🎃🍻 The 17th HALLOWEEN Wandsworth Common Beer & Cider Festival is in full swing, and goes on until this Saturday 31st October, with a SPECIAL OFFER FOR TOOTING NEWSIE READERS! Get 20% OFF tickets with code TOOTING20 🍻🎃
Head to Le Gothique for Halloween fun, fantastic beers and ciders, wine, gin, hearty food and live entertainment!
🍺 THURSDAY 29TH OCT - FESTIVAL CONTINUES | 1pm–11pm
A huge choice of beers and ciders, hearty food and a fantastic atmosphere! Tickets £15 per person.
🎸 FRIDAY 30TH OCT – GLAM ROCK NIGHT | 1pm–11pm
Get ready to rock! Enjoy a 70s Glam Rock band Glamstar live in the Great Hall from 8pm. Tickets £15 per person.
🎃 SATURDAY 31ST OCT – HALLOWEEN CELEBRATION | 1pm–11pm
Bring the whole family for a day of Halloween fun, with FREE entry for children! Enjoy face painting, a wandering magician, treats for children in their Halloween best and FREE witches’ potion juice for kids.
From 8pm, enjoy Glamstar live and enter the HALLOWEEN COSTUME COMPETITION! Get those costumes ready!
🍷 Not a beer or cider fan? Wine and gin will also be available throughout the festival!
🐾 Family-friendly, dog-friendly and packed with Halloween spirit!
📍Le Gothique, Royal Victoria Patriotic Building, SW18 3SX
🎟️ BOOK HERE.
This Sunday in Tooting! The RM Sotheby’s London to Brighton Veteran Car Run will pass through Tooting on Sunday 1st November at around 7.10am to 9.20am.
Hundreds of remarkable veteran cars, their drivers and their passengers – many in period costume – will make their way on the 60-mile journey to Brighton, in the world’s longest-running motoring event!
Full info and route map via veterancarrun.com
The next Mega Skip Day takes place from 9am this Saturday 31st October, in seven locations around Wandsworth, including Tooting. Skips will close when they’re full, or 12 noon – whichever comes first.
Mega Skip Days are an opportunity for people to dispose of bulky items for free. Large skips are placed in neighbourhoods around the borough for all local residents to use.
The skips are open to residents of the London Borough of Wandsworth only. Proof of address may be required on the day.
The skips will be in the following places:
📍 Church Lane car park, SW17 9PP
📍 Acanthus Road, SW11 5TY
📍 Alton estate, SW15 4DU
📍 Larch Close, SW12 9SY
📍 Malva Close, SW18 2JU
📍 McDermott Close, SW11 2LY
📍 Putney Park Lane, SW15 5HU
More info, including details of what you can bring and when the skips will be open, via Wandsworth Council.
Want to know what events are happening in Tooting, or want to add your own event(s)? Check out our Tooting Events Page!
Tooting-based property advisor Homes with Chuk on prepping your house sale for 2027 – plus three cosy homes for viewing this Autumn...
“Hibernation season is here. 🍂 The clocks go back this weekend, which means darker evenings, colder mornings and a lot more time at home. The perfect excuse to really appreciate where you live.
“With the Budget coming up next week (28th October), buyers and sellers will be watching closely. And if selling is on your 2027 list, the prep starts now. A conversation early gives you time to plan your launch.
“In the meantime, here are three homes worth staying in for, all with underfloor heating to keep your tootsies toasty this winter. 👣
01 / Pentney Road, Hyde Farm SW12
Four bedrooms with real personality. A slipper bath with rooftop views, original fireplaces and a kitchen made for long Sunday lunches. Plus off-street parking, so no scraping the car on frosty mornings.
02 / Fieldhouse Road, Hyde Farm SW12
A two bedroom maisonette with a bay window seat for rainy afternoons, a fireplace to gather round, and a garden of your own. Plus a loft with room to grow (subject to permissions).
03 / Streatham Road SW16
Three bedrooms and a converted garage at the end of the garden, so the commute is a walk across the lawn. Plus a loft to imagine tomorrow (subject to permissions).
“Want more details on any of these? Drop me an email at hello@homeswithchuk.co.uk and we’ll have a chat and arrange a viewing. ☕
“Born and raised in Tooting. Looking after a small handful of homes across Tooting, Balham and Streatham personally.”
Need some property advice? Email Chuk at hello@homeswithchuk.co.uk, call 07940 546 190, or pop into Tooting Works at 89 Bickersteth Road and ask for him at reception!
If your roof has been damaged by the strong winds affecting the area, local roofing firm Astute Roofing & Building are available for call-outs 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
From missing tiles and roof leaks to full roof replacements, the family-run roofing company are here to help protect your home, with fantastic reviews on Google (5 Stars) & Checkatrade (9.86/10 rating).
✅ FREE roof inspections
✅ Storm damage and roof repairs
✅ Tile, slate, felt and lead work
✅ Fascias, soffits and guttering
✅ Insurance work welcome
✅ Free quotations
Founded in Balham, Astute are proud to serve local residents with reliable workmanship and a team of qualified roofing professionals.
