Balham Christmas Lights Switch-On and Christmas holiday clubs

Dear NappyValleyNetter, 

Welcome to your weekly What’s On activity guide from NappyValleyNet!

December has arrived and the days until they break up are numbered. It always catches me out; present-buying days are now limited. Don’t let 25^th of the month lull you into a false sense of security. Draw up your lists, shoe-horn in your shopping opps, and try not to eat their advent calendar chocolate. Keep one eye on our calendar – always close at hand and handy for festive planning (read more).

Looking for a new place to lay your hat? We have homes for sale and to rent right across the Nappy Valley area, with school catchments and distances to help your search tick all the right boxes (read more).

Take a look at these four properties from our Preferred Property Partners

For sale with John Thorogood is an unusually wide 5-bedroom family house on a sought-after street close to Clapham Common, Clapham South tube and Northcote Road, extended laterally at the back with plenty of south-facing light from the 48ft south-facing secluded garden laid with lawn and decking (read more).

For sale with Rampton Baseley is a 5-bedroom family house set on a popular residential street ‘Between the Commons’ and close to Northcote Road and Clapham Junction, recently renovated to a very high standard with a great sense of light and space, and an open plan kitchen family room opening onto a pretty landscaped garden (read more).

For sale with Marsh & Parsons is a 4-bedroom family house in Barnes, completely re-built on a corner plot with plenty of natural light, a large open-plan kitchen reception room and separate study, and a wonderful garden with a detached annexe ideal for a home office (read more).

If you’re thinking of selling, letting or airbnb’ing your property, Portico can give you a valuation in just 60 seconds with their instant valuation tool (read more).

Christmas comes but once a year…

Just opened at the Battersea Arts Centre is another Sleeping Trees production, Goldilocks and the Three Musketeers, full of festive fun and high-jinx guaranteed to capture the imagination and tickle the funny bones of everyone in the family (read more).

Après-Ski at The Cheesegrater is an 80s inspired Christmas experience with faux trees, chalet bars, mince pies and mulled wine, and an authentic Courcheval ski lift cable car in which to enjoy your post-work drinks. And tonight’s pop-up cinema is showing Miracle on 34^th Street…oh so Christmassy! (read more)

‘Tis the night for the Southwest Songbirds’ charity Christmas concert in Earlsfield supporting local families with disabled children (read more).

And the Paul’s Cancer Support Centre Christmas carol concert is in Putney with the Fulham Camerata in fine voice and festive readings too (read more).

Or head to Jefferson’s in Balham tonight, not for ice cream and waffles but for Festive Crafts & Hot Chocolate – you’ll make your own cards and gift tags (read more).

Hayman’s Gin comes over all festive at their Wreath Making Workshop this evening, inspired of course, by botanicals (read more).

And just down the road on Friday is the Brindisa Deli Shopping Day where you’ll find seasonal discounts, tempting tastes and festive specialities. Make it a Spanish Christmas – olé! (read more).

Meet the man himself and enjoy Santa Storytime at Wandswoth Town Library tomorrow. It’s entirely free but be on best behaviour…the elf on the (book)shelf will be watching..(read more).

The Bach to Baby Christmas Family Concert will feature magical music, festive frolics, sparkles and spice, so hop on your reindeer and head on over! (read more)

Try your hand Printmaking Christmas Cards at Turner’s House in Twickenham this weekend. Drop in and get designing – love a homemade card! (read more)

It’s the Newton Prep Christmas Fair on Saturday with bouncy castle, bungee run, Santa’s Grotto, cider and churros and a shopping emporium including the school’s own ‘Junior Entrepreneurs’! (read more)

And it’s Rutherford House Christmas Fair too with festive food stalls, Christmas music, games and crafts and another Santa’s grotto – the man sure can multi-task (read more).

Sunday sees the Balham Christmas Lights Switch-On on Hildreth Street with an afternoon of family entertainment, live music, mulled wine and all things Christmas with stores open as well as stalls – it’s even Paella Sunday at Brindisa! (read more)

The Lead Tin Studio Christmas Fair is for lovers of all things stationery and lots else besides – arts & crafts, jewellery, ceramics and cake, glorious cake! (read more)

Eddie Catz celebrates St Nicholas’ Day in Wimbledon soon, with Polish market stalls, music, entertainment, food and fun (read more).

This Sunday is the Elf Movie & Dance Christmas Party at The Exhibit featuring the film followed by crazy elf dancing – fun, fun, fun! (read more)

More creativity, this time Contemporary Wreath-Making at Neal’s Nurseriesusing a unique selection of dried flowers, with mince pies and bubbles to kick the evening off (read more).

Baby Gospel Christmas hits Putney soon with London’s CK Gospel Choir raising the roof from Winter Wonderland to Jingle Bells and Hark the Herald Angels. Sounds like you won’t get away without feeling festive! (read more)

Monday sees a Christmas Yoga & Mindfulness Event at Chatham Hall with a few spaces still available, raising funds for Glassdoor for the third year running, a local charity supporting the homeless in our area (read more)

In non-Christmas news..

Calling all little ones from Reception to Year 2 – you’re invited to try out a Solasta Dance Tap and Modern Dance Class for free over the next two weeks. Could this be the start of something they love? (read more)

Make the most of a Weekend Paediatric First Aid Course with the award-winning First Aid for Life in Balham. Could be the best thing you’ve ever done with a Saturday (read more).

In between the festivities, there’s still work for some and Exceptional Academics is holding a Mock Exam for 11+ and 13+ students gearing up for those testing January tests (read more).

Tooting Bump Club is a regular monthly get together of mums-to-be (be it your first or fifth!) on Tooting Bec Common, the chance to walk and talk, exercising while socialising with your bumps in common – love it! (read more)

GrillJam is London’s newest Winter BBQ Festival down Peckham way, serving up jam hot vibes on an iconic rooftop soon. I can just hear the sizzle and the Bavarian-style beer hall, and the live DJs…Mr NVN has just hot footed it out of the door (he’ll be a bit early!). Must have been BBQ and beer hall in the same breath…(read more).

Christmas clubs – school’s out soon!

Yellowbird Education 7+, 8+ & 11+ English Skills Booster will have them brushing up those exam techniques pre-exam season (read more).

Jingle Bell Movie Making Workshop run by Sparks will have them making and starring in a show-stopping musical production (read more).

8+ Mono-Printing Session at Lavender Leonardo’s will have them exploring mark-making and bringing home prints made by their own fair hands (read more).

And Open Air Fit’s Multi-Sport Christmas Kids’ Camps will have them running around in the fresh air of Wandsworth Common joining in on all sorts of sports, fun and games (read more).

And finally..

Our NappyValleyNet Twelve Days of Christmas is well underway! Come one, come all, enter one, enter them all! Today is Day 4 and we have a bra fitting and lingerie set at Amélie’s Follies up for grabs; tomorrow you could win a luxurious facial at The Lemon Tree, and the weekend treats include a cut and blow-dry at Mint London and a family ticket to see Oi Frog & Friends Live on Stage in the West End. Don’t delay – join in today! (read more)

That’s it. Whatever you do, have fun! (read more)

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