THIS SATURDAY IN TOOTING! The wonderful Tooting Farmers Market is back from its summer break!
Come along and join them on 26 September, 9am-2pm, at St Nicholas Church and expect an amazing mix of lovely stalls offering some of the best in food, drinks, crafts, condiments and more!
This month sees Relax in London in attendance and they are giving away a free 10 minute non touch Pranic Healing for all!
Local collective South London Vinyl Experience will be there as usual to soundtrack the day with their eclectic mix of tunes and vibes.
Come along, soak up the atmosphere, and support the many local makers and producers!
📍 St Nicholas Church, corner of Mitcham Road and Church Lane, SW17 9PP
Dogs are of course very welcome! 🐶
🎶 FREE LIVE JAZZ AT AROMÉ CAFÉ IN TOOTING this Saturday 26th September, 5pm–7pm! 🎶
Camille Rose & Joseph Leighton play live on the café’s outdoor patio, with Happy Hour 4pm–8pm – Camden Hells & Level Head IPA for £5, 2-for-1 cocktails from £12 £14 £16.
Come for the jazz, stay for the atmosphere!
Aromé is open Monday to Friday 8am-10pm, Saturday 9am-10pm and Sunday 9am-9pm serving breakfast deals, lunch deals and Happy Hour every day plus homemade cakes, including birthday cakes available to pre-order. The café also takes bookings for private hire, and the beer garden and terrace are relaxed and pet and kid-friendly!
📍 Arome Cafe, 287 Mitcham Rd, London SW17 9JQ
More info on their Instagram.
Furzedown Community Network Quiz Night on Saturday 3rd October, fundraising for Furzedown Youth Centre!
Joni the quiz at Mitcham Lane Baptist Church Hall, for:
✅ Raffles, prizes & plenty of laughs
✅ A chance to win a private tour of the BBC Newsrooms and other fantastic prizes
✅ A very special guest host – BBC newsreader Maryam Moshiri, bringing her very own Mastermind round! 🤩
Bring your friends, bring your snacks, and bring your quiz A-game! 🏆
Doors open 6.30pm for a 7pm sharp start.
Tickets £8 for FCN members, £10 for non-members.
📧 Book: events@furzedown.net
Advance booking strongly recommended.
📍Mitcham Lane Baptist Church Hall, Welham Road, SW16 6NT
More info about FCN via their website.
Join Healthwatch Wandsworth, Ruils, Tooting’s St George’s Hospital and other local organisations for a special Healthwatch Wandsworth Assembly exploring hospital discharge, how it can be understood and improved.
Healthwatch wants to hear directly from patients and carers about their experiences, what worked well, what could have been better, and what needs to change.
The event will explore experiences of hospital discharge and identify further opportunities for improvement, supporting the implementation of the NHS England Carers and Hospital Discharge Toolkit.
📅 Thursday 1 October 2026
⏰ 3pm–5pm
📍 Earlsfield Library, 276 Magdalen Rd, London SW18 3NY
🎟️ Free to attend – register HERE.
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Have you or someone you care for recently left hospital? Healthwatch England wants to hear about your experience. Whether your discharge went smoothly or not, your experience can help improve health and care.
📅 The survey is open until 9th October 2026 – please share with family and friends.
👉 Take part HERE.
The next Mega Skip Day takes place from 9am this Saturday 26th September, 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.
More info, including details of what you can bring and when & where the skips will be open, via Wandsworth Council.
Bric-A-Brac Sale this Saturday 26th September at The Furzedown Project!
Find quality bric-a-brac, jewellery, hand-made children’s toys, delicious treats and more, with proceeds going to The Furzedown Project!
The Furzedown Project at 91-93 Moyser Road, SW16 6SJ, is an activity centre and social hub for people aged 50 and over, who’s mission is to increase people’s sense of wellbeing and reduce social isolation. More info on their website.
Tooting Tidy Litter Pick this Sunday 27th September from 11am!
Meet at the King’s Head pub, for a litter pick along residential streets down Upper Tooting Road. Equipment provided as usual, free coffees afterwards, and dogs and kids welcome!
More info via Tooting Tidy’s Instagram.
Harvest Hurrah at Tooting’s Fishponds Fields, 3pm-5pm this Saturday 26th September!
