Santa School
Learn From a Professional Father Christmas on How to Be a Fabulous Santa Performer
It does not matter if you have never performed as Santa before, we want you to work for us. We have opportunities across the country to perform as Father Christmas, and we will teach you everything you need to know.
As well as spending the day with the Envisage Agency team learning about working with our agency, you will also learn valuable skills from one of our professional Santas, who shares all his knowledge, tips and secrets to help you become a brilliant Santa performer.
What You Can Expect From Santa School
You will spend the day with us at the Holiday Inn Coventry, alongside up to 20 other budding Santa performers, learning everything you need to know to be a brilliant Santa. We provide a relaxed environment throughout the day, along with free refreshments and lunch.
As well as learning what it takes to be Father Christmas, you will also have free pictures taken of you in costume by a professional photographer, which we use to promote you to our clients.
It is a full day. You arrive for registration and a hot drink ready to start at 9am, with drinks breaks throughout the day and a hot lunch giving you the chance to mingle and chat with the other guests. The day wraps up at 5pm.
By the end of the day, you will have learned an enormous amount, including:
- How to engage with children, parents and clients
- Santa outfits, the difference in quality, how to wear one and how to care for it
- How to behave both in and out of costume
- Santa etiquette
- Santa history, what being Santa is really about, and what the suit symbolises
- The questions children ask most often
- Toy and children’s trends
- How to pose for pictures
- Beards, fake and real, and the importance of a high-quality beard and how to wear it properly
- DBS checks, where to get one, what it costs, which type suits Santa work, and the legal requirements involved
- The business side of being Santa, including how you get paid and how to handle invoices
- Using open questions
- How to make children feel truly amazing
- The different types of Santa visits
- Props and how to use them
- The importance of always staying in character
- How to talk while in character
- Simple tricks to entertain children
- A photo session in costume
- A free training manual to take away with you
Envisage to my mind are BEST at recruiting and managing SANTA’s and ELVES.
I have represented ENVISAGE for several years in both South East England and North West England and the locations and clients are exceptional in many ways.
Clients continue to re engage year after year and this is reflected in the first class rates ENVISAGE are able to charge and pay Santa’s and Elves accordingly.
I would just like to tell anyone wanting to be a Santa, It’s the greatest job in the world and every little face just lights up when they see you.
Envisage is a great company to work for and that makes life so much easier.
Santa Michael
I have worked for Envisage as Santa for the last 4 years they are an excellent company to work for, looking after the needs of their staff and clients respectively.
Always prompt with payments and are immediate with any problems that may occur.
I have also done promotional work for Envisage with the same excellent service.
About Envisage Agency
Envisage Agency has been established since 2010 and is one of the UK’s leading agencies specialising in event staff, actors, extras and promotional staff across the country.
We are the BIGGEST provider of professional Santa performers in the country boasting more than 200 Father Christmas performers throughout the UK and working with more than 300 clients each December.
Christmas has been a massive part of our business since 2012 and each year we have more and more clients booking with us to hire Father Christmas.
As a result of our success providing Christmas performers, each year we need to recruit more Santa’s which is why we have created Santa School.
Our head office is based in Rugby, Warwickshire but our clients are all over the country.
If you are interested in attending one of our Santa Schools then get in touch.