What's On in London

Autumn SEND Family Day — WWT London Wetland Centre opens its doors from 9:00am with a specially designed day for families with SEND children, offering a calm, considered, and genuinely joyful way to explore one of London's most surprising natural sanctuaries. Think ducks, dragonflies, seasonal colour, and activities crafted to be accessible and engaging for every child in the group. At £15, it is a morning that swaps screens for reeds and rewards everyone — grown-ups very much included.

The Retro Show Trading Card and Collectibles Show — Redbridge Town Hall transforms into a treasure trove from 10:00am, as The Retro Show brings together traders and collectors to buy, sell, and gawk at trading cards, vintage toys, and the kind of collectibles that send a particular kind of nostalgia fizzing through your chest. Whether you are hunting for that elusive holographic card from your childhood or simply want to lose an hour in a room full of people who take joyful things extremely seriously, this is your spot. Tickets run from £10–£20 — a small price for a very big trip down memory lane.

HDIF Family Disco - all-ages indie club — The Phoenix hosts what might just be the most unashamedly fun two hours of the weekend: an all-ages indie club night for families, kicking off at 12:00pm and costing a brilliantly accessible £3–£7. HDIF has built a devoted following by refusing to make parents choose between dancing and parenting, filling the room with indie bangers and letting everyone — toddlers, teenagers, and their slightly embarrassed but secretly delighted adults — go absolutely wild together. Tiny trainers on the dancefloor, guitars on the speakers: this is the Sunday afternoon you did not know you needed.

London Sinfonietta & Jonny Greenwood: Steve Reich — This one is genuinely unmissable — the London Sinfonietta takes the Royal Festival Hall stage at 3:30pm for a programme of Steve Reich's minimalist masterworks, with Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood involved in what promises to be a collision of two worlds that have always quietly belonged together. Reich's pulsing, hypnotic compositions fill a concert hall like weather, and at £12–£15 for a seat at one of London's greatest venues, this is the kind of afternoon that lingers in your memory for years. Dress up or come as you are — the music will not mind.

Jazz on the Plaza - Aaron Liddard — As the evening settles in, head out to Twickenham where Cafe Yukari hosts jazz pianist Aaron Liddard from 7:30pm — an intimate, atmospheric gig in a venue that feels designed for exactly this kind of quietly brilliant Sunday night. At £20, it is the price of a decent bottle of wine for something far more memorable: live jazz, a close-knit room, and the particular magic of watching a skilled musician do what they love best. A perfect full stop on a big London day.

The 1960s Talent Show — The Radlett Centre serves up a wonderfully different kind of Sunday evening at 7:30pm, with The 1960s Talent Show bringing the sounds, spirit, and sheer exuberance of a golden pop decade back to life on stage. At £20, it is a night of big voices, familiar songs, and the kind of audience energy that only comes when everyone in the room already knows every word. Whether you lived through the Sixties or just wish you had, this is a warm, celebratory, and thoroughly entertaining way to close out the weekend.