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Alleyn’s School 
Saturday 7th December – 11.00am to 4.00pm
Every year, we open our doors for the Holly Fair - a fun and festive day for the whole community.
Run by the APA and the AJSA, the Holly Fair is packed with seasonal joy to ready you for the festive season. From shopping stalls and a fantastic prize draw to carols and festive food and drink, there’s something for everyone.
Round up some friends for a visit to the new Festive Funfair in the Quad and Old Gym, where you'll find curling, crazy golf, archery and a reindeer rodeo.
The Junior School will be organising lots of fun activities for the younger children and hosting this year’s Silent Disco.
If you’re gearing up for the holidays, you can make your own festive wreath at one of our workshops.
The Holly Fair is an important opportunity to raise funds for our nominated charities - Little Village, Link Age Southwark, the South London Refugee Association, the Alleyn’s Bursary Fund and the Junior School’s chosen charities, the Spring Community Hub and Abbie’s Army. All profits from our Prize Draw are used to fund purchases to help the Albrighton Community Fridge.
Come along to meet representatives from a selection of our charities at the Holly Fair and find out more about their vital work. You can also find more information about the nominated charities in the Charity Partners section below.
Wet weather conditions: In the event of wet and/or windy weather, outdoor stalls and activities may move inside the School buildings.
This year we are delighted that the Alleyn’s Parent’s Association is continuing to support Link Age Southwark, Little Village and the South London Refugee Association. In addition, the Junior School has chosen the Spring Community Hub and Abbie's Army to benefit from the Junior School fund-raising activities.
Each of these charities fulfils a particular aspect of our criteria for selection, either by being local or connected with education and young people. Link Age Southwark, with offices on Tell Grove, enables quality of life and connection between volunteers and vulnerable older people in our immediate area. Little Village supports families living in poverty, supplying them with essential items for their young children. The South London Refugee Association offers welcome and guidance to all refugees in our area. The Spring Community Club is a local crisis support service offering a range of wrap-around services. Abbie’s Army provides much needing funding for scientific research into finding a cure for children’s Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma brain cancer.
We also support the Albrighton Community Fridge, with all profits from the Prize Draw benefiting this project. Each ticket sold goes towards helping those around us who would otherwise not have fresh food or warm meals - so please buy as many as you can and know what a huge difference every ticket makes!
Link Age Southwark
https://www.linkagesouthwark.org/
Link Age Southwark has over 400 volunteers who befriend and give support to over 700 older people in Southwark. Link Age volunteers, often with as little as an hour a week, are able to make an enormous difference to older members of our community.
From one-to-one visits, social exercise and lunch groups, dementia services, volunteer transport and light gardening help, Link Age are at the front line of preventative services for those who may be vulnerable and liable to experience loneliness. Their services are free to any Southwark resident over the age of 60 or living with a diagnosis of dementia. The charity aims to improve the quality of life of older people, particularly their physical and mental health and, in so doing, enable people to live independently in their own homes for as long as possible. Whilst forging intergenerational connections, Link Age prevents an escalation of need and provides human connection and aid to those who may not have family or support nearby.
Little Village
Little Village supports families with children under 5, living in poverty in London. With a superbly-run Baby Bank, collecting, sorting and passing on pre-loved clothing and equipment, Little Village is an incredible resource for families in need. As well as this vital material provision of good-quality clothes, buggies, beds and toiletries, Little Village also has a dedicated signposting and guidance team who advise and connect families in need to other services. Finally, they work with families to share their stories and campaign to fix the systems that trap them in poverty.
South London Refugee Association (SLRA)
The SLRA South London Refugee Association provides a breadth of services to refugees in South London. Every year, SLRA’s incredibly dedicated team helps 1500 migrants who are in crisis or at risk, 915 people via their adults and families service and 66 learners in their English classes. The APA have witnessed SLRA’s brilliant daily providing providing an amazing level of welcome, advice and support whilst running weekly art, sewing and football groups as well as providing hot meals to refugees and visiting those in prison.
Albrighton Community Fridge
https://www.albrightoncommunityfridge.org/
The Albrighton Community Fridge is a truly local and remarkable charity. Just five hundred yards from Sainsbury’s on Dog Kennel Hill, the Fridge was set up in 2018 in order to reduce food waste in the surrounding community and provide small food items, with no charge, to those most in need in our community.
In 2020, it grew to become a Covid Food-Hub and today it’s part of the Hubbub Community Food Network and feeds an average of 350 households a week. As a result of The Albrighton Community Fridge, 450 children and 900 adults locally receive fresh fruit and vegetables, tinned food, hot meals, cold salads for those who cannot afford electricity, frozen meat, toiletries and vital sanitary items too.
