Get ready to celebrate Sustainable September in Wandsworth

Get ready for a month celebrating sustainability initiatives as Sustainable September returns to the borough with a packed schedule of free activities for all. 

From green-themed festivals and community gardening sessions, to repair cafes, yard sales, recycling workshops and nature walks, there’s a host of inspiring events planned across Wandsworth. 

The month also encompasses Car Free Day on 22 September, with the council waiving fees for street parties held on the weekend of 19/20 September. 

Residents can apply to host a Car-Free Day street party by 4 September. 

The activity supports the council’s own green programme, which includes measures to protect and improve nature, biodiversity and air quality and create a cleaner, greener borough. 

In 2026, community events already planned include: 

• Tooting Repair Club: Fix, Learn, Connect – 2 September
• Age UK Wandsworth Roehampton Community Shed – 2, 9, 16, 23 and 30 September
• Beautify Balham litter pick – 5 September 
• Gardening at Coronation Gardens – 5 and 19 September 
• Work & Play Scrapstore open – 5 and 19 September 
• Local nature network event at Woodfield Pavilion – 6 September 
• Dr Bike free bike safety checks – 7, 20 and 22 September
• Tours of Smugglers Way Recycling Centre – 8/9 September
• People's Emergency Briefing screening at St Mary's and St John the Divine - 9 September 
• Climate change talk with author Fred Pearce at Naturescope - 10 Sep (email friends@wandsworthcommon.org)
• River Wandle litter pick in King George’s Park with South East Rivers Trust – 11 September 
• Balham Green Fair at St Mary’s – 12 September 
• Transition Town Tooting mend and repair café – 12 September  
• Putney repair café – 12 September 
• London Open House at Woodfield Pavilion – 13 September
• Paradise Cooperative harvest festival – 13 September 
• People's Emergency Briefing screening at St Margaret's Church, Putney - 14 September
• Recycling Week including free Smugglers Way webinars  – 14-18 September 
• Bat walk with Friends of Tooting Common – 13 September (email fotcinformation@gmail.com) 
• Bat walk with Friends of Wandsworth Common - 15 September (email friends@wandsworthcommon.org)
• Tooting Repair Club open evening - 16 September
• Recycle More Southfields at the Southfields Yard Sale Trail – 19 September
• Southfields Yard Sale Trail – 19-20 September 
• Saturday Spectacular at St Barnabas Clapham Common – 19 September 
• Litter Pick with Friends of Wandsworth Common – 20 September (email litterati@wandsworthcommon.org)
• Back Up's Front Row Fashion Show - 24 September
• 'Plants in Early Autumn'' with Roy Vickery at Woodfield Pavilion – 24 September
• Southfields Harvest – 26 September 
• Restarters Southfields mend, fix and repair café – 26 September
• Recycle More Southfields at Southfields Harvest – 26 September
• Battersea Park Cascades Heritage Walk and Talk - 29 September (email batterseaheritage@enablelc.org)
• Doddington & Rollo Community Roof Garden community gardening sessions – weekly
• Open Community Garden at Tooting Works – weekdays in September

If you are planning to run an event this year, we would love to hear about it. 

Find out more by emailing togetheronclimatechange@wandsworth.gov.uk or visit wandsworth.gov.uk/sustainableseptember