Your What’s On activity guide from NappyValleyNet!

Last Updated on : 6th October 2022

Dear NappyValleyNetter,

Welcome to your weekly What’s On from NappyValleyNet!

October sees a bountiful harvest of events, openings, happenings, celebrations, festivals, shows and more going on in our neck of the woods. Don’t miss a thing – see what’s in our what’s on (read more).

Considering a move? With recent ructions in the financial markets, you may be wondering: should I stay or should I go? Tap into local market expertise and pick up the phone for a chat with those who know among our four local agents (read more).

Take a look at these homes from our Preferred Property Partners

For rent with Portico is a 4-bedroom Victorian terraced house close to Clapham South, a number of popular schools and Northcote Road, bright and airy throughout with a newly refurbished kitchen opening onto a pretty garden (read more).

For sale with Marsh & Parsons is a modern 4-bedroom family home built to very high standards and with over 1,600 sq ft of impressive living space split over three floors, just a stone’s throw from Wandsworth Common and Clapham Junction (read more).

For rent with Rampton Baseley is a split-level 2-double bedroom garden flat in a striking Victorian conversion on the Heaver Estate overlooking Tooting Bec Common and close to Balham, with a separate dining room/study, bike storage and 40ft garden (read more).

For sale with John Thorogood is a 4-bedroom 3-bathroom family home of over 2,100 sq ft on one of the most sought-after roads off Clapham Common West Side, extended into both the side return and loft with a large open-plan family/living room and spacious principal suite (read more).

Fairs, festivals, shows, spectacles

The Independent Schools Show is back again with the biggest ever open day featuring over 200 schools in Battersea Park at the same time. An opportunity too good to miss – tickets are free when you book in advance (read more).

Clapham Book Festival is running this month with literary walks in SW4 and author talks and readings at the Omnibus Clapham. For book worms and budding book worms, young and old (read more).

Battersea Power Station is opening next week with new pedestrianised high street, Electric Boulevard. To celebrate, there’s a Festival of Power over two October weekends with family-friendly activities and performances around the building’s great heritage (read more).

The Streatham Festival starts tomorrow and runs for almost ten days in SW16 with a packed schedule including ten hours of live music, StreatArt exhibitions and an art trail, photography workshops, old time music hall shows, Flamenco guitars and beyond (read more).

Don’t miss the Wandsworth Pop-Up Market in Southside, part of Black History Month and opening mid-October to sell greetings cards, children’s clothes, jewellery and more (read more).

Join a Talk & Tour at Trinity as part of Hospice Care Week. Royal Trinity Hospice is the oldest hospice in the UK and occupies stunning Grade II-listed Georgian buildings in Clapham Old Town. Find out more about this incredible charity in our midst (read more).

Battersea Park Fireworks are back with a bang this year and the sparkly spectacle runs over two evenings – the Sunday night having an earlier start time for families and a light installation instead of a bonfire. Guy Fawkes would be glad (read more).

Get your gladrags on for The Battersea Ball in November. New York New York is a charity ball to be held at the Battersea Evolution including dinner, dancing, dodgems and casino – fun! (read more)

With children in mind/in hand

The Parent Team Positive Parenting Course has just got underway online and you’re not too late to zoom into the ‘room’ for the next few Monday evenings. Time well spent (read more).

And the Preparing for the Teen Years Workshop is online this evening where you’ll learn about the adolescent changes going on in the brains and development of teenagers, and the most effective ways to communicate (read more).

First Aid for Life in Balham is running another of their award-winning Ofsted-registered Paediatric/First Aid at Work Courses in a bright studio in SW12 on Saturday. Whether you work or live with children, or have the responsibility in your office, sign up today (read more).

CeCe & Me children’s shoe fitting service is back in the area starting with a pop-up on Garratt Lane early next week. Take those twinkle toes along (read more).

Go lift the rafters at the next Baby Broadway family concert down Wimbledon way this weekend. Belt out belters from Frozen and Mary Poppins to Grease Lighting to make your little ones smile and sing (read more).

Grab this amazing offer from Playball London with both hands! 50% off the entire autumn term will see your three to eight-year-olds having fun and developing lifelong skills (read more).

Women’s fitness specialist, Jane Wake, has just launched a new website and is offering one free live class or a free week’s membership of on-demand Pilates-based classes devised with women in mind (read more).

Half term high jinks

Pack them off to Miniversity each day for an IT-led experience of a career – will they be an engineer, an architect, a filmmaker, coder or estate agent? (read more)

Sporty children aged from three-up-to-12 will love all that’s on offer with Julian Cousins’ Sports up by the tennis courts on Clapham Common, with a sibling discount available (read more).

Turn them into mini masterchefs at Young Holiday Classes with the Avenue Cookery School and then let them loose in your own kitchen to cook up a storm (read more).

ZebraSkate will be filling the half term days with skills and thrills on wheels over in Fulham, Kensington and at the Clapham Common skate park (read more).

Kimberley Swim Clinics are running their week-long crash courses for beginners or for those who already know how to make a splash. Dive in in SW17 (read more).

Open Air Fit will be running their ever-popular Multi-Sports Camps plus a separate two-day football camp, both up on Wandsworth Common with a lovely 10% off at Skylark Café – half term treats! (read more)

All Star Tennis Camps are award-winning and all about enjoying tennis in a super-fun environment, available at most courts in the neighbourhood (read more).

MAMA Codes Minecraft Coding Workshop is one of several on offer teaching coding concepts and skills while improving problem solving and logical reasoning (read more).

Kids Eden Camp is a new holiday club running for five-to-six-year-olds at Fresh Ground with fun and creative curriculum activities to keep them entertained and challenged (read more).

Sound Art & Multimedia School at the Landmark Arts Centre will teach them about sound installation, film and photography while making their own soundscape (read more).

Open Day season

Most of the following schools have more than one open day, so in each case we have listed the next date but each link shows all dates. Please always check before going along as most need to be booked in advance.

Here we list the next two week’s open days. Visit here to see our full listing.