Friends of Fishponds will welcome local residents to celebrate the Fields harvest – the garden is brimming with tomatoes, beans, aubergines, chillies, squash and more! 🍅🫘🍆🌶
Come and taste what they’ve grown and enjoy generous refreshments, sit in their garden, and meet the friendly team (and your neighbours) and enjoy birds, bugs, and butterflies alongside the plants and flowers. 🦋🐞🐦 There’ll be arts and crafts too!
All ages welcome. To find out more, visit foreverfishponds.com or email Foreverfishponds@gmail.com
📍Fishponds Playing Fields’ entrance is located at 91a Hebdon Road, SW17 7NW.
Want to know what events are happening in Tooting, or want to add your own event(s)? Check out our new Tooting Events Page!
Tooting-based property advisor Homes with Chuk, has a new three-bedroom Tooting home about to hit the market… 👀🏡
“Tucked away on Church Lane, this house has plenty of personality, a lovely flow through the ground floor, two bathrooms and a private garden out back… and, its own supply of pears. 🍐😍
“Location-wise, you’re rather nicely placed too. Tooting Common is close by when you fancy some green space, while Tooting Broadway, the tube, markets, restaurants and everything else that makes SW17 tick are all within easy reach.
“But we’re not showing you everything just yet. Instead, here are a few little glimpses of a home that’s warm, interesting and very much somebody’s own.
“The full reveal is coming soon, but Tooting Newsie followers get a little peek first. Check out Instagram or Facebook for more info!👀
📍 Church Lane, Tooting
🏡 Three-bedroom house
🌿 Private garden
🍐 Pear tree included
“Want the details - or fancy seeing it before it hits the portals? Drop me an email.
“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!
🏸⚽ LOCAL SPORTS CLUBS: Instant Physio has been growing its partnerships with sports teams and clubs around Tooting and South West London, with two new clubs recently joining!
Ed from Instant Physio tells us, “We already partner with Tooting Run Club and Woodfield Grove Tennis Club, and we’ve recently partnered with FC Tooting Bec Women and St Margaret’s Badminton Club as well.
“We really enjoy working with local sports clubs. The idea is to support people with injuries, help them stay active and give clubs access to things like physio advice, strength and performance testing, educational sessions and member benefits.
“On Monday 28 September, Angus and I are heading down to a St Margaret’s Badminton Club training session with our force plates. Players will be able to have a go at testing things like their jump height and lower-limb strength, and everyone who takes part will go into a prize draw to win a free 30-minute massage.
“We’d really like to partner with a few more clubs around Tooting, Balham and the surrounding area. It doesn’t need to be a huge club. If you run a local football, rugby, tennis, badminton, running or other sports club, get in touch and tell us a bit about it.”
Instant Physio is a physio clinic in Tooting Bec offering physiotherapy, strength training and clinical massage, helping local people recover from injury and stay active.
📍 261 Balham High Road, Tooting Bec
📞 020 3488 2698
🔗 instantphysio.co.uk
🕘 Mon–Thurs: 8am–8pm | Fri: 8am–4pm | Sat: 8am–12pm
There’s an Open Morning at The White House Prep School in Balham on Saturday 3rd October!
The Open Morning will begin at 9:30am with guided tours with pupils from Year 6.
This year, an incredible 60% of children achieved scholarships in their 11+ exams with over 100 offers for 28 children, at schools including St Paul’s Boys, St Paul’s Girls, Dulwich College, Alleyn’s, Emmanuel, JAGS, Francis Holland, City of London Girls, Wimbledon High, Brighton College and more.
On the tour, you will be able to find out about their Super Curriculum which includes Nurture in Reception, Enterprise lessons, Choice and their Futures programme in Year 6 - areas where they can develop children’s natural curiosity to enhance their learning and interests outside the classroom.
The school offers wrap around care from 8am-6pm with 14 weeks of holiday camps if required.
The White House Prep welcomes children from ages 3-11 years old, celebrated its 40th Anniversary recently and is proud to still be family-owned and run, emphasising their core family values of Positivity, Respect, Kindness, Integrity and Perseverance.
BOOKINGS: Places for the event are limited so should you wish to attend, please RSVP by email to admissions@whitehouseschool.com
You can also find out more on their website.
The White House School is located at 24 Thornton Road, Balham, SW12 0LF.
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 bit.ly/tootingdiscounts to find out more. And don’t forget to check back as we update the page!
