FONC’s Open Day in May is our biggest event of the year.
The next FONC Open Day is 16th May 2026,
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, Face Painting and Surrey Docks Farm. We look forward to seeing you.
Returning this year, Surrey Docks Farm is a working city farm and charity that enables the whole community to learn about farming, food production and the natural environment. We run a range of educational projects targeted to engage those who would benefit most and are supported by hundreds of dedicated volunteers who attend on a weekly basis.
Schedule of events
Performances
These will take place inside the chapel, performance duration 20 minutes, no booking needed,
| 11:20 | One Tree Hill Choir |
| 12:00 | Tounge & Groove |
| 12:40 | Sing Eazy |
| 13.20 | Dacre Mossies Dancers |
| 14.00 | Nunhead Community Choir |
| 14:40 | Nunhead Folk Circle |
| 15.20 | Dulwich Folk Choir |
| 16:20 | Lyra Singers |
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.
Badge makers – Mary Anne Bonney * Bee Urban * Bee keepers * Black Swans Morris Dancers * Bodgers * Bug hunt * Camberwell Gardens Guild * Chapel – Choirs * Christadelphians * Crypt tours * Crystal Palace Dinosaurs * Crystal Palace station model * Dacre Mossies Dancers * Dignity funerals (Francis Chappell & Sons) * Dulwich Horticultural & Chrysanthemum society * East Lodge Restoration information stall * East Surrey Family History Society * Face painting – Anna Probert (until lunchtime). * Free Film Festival * Friends of Brockley and Ladywell Cemetery * Friends of Crystal Palace Dinosaurs * Froglife * Global Justice * Goldsmith College * ‘Have a go’ pottery * Hearse (vintage motor) * LWT – London Wildlife Trust * Letter carving – Tim Whitton * Lewisham Local History Society and Telegraph hill society (sharing stall) * London Bat Group * Museum of Every Day Life * Napoleonic and Revolutionary War Graves Charity * Nunhead Art Trail * Nunhead People’s Charter * Nunhead’s Voice * Public Health – Health Checks * South East London Humanist Group (SELHUG) * Stone Masonry * Stuart Road allotments * Sunpatch Quilts * Surrey Docks Farm * The Green * W.I. Honor Oak * Woodland Trust * Woodwool willow – Ellie Morgan basket weaving.
Please keep dogs on leads throughout the Cemetery during Open Day
More photographs from the open day can be seen below.
Last Updated on 5th May 2026
