Abundance Wimbledon Newsletter
October 2025
WELCOME TO OUR OCTOBER 2025 NEWSLETTER
Thank you to everyone who contributed to making our fifteenth Fruit Day a success!
Thank you to our visitors, including our first visitor, the Mayor of Merton, who all came despite the forecast of rain. Thank you to our valiant army of volunteers on the Apple Press chopping, crushing, bottling and selling. Jam makers, cake bakers, plant givers, fruit pickers, fruit donors, fruit deliverers, volunteers running games for children and storytelling, volunteers on the stalls on the day and not forgetting the volunteers providing refreshments to fellow volunteers throughout the day.
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 are sorry if we did not manage to get to everyone who offered their fruit. We picked over 3000 kilos which was donated 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.
We made lots of jam, with over 800 jars of jam on sale! The apple juice was also a success.
We recorded sales and donations of nearly £4000 this year, a record for us. We shall be able to donate this to local charities and good causes, keeping back enough to fund future Fruit Days.
We were very well entertained by the NEW Mugs, a ukelele band from New Malden, https://www.facebook.com/TheNewMUGs/ It was their first year at Abundance and they were certainly a big hit, with everyone joining in with their singing.
The rain did not fall until 2pm, when it arrived with a vengeance.
Thanks to the local girlguiding team who ran the Longest Peel competition and the raffle. Dean defended his title of winner of the longest peel competition and picked up the prize for the second year running.
Gina Conway Wimbledon | Gina Conway Hair Salon, Spa & Skin Clinic Wimbledon very generously donated a £40 voucher which was awarded by Reverend Jane Andrews, vicar at St Marks. Rosie, who runs the cake stall, won the raffle and chose the voucher.
The second raffle prize was a basket containing a selection of the produce on offer on the day.
Mark from Paul Gapper Photography Wedding Photographer Wimbledon – Paul Gapper Photography took a stunning variety of pictures which have been uploaded onto the website. Abundance Wimbledon - What's On
In what is becoming a welcome tradition, the left over debris from the Apple Press was transported to Tamworth Farm Allotment Society to be added to the compost there.
OUR NEXT NEWSLETTER
We will be back in touch in 2026, when we will look forward to our next year of fruit picking and Fruit Day.
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Best wishes and sincere thanks from us all,
Juliet and the team at Abundance Wimbledon xx
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