Black Santa money to be handed out on Sunday

More than £195,000 raised by the 2015 Black Santa Christmas Sit-out at St Anne's Cathedral will be distributed at the annual Good Samaritans service on Sunday.
By The Newsroom
Published 6th Feb 2016, 15:57 BST
Updated 17th Feb 2016, 06:00 BST
Belfast's Black Santa, the Very Rev John Mann, outside St Anne's Cathedral in December. Picture: Arthur Allison.Belfast's Black Santa, the Very Rev John Mann, outside St Anne's Cathedral in December. Picture: Arthur Allison.
Belfast's Black Santa, the Very Rev John Mann, outside St Anne's Cathedral in December. Picture: Arthur Allison.

Comedians May McFettridge, Jimmy Cricket and William Caulfield will present cheques to 227 charities, representing a huge amount of voluntary and community work.

This was Dean John Mann’s fifth Christmas sit-out as he maintains a tradition established by the late Dean Sammy Crooks almost 40 years ago.

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The Good Samaritans Service takes place on the first Sunday in February each year, which the Dean said was “always a happy day in St Anne’s Cathedral”.

The service is open to all and gets under way at St Anne’s Cathedral, Donegal Street, at 3pm on Sunday.