Santa Dash 2026

Experience Brighton’s most festive 5k

Date: Saturday 5 December 2026
Location: Hove Lawns, opposite Adelaide Crescent
Registration: £25
Sponsorship: We ask that our participants raise a minimum of £50 each

Get in the Christmas spirit and run 5k with hundreds of other Santas along Brighton seafront on 5 December while raising money for Rockinghorse Children’s Charity.

Raise £100 and you’ll receive an exclusive Rockinghorse Christmas tree decoration to hang with pride on your tree!

What you’ll get as part of Team Rockinghorse:

• A free Santa suit to run in
• A Santa Dash medal
• Support from start to finish from our Fundraising Manager, Jules
• Help with your fundraising

Santa Dash timings

• Arrival time: Arrive by about 9.45am so you’ve got plenty of time to pick up your free Santa suit and take some snaps
• Kids’ 400m Mini Dash: This is a free event before the 5k starting at 10.20am for little runners.
• Santa Dash 5k: The 5k starts at 10.30am. The course heads west up the Seafront Esplanade for 2.5km. Once you get to Hove Lagoon you turn around and head back to the Start/Finish line on Hove Lawns.

Join Team Rockinghorse as an own place runner

If you already bought your place through the Santa Dash organisers we would love for you to fundraise for Rockinghorse! You can set up a Just Giving page here in just a couple of minutes, and anything you can raise would be massively appreciated.

Any questions?

If you have any questions at all about the Santa Dash, please email our Fundraising Manager Jules Billings on jules@rockinghorse.org.uk or call 01273 330 044.