Epsom & Ewell Times

Renewal and Reconciliation: The Codrington Reparations Project
2024-07-21 15:00 - 17:00 UTC | St Martin’s Church, Church Street, Epsom, Surrey, KT17 4PX
A free talk, with questions and discussion, by Revd Dr Duncan Dormor, General Secretary of USPG, on their Renewal and Reconciliation project working in partnership with the descendants of the enslaved of the Codrington Estate in Barbados. John Brathwaite, who is buried at St Martin’s Church and is memorialised there, was involved in the running of that Estate. He lived in Epsom with his niece Mary Ashley, one of the beneficiaries of his will, in the house which became known as Ashley House, and led to the naming of Ashley Road, and the Ashley Centre. Refreshments from 2.30 pm.

Charity Fund Raising Dinner for EMEF
2024-07-31 19:00 - 21:00 | Ristorante Sorrento, 379 Ewell Road, Surbiton, Surrey, KT6 7DE
Fund raising dinner at Italian Restorante Sorrento, 379 Ewell Road, Tolworth, KT6 7DE at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, 31st July 2024. Tickets £25 each for a three course meal (your choice from a set menu),drinks not included. Bookings and menu in advance only from Bess Harding on 020 8337 8181. Money raised will go towards the purchase of medical equipment which will benefit those members of the community who live and work in the catchment area of Epsom General Hospital.
Come alone or bring a friend or two.

Rosebery Park Brass Band Concert
2024-08-04 14:00 - 16:00 | Surrey
Sunday 4th August 2pm tp 4pm. Free entry.

Sponsored by Residents Association County Councillor Steven McCormick.

Featuring Epsom and Ewell Silver Band

Langley Vale Wood 10th Birthday
2024-08-11 11:00 - 15:00 | Langley Vale Wood, Headley road, Epsom, Surrey, KT18 6BZ, United Kingdom
You are invited to celebrate Langley Vale Wood’s 10th Birthday with The Woodland Trust on Thursday 15th August from 11am- 3pm.
There will be lots of free activities for the whole family including bug hunting, crafts, guided walks and more. Refreshments will be available to purchase.
Free entry. Parking charges apply.
We hope to see you there!

Autotest Open Day
2024-08-31 14:00 - 18:00 | Autotest, 242a Ruxley Lane, West Ewell, Surrey, KT19 9EY, United Kingdom
Autotest have a Festival Open Day on the 31st August 2024. From 2pm – 6pm.
Join in the family friendly fun with give-aways, games, live band, raffle and food and drink. Prizes include Deluxe Collection Hampers, Gift Bags, Retro Sweets gift boxes, Pamper Gifts, beer bundles, Teddy Bears and more.
BBQ and Thai food. 90’s Brit Pop Band. Classic Car Display. 2 Seater Race Simulator, Games with prizes to be won.
Address: Autotest, 242a Ruxley Lane, Ewell, Epsom, Surrey. KT19 9EY

Autotest Open Day
2024-08-31 14:00 - 18:00 | Autotest, 242a Ruxley Lane, West Ewell, Surrey, KT19 9EY, United Kingdom
Autotest are having a Open Day on the 31st August 2025, from 2pm – 6pm. Join the family friendly fun with give aways, games, live music, raffle, food and drink.
Live Band – 90’s Brit Pop and Indies Classics
Classic Cars
2 seater race simulator
Wheel of Fortune
BBQ, Thai Food, Cocktails and Craft Beer

Epsom Antiques and Collectors Fair
2024-09-17 09:00 - 15:00, 2024-11-19 09:00 - 15:00 | Epsom Racecourse, Tattenham Corner Road, Epsom, Surrey, KT18 5LQ
Established in 1992, Epsom Antiques and Collectors Fair is one of the longest running antique fairs in the UK calendar.
The event runs on a Tuesday in the Oaks Hall at the racecourse, with more than 60 indoor stands. We also have the capacity to provide hard-standing areas for outdoor stalls, which are allocated on a first-come first-served casual basis on the day of the event and weather dependant.
Facilities for disabled access, and free parking that can accommodate 1000 vehicles in car park 23. There is plenty of indoor seating and an on-site food truck for refreshments.