To get in touch:
📞 07880 344 018
☎️ 01293 823 557
📧 info@astuteroofing.co.uk
🌐 astuteroofing.co.uk
There are lots of business offering discounts for NHS, emergency service workers and students in Tooting, Earlsfield and Furzedown!
We’ve created a list of businesses offering discounts – visit our Tooting Discounts Page to find out more. And don’t forget to check back as we update the page!
Congratulations to Tooting born and raised singer-songwriter Raye, who last week won the 2026 Mercury Prize for her show-stopping second album, This Music May Contain Hope.
It is the first time a pop album has won the prestigious prize (which recognises the best British or Irish album of the last year) - since 1994, when M People triumphed with Elegant Slumming.
Raye’s album - a pop record steeped in vintage Hollywood glamour, beat the likes of Sir Paul McCartney, Olivia Dean and Jade to win the £25,000 prize.
Full story via BBC News.
You may remember that last March, Raye put a local street in the spotlight with her single Nightingale Lane – even inspiring a commemorative plaque outside The Nightingale pub in Balham! The song tells the story of her greatest heartbreak, set on the South London street where her first love kissed her goodbye.
Photo credit (1): Getty Images
Vermicelli in Tooting is now open for Christmas bookings! 🎄 From 14 November, Vermicelli in Tooting Market will be serving its full Christmas Menu – a festive take on authentic Italian cooking, made fresh from scratch as always!
Starters include tuna carpaccio, porcini and truffle arancini, and a smoked salmon and goat’s cheese bruschetta, with soft-shell crab available as a supplement.
For mains, there’s a strong mix of pasta and pizza: butternut squash gnocchi with vodka sauce and fillet steak (or a vegetarian wild mushroom swap), pappardelle with crispy duck, a Christmas carbonara, and a lobster tail and prosecco bisque vermicelli. Vegetarian options are available throughout, including a mushroom-based “Christmas meatball.”
Desserts include a fig and mixed nut crostata, a pistachio and buffalo mozzarella tortino dolcezze, and a classic chocolate soufflé.
Two courses £30 | Three courses £36
Early booking is recommended at the independent, family run Italian restaurant – Christmas menu tables go quickly!
📍 Vermicelli, Tooting Market, 21-23 Tooting High St, SW17 0SN
🎄 Christmas Menu available from 14 November
🔗 Book HERE.
Calling all Wandsworth Carers aged 12-18! Sidequest is a free weekend drop-in for young carers who live or go to school in Wandsworth.
Young carers are young people who help look after a family member, often a parent or sibling with an illness, disability, mental health need or addiction. Many of them take on a lot at home and have little time that is just for them. Sidequest offers a relaxed, welcoming space to take a break, have fun, try new things and meet others in a similar situation.
Where and when: Furzedown Youth Centre, 236 Welham Rd, SW16 6TJ, every Sunday, 1pm to 4pm.
The programme runs until 6 December 2026.
Each week has a different focus, including DJ workshops, games and creative activities, alongside space to chill and socialise. No booking or experience is needed; young people can just turn up. The sessions are led by experienced, safeguarding-trained staff.
Sign up HERE.
ShowerBox, a free shower service, is partnering with Spires to bring free showers to people facing homelessness in Tooting. Showers will be available every Monday, starting this Monday 2 November, 9am–11am, at St. Nicholas Church, Church Ln, SW17 9PP.
Spires has run the drop-in at St. Nicholas Church for a year and a half and is excited to expand what it can offer to its service users.
ShowerBox will bring their free, hot, fully stocked showers to Spires’ drop-in, filling an urgent need for people impacted by homelessness in the community who currently have limited access to free hygiene facilities in Wandsworth. The showers will operate on a first come, first served basis and will include shampoo, shower gel, freshly laundered towels, and new underwear.
Shirley Harper, Housing and Homelessness Coordinator at Spires, said “We are excited to be able to provide free showers at our service. Every individual deserves to feel clean. It’s a basic human right that people facing homelessness often must go without.”
Spires’ other South London drop-ins include:
Monday
Rough Sleeper’s Drop-In, 9am-11:30am, St Nicholas Church, Church Lane, Tooting, SW17 9PP
Tuesday
Rough Sleeper’s Drop-In, 9am-11:30am, St Luke’s Church, 13 Norwood High Street, SE27 0DT
Refugee Housing Support Service, 1pm-3pm, West Croydon Baptist Church, Whitehorse Road, Croydon, CR0 2JH
Thursday
Rough Sleeper’s Drop-In, 9am-11:30am, Streatham United Reformed Church, 388 Streatham High Road, SW16 6HX
Women’s Space, 9am-12pm, Elmfield House, 5 Stockwell Mews, SW9 9GX
Friday
Rough Sleeper’s Drop-In, 9am-11:30am, St Luke’s Church, 13 Norwood High Street, SE27 0DT
For more information, visit www.spires.org.uk
BRM Jewellery has opened at 3 Selkirk Road, (where Harrington’s Pie & Mash was previously located) selling jewellery and offering bespoke pieces, engravings, engagment & wedding rings, and more.
BRM already have a site and workshop in Hatton Garden, and are excited to open a premises in SW17!
Open 9.30am-5.30pm, Monday to Sunday. More info at brmjewellery.co.uk
Congratulations and good luck to the team!
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