Spring Community Hub
https://www.springcommunityhub.org.uk/
The Spring Community Hub’s mission is to support local people in or at risk of crisis along their journey to move on and achieve full social, economic and emotional independence to live healthy lives in a community which supports each other. Their vision is to tackle food insecurity and hunger before people find themselves in crisis. They want to see equality in our communities and be a vehicle for positive and lasting change in their clients so that they never need a food bank again.
The offer a range of wrap-around services including Debt Advice, Welfare Benefit Advice, Housing and Immigration Support, Training courses, Business Advice, Holiday and After-school provision, Women’s groups, Food Bank and a Social Supermarket.
Abbie’s Army
Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG) is an aggressive, malignant brain tumour almost exclusively affecting children between the ages of 4 and 11. It grows in the PONS area of the brainstem making surgery impossible and at the moment there are no proven treatments for DIPG and no cure. DIPG is thought to be responsible for 80% of all brain tumour death that occurs in children. Like most brain tumours, the cause of pontine gliomas is unknown. Children are diagnosed most frequently between the ages of 6 and 7 and the average survival time from diagnosis for a child is just 9-12 months. One child is diagnosed with DIPG in the UK every 9 days.
EABean Café serving a selection of snacks and drinks – EAB Atrium
APA Bar serving mulled wine, prosecco, beer, soft drinks and mince pies - EAB Atrium
BBQ serving burgers, hot dogs and soft drinks – Outside EAB Atrium
Chippy serving loaded fries and rustic homestyle fries - Outside EAB Atrium
Federicci Pizza Vans – Central Quad and Junior School
Cake and Cookie Stall – 6th Form Centre
Waffle Stall – Central Quad
Junior School Snack Stall - hot & soft drinks, crisps & sweets
Safeguarding & Allergies: Products containing nuts, sesame or coconut are forbidden throughout our school site, and must not be brought onto school grounds.
Wet/windy weather conditions: In the event of wet and/or windy weather, stalls may move inside the School buildings.
Water bottles: Remember to bring and refill your own water bottles at our Hydration Stations, located across the School campus.
11.00am – 1.00pm Wreath Workshop in the Great Hall – ticketed event
11.30am -12.15pm Carols with the Alleyn’s Community Choir in the EAB Atrium
2.00pm – 4.00pm Wreath Workshop in the Great Hall – ticketed event
3.00pm - Prize Draw with Jane Lunnon in the EAB Atrium
Stalls
We have over 40 external stalls providing us with a huge choice of goodies and festive gift ideas so make sure you visit them in the Dining Hall.
Art & Craft Tanja Podvijin Doodle & Ink Beauty & Wellbeing The Infusionist Flowers Larkspur & Lavender Clothing & Accessories CherryBella Chukka Belts Kids Life Clothing Pickle Rainbow & Ginger Rainbow Kids Suvdaa Scholey Tiebandz Vishana | Food & Drink Bloody Bens Brindisa Fabulous Fudge Funkee Foods Gattertop Drinks Graveney Gin Mother Root Myatt’s Fields Cocktails Home & Gifts Bambina di Cioccolato Being George Blonde Jill Lotty Potty Pots Nina Bombina Studio Dine Tablier Designs The SE22 Gift Company | Jewellery Auree Jewellery Jewellery Junkie Margaret Mims Jewellery Pivot Rock Me Designs Stellata Jewels Teja Jewellery Books & Stationery Christopher Bowden GS Illustrates Nix Rowan Paul Alistair Collins Potting Shed Press Small Red Pea Steven Gappy Pets Ayla’s Pet Store |
There will also be student stalls in the Sixth Form Centre.
Pre-loved Books
New for this year we have a pre-loved bookshop selling a wide variety of fiction and non-fiction books. Don’t forget to stop by the Lamda room to check it out.
Pre-loved Clothes (including Ski Wear)
Be sure to visit the pre-loved sale in the Sixth Form Centre for clothes, accessories, ski wear and more.
The Junior School will be organising lots of fun activities for younger students, in the Junior School hall, as well as hosting this year’s Silent Disco in the Drama Studio.
Get your orders in to Tree Brothers for your premium Nordman Christmas tree. As well as benefiting from free local delivery of your tree (within 5 miles), you'll also be helping our charities, with 10% of sales being donated to charity funds. Don’t forget to quote ALLEYNS24 when you place your order.