Quiz Night
2024-09-20 19:30 - 21:30 | NESCOT, Reigate Road, Epsom, Surrey, KT17 3DS, United Kingdom
Teams of 6-8 but individuals /smaller numbers welcome and will join up to make teams. Please email names of who you have in your team (or if you wish to be added to a team) once payment made, to mayor@mayorscharitiesepsom.org.uk
BYO food and drink. Paper plates and plastic cups will be provided (no cutlery).

Come & Sing Faure's Requiem
2024-09-21 10:00 - 12:00 | Ashtead Peace Memorial Hall, The Street, Ashtead, Surrey, KT21 2BE, United Kingdom
Join us for a two-hour Come & Sing Faure’s Requiem. Perhaps the most gentle and consoling of all Requiems, Gabriel Fauré achieved some of his most beautiful melodies in this popular choral work. Fauré himself described his Requiem as “a lullaby of death,” and it was almost certainly inspired by the death of his parents in the 1880s. Unlike many of his contemporaries, Fauré had no clear religious beliefs and thus, in place of the sombre nature of many requiems that had gone before, Fauré’s is noted for its calm, serenity and peace. FREE EVENT.

Bourne Hall Table and Rail Sale
2024-09-21 10:00 - 14:00 | Bourne Hall, Spring Street, Ewell, Surrey, KT17 1UF, United Kingdom
Goods, Clothes and Accessories for Men, Women, Children and Babies

Fund Raising dinner at Il Capriccio, Ewell
2024-09-25 19:00 - 22:00 | Il Capriccio, High Street, Ewell, Surrey, KT17 1RX, United Kingdom
Fund Raising Dinner at Il Capriccio Ristorante, 43-47 High St, Ewell, Epsom KT17 1RX on Wednesday, 25th September 2024 at 7 p.m.
Epsom Medical Equipment Fund are holding a fund raising dinner at Il Capriccio Ristorante on Wednesday, 25th September at 7 p.m. This is a three course meal which you can choose from a set menu. Tickets are £32 each – drinks are extra. Bookings and menu in advance from Bess Harding on 0208 337 8181 by Saturday, 21st . September. Please book early to avoid disappointment. Come alone or bring a group with you, make new friends.

Epsom Jazz Club
2024-09-26 07:30 - 22:00 | Comrades Club, The Parade, Epsom, Surrey, KT18 5BT, United Kingdom
Hannah Horton Quartet
Comrades Club, The Parade, Epsom

Tickets for Hannah’s show available via TicketSource

Musicians of City of London Freemen's School
2024-09-28 16:30 - 17:30 | St Martin’s Church, Church Street, Epsom, Surrey, KT17 4PX
In this first of the new season of Music @ St Martin’s afternoon concerts you can enjoy the inspiring company of some of this local school’s most talented musicians. They will perform an entertaining selection of old and new works. The concert which lasts about an hour is free. Donations appreciated.

Ukraine Social and Music Evening
2024-09-28 18:00 - 21:30 | Epsom Methodist Church, Ashley Road, Epsom, Surrey, KT18 5AQ, United Kingdom
Come and enjoy the company of Ukrainians, their hosts and supporters and members of the public for a FREE and DELIGHTFUL evening of “bring and share” a plate of finger buffet, free soft drinks and SUPERB Ukrainian musicians.
The uplifting social starts at 6pm and performances of piano, opera, clarinet, choir, bandura and poetry, start at 7pm.
Proceedings close around 9.30pm
Leaving donations are welcome to support professional Ukrainian musicians.

Art Surrey Art Fair
2024-10-04 17:30 - 2024-11-06 17:00 | Epsom Downs Racecourse, Tattenham Corner Road, Epsom, KT18 5LQ, Tattenham Corner Road, Epsom, Surrey, KT18 5LQ, United Kingdom
Let your creative senses be tingled from the moment you arrive as Art Surrey offers art lovers and collectors the chance to browse and purchase artworks from over 80 of the most exciting contemporary and traditional artists selling today.
Curated by Art Surrey and Caiger Art to include established and emerging independent artists specialising in: Painting, Digital Art, Mixed Media Art, Photography, Sculpture, Glassworks and Ceramics. With more than 3000 artworks ranging from £50 to over £3000, there will be something for everyone!
Buy tickets from https://artsurrey.co.uk/tickets/

