Nearly 600 people attended the three-day event, which was organised by the Drax Visitor Centre team, with donation buckets raising £500 for the Yorkshire Swan Hospital.
The festive event gave visitors the chance to enjoy a wide variety of Christmas-themed activities, including arts, crafts and woodland trail activities. The highlight of the afternoon for many however, was the opportunity to meet Santa Claus, with children sharing their Christmas wishes and receiving a special gift from the man himself.
Jane Breach, Community Engagement & Visitor Centre Team Leader at Drax, said: “We were thrilled to once again welcome families to the Skylark Centre for a memorable festive experience and help raise money for Yorkshire Swan Hospital. The activities available offered communities local to Drax Power Station the opportunity to meet Father Christmas and experience a range of festive activities which were perfect for families.”
The festive fun at the Skylark Centre is part of Drax’s ongoing commitment to engaging with the local community and offering memorable experiences for families. For information on upcoming events at Drax and the Skylark Nature Reserve, visit our Facebook page or Drax Events page.
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Photo caption 1: Drax Unit Controller Steven Lyon and family enjoying Santa’s Grotto at the Skylark Centre Christmas event.
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About Drax
Drax’s purpose is to enable a zero carbon, lower cost energy future. Our strategic aims are to be a global leader in both carbon removals and sustainable biomass pellet production, and to be a UK leader in dispatchable, renewable generation.
Our operations
Drax owns and operates a portfolio of flexible, low-carbon and renewable UK power assets – biomass, hydro, and pumped storage generation – which provide dispatchable power and system support services to the electricity grid.
We are the UK’s largest source of renewable power by output, and Drax Power Station is the UK’s largest single source of renewable electricity by output.
Through our pellet production facilities in North America, Drax is the world’s second largest producer of sustainable biomass. Drax has 18 operational and development pellet production sites which will have a nameplate capacity of around 5.4 million tonnes once expansions are complete.
Drax supplies renewable electricity to UK industrial and commercial customers, offering a range of energy-related services including energy optimisation, as well as electric vehicle strategy and management.
Our future
Drax is progressing options for carbon removals using bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) technology globally and at our UK biomass power station. We are progressing plans to develop 7 million tonnes of carbon removals through BECCS by 2030.
In 2024, we launched Elimini, a US-based company to lead our global efforts to deliver carbon removals at megaton scale. Elimini’s purpose is to remove carbon for good. To achieve this, it is convening engineers, environmentalists, communities, investors, and innovators to scale the market for carbon removals, with the aspiration of transforming our economies from carbon emitters to carbon removers. For more information, visit elimini.com.
