Furzedown Annual Charity Events 2025
FACE 2025 Garden Gig
Our Garden Gig is at 49 Chillerton Rd, on Friday 27 June, open at 6:30pm and finishing at 10pm.
There will be a great line-up of talented local musicians and singers, with a sparkling welcome drink and a delicious 2-course meal to enjoy, which includes a choice of BBQ, vegan options, curries and a range of puddings (strawberries, apple crumble and cakes)and cakes. There will be a raffle and 'Name That Tune' fun musical challenge!
Performers:
Abi Omonua has performed in many plays and musicals on the West End including Just for One Day, Guys & Dolls, Caroline or Change and The Colour Purple. Movie appearances include Beauty & the Beast and Unpacking.
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 started in 2024 for the sole purpose of having fun and enjoying music together. Asif joined on guitar in March and now they sound much better! Young talent The Malfunctioning Moustaches – Arianna, Lali, Ori, Violet and Hana go to Hillbrook and Fircroft schools and formed their band in March 2025. Andrew Holdsworth is a composer and producer who has worked with Primal Scream, Joe Jackson and Mary Black. He currently works at the Royal Ballet School and Royal Academy of Dance.
andrewholdsworthmusic.com
Prizes:
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£100 John Lewis voucher donated by HOWDEN Tooting
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Rose & Herb Gift box donated by Rose & Herb, Tooting
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£60 bar tab from The Coach & Horses, Clapham Common
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A Personal Pilates Session from Eva
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Name That Tune Prize - Bottle of ‘Chateau’ Tootingdonated by UrbanWineCo.co.uk
Please contact Alan Feast today, 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 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 including Annalie Schutz on Viola, Mina, Maia and Louise from Graveney Music, Andrew Holdsworth on piano and not forgetting The Chillerton Road Choir! 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
FACE - our future vision!
As well as our events we want to help promote local charities and causes in our community, our Garden Gig and Quiz Night continue to be popular as well as our plant sales. We are also supporting other events in the area with FCN.
The Fun Day on the Rec is run by Furzedown Community Network (FCN) with Enable and there are lots of other activities including a Furzedown War Walk; Run-Walk-Scoot Furzedown; street parties; Jazz on the Lawn and Christmas events.
Please contact them if you would like to help them. 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 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