Your What’s On activity guide from NappyValleyNet!

Dear NappyValleyNetter, 

Welcome to your weekly What’s On from NappyValleyNet!

Feeling festive? Hard not to with the letterbox and inbox stuffed with ideas, shopping opps and discounts. It may only be mid-November, but festive offerings are popping up all around, not least in our very own neighbourhood. Sing, skate, sip and shop your way gracefully through (read more).

Need more space for your growing family? Our property pages have all the homes for sale and to rent in the area together with school catchments all mapped out should education be high up on your list of priorities (read more).

Feeling festive? Hard not to with the letterbox and inbox stuffed with ideas, shopping opps and discounts. It may only be mid-November, but festive offerings are popping up all around, not least in our very own neighbourhood. Sing, skate, sip and shop your way gracefully through (read more).

Take a look at these homes from our Preferred Property Partner

For rent with Rampton Baseley is a 5-bedroom family house on one of the most sought-after roads in the Nightingale Triangle, in excellent condition with a neutral theme throughout and a 37ft garden with side access (read more).

For sale with Marsh & Parsons is a 3-bedroom Victorian house of 1,200 sq ft in the popular Shaftesbury Estate within easy reach of Lavender Hill, Clapham Junction and Battersea Park, in good decorative order with a pretty patio garden and the potential to extend further (read more).

For rent with Portico is a 3-bedroom end-of-terrace house in the sought-after area of Bellevue Village, just off Wandsworth Common and within easy reach of the station and central Balham, with characterful open-plan living space and off-street parking (read more).

For sale with John Thorogood is a 3-bedroom Victorian terraced house on a popular road between the commons and close to several good schools, full of opportunity to extend and modernise into the side return, loft and cellar, subject to the usual consents (read more).

Loving local

Wimbledon Art Fair opens today, this twice-a-year joy when artists and makers throw open the doors of their studios to showcase and sell their work. It’s free, it’s fun, it’s family-friendly and it’s on all weekend. Go see! Also, brilliant for Christmas present buying! (read more)

Amélie’s Follies on Webb’s Road is celebrating turning 19 with a lovely 19% off, so treat yourself or treat it as a moment to treat others…treats galore! (read more).

Capital Garden’s Neal’s Nurseries is holding a Privilege Cardholder Weekend at the end of the month with a fab 15% off all purchases in-store. That’s Christmas sorted if your present list likes gardening, interiors, pets, furnishings, plants, candles and the rest! (read more).

Luxury Abahna candles and bathing products will be for sale in Balham next week at a tempting 60% off – brilliant stocking fillers, presents and gifts-for-self (read more).

Head to the World Heart Beat Academy’s 51^st State Band at Putney Arts Theatre tomorrow featuring the Latin Band for feelgood tunes to get your weekend off to an upbeat start (read more).

The Battersea Ball is back next weekend, a night in aid of charity in Battersea Park with dinner, dancing, dodgems, casino and raffle, all in the name of good local causes (read more).

Christmas is coming

Who’s managed to watch the new John Lewis ad without shedding a tear? If you want to have a go at skateboarding, perhaps a little, erm, later in life, then here’s how with Zebra Skate (read more).

And who can resist slip-sliding around on the glistening ice, maybe with the odd pirouette thrown in? Nappy Valley families have a whole new corner of London on offer this year – Glide has opened at Battersea Power Station. Twinkle and shimmer your way around (read more).

Watch out, there’s a donkey about. Or at least there will be in Balham next weekend. Head to the Parish Coffee Christmas Fair on Malwood Road for stalls aplenty, festive coffe, crafting for children, live jazz and a donkey (read more).

Ding dong merrily on high, it’s the Allfarthing Christmas Fair coming up soon promising family fun, mince pies and mulled wine and you can even order your Christmas tree in advance (read more).

St Mary Magdalene is hosting a Make your own Wreathmaking Workshop in early December. Follow a pro, get creative, sip some bubbles and raise money for Awareness Foundation (read more).

The Playhouse Playgroup invites little ones and their grown-ups to a morning packed with festive fun at their Christmas Party including a Christmas elf, tasty treats and a visit from Father Christmas himself. Ho, ho, ho! (read more)

Don’t miss tomorrow’s Clapham Junction Christmas Lights Switch-on opposite Arding & Hobbs with a visit from Father Christmas in his sleigh and music and joy all around (read more).

And the following weekend it’s Northcote Road’s turn with the turning on of the Christmas lights and carols, mulled wine and maybe even the occasional passing reindeer…(read more).

Tired of your efforts via Ikea or Tiger? Join the Lady Berry Gingerbread House Class and you too can produce a picture-perfect pastel sugar-craft gingerbread house. Just too good to eat! (read more)

Crackers, A Festive Family Farce opens at Polka Theatre Wimbledon on Saturday for its festive run, so wend your way to SW19 to meet the Cracker family who are trying to get ready for Christmas Day (read more).

The National Gallery’s Picture Perfect Christmas Show opens next weekend for a Christmas treat not to be missed. World-famous Avercamp’s ‘A Winter Scene with Skaters near a Castle’ is transferred from canvas to gallery in this first-of-a-kind theatrical production within the gallery itself. Family-friendly and magical (read more).

Life lessons

Exceptional Academics is running an 11+ Saturday School for current Year 5s, based at Belleville Primary starting in January for the spring term, with English, Maths, VR and NVR (read more).

Join The Parent Team’s Understanding & Increasing Motivation Online Workshop to pick up some pointers as to how to keep your children focused and engaged (read more).

How to talk to children about death is a webinar run by Poppy’s offering advice for those who have experienced a death recently or helping to prepare our children for the world around them (read more).

School visits

Belleville Wix Academy is opening its doors for the second of this week’s open days today (read more).

And Eaton Square Senior School has an Open Morning on Piccadilly this very morning too – be quick! (read more)

Swaffield Primary School has an open morning tomorrow (read more).

Shaftesbury Park Primary is holding a series of open mornings this month to showcase its Bilingual and Enterprise streams (read more).

The Roche School Nursery Open Day is next Wednesday (read more).

That’s it – have fun

Love, 

Annabel & the NappyValleyNet team