Christmas lights are coming to Earlsfield high street for the first time ever this year.

The campaign, led by Wandsworth Chamber of Commerce and the Earlsfield Business Network, to get lights in Earlsfield started in June and £10,500 has been raised so far with members of the public and businesses still contributing.

Steve Pinto, CEO of Wandsworth Chamber of Commerce, said: "This is the first time that the Chamber of Commerce has crowd funded and they raised £200, the rest of the money came from knocking on the doors of our high street businesses."

He added the group hoped to raise a further £1,500 before the big switch-on on November 26.

Green, red and blue lights will deck 19 lamp posts along Garratt Lane between Earlsfield Road and Isis Street for five weeks in the lead up to Christmas.

The switch-on will start at 4pm with a performance Burntwood School’s year 7 chamber choir, followed by carols from Earlsfield Primary School at 5pm.

The Mayor of Wandsworth will be switching the lights on from St Andrew’s Church at 5:30pm. Special guests range from Wandsworth-born celebrity chef, Ainsley Harriott to Tooting MP, Sadiq Khan, and Conservative parliamentary candidate, Dan Watkins.

New to the area Hampton International Estate and Letting Agents donated £5,000.

Rocco Archidiacono, Hampton International lettings manager, said: "It has been a good opportunity for us to be part of the community, we want to contribute to the area and help put Earlsfield on the map."

There will be a Santa’s grotto inside the church grounds where children can post their letters to Father Christmas.

Terence Witten, Earlsfield Business Network chairman, said: "The Earlsfield Business Network has only been running for three years now, we wanted to get the Christmas lights last year but we didn’t quite have enough time.

"The event will bring a nice community feel I think, it will be good to have the shops having mulled wine and Christmas cakes outside the front of their shops."