Furzedown Project

Hats off to our glorious ‘Ascot Ladies Day’ themed tea party on Friday, in the beautiful gardens of the Streatham Park Bowls Club.

The ladies dressed up for the occasion and enjoyed celebratory bubbles, a delicious cream tea, music, dancing and games, with great sing-a-long performance from

Followed by an exciting horse race featuring guest jockeys Matt on Hurricane Howden, Aimee the Pocket Rocket, Sandra Mrs 3 Legs and the winner - lightening!

A big thank you to the Bowls Club, Howden insurance and all our volunteers who supported us at this fun event!

Howden Insurance

Wandsworth Talking Therapies will be at The Furzedown Project on Wednesday mornings for 6 weeks, starting on 25th July

Are you an older adult looking for support, connection, and practical ways to improve your wellbeing - or do you know someone who is?

Join our FREE 6-week Talking Therapies group, starting Wednesday 15th July, from 10am –12:00pm.

This supportive programme offers a safe and welcoming space to explore:

• Coping with loneliness and isolation
• Managing grief and loss
• Living well with long-term health conditions
• Building confidence and emotional wellbeing

In addition, there are FREE one-to-one wellbeing sessions available for those who would benefit from personalised support.

Free to attend, places are limited - no drop-ins please!

To find out more or book your place, please contact The Furzedown Project.

Friday afternoons are getting competitive with our ‘International Games Club’ launching at The Furzedown Project!

Starting from 26 June, we’ll be enjoying fun afternoons playing games from across the world such as Carrom — the classic tabletop game of Indian origin in which players flip or flick discs, attempting to knock them to the corners of the board, similar to billiards…
Whether you’re a seasoned player or trying it for the first time, come and have a go!

As our members are of so many different nationalities we hope to share other great games (Jamaican dominoes anyone?) - and of course we’ll also have your favourite classic board games to enjoy like Backgammon, Ludo and Cluedo - bringing people together for laughter, strategy, and great conversation!

Every Friday 1:30pm – 3:30pm, just £3 a session.
We always welcome new members and have lots of other great activities on offer. Come along, meet new people, and enjoy a relaxing social afternoon in a warm and welcoming space!

Please contact the Project if you’d like to join our special Carrom session - let us know if you’ve played before or want to try something new. 

The Furzedown Project’s plant sale is on this Saturday 16th May from 10am to 2pm, outside the Project, weather permitting, inside if wet!

We will have a great variety of plants, including bedding flowers, house plants and veg, all at very reasonable prices. Helpers will be there to share knowledge and advice about the plants.

We also will be selling plant accessories, and by public demand, our wonderful preserves.

Raising money to support our activities and outreach services. Please come along and tell your friends and neighbours

Our plant sale is on this Saturday 16th May from 10am to 2pm, outside the Project, weather permitting, inside if wet!

We will have a great variety of plants, including bedding flowers, house plants and veg, all at very reasonable prices. Helpers will be there to share knowledge and advice about the plants.
We also will be selling plant accessories, and by public demand, our wonderful preserves.

Raising money to support our activities and outreach services. Please come along and tell your friends and neighbours

We are hosting the first BTF (Balham, Tooting & Furzedown) Neighbourhood Carers’ event in The Project on Wednesday 29 April, 10am to 12:30pm.

Meet local teams from the Primary Care Network, Social Services, Age UK, Wandsworth Care Alliance and many more useful contacts - it’s a great chance get advice, share your views and strengthen community bonds!

All carers are welcome. Please tell anyone you know who is a carer and who may not be online, there will be refreshments.

No need to register, just drop in and chat - but if possible let us know so we can cater for numbers: https://forms.office.com/e/YGzpapqGj9

Thank you to everyone who voted for The Furzedown Project in the Balham Waitrose’s wonderful Green Token scheme.

Our Director Sandra was delighted to pick up the impressive cheque from the manager Anthony and his staff!

Fundraising initiatives like this are really important for small independent charities like ours so please pick up tokens to vote for local causes - we rely on donations, grants and memberships fees to keep going!

Wishing a very happy Easter to all our members, supporters and Furzedown friends!

These cute little characters featured in our sale last weekend, hand knitted by one of our wonderful supporters… and they helped us raise an amazing £1,403 towards our activities & outreach.

If you’d like to get our monthly email-news with what’s coming up, please email [email protected]

Best foot forward!
The Project’s Perambulators is our long established walking group who meet every month for walks of between 5 and 10 miles, within easy travelling distance from the Project.

There were 14 Project members on Tuesday, walking to Richmond Park and enjoying the amazing views across King Henry’s Mound.

The next Furzedown Perambulators walk is on Tuesday 28th April. We are walking along the River Wandle from Colliers Wood to it’s mouth where it joins the Thames at Wandsworth. It’s a level walk of about 5 miles on solid paths with an easy bus journey back to Tooting.

Fancy joining us? We welcome new members any time, please contact the Project reception or email Philip [email protected]

We also have shorter, relaxed walks locally with the Furzedown Strollers led by Robert [email protected]