Apple day
Celebrate the orchard harvest at our annual apple day celebration!
Browse the stallholder market stalls filled with a variety of gifts and goods. Treat your taste buds to delicious food and drink from local vendors and the drawing room café. Aspiring bakers can enter their favourite apple-inspired creations to try and win our coveted baking competition prize. Families can enjoy outdoor garden games and themed activities. Be sure to test your luck at the tombola for a chance to win exciting prizes.
On the lawn
Shop the market
Discover a variety of harvest-themed goods and gifts at our small business market! Be sure to stop by the Palace’s walled garden barrow for a variety of fresh produce, homemade jams and preserves, fresh cut flowers and more.
Apple press
Learn about the apple journey from tree to table and watch demos of fresh apple juice being made.
Test your luck at the tombola
Are you feeling lucky? Test your luck and enter the tombola for an opportunity to win various prizes! All proceeds go towards keeping Fulham Palace free and open.
Baking competition
Calling all-star bakers! Put your baking skills to the test and enter our annual apple day baking competition. Apple pie, apple strudel, apple turnover — what apple-inspired baked goods will you bring? Ages 14 and under can enter our junior competition while ages 15+ can show their skills in the adult competition.
Picnic on the lawn
Grab a tasty bite to eat from the drawing room café or one of the delicious food vendors and picnic on the lawn as you sit back, relax and enjoy the live music.
In the garden
Orchard tours
drop in • free
Join the Palace’s garden team for guided tours and discover the unique heritage apple varieties grown at the Palace!
Chicken chat
drop in • free
Join senior gardener Pete and meet the fantastic flock of chickens that call the Palace’s walled garden home.
Garden games
drop in • free
Join SuperCamps in the walled garden for archery tag, zorbing and more outdoor games or try your hand at the large lawn games such as chess and connect 4.
Pumpkin display
drop in • free
Visit the walled garden vinery to see the gourd-geous harvest display.
Children’s crafts & activities
Apple printing
drop in • free
Create your own design by making an apple stamp.
Apple trail
drop in • £2.00
Find the hidden apples, solve the riddle and complete the trail to win an apple day prize!
Badge making
drop in • £2.00
Bring your apple designs to life with a custom-made badge.
Monkey Music at apple day
booking required • £18.00
Celebrate apple day by making some music! Float around with the autumn leaves, explore the beat of the drums and maracas and share precious time together at Fulham Palace.
Facepainting
drop in • £8.00
Superhero, unicorn or butterfly, what will you be?
Sewing bee
drop in • free
Join the Palace sewing bee volunteers and discover the stories of Palace gardeners from years gone by, with dressing up, role play and hands-on fun balancing apple baskets.
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Interested in joining the fun?
From hosting children’s activities and selling in the market to becoming an official event sponsor or advertising in the printed brochure, there are plenty of opportunities to get involved!
Please contact event organiser Raphaela Ashford by emailing raphaela.ashford@fulhampalace.org for any questions or queries about this event.
Event details:
- This event takes place 11.00 – 16.00 with last entry at 15.00.
- Please use the main entrance to Fulham Palace on Bishop’s avenue. Back gates to the site will be closed.
- This event will go ahead in all weather unless it is unsafe to do so. Please dress accordingly.
- Service dogs are welcome to do their job, other dogs and animals are not permitted on site and should be left at home.