Alfie Moore: A Face for Radio
2024-10-04 19:30 - 21:45 | The Epsom Playhouse, Ashley Avenue, Epsom, Surrey, United Kingdom
Cop-turned-comedian Alfie Moore, best known for his hit BBC Radio 4 comedy It’s a Fair Cop is bringing his tour show to Epsom Playhouse. Thirty years of shift-work, and being punched in the face, had left ‘Fair Cop’ Alfie with a ‘face for radio’. A face not so much ‘lived in’ as inhabited by squatters with little regard to property maintenance! A surprising career shift turned middle-aged Alfie from street cop to BBC radio star. But when TV fame beckoned could he grasp it or was it past it?

Banstead Musical Theatre present Sweet Charity
2024-10-08 19:30 - 2024-10-12 21:30 | The Epsom Playhouse, Ashley Avenue, Epsom, Surrey, United Kingdom
Following the romantic trials and tribulations of Charity Hope Valentine, who tries again and again to make something of herself, and wants more than anything to be loved. Wearing her heart on her sleeve, Charity is strung along in a series of bad relationships, but her hopeful romanticism and unfailing optimism lift her out of her circumstances and help her reach for a life beyond whilst working at the seedy Fandango Ballroom as a taxi dancer. Along the way, she learns valuable lessons about self-worth, but when she meets Oscar, a neurotic, shy actuary, will she find true love at last?

From Patient to Professor
2024-10-09 17:30 - 18:45 | Online, United Kingdom
Online Zoom Talk
Dan Jacobson was a teenage inpatient at Long Grove Psychiatric Hospital for four months in the years just before its closure in the 1990s. This talk will explore the geography and history of the Epsom Cluster of psychiatric hospitals, weaving together his personal and professional journey – from a patient to becoming a professor. What was it like on the wards of the hospital? Dan is going to discuss negotiation and treatment for mental illness. These experiences will be used to reflect on his ongoing research into the changes to the landscape within and surrounding the former hospital sites.
Dan Jacobson, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Calgary, Canada.
Location: Online
Cost: £6
98 spaces available – book this event

Barn Dance
2024-10-11 19:00 - 22:00 | The Fitness Centre Epsom and Ewell High School, Ruxley Lane, Ewell, Surrey, KT19 9JW, United Kingdom
BARN DANCE supported by The Family Building Society on Friday, 11th October 2024 at 7 p.m. with The Hogsmill Group at The Fitness Centre, Ruxley Lane, Ewell, KT19 9JW
We are delighted to let you know our Barn Dance is back. This was a very popular night with the Hogsmill Group and Caller. The Barn Dance will take place at the Lifestyle Fitness Centre, Ruxley Lane, Ewell, KT19 9JW from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. You need no experience at dancing. The Caller will guide you with the steps and what to do as you go. The evening will include a fish and chip supper.
Tickets are now on sale. Tickets are £30 each including supper from Bess Harding Tel: 0208 337 8181. Please bring your own drink and unbreakable cup. Come alone, you will soon make friends or bring a group. Have a great laugh as you dance the night away.

Epsom Antiques and Collectors Fair
2024-10-15 09:00 - 15:00 | Epsom Downs Racecourse, Tattenham Corner Road, Epsom, KT18 5LQ, Tattenham Corner Road, Epsom, Surrey, KT18 5LQ, United Kingdom

MUSIC @ ST. MARTINS
2024-10-19 16:30 - 17:30 | St Martin’s Church, Church Street, Epsom, Surrey, KT17 4PX
EPSOM MALE VOICE CHOIR IN CONCERT. The choir will be singing a selection of songs from their repertoire, conducted by Juliet Hornby accompanist Lynda Chang

Autumn Classics
2024-10-19 19:30 - 21:30 | The Epsom Playhouse, Ashley Avenue, Epsom, Surrey, United Kingdom
The Epsom Symphony Orchestra presents Autumn Classics, under the baton of our musical director, Darrell Davison. We begin with the joyful overture to Smetana’s comic opera the Bartered Bride.
We continue with that jewel of Romantic music, Dvorak’s cello concerto. Our home grown soloist, Dan Brandon, was awarded principal cellist of the NYO & now studies at the prestigious Hannover Hochschule in Germany.
The classical feast concludes with Brahms 4th Symphony , a monumental work of profound depth & power.

