Friends of Horsenden
Event Dates: 13/09/2025 11:00 am - 13/09/2025 5:00 pm
Celebrate the harvest at Horsenden Farm! Apple Day 2025 is set to be our biggest and best ever with fun for the whole family.
Throughout the day you can enjoy live music, woodland kids activities, Morris dancing, apple juicing sessions, lots of goodies to buy from local crafts people and of course, great food and refreshments.
Oh and did we mention raffle and tombola? We have some amazing prizes so make sure to buy lots of tickets. All proceeds go towards the conservation and community farming work of the Friends of Horsenden charity.
Entry is free.
Please note: Parking on site for the day is restricted to Blue Badge holders and exhibitors only.
Horsenden Farm is a short walk from Perivale underground station and the 297 bus route. Free street parking is available nearby.
This event is supported by The National Lottery Community Fund and the Mayor of London, as part of the Mayor’s Community Weekend 2025.
Main stage programme
Timings may be subject to change
11.00 Welcome to Apple Day
12.00 Live music from The Rigmarollers – a joyous take on the blues
13.30 Northfield Morris dancers – sit back and watch or have a go and join in!
14.00 Live music from The Rigmarollers – a joyous take on the blues
15.00 Northfield Morris dancers – sit back and watch or have a go and join in!
15.30 Songs from Karan Jammu
16.00 Horsenden’s Farming History in story and song – featuring the Horsenden Session Players.
16.45 Raffle winners announcement – Find out if you’re a winner!
Family Activities
- Seed to Juice workshops
This year we are excited to offer Seed to Juice workshops for children. Thanks to support from the Mayor’s Community Weekend fund we are delighted to hold workshops throughout the day where children can learn the life cycle of an apple tree in one of our orchards. Through storytelling, exploring and having a go, we’ll learn how our trees grow, how the apples get turned into juice and which animals benefit along the way!
Sessions will run every hour, starting from 11.30, they last for approx 30 mins, suitable for children aged 5-11. Places are limited, sign up for a session at the Horsenden World stand when you arrive on the day.
- Family fun in the woodland workshop
Venture down to our new woodland workshop area for fun for all the family. We will have crafts, apple bobbing, apple quiz and face-painting.
- Food and Drink
Hayloft Café: We will have our usual excellent selection of homemade cakes – all lovingly baked by our volunteers. As well as jacket potatoes and hot & cold soft drinks.
Courtyard BBQ: Burgers and Sausages sourced from local butcher, the Hook & Cleaver.
Horsenden Loaf: Woodfired pizzas, sweet and savoury treats, gourmet coffees and fancy drinks!
Perivale Brewery: (From 12noon) Our on-site brewery serving a selection of beers, from the traditional (Veri Pale pale ale) to the unusual (Knot Welcome, Japanese knot weed sour).
The Dodo: A guest appearance from The Dodo micropub, Hanwell serving a selection of craft beers and their very own rum and gin.
Craft Fair
We will have wide range of stalls from our community of local crafts people including:
Local honey and bee products, Hand woven willow baskets, Carved spoons and green woodwork, upcycled fabric crafts, Jewlery, greetings cards, skincare products, wooden toys, children’s books, knitted and patchwork crafts and much more!
Plus after all that shopping you can stop in for a relaxing hand massage before carrying your bags home!
The wonderful world of compost!
Our on-site compost experts will be on hand with their microscopes to show you the wonderful world of micro-organisms that live in our soil.
They will also be running a composting workshop to share the secrets of creating ‘black gold’. Details to follow.
