Abundance Wimbledon Newsletter
June 2025
WELCOME TO OUR JUNE 2025 NEWSLETTER
FRUIT DAY 2025
Preparations for our annual Fruit Day are underway. We hope to provide the usual mix of musical entertainment and children’s activities, along with the plant, jam and cake stalls, a longest peel competition and a raffle.
While we are sad that the Colliers Wood Ukelele Orchestra cannot play for us this year, we are excited to welcome The New MUGs, a ukelele band from New Malden.www.facebook.com/TheNewMUGs/
SAVE THE DATE
Saturday 13th September, 11.00am - 2.30pm
St Mark's Church Hall and grounds
Wimbledon
SW19 7ND
BAKING
This year we are going to include a popular recipe from one of our bakers with this newsletter. We hope this will encourage you to bake for Fruit Day. Our cake stall is always the first to sell out! You can always make and freeze cakes in advance of the day.
Every year the demand for gluten free cakes and vegan cakes increases. If you have any good recipes please let us know and if you would like to make some for Fruit Day, better still!
Please go to the end of the newsletter for Barbara’s recipe for Dutch Apple Cake.
JAM-MAKING MASTERCLASS IN APRIL
Our jam manager, Sue Lovell-Greene, ran another successful jam making class in April.
The master class was an opportunity to learn from an expert and meet other jam makers. Those who attended will join the team that makes the delicious home-made preserves that are so popular on Fruit Day. Many thanks to Sue for running the class.
Thanks also to Liz who ran two marmalade making workshops, producing 64 jars of marmalade to sell on Fruit Day.
DO YOU HAVE EXCESS FRUIT IN YOUR GARDEN?
Our friendly teams pick fruit right across the borough of Merton. The fruit will either be donated to a local charity or turned into delicious produce for our Fruit Day (where again, proceeds go straight back to community charities).
If you would like to donate fruit from trees in your garden or know a park that is becoming overgrown with gorgeous fruit we would love to hear from you. Please click on the link below.
Donate fruit
VOLUNTEERING IN 2025
Abundance Wimbledon is made up entirely of friendly, enthusiastic volunteers. If you are interested in taking part we would love to hear from you.
Here are some of the ways you could help:
Volunteer
OUR NEXT NEWSLETTER
We will be in touch in July when the fruit picking season gets under way.
Best wishes and sincere thanks from us all,
Juliet and the team at Abundance Wimbledon.
p.s. You can find all our past newsletter issues here, and if you're not already subscribed, you can subscribe here. You can also find us on social media: Instagram, X (Twitter), and Facebook.
DUTCH APPLE CAKE
(from Jewish Cookbook by Evelyn Rose)
You will need a greased baking tin 30x18x3 cm and the oven heated to 180C fan or equivalent.
Barbara says “I am notorious within my family for never following a recipe completely so here are my notes/comments:
FRUIT DAY 2025
Preparations for our annual Fruit Day are underway. We hope to provide the usual mix of musical entertainment and children’s activities, along with the plant, jam and cake stalls, a longest peel competition and a raffle.
While we are sad that the Colliers Wood Ukelele Orchestra cannot play for us this year, we are excited to welcome The New MUGs, a ukelele band from New Malden.www.facebook.com/TheNewMUGs/
SAVE THE DATE
Saturday 13th September, 11.00am - 2.30pm
St Mark's Church Hall and grounds
Wimbledon
SW19 7ND
BAKING
This year we are going to include a popular recipe from one of our bakers with this newsletter. We hope this will encourage you to bake for Fruit Day. Our cake stall is always the first to sell out! You can always make and freeze cakes in advance of the day.
Every year the demand for gluten free cakes and vegan cakes increases. If you have any good recipes please let us know and if you would like to make some for Fruit Day, better still!
Please go to the end of the newsletter for Barbara’s recipe for Dutch Apple Cake.
JAM-MAKING MASTERCLASS IN APRIL
Our jam manager, Sue Lovell-Greene, ran another successful jam making class in April.
The master class was an opportunity to learn from an expert and meet other jam makers. Those who attended will join the team that makes the delicious home-made preserves that are so popular on Fruit Day. Many thanks to Sue for running the class.
Thanks also to Liz who ran two marmalade making workshops, producing 64 jars of marmalade to sell on Fruit Day.
DO YOU HAVE EXCESS FRUIT IN YOUR GARDEN?
Our friendly teams pick fruit right across the borough of Merton. The fruit will either be donated to a local charity or turned into delicious produce for our Fruit Day (where again, proceeds go straight back to community charities).
If you would like to donate fruit from trees in your garden or know a park that is becoming overgrown with gorgeous fruit we would love to hear from you. Please click on the link below.
Donate fruit
VOLUNTEERING IN 2025
Abundance Wimbledon is made up entirely of friendly, enthusiastic volunteers. If you are interested in taking part we would love to hear from you.
Here are some of the ways you could help:
- Fruit Picking - we pick from July to September in gardens and allotments across the borough. Equipment is provided and each pick is typically a couple of hours.
- Drivers - for example delivering fruit to jam makers or charities
- Jam, chutney, cordial and jelly makers
- Volunteers on Fruit Day - helping on stalls, helping with apple pressing etc.
- Gardeners - for plants to sell on Fruit Day - please label your plants.
- Bakers – make cakes and freeze them for Fruit Day
Volunteer
OUR NEXT NEWSLETTER
We will be in touch in July when the fruit picking season gets under way.
Best wishes and sincere thanks from us all,
Juliet and the team at Abundance Wimbledon.
p.s. You can find all our past newsletter issues here, and if you're not already subscribed, you can subscribe here. You can also find us on social media: Instagram, X (Twitter), and Facebook.
DUTCH APPLE CAKE
(from Jewish Cookbook by Evelyn Rose)
You will need a greased baking tin 30x18x3 cm and the oven heated to 180C fan or equivalent.
- Add 150g self raising flour, ½ tsp baking powder and 75 g caster sugar to a mixing bowl.
- Melt 40g butter in a jam jar and add 125 ml milk and an egg. Shake till well mixed, add to the flour etc in the mixing bowl and mix to smooth batter.
- Pour into tin. Brush the surface with 25g melted butter and top with overlapping slices of cooking apple (500g).
- Sprinkle the top with 100g granulated sugar mixed with 1 tsp cinnamon.
- Bake for 35 minutes.
- Eat, warm with ice cream or cold as cake.
Barbara says “I am notorious within my family for never following a recipe completely so here are my notes/comments:
- I don’t have the size tin recommended in the recipe so I use a smaller one, about 24x19cm, which works fine. In fact the batter is quite thinly spread even with this smaller size so I’m not sure how it would fill the bigger tin. Use what you’ve got; it will be fine.
- I only need about half the suggested amount for sprinkling on top; I usually make up the full amount and keep the rest in a small jar for next time.
- When the apple season finishes, I move on to other fruit. It seems to work fine with plums (large ones sliced; cherry plums halved -and straight from the freezer).”
