593 Santa Mike
Connections with Brighton and Hove :
Our very own Santa Mike Childs passed away on Thursday 12 December 2019. Santa Mike worked tirelessly every Christmas for the last 15 years on board the Santa Bus helping to raise over 250,000 for local charities.
Read more in The Argus story here:
https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/18101069.tributes-pour-mike-childs-kindest-magic-santa/
Santa Mike was adored by us all at Brighton & Hove Buses and it has been a pleasure to work with him over the years. He played a pivotal role ensuring the Santa Bus was even more magical and made a lot of people, across the whole city, very happy.
616 Scania Omnidekka renamed in December 2019 until January 2020. Renamed again in November 2021 until January 2022 for Santa bus. Renamed again in October 2022, and again in November 2023 with new fleetname. In November 2024 Scania 593 was named Santa Mike to the Santa bus.
Names on the buses