FONC’s Open Day in May is our biggest event of the year.
The next FONC Open Day is 18th May 2024,
from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
We run tours of the cemetery, visits to the chapel and crypt – not usually open – guidance on family history, plus delicious food and drinks at our café. Please volunteer to help with our stalls, tours and of course setting up and packing away.
Email the Organisers – all help gratefully received!
FONC Open Day has many stalls run by local groups and other cemetery friends. Booking has closed for this year but please contact us if you would like to book a stall for your group next year.
Special attractions for the young ones include Badge Making and the famous Bug Hunt. We look forward to seeing you.
Schedule of events
The schedule below is from 2023. An updated schedule for 2024 will be published at the beginning of May 2024.
Performances
These will take place adjacent to the chapel, no booking needed
| 11:00 | Rye Poets |
| 11:30 | Motor Hearse Chug! |
| 11:40 | One Tree Hill Choir |
| 12:05 | ‘Victorian’ Hearse & Horses Promenade on the main avenue |
| 12:20 | Black Swan Border Morris (dance) |
| 12:50 | Motor Hearse Chug! |
| 13:00 | Nunhead Community Choir |
| 13.40 | Telegraph Community Choir |
| 12:50 | ‘Victorian’ Hearse & Horses Promenade on the main avenue |
| 14.20 | Strawberry Thieves Choir |
| 14:30 | Motor Hearse Chug! |
| 15.00 | Dulwich Folk Choir |
| 15:25 | ‘Victorian’ Hearse & Horses Promenade on the main avenue |
| 15.40 | Black Swan Border Morris (dance) |
| 16:20 | Goldsmith College Students arts performance |
Tours
Book your place at the FONC information desk (sorry, no pre-booking)
The general Cemetery Tour takes about 50 – 60 minutes.
| 11.15 | Crypt visit | ||
| 12.00 | Guided cemetery tour | 12.00 | Crypt visit |
| 12.45 | Crypt visit | ||
| 13.00 | Guided cemetery tour | ||
| 13.30 | Crypt visit | ||
| 14.00 | Guided cemetery tour | ||
| 14.15 | Crypt visit | ||
| 15:00 | Guided cemetery tour | 15.00 | Crypt visit |
| 15.45 | Crypt visit | ||
| 16:00 | Guided cemetery tour | ||
| 16.30 | Crypt visit |
Confirmed stalls include:
Friends of Nunhead Cemetery stalls: Café; Plant Stall; Publications Stall; Information Desk; Monument Inscription Recording;
Bug Hunt (Collect a pot, search for a bug, get it identified by expert Bugman Jones, and get a certificate. Suitable for all ages!)
Other stalls:
Face painting (Anna Probert); Nunhead Football Club; Bodgers, including Tim the Nunhead Bodger, Ben Willis, chairmaker, Steve de St Croix (wooden bowl turner) and Lewis Duckworth (natural fabric dyes) plus greenwood-work demonstrations; Tim Whitton (woodcarver); Popbox Art (children’s crafts); Camberwell Gardens Guild; Dignity Funerals (Horse-drawn Hearse); Dulwich Horticultural and Chrysanthemum Society; Christadelphians; East Surrey Family History Society; Friends of Brockley and Ladywell Cemeteries; Friends of Peckham Rye Park; Honor Oak Women’s Institute; Nunhead Art Trail; Nunhead’s Voice; Practical Action South East London Group; Rebecca Buckley (have-a-go sheet copper work); Vintage Motor Hearse.
Plus we are hoping to see Stuart Road Allotments, Friends of Kensal Green Cemetery, South East London Humanists, London Wildlife Trust and more!
Please keep dogs on leads throughout the Cemetery during Open Day
More photographs from the open day can be seen below.
Last Updated on 8th November 2023
