Abbotsford Santa Shuffle

12/24/2025

12/09/2025

Thank-you to the awesome support from our Cities Leaders!

Thank you to everyone who joined us at Mill Lake Park on Saturday for the annual Santa Shuffle Fun Run and Elf Walk!🎅

Together through pledges and donations you helped raise more than $10,000 to support the Salvation Army’s efforts helping people in need access food, shelter and medical care.

Thank you all for your generosity and congratulations to the Salvation Army on another successful event!

12/08/2025

💙 Thank You, Santa Shuffle Family! 💙

What an incredible 18th Annual Santa Shuffle! I want to extend my sincere and heartfelt thanks to every person, team, and organization who helped make this event such a success.

Thank you to every walker, runner, shuffler, donor, volunteer, and sponsor — your energy, generosity, and commitment continue to amaze us year after year. Because of you we’ve raised $12,164, surpassing our $10,000 goal, and coming so close to 140 participants — an amazing accomplishment!

A huge thank-you to our top fundraisers including the Mamas and Papas team, Dan Comrie, and the May family — Dustin, Naomi Larsen May and Eloise!

I am so grateful for our incredible partners and supporters:
• Anne Ivancy our volunteer coordinator, for keeping everything running smoothly
• Kim Hissink and Daniel Comrie for the countless hours that helped bring this event together
• Rob Studiman, and Majors Ian and Ruth Gillingham and the rest of our Salvation Army team for their leadership and heart
• Reg and team for the delicous hot chocolate, coffee, and soup
• Mary Boonstra from Legacy Dance productions for leading a fantastic warm-up https://www.legacydanceproductions.ca
• Clearbrook Coffee for the warm and delicious finish-line https://clearbrookcoffee.com/
• Felicity Slater for providing First Aid services
• Gabby Cuff, our wonderful photographer — thank you for capturing the day so beautifully
• The Running Room and Sevenoaks Shopping Centre for their generous sponsorship
• STAR FM and The Abbotsford News for helping spread the word
• Gabby Cuff, our wonderful photographer — thank you for capturing the day so beautifully

Thank you as well to Mayor Siemens and Kelly Siemens for joining us again this year, and to City Councillors Simon Gibson and Les Barkman for their continued support.

and a huge thank-you to everyone else who gave their time, energy, and encouragement, Thank you for helping strengthen our community and for making the Santa Shuffle such a meaningful and joyful event.

💙🎄 Already looking forward to next year!

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08/25/2025

Early Bird Registration Reminder
Calling all early birds! Only one week left to save on associated registration fees for 2025 Santa Shuffle!

Secure your spot at a special rate until Sunday, August 31st – then join us on Saturday, December 6th for some festive fun with a purpose!

You won’t want to miss:

Shirt included in every registration
Exciting pledge incentives
Prizes for national contest winners

Register today
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Happy Shuffling!

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12/08/2024

Another year in the books! I was so encouraged that despite a bit of rain everyone was in great spirits, with lots of energy and lots of smiles :)

This year was another successful year. We had close to 120 participants and with registrations, pledges, and t-shirt sales we were able to raise $7745. This is all because of each of you!
I would like to take another minute to acknowledge all of the volunteers who gave their time on the route, at the finish line, with the food, with package pick-up and every thing else that goes into making an event successful! Thank-you to each and everyone of you.

A special thanks to Mary Boonstra from Legacy Dance Productions who lead an awesome warm-up.!

To Davina Photography by Davina who was busy taking photos of all of you and capturing the great moments!

To Sevenoaks Mall and Santa for coming out and putting the smile on the faces of both young and old.

To our own Mayor Ross Siemans for coming out and showing his support for our community.

To Nathan Prachnau and Clearbrook Coffee Company for the fresh hot coffee!

To the Abbotsford News and STAR 98.3 for all of their support getting the word out about the event!

For the Abbotsford Canucks Street Team! for bringing their giveaways and prizes

To Anne Marie Ivany for organizing all of the volunteers

To Kim Hissink for all of her support with fundraising, finding our sponsors and so many of the other details that made the day run smoothly

To Dan Comrie for bringing the sound and Christmas tunes.

To Reg and Rob for the delicious soup.

To Majors Ian and Ruth Gillingham for all of the support from the Center of Hope!

and to everyone else that made a successful run possible!

Thanks again for another tremendous year! We are so happy that each of you came out to be part of it and we hope to see you back again next year:)

11/05/2024

Fun for the whole family - even your furry friends! All ages welcome. A huge thank you to our 2024 sponsors: STAR 98.3 SEVENOAKS SHOPPING CENTRE Legacy Dance Productions AbbyNews Photography by Davina Abbotsford Running Room