This Christmas, Cheapside Business Alliance is lighting up with a series of festive lights, installations, and events.
Whether you live, work, or are visiting the area, you can enjoy beautifully decorated streets, engaging activities including music, crafts, and seasonal celebrations, and a truly festive atmosphere throughout the area.
Check out the exciting programme of activations below.
Christmas in Cheapside: Lunchtime Pop-Ups
10th & 11th December | 12:00pm – 2:00pm | Bow Churchyard
Join us in celebrating Christmas in Cheapside with not one but two festive lunchtime events, each with a charming Dickensian twist.
Enjoy macramé workshops, FREE hot chocolate and mulled wine, and live performances from the Victorian Carol Singers – the perfect way to add a little Christmas magic to your workday.
12 Days of Cheapside
1st-12th December | Digital Advent Calendar
The 12 Days of Cheapside are back, with 25 incredible gifts up for grabs!
From pampering to partying, and meals out to working out, all you’ve got to do is visit Cheapside Business Alliance’s website daily from 1st-12th December to discover what prizes are waiting behind the calendar door.
Festive Living Baubles Workshop
26th November | 12:30 – 1:30pm
Join us for one of our festive Cheapside Craft Clubs and make your own living, breathing Christmas tree decoration!
Add a little magic to your workspace this holiday season with our Festive Living Baubles Workshop, and craft enchanting living baubles that bring nature’s elegance to your festive décor.
A Christmas Carol – Festive Weekday Walking Tours
3rd December | 12:30pm – 1:30pm & 9th December | 5:30pm – 6:30pm
As part of our new Christmas in Cheapside programme, we’re excited to share these free lunchtime and after-work walking tours, exploring the real places that inspired one of the most iconic Christmas stories ever told.
Led by expert guide Sarah Williams-Robbins, better known as ‘Mrs Londoner’, you’ll discover the locations and themes behind Dickens’s 1843 classic A Christmas Carol, from Cornhill and its echoes of Christmases past to a charming marketplace once filled with Victorian shoppers.
A Christmas Carol – Festive Weekend Walking Tour
6th December | 10:00am – 11:30am
Follow in the footsteps of London’s biographer and storyteller, Charles Dickens, as we take a scenic tour through the City’s ancient streets and alleys this Yuletide!
Led by expert guide Sarah Williams-Robbins, aka ‘Mrs Londoner,’ we explore the places and themes of Dickens’s 1843 novella A Christmas Carol.