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Fancy trying somewhere NEW in Tooting? 👀 The Burdi rewards app has just launched Local Offers – designed to give you another reason to discover and support independent businesses around the neighbourhood!
They’re kicking things off with 50p coffees at Cup Coffee Tooting on Trinity Road over the next week! ☕ And there are plenty more exclusive local offers to discover:
🥗 £3.99 lunch at Squeezed
🍕 £5 off at Made In Puglia
☕ £1 coffee at Molten Toffee
👔 £7.50 off dry cleaning at Cutting Edge Dry Cleaners
🍗 £5 off lunch at Kimmie’s Jerk Joint
🥞 2 crêpes for £12 at Sugar And Lemon
🥟 £1 patties at Mixed Blessings Bakery
Simply download Burdi, claim a Local Offer in the app, and pay with Burdi in-store. Pay in full as normal and the offer will be applied automatically to the payment, plus you’ll earn Burdi points to spend at local venues with every payment too!
Just another reason to try somewhere local, and keep more of our everyday spending on Tooting’s high street. 💙
Another Tooting parkrun wedding! Congratulations to parkrunners Kate and Seb who got married after joining parkrun on Tooting Common! Not only that, but it was also Kate’s 100th Tooting parkrun!
Wishing Kate and Seb a lifetime of happy years (and parkrunning) together! 🎉🎉🎉
Tooting Common parkrun is a free, fun, and friendly weekly 5k community event (walk, jog, run, volunteer or spectate – it’s up to you) which takes place at 9am every Saturday at Tooting Common, Doctor Johnson Avenue, SW16 1RT.
Find out more about Tooting parkrun via their website.
Who’s spotted the Hovis ghost sign on Upper Tooting Road in Hovis’s ‘Strength Baked In’ advert? The local sign joins other ghost signs from around the country in the ad!
Thanks to local resident Andrew for the heads-up!
Meet Tom, who’s launched the Tooting Talk Club at The Furzedown Project.
Talk Club is a UK men’s mental health charity, which helps men improve their mental fitness through free peer-to-peer talking groups like this.
Tom lost his brother to suicide in 2023 and also his business partner a few months later – it’s a sad fact that suicide is the biggest killer of men under 50 and that many men struggle to talk about how they really feel. So when Tom learnt about Talk Club, he was inspired to become a volunteer Talk Club Captain (not a trained therapist) running sessions in the city and now in Furzedown, where he lives.
Every session starts with one simple question: “How are you? Out of 10?” Men then explain their number, building awareness, openness, and resilience.
Sessions are free, for men of all ages, every fortnight starting at 6:30pm. The next session takes place on Wednesday 7th October. Drop in or contact Tom on 07739305216 to find out more.
📍The Furzedown Project, 93 Moyser Rd, SW16 6SJ
There was an apple-pressing 🍏🍎 event at The Furzedown Project on Saturday, to help celebrate Wandsworth’s Sustainable September!
Apples had been collected from local gardens by volunteers, including Camilla & Debbie (who leads the Project’s gardeners’ group). Lots of people of all ages enjoyed having a go at crushing (”scratting”) the apples and pressing them to make fresh apple juice – which tasted delicious!
The Furzedown Project at 91-93 Moyser Road, SW16 6SJ, is an activity centre and social hub for people aged 50 and over, who’s mission is to increase people’s sense of wellbeing and reduce social isolation. More info on their website.
RELOCATED IN TOOTING: Oscar Barbers has moved to 24 Glenburnie Road in Tooting Bec (from their previous address at 733 Garratt Lane).
The owners say, “we’re excited to welcome our existing customers, new neighbours, local families and everyone around Glenburnie Road!”
🕒 Open 10am–7pm Monday to Friday, 9.30am–6pm Saturday, and 10am–5pm Sunday.
More info via their Instagram.
Congratulations and good luck to the team!
Tooting Broadway, c. 1908! Two small newspaper boys, no more than ten years old, stand in the middle of the roadway hoping to catch the attention of tram passengers or of passing pedestrians.
Placed on the pavement by the railings of the public toilets are two of the plough carriers for the tramway service. These were carried on the trams to gather the electric current from the roadway central slot or conduit as it was called.
From Images of England: Balham and Tooting, compiled by Patrick Loobey, ISBN 0-7524-2203-0
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