The Wheelie Festive Season
2023 

THE SONGS ON WHEELS TOUR
We got off to a brilliant start at  all-singing, all-dancing Sacred Heart.  The refinement of Coombe Hill Manor was no obstacle to our Hokey Cokey... A lady at Avery Wimbledon Common was so thrilled she had to hug Veronique, and a resident's daughter told us she has  very rarely seen the residents so responsive during any activity... and so it went on.

Things that should always remain in the Christmas Programme, besides Paul's White Christmas and Winter Wonderland: Mele Kalikimaka, with grass skirts and Hawaiian hand-dancing; the Hokey Cokey with seated Hokey-Cokey-ing;  starting Joy to the World with a peal of hand-bells.

Between Friday 1st and Wednesday 20th December, we took the programme out to ten different places:

Sacred Heart Friendship Group
Coombe Hill Manor upstairs and down
Avery Wimbledon Common
MS Society Xmas party
Tennyson Grange
St Mary's Roehampton
Regenerate-Rise
Morden Baptists
Memory Lane Club
Queen's Court

Several of these involved tea and cakes - nothing on the scale of the hospitality at 10 Ridgway Place offered by Veronique and Nick Furse.

We sang at the Rushmere pub, to raise money for Macmillan, and we gave a sell-out concert at the Wimbledon Village Club, where we were joined by Alice Hudson-Sheaf, Al Clogston and Dianne Norton from WLOS - the concert raised an astounding £4,000 for St Raphael’s Hospice.