Furzedown Annual Charity Events 2025
FACE - 2025 Charity Champions!
And the award for Charity Champion goes to Alan Feast! We are delighted that Alan has been recognised in Wandsworth’s Civic Awards as the 2025 Charity Champion (creative) for all the work he’s done with Furzedown FACE to raise money for local causes.
Every year he’s opened his lovely garden to our very popular Garden Gig and BBQ - his Beer-Butt Chicken is legendary! He also compares our Charity Quiz Nights (the next one is in February), ran our stalls, coordinated events and steered our lively meetings… he accepted the award on behalf of all the FACE team
FACE 2026 Events
In 2026 Furzedown Community Network (FCN) are celebrating their 25th Anniversary of organising wonderful local events and we will be supporting them.
There will be a joint Quiz Night held at the end of February, let us know if you can help. There will be a FCN Fun Day on the Rec in the summer and there are lots of other activities including a Run-Walk-Scoot Furzedown; street parties; Jazz on the Lawn and Christmas events.
Please contact FCN if you would like to help them. For more information on the FCN visit: http://furzedown.net
Join the local FCN chat group by emailing: furzedown+subscribe@groups.io
Previous FACE events
We raised over £2,500 at our Garden Gig in 2026! We had a great line-up of talented local musicians and singers, and the audience enjoyed a sparkling welcome drink and a delicious 2-course meal which included a choice of BBQ, curries and a range of puddings and cakes. There was also a raffle and 'Name That Tune' fun musical challenge! Performers: Abi Omonua has performed in many plays and musicals on the West End. Laoise Corrigan on the flute – is a Belfast-born second year undergraduate student at Guildhall School of Music. Local Talent: Matt Wilson and Rebecca Wilson. The Chillerton Singers. Young talent The Malfunctioning Moustaches – Arianna, Lali, Ori, Violet and Hana. Andrew Holdsworth is a composer and music producer andrewholdsworthmusic.com The night ended with a great sing-a-long! Thanks to Furzedown Aspire for sponsoring the evening with promotional boards and prizes from: HOWDEN Tooting Rose & Herb, The Coach & Horses, Clapham Common A Personal Pilates Session from Eva, UrbanWineCo.co.uk We had a very successful Plant Sale in July, thanks to green-fingered Stu! Our Quiz Night in February 2025 raised over £2,500. The winning team was The Gulf of Furzedown. We also helped raise awareness of local charities including The TYA room at St George’s Hospital, South London MNDA and learn2love2read. And we enjoyed an inspiring short film on The Furzedown Project - produced by Ethan, a year 9 Graveney School pupil. The night was sponsored by Aspire, and local businesses provided amazing raffle prizes worth over £500, In 2024 we've raised over £5,000 at our Quiz Night, Garden Gig and Plant Sales. The Garden Gig had a special guest appearance from international choral singer Katy accompanied by her husband Chris Hill on Double Bass, with jazz singer Alexandra Howlett as well as talented local musicians Winkworth Tooting provided our sparkling Welcome drinks. EVENTS IN 2023: We raised over £5,000 from our Garden Gig with Damian Wilson and our Quiz Night. Furzedown Aspire sponsored both events. Read more about our Quiz Nights and Garden Gigs in our blog HERE
Chill-out room opens
FACE helped open a special unit in St George's Hospital that will uplift the experiences of children and young adults while they are in hospital being treated for cancer. This special room is for relaxation and socialising. A specialist nurse advocate (funded by MacMillan Nurses) is based in the room to support young people.
The chill-out room was officially opened in September 2017 by our local MP Dr Rosena Allin-Khan with St George's staff, governers and patients and members of FACE - This was only possible thanks to all the fundraising efforts locally. This demonstrates what a caring and brilliant community we live in. Read more in the official press release HERE