Apple day
Celebrate the orchard harvest at our annual apple day celebration!
Browse the extensive stallholder market, enjoy food and drink from local businesses or the drawing room café, and enter to win our coveted baking competition prize. Children can enjoy garden games and crafts, and adults can enter our tombola, learn from our expert garden team and more!
Activities for all
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.
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.
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.
Drop off your cake before 12.40 so it can be judged. The winner will be announced at 13.30.
Line dancing
12.15 • 14.00
Grab your dancing shoes and join DanceWest for free inter-generational instructor-led dance workshops for all ages
Orchard tours
12.30 • 13.30 • 14.30
Join the Palace’s garden team for guided tours and discover the unique heritage apple varieties grown at the Palace!
Chicken chat
11.00 • 14.00 • 15.00
Join senior gardener Pete and meet the fantastic flock of chickens that call the Palace’s walled garden home.
Apple press
Learn about the apple journey from tree to table and watch demos of fresh apple juice being made.
Garden games
Join SuperCamps in the walled garden for archery tag, zorbing and more outdoor games!
Children’s crafts
Create a unique apple-themed craft!
Reading corner
11.30 • 15.00
There’s nothing better than a good book! Join My Little Explorer in the reading corner for free sensory reading sessions.
Monkey Music
Ages 1 – 4 • pre-book • £16.00
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.
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.
Sewing bee
Say hello to the volunteer sewing bee group! Dress up in costume, handle authentic objects, try traditional Victorian chores and more!
Apple trail
£2.00 • suitable for children ages 3+
Find the hidden apples, solve the riddle and complete the trail to win an apple day prize!
Apple badge making
£2.00 • suitable for children ages 3+
Bring your apple designs to life with a custom made badge.
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Please contact event organiser Raphaela Ashford by emailing raphaela.ashford@fulhampalace.org for any questions or queries about this event
