SV TV meets Beri Juraic, Executive Director at Sutton Theatres

SV TV’s Hannah Jackson meets Beri Juraic, Executive Director at Sutton Theatres. They talk about how things have changed at Sutton Theatres, how Edward Bond is bringing his new play to Secombe for its world premiere, and look ahead to events coming up in the summer including Dinosaur Park and Australian circus company Circa

World War One project grants available from the borough

The London Borough of Sutton has made £20,000 of grant funding available, to be allocated in small grants (to a maximum £500 or more by exception) to support local community organisations to deliver projects that commemorate the anniversary of the First World War. The money is being allocated each year until 2018. The fund is […]

Unqiue act of First World War commemoration for the borough

Sutton families, schools and organisations have a chance to come together to plant trees and also commemorate the start of the First World War. “Why not bring people together and plant some trees? We have over 3,000 free tree packs to give away to schools, communities and youth groups for spring 2015. The tree packs […]

WW1 insight just one event at Honeywood musuem

A unique insight into the impact of World War One on the borough will be provided as just one of the talks available at Honeywood Musuem in September. Andrew Arnold, the author who has researched the names behind the WW1 war memorial in Carshalton will be giving an insight into their lives on September 25. […]

Friends of Honeywood launch ambitious programme of events

Friends of Honeywood Museum have just launched an ambitious and extensive programme which will see one of the borough’s finest building being used to offer a range of activities and events commemmorating World War One. Everything from a talk about the start of World War One to a thought provoking exhibtion. It all starts with […]

Stanley Park students visit battlefields to study First World War

Year 8 EFC students have been studying the First World War at close quarters in Ypres, Belgium this week. The students attended the evening ceremony performed daily at 8.00pm, at which children from SPH laid a wreath commemorating the fallen. “The group departed on Thursday and returned after an action packed time late on Friday. […]

Choir sings new Requiem as part of commemoration event

Chandos Choir Coulsdon, a long-standing choir in the area performed a new Requiem by Howard Goodall as part of their autumn concert at St Andrew’s Church, Coulsdon which has just celebrated its centenary of founding, also 1914 The Requiem was performed in commemoration of the Centenary of the First World War aswell as a selection […]

Girls Brigade company represent organisation at Cenotaph

This year Trinity Church Company was chosen to represent The Girls Brigade at the national service of Remembrance at the Cenotaph on Sunday 9 November 2014. “Six members of our 11+ age group took part in the service and march past and felt greatly honoured to be chosen to be part of this memorable occasion,” […]

Whitehall exhibition opens tomorrow showing Cheam 1914

Cheam: 1914 Opens tomorrow! Discover: – what Cheam was like when the First World War broke out – the impact the war had on local residents, including those who stayed at home and those who enlisted – what happened to the village post-1918. FREE ENTRY Whitehall is open 2-5pm Wed, Thurs, Fri and Sun; 10-5pm […]

Sutton Life Centre to stage Great War truce film

One of the most memorable events of the early stages of the Great War is the timely subject of the Friends of Sutton Life Centre’s film night on Friday 28 November. Joyeux Noël, the story of the Christmas Eve truce which briefly silenced the guns of Flanders, is director Christian Carion’s visually sweeping account of […]