Join us for the 16th edition of our family friendly Fruit Day on Saturday 12th September 2026!
You will find us at St Mark's Church Hall, St Mark's Place, Wimbledon, London SW19 7ND. We'll be there between 11am and 2.30pm.
We'll have delicious jams, chutneys, cakes and pies on sale. We will also have a plant stall and local honey for sale. There will be fun for all the family with plenty activities for all ages including apple pressing, apple pie-making for children and competitions and some prize draws.
Musical entertainment will again be provided the NEW Mugs, a ukulele band from New Malden.
FRUIT & CHARITABLE DONATIONS
Fruit Day is the culmination of hard work picking fruit from July onwards. 2025 was a particularly busy year as the hot summer had produced so much fruit. We picked over 3000 kilos!
Fruit donations were made to various oragnisations including the Dons Foodbank, Sustainable Merton Community Fridge, Faith in Action, Wimbledon Guild, Merton & Morden Guild, as well as care homes and churches. An estimated 240kg of apples were used for juicing on Fruit Day! 2025 Fruit Day raised almost £4,000 through sales and donations, a record - much of which will be distributed amongst various local charities and good causes. Donations in 2024 were made to the following:
We are delighted to support these wonderful organisations. May our contributions allow them to continue their hugely important work within our community! FANCY VOLUNTEERING IN 2026?
At Abundance Wimbledon, we rely on volunteers to do the good work we do, and we are always looking for more enthusiastic helpers to join our wonderful community.
Our volunteering opportunities typically run from July to September and include:
If you are interested, please get in touch here. Please provide a contact number and include details of which activity you are interested in. |
LAST YEAR´S FRUIT DAY SUCCESS!
We held our 15th Annual Fruit Day on Saturday 13th September 2025. Despite the forecast of rain (it held off till 2pm), it was a great success with plenty of visitors, including the Mayor of Merton.
We had stalls brimming with fresh apple juice, cakes, jams, jellies, marmalades, and chutneys, all made by volunteers using the surplus fruit picked locally by our fruit pickers. We had honey and plant stalls, pie making, games and storytelling for children, competitions and a raffle, and entertainment from the NEW Mugs. Check out our photos from this year's event to relive the happy day, or for those who are new to Abundance Wimbledon, for a flavour of what Fruit Day is! Credit: Paul Gapper Photography MARMALADE & JAM MASTERCLASSES
Once again Liz will be running marmalade making workshops in Wimbledon in January and February. The workshops will be held at the Trinity Church Hall on Mansell Road, Wimbledon on Wednesday 28th January and Monday 2nd February, both at 10:30 am.
Please use the link below to let Liz know if you would like to join a workshop, and which date. They are great fun! Even a seasoned marmalade maker can pick up new tips. You can take two jars of marmalade home and the remaining jars will go on sale at Abundance Fruit Day later in the year. Last year we even made a delicious cake while the marmalade was cooking. If you are interested, sign up via email here. Watch this space for news on Sue's jam-making masterclasses in 2026. These sessions involve start to finish hands-on tuition on how to made 3x different types of delicious homemade jam: Apple & Blackberry, Rhubarb and Ginger, and Abundance Wimbledon's bestseller at Fruit Day, Somerset Jam. If you missed out last year and would like to register your interest in attending a future jam masterclass, click here. WATCH THIS VIDEO
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