30pm
- 1st Rainworth ScoutsRainworth · 5.1 miles Tomorrow
- St Peter’s PCCEdwinstowe · 8.4 miles Fri 19th
Example listing. Live positions need the club to have switched on live tracking.
How can there be so many sleighs?
Because Santa can’t be everywhere at once — and he’d be the first to tell you so. Every sleigh on this map belongs to one of his helpers, out on his behalf while he’s still checking the list. They ring his bells, they collect for his causes, and they all report back to the workshop before the big night.
Switch on live tracking and your club’s sleigh joins them, right there among the reindeer prints.
How it works
Three steps, one evening,
a cup of tea.
You do not need a developer. You do not need a new website. You need your rota and about twenty minutes.
Tell us who you are
Club name, town, the charity you’re collecting for, and your donate link. That’s the whole form. It fits on one screen.
Paste in your rota
Dates, streets, start times. Type them in, or paste the spreadsheet you already keep — we’ll sort the columns out. Change it any time, including on the night.
Share the link
You get a web address to put on Facebook, and one line of code to drop into your own site if you’d rather it lived there. Both work. Both are free.
If you can post on your club’s Facebook page, you can do this. And if you get stuck, email us. A person replies, usually the same day, and we’ll happily type your rota in for you the first year.
Make it yours
Ten looks. Pick one in a click.
Same tracker, ten different Christmases. Choose the one that suits your club — heritage green for the church, primary colours for the school, deep navy for the nights when everyone’s actually looking.
Rotary Club of Mansfield
Where’s Santa right now?
Out now
Briar Lane, Forest Town
Bells due on Oakwell Drive in about 20 minutes.
On your own website
One line of code.
Then it’s your page.
Give this to whoever looks after your club’s website — or paste it into an “embed” or “custom HTML” block yourself. The tracker appears inside your own page, in your own colours, under your own banner.
<div data-santa-tracker="mansfield-rotary">
<a href="https://santatracker.uk">Santa Tracker</a>
</div>
<script src="https://santatracker.uk/js/embed.js" async></script>Prefer a plain link? You get one of those too:
santatracker.uk/clubs/mansfield-rotary
Pricing
The tracker is free. Forever.
Not a trial, not a freemium tease, not free-until-December. The tracker your town uses costs your club nothing. There is exactly one paid thing, and it is the one thing that needs a server watching a moving sleigh.
The tracker
For every club, every year.
- Your full rota, map and street search
- Countdown and live “out now” status
- Add-to-calendar and your donate link
- All ten themes, and the embed
- Your listing on the helpers map
No card. No “book a demo”. No sales call, ever.
Sleigh Live
Live GPS, so families watch him move.
- Everything in the free tracker
- The sleigh moves on the map, live
- “Two streets away” arrival estimates
- Your sleigh glows on the national helpers map
- Running-late? One tap tells the whole street
One volunteer opens a link on their phone in the cab. That’s the entire setup. It costs less than the diesel, and it usually pays for itself in the first hour of collecting.
Straight answers
The things committees ask us
Is it really free? What’s the catch?
Really free. Every club running a free tracker links back to us from their page, and every family who finds their local sleigh discovers the platform. That’s our marketing budget — we’d rather spend it on you than on adverts.
A small number of clubs pay for live GPS, and that pays for the servers. We don’t sell your data, we don’t email your supporters, and we don’t put adverts on your page.
We don’t really have a website.
Then use the link we give you — santatracker.uk/your-club — and post that. It’s a complete page in its own right, with your name and colours on it. The embed is there for clubs that have a site; it isn’t required.
Nobody in our club is technical.
Good. This was designed for exactly that committee. There is one form, and it asks for things you already know: your club’s name, your town, your charity, your rota.
If it still feels daunting, send us your rota — a spreadsheet, a Word document, a photograph of a whiteboard — and we’ll set the first year up for you and hand you the keys.
What do you do with people’s data?
We ask families for nothing. No accounts, no sign-ups, no email capture, no advertising cookies — which is why your page doesn’t need a cookie banner.
If someone searches a postcode to find their nearest helper, that lookup happens and is then forgotten. Your club’s own details are yours; you can export or delete everything at any time.
Does live tracking mean you’re tracking our volunteers?
No. Live tracking follows the sleigh, from one phone, only while the person holding it has deliberately switched it on, and only during the collection. Close the page and it stops. Nothing is stored after the season, and no volunteer’s name is ever attached to a position.
What if the route changes on the night? It always does.
Change it from your phone in the cab. Push the whole night back thirty minutes with one tap, or drop a street entirely. The page updates for everyone within seconds, and anyone who added the stop to their calendar gets the amended time.
Will this ruin it for the children?
It’s written the other way round. Nothing on the site suggests there is more than one Santa. Every sleigh belongs to one of his helpers, out ahead of him while he finishes the list, all reporting back to the workshop — which is, after all, exactly what your club is doing.
One evening, then it’s done
Give your town a proper answer
this Christmas.
Set your club’s tracker up before the rota’s even finished. You can add the streets later.