Abundance Wimbledon Newsletter
March 2025
WELCOME TO OUR FIRST NEWSLETTER OF 2025
At Abundance, preparations have already started for our annual event and we're delighted to say that the date is set.
As ever, it's in mid September, so dont forget to put Saturday, September 13th in your calendar.
SAVE THE DATE
Abundance Wimbledon - 15th Annual Fruit Day
Saturday 13th September, 11.00am - 2.30pm
St Mark's Church Hall and grounds
St Mark's Place,
Wimbledon
SW19 7ND
MARMALADE MAKING
We started 2025 with successful marmalade making sessions run by Liz.
Marmalade is always popular and sells well at Fruit Day. In late January and early February Liz ran two lively classes that gave enthusiasts a thorough understanding of the principles of marmalade making. Both were held at Trinity Church's Mansell Centre and both had 6 participants who between them made over 50 jars of Marmalade to sell on Fruit Day (as well, of course, as samples to take home!).
When fruit picking is underway, there will be a repeat course focussed on Windfall Marmalade. This delicious preserve uses windfall apples, grapefruit and lemon to create a delicious and unique marmalade.
JAM-MAKING MASTERCLASS IN MAY
This very popular class will run again in mid-May and as in previous years will be run by Sue Lovell-Greene. Relaxed and friendly, the course will give you the skills you need to wow your family and friends with homemade preserves (perfect gifts!).
The hands-on course is held in SW18, costs £30 and lasts 3 hours. The class will include all ingredients. You will make 3 kinds of jam and be able to take home a jar of each.Everyone is asked to bring their own jars and containers and places are limited to 6 per course.
To reserve your place or register your interest click on the link below.
Contact Sue to reserve your place / register interest
JAM JARS NEEDED
As you can imagine, every year Abundance Wimbledon requires a huge number of jam jars for the jam, marmalade, chutneys etc that are made by our wonderful volunteers. We are very grateful to everybody who donates clean jam jars.
This is what we do to prepare the thoroughly washed jars:
Contact Liz to donate jam jars
OUR NEXT NEWSLETTER
Our next newsletter will be in late May.
To get in touch with Abundance Wimbledon, or send any local news to our media editor please click on this link: Get in Touch
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.
At Abundance, preparations have already started for our annual event and we're delighted to say that the date is set.
As ever, it's in mid September, so dont forget to put Saturday, September 13th in your calendar.
SAVE THE DATE
Abundance Wimbledon - 15th Annual Fruit Day
Saturday 13th September, 11.00am - 2.30pm
St Mark's Church Hall and grounds
St Mark's Place,
Wimbledon
SW19 7ND
MARMALADE MAKING
We started 2025 with successful marmalade making sessions run by Liz.
Marmalade is always popular and sells well at Fruit Day. In late January and early February Liz ran two lively classes that gave enthusiasts a thorough understanding of the principles of marmalade making. Both were held at Trinity Church's Mansell Centre and both had 6 participants who between them made over 50 jars of Marmalade to sell on Fruit Day (as well, of course, as samples to take home!).
When fruit picking is underway, there will be a repeat course focussed on Windfall Marmalade. This delicious preserve uses windfall apples, grapefruit and lemon to create a delicious and unique marmalade.
JAM-MAKING MASTERCLASS IN MAY
This very popular class will run again in mid-May and as in previous years will be run by Sue Lovell-Greene. Relaxed and friendly, the course will give you the skills you need to wow your family and friends with homemade preserves (perfect gifts!).
The hands-on course is held in SW18, costs £30 and lasts 3 hours. The class will include all ingredients. You will make 3 kinds of jam and be able to take home a jar of each.Everyone is asked to bring their own jars and containers and places are limited to 6 per course.
To reserve your place or register your interest click on the link below.
Contact Sue to reserve your place / register interest
JAM JARS NEEDED
As you can imagine, every year Abundance Wimbledon requires a huge number of jam jars for the jam, marmalade, chutneys etc that are made by our wonderful volunteers. We are very grateful to everybody who donates clean jam jars.
This is what we do to prepare the thoroughly washed jars:
- Remove labels: If the label is stubborn you can use white spirit, but there are generally enough jars with easily removable labels, so feel free to put those with resistant labels in the recycling.
- Sniff test - the lid must not remind you of the original produce. So for example, no smell of chutney, curry paste or peanut butter!
- Size - people like medium or smaller jars of jam, large jars tend not to sell.
Contact Liz to donate jam jars
OUR NEXT NEWSLETTER
Our next newsletter will be in late May.
To get in touch with Abundance Wimbledon, or send any local news to our media editor please click on this link: Get in Touch
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.
