Hundreds of revelers dressed as Santa Claus attend the 2024 London Santa Con. With its origins starting in the United States, Santa Con has become a traditional pre-Christmas London event. Starting with a pub crawl two weeks before Christmas, the Santas parade through London, singing and giving out gifts to on lookers. Whilst the vast majority taking part in Santa Con are good natured and well-behaved drunkenness and violence has occurred in the past.