Epsom Jazz Club
2024-10-24 19:30 - 22:00 | Comrades Club, The Parade, Epsom, Surrey, KT18 5BT, United Kingdom
Jazz Samba with Nige Price
Comrades Club, The Parade, Epsom

Tickets for Jazz Samba via TicketSource

Neil Sands presents Christmas Memories
2024-10-31 14:30 - 16:30 | The Epsom Playhouse, Ashley Avenue, Epsom, Surrey, United Kingdom
Neil Sands and his wonderful cast are back with the new 2024 production of their hit show, Christmas Memories.
Filled with over 60 of your all-time favourite classic songs and carols that will have you singing along from start to finish, this sparkling show will bring back many wonderful memories of Christmases past.
Join Neil for this spectacular spirit-lifting and heart-warming afternoon of festive nostalgia!

Concert: Remembrance in Troubled Times
2024-11-09 19:30 - 21:45 | St Martin’s Church, Church Street, Epsom, Surrey, KT17 4PX
Fauré Requiem | Haydn Nelson Mass | Little Organ Mass
Ashtead Choral Society is pleased to present this concert in support of the Poppy Appeal. This concert which will feature Haydn’s Nelson Mass composed for troubled times in 18th Century Europe. After the interval the Chair of Epsom & Ewell Royal British Legion will read the Kohima Epitaph before the Last Post sounds, leading us into Fauré’s reflective Requiem. A retiring collection will be made for the Poppy Appeal. This is set to be a very special evening.

The Central Band of the Royal British Legion: We Will Remember Them
2024-11-10 15:00 - 17:30 | The Epsom Playhouse, Ashley Avenue, Epsom, Surrey, United Kingdom
The Central Band of The Royal British Legion, now in its 80th year, is delighted to return to Epsom and present its annual concert marking Remembrance Day. The programme will include a range of reflective and uplifting pieces from traditional favourites, to stage, screen, and pop classics. The Central Band has performed at many high-profile events, most recently for WW2 veterans on their recent 80th anniversary D-Day commemoration trip to France and on the One Show D-Day Special, accompanying The D-Day Darlings. The band is led by the irrepressible Captain David Cole OBE.

Annie (the musical)
2024-11-12 19:30 - 2024-12-16 21:30 | The Epsom Playhouse, Ashley Avenue, Epsom, Surrey, United Kingdom
Winner of seven Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Annie has become a worldwide sensation. Annie features wonderful music, including smash hit songs such as ‘Tomorrow’, ‘It’s a Hard Knock Life’ and ‘You’re Never Fully Dressed Without a Smile’. Join us to see if Annie can stop the plans of the wicked Miss Hannigan and find a new family for herself and, of course, her lovable pooch, Sandy. Grab those tickets and remember, ‘The sun’ll come out tomorrow!’

Surrey Philharmonic Concert 16 November 2024
2024-11-16 19:30 - 21:30 | St Georges Church, Barnett Wood Lane, Ashtead, Surrey, KT21 2DA, United Kingdom
Join the Surrey Philharmonic Orchestra for a feast of classical music, featuring Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony. Further delights include Rossini’s overture, The Italian Girl in Algiers & Mozart’s Concerto for Flute & Harp.

Choral Concert - Bruckner and Stravinsky Massses
2024-11-16 19:30 - 21:30 | St Martin’s Church, Church Street, Epsom, Surrey, KT17 4PX
This Autumn, St Martin’s Church Epsom will resonate with the sound of voices, wind and brass when Epsom Chamber Choir perform two contrasting settings of the Catholic Mass, one by romantic Bruckner and the other modernist Stravinsky, both accompanied by wind and brass ensemble.
In addition, the choir will give the first performance of a commission of Psalm 19, “The heavens declare the glory of God” by Peter Burton and The Chameleon Arts Wind Ensemble will perform Jonathan Dove’s “Figures in the Garden”.
