Christmas Celebrations Continue this Weekend in Fulham

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Your guide to local festive events

Festive events are continuing in Fulham, with a kids' craft session, carol services, an alternative panto and of course North End Road's 2017 Christmas Market.

Take the children to Metro Bank on Fulham Broadway between midday and 4pm on Sunday 10 December to join in a free craft event.

Kids will be invited to create their very own Santa Claus, get their hands on seasonal treats and meet and have their picture taken with Metro Man, the bank’s mascot.

Also on 10 December, Fulham Camerata Choir will visit Holy Cross Church in Ashington Road in Parsons Green to present The Spirit of Christmas, a celebration of carols for choir and audience presented by musical director James Day.

The concert starts at 7pm and is free to enter, with no tickets required. Mulled wine and mince pies are on offer and a donation of £10 per person is suggested, with proceeds going to local homeless charity Glass Door.

There are also Carols by Candlelight on offer on Sunday at St Dionis on Parsons Green at 5pm and St Peter's Church, on St Peter's Terrace off Munster Road at 6pm.

On Thursday, 14 December, All Saints Church, by Putney Bridge is hosting The Brain Tumour Research Campaign’s annual concert A Celebration of Christmas.

The trust says All Saints was chosen because of its proximity to Charing Cross Hospital, where over 600 patients with brain tumours are diagnosed each year.

The service includes Christmas readings and carols, followed by seasonal “bites and bubbles” – celebrating the joyful season of hope and goodwill, dedicated to raising awareness of the plight of brain tumour patients and funding research.

Readers this year include Jill Baker, Sara Crowe, Charles Collingwood and Judy Bennett, Freddie Fox, Miriam Margolys, Georgina Rylance, and Alfred & Jemima Beadman (who lost their mother to a brain tumour in 2015); music is provided by the magical All Saints Choir, with a guest performance by the Holland Park School choir.

"This will be our seventh carol service at All Saints," says BTRC co-founder Wendy Fulcher, "and the research we fund is directly focused on finding new treatments and better outcomes for brain tumour patients, for whom the outlook is bleak. We hope the concert will help us reach our Christmas Appeal target of £25,000."

For further information or to book tickets, contact Wendy Fulcher at wendy@btrc-charity.org
phone 0208 601 2402, or on the Brain Tumour Research Campaign website.

If you are looking for something different to entertain the children, Chelsea Theatre in Worlds End is presenting Once Upon a Snowflake, from Paper Balloon Theatre Company.

Follow Liza into a colourful whirlwind of stories and adventure, led by a tiny Sprite with a fascination for snowflakes. You’ll never see a snowflake the same way again.

With a captivating blend of shadow puppetry, storytelling and enchanting original songs from Darren Clark (The Scarecrow’s Wedding, These Trees Are Made of Blood, Winner: Stiles & Drewe Award 2016), Paper Balloon present this funny, quirky and different show for family audiences aged three and up.

Once Upon a Snowflake continues until 22 December, with 10am and 2pm shows on weekdays and 2.30pm and 5.30pm shows at weekends. Find out more here.

Saturday 9 December is of course the day of the 2017 North End Road Market and Fulham's other markets are also offering a chance to stock up on festive food and drink. Parsons Green Market at St Thomas Academy on New Kings Road is open on Sunday 10, 17 and on Christmas Eve, as is Bishops Park Farmers Market. Both are open from 10am till 2pm.

There are many more seasonal events still to come in Fulham including the North End Road Christmas Market next Saturday, 9 December. We will update this page throughout December, so watch this space - and if you have an event you would like us to add, send an email with the details to editor@fulhamsw6.com.

 

 

 

December 8, 2017