Barbara Windsor Opens Wilton's Tea And Cakes Afternoon

On Sunday 25 September East ender Barbara Windsor will be opening Wilton's largest tea and cakes afternoon yet. While away a Sunday afternoon in the East End with vintage music, magic, high tea and the chance to explore the last surviving Grand Music Hall in the world.

Help raise funds towards Wilton's Capital Project by baking and donating a cake for our traditional cake sale held in the main hall!

Lily Vanilli, one of London's hottest and most creative bakers will be judging a cake competition so be inventive with your baking and the winner will win an exclusive prize!

"With her fancy and tasty cakes, her status as a rock n'roll baker is cemented." - Dazed and Confused

Graphic artist Anthony Burrill has also made an exclusive Wilton's inspired letter press print to sell and will be launched at this event. Anthony's persuasive, up-beat art and design has been commissioned by cultural, social and commercial clients around the world from New York to London to Tokyo.

Wilton's Magician in Residence Katherine Rhodes will be joining in the fun on the day and will make cupcakes float before your eyes - got to be seen to be believed!

Wilton's Music Hall

Wilton's is the oldest surviving Grand Music Hall in the world. It belongs to the first generation of public house music halls that appeared in London during the 1850s and which, only fifty years later, had all but disappeared. Now owned by the Wilton's Music Hall Trust and run by a very small and dedicated team of people, it produces imaginative and distinctive work that combines all art forms.

Recent years have seen Wilton's fighting an ongoing battle to stay open as it searches for the funds to restore the building to safety and make its future safe. Most recently an application to the Heritage Lottery Fund was rejected, placing the building in real danger of closure. However, the astonishing public response to our urgent need for funds following the rejection from the HLF has helped Wilton's to raise enough funds (£500k) to secure the structure of two parts of the building and stave off imminent closure. The building is still decaying and still semi-derelict, it is unable to reach its potential as a performance company and as a heritage building. The Trust is still fundraising for a further £2million to secure Wilton's forever.

Sunday 25 September

3 pm Open day to start
Competition cakes to be delivered
3.30 pm Barbara Windsor to officially start the Vintage Open Day
4 pm Cake competition to be judged by Lily Vanilli
6 pm Open Day to End

For further details please visit our website on www.wiltons.org.uk or call Kate Mitchell on 020 7702 9555.