Furzedown Annual Charity Events 2025
FACE 2025 Garden Gig
Our Garden Gig is at 49 Chillerton Rd, on Friday 27 June. There will be a great line-up of local talent and a delicious 2-course meal with a welcome drink to enjoy, as well as a raffle and fun musical challenge, tickets are £35.
Can you help promote this event and host an Aspire board? It's a great way of raising money!
Please contact Alan Feast if you can host a board or would like to reserve a seat at the Gig, call 07973 216 260 or email Alan@feast.me.uk
Previous FACE events
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 was a very special evening and there was even sunshine, with 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 including Annalie Schutz on Viola, Mina, Maia and Louise from Graveney Music, Andrew Holdsworth on piano and not forgetting The Chillerton Road Choir! We enjoyed a sparkling welcome drink provided by Winkworth Tooting, table nibbles, and a delicious two course gourmet meal with beer-basted BBQ chicken, vegan chilli, salads and sides followed by a choice of strawberries, apple crumble and cakes and a raffle with some great prizes. OUR EVENTS IN 2023 Everything in the garden was lovely for our Garden Gig in June. We enjoyed amazing performances from Damian Wilson and talented local performers, as well as a delicious meal and prize raffle which all helped us raise over £2,000. Our Quiz Night in February Graveney hall was packed, There were lots of quirky questions (including a live music round). Also prize-winning games and a special raffle… which will helped us raise an amazing £3,199 for local causes Furzedown Aspire sponsored both events - thank you! Read more about our Quiz Nights and Garden Gigs in our blog HERE
FACE - our future vision!
There are lots of activities to look forward to in 2025 - we are planning another FACE Garden Gig at the end of June, and may to do a new event in the autumn, as well as supporting other events in the area. We'd love new members too!
Last year there was a Fun Day on the Rec run by Furzedown Community Network (FCN) Please contact them if you would like to help them. And lots of other activities including a Furzedown War Walk; Run-Walk-Scoot Furzedown; a Family Fun Day from Enable Services; street parties; Jazz on the Lawn and Christmas events.
For more information on the FCN visit: http://furzedown.net
Join the local chat group email: furzedown+subscribe@groups.io
Chill-out room opens
FACE helped develop 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. By uniting efforts from individuals, families, schools, organisations, and enterprises in and around Furzedown we can make such a difference and have helped make this dream become a reality. Please read more in the official press release HERE