UpRight team get together for Christmas toy run video production meeting

Turning custody into a Santa’s grotto, tasering The Grinch, even dressing our land sharks up in Santa hats – all possible at a push.

But blue light vehicles transforming and rolling out as one giant jet with a big present magnet beneath it, or filming a helicopter chase over the streets of Chesterfield with an officer dangling off the side while clutching a sack full of gifts… those really would be Mission: Impossible.

And as much as we would love the blockbuster budget to make HohoCop, featuring a fully operational robot stomping through Buxton with its tinsel launcher and present cannon in full swing, we just don’t have it.

So we’ve knocked together this video instead, in collaboration with the BikerDown team at Derbyshire Fire & Rescue.

It’s all to promote the third annual Christmas toy run by our UpRight motorbike safety campaign.

At 11am on Saturday 17 December, a convoy of bikers will set off from Pidcock Motorcycles in Long Eaton and travel to Safe and Sound Derby, at Darley Abbey Mills, to donate presents for children at risk of exploitation.

We want as many bikers as possible to join the convoy, hopefully with the riders and bikes decked out in Christmas fancy dress.

People can also donate presents or gift vouchers at a wide range of locations across Derbyshire, which will be collected in advance and delivered to Safe and Sound Derby on the day.

The majority of children the charity supports are aged between eight and 18, although some have younger siblings. The charity generally helps more girls than boys. It does a lot of craft work with the children and young people that they support, so any craft materials, painting pebbles, clay/soap making or cookie decorating kits would be fantastic.

For older children, gift vouchers for high street shops, clothing stores, or entertainment such as cinemas or bowling would also be gratefully received.

Below is a list of donation points if members of the public would like to drop a present off. Any donations at fire stations MUST be unwrapped. Gifts can be wrapped for other locations but should have the age and gender of the child marked in pencil on the wrapping paper.

Safe and Sound, First Floor, East Mill, Darley Abbey Mills, Darley Abbey, Derby DE22 1DZ

Pidcock Motorcycles:

• Pidcock Electric Motorcycles & Clothing Store Unit 3, Fields Farm Road, Long Eaton, Nottinghamshire, NG10 3NA
• Roy Pidcocks BMW, Fields Farm Road, Long Eaton, NG9 2DB
• Pidcock Triumph, 90-100 Tamworth Road, Long Eaton, Nottinghamshire, NG10 3NA
• Ducati Nottingham, 216 Queens Road, Beeston, Nottingham, NG9 2DB

Thorneycroft Solicitors offices:

• Buxton – 23 Terrace Road, Buxton SK17 6DU
• Whaley Bridge – 12 Market Street, Whaley Bridge SK23 7LP
• Macclesfield – Bridge Street Mills, Bridge Street SK11 6QA
• Macclesfield – 6 King Edward Street, Macclesfield SK10 1AB
• Holmes Chapel – 16A The Square, London Road CW4 7AB

Fire stations (presents must be unwrapped):

• Buxton Fire station – Staden Lane, Buxton SK17 9RZ
• Chesterfield Fire station – Spire Walk Business Park, Braidwood Way, Chesterfield S40 2WH
• Swadlincote Fire station – Civic Way, Swadlincote DE11 0AE
• Nottingham Road Fire Station – Nottingham Road, Chaddesden, Derby DE21 6FP

Derbyshire Motorcycle School (DMS) – Unit 8, Block 13, Amber Business Centre, Greenhill Lane, Riddings, Alfreton DE55 4BR.

MyMoto Derbyshire – Unit 1, Derby Road Business Park, Clay Cross S45 9AG

Triumphworld Chesterfield – 2 Brimington Road North, Whittington Moor, Chesterfield S41 9AJ

Bakewell pet supplies – 8 Water Street, Bakewell DE45 1EW.