The Cherry Lodge Centre was fully reopened on Monday 9th May 2016 on completion of our programme of building work. Thank you to everyone for your patience during what turned out to be a slightly longer closure to members than expected. We are grateful to Mary Immaculate and St Peter R.C. Church in New Barnet … Continued
We are currently looking for people to run for Cherry Lodge in the Vitality British 10k London run, which will be held on Sunday 10th July 2016. In return for an agreement to raise funds for Cherry Lodge Cancer Care, we can offer you a guaranteed place, a running vest and lots of support. For … Continued
As in previous years, Cherry Lodge Cancer Care was well represented in the London Marathon. This is a demanding event that requires participants to make a huge commitment and to achieve a high level of fitness. Congratulations and very sincere thanks are due to all our runners for choosing to support Cherry Lodge in this … Continued
Cherry Lodge Cancer Care was very fortunate indeed to have Lisa Faulkner as our speaker and guest of honour at our fundraising afternoon tea on Monday 25th April 2016. The event was held in the magnificent surroundings of Hadley Wood Golf Club and proved extremely popular. Lisa was already known to many of us for … Continued
Saturday 23rd April 2016 saw the first ever barn dance organised as a fundraising event by Cherry Lodge Cancer Care. It was held at the Arkley village hall, which proved to be a most suitable venue as the hall is very spacious, the facilities are excellent and there is ample parking. To say this was … Continued
UPDATE on 6 May 2016: WE ARE ON TRACK TO REOPEN NORMALLY TO MEMBERS ON MONDAY 9 MAY 2016. The AGM will be held at the Centre on Tuesday 10th May 2016 at 7.30pm. The building work needed to repair and improve the Cherry Lodge Centre (Howard House) in Union Street, Barnet, is proceeding well … Continued
We are delighted to announce that Cherry Lodge Cancer Care has received an extremely useful donation from Waitrose Barnet. A presentation ceremony, attended by representatives from a number of local charities, was held in the staff room at the Barnet store on Tuesday 12th April 2016. The money was raised from the Community Matters scheme, … Continued
Dawn Ledgard’s Spring 2016 Clothes Sale, held at the Hadley Wood Association Centre on Wednesday 6th April 2016, certainly lived up to its promise to offer an extensive range of ‘beautiful clothes at amazing prices!’ Customers of all shapes and sizes went home happy with their pick of new, designer ladies trousers, jeans, crops, separates, … Continued
The Kids’ Easter Fun Day, held to raise money for Cherry Lodge Cancer Care on Easter Saturday (26th March 2016), was a great success. Children and adults all enjoyed this seasonal event at St Mark’s Church Hall, Barnet. Among the very popular activities on offer were an Easter egg hunt, live animal petting, sand art … Continued
Please note that the Cherry Lodge centre in Union Street, is closed to members from 17th March to 18th April 2016, during which time some important building work will be taking place to repair and improve the building. Service Provision: • Our Macmillan Cancer Information Nurses, Fiona and Kirsty, will be relocating to Church House, … Continued
The Cherry Lodge Centre, Howard House, is closed to members from 17th March to 18th April 2016 to allow some important building work to take place. For information about changes to our service provision during the closure, please click here. The builders will be making the following repairs and improvements: installation of a new boiler … Continued
On account of the imminent building work and temporary relocation of Cherry Lodge services, our annual Easter Egg raffle was drawn a week early this year – at members’ drop-in on Tuesday 15th March 2016. As usual, the prize was a beautiful chocolate egg from The Chocolate Shop at Cockfosters. The draw was made by … Continued
Cherry Lodge Cancer Care sends a big thank you to staff and students at Barnet and Southgate College for raising funds to help us provide our support and information services, free of charge, to local people affected by cancer. A fantastic cake sale, held at the college on 11th March 2016, raised an excellent £190 … Continued
GOOD LUCK TO OUR RUNNERS! To raise money to help fund our much needed services, Cherry Lodge Cancer Care is entering a team of five runners in the Vitality North London Half Marathon. This stadium-to-stadium half marathon, to be held on Sunday 20th March 2016, promises to be a memorable experience for runners, spectators and … Continued
A capacity crowd of quizzers took part in Cherry Lodge’s ever-popular Winter Quiz, which was held on Saturday 27th February 2016 at Church House, Mary Immaculate and St Peter Church, Somerset Road, Barnet. Some 90 people put their brains into gear and there is no doubt that if brain activity had been measurable in decibels … Continued
Cherry Lodge Cancer Care has recently received the following thank you note from Lucy Tobin Howard. Thank you Lucy for sharing your news and thank you also to Kishore Patel of Allison Brothers World Travel Service, Edgware for organising the trip. Dear Cherry Lodge and Kishore, Last September I won first prize in the … Continued
Cherry Lodge Cancer Care’s two charity shops – in Barnet and Borehamwood – are currently making a special appeal for good quality items to be sold to raise funds for our much needed services. With spring approaching, many of us will be thinking about getting rid of some unwanted items – clothes, shoes, bags, jewellery, … Continued
Included below is the text of this year’s CHAIRMAN’S APPEAL for funds: What a score! At the end of May, 20 years ago, Cherry Lodge Cancer Care (CL) came to life. The year 2016 has other significant dates: 100 years ago on July 1st the Battle of the Somme took place. My uncle John survived … Continued
Everyone on the Cherry Lodge mailing list should by now have received their Spring 2016 copy of Cherry Lodge News in the post. It is also possible, via this website, to download a pdf of the newsletter to read onscreen or to print out. Thanks are again due to editor Freddy Kater for putting together … Continued
The Cherry Lodge centre in Union Street will be closed from 17th March to 18th April 2016 to have some necessary building work and repairs carried out. This will mean that the centre will be closed to members for about 4 weeks. However, Fiona and Kirsty, our Macmillan Cancer Information Nurses, will be relocating to … Continued
Cherry Lodge Cancer Care is hoping to field a team of six runners in the 2016 Vitality North London Half Marathon, to be held on Sunday 20th March 2016. We are delighted to report that five people – Suresh Aggarwal, Naveen Bhandari, Dee Churchill, John Churchill and Mark Hardy – have already agreed to run … Continued
Cherry Lodge’s Big Linen Sale, held on 6th February 2016 at St James Church in New Barnet, gave people an excellent opportunity to buy good-value linens while helping to fund our services for local people affected by cancer. Thanks to the generosity of one of our supporters, a linen wholesaler, we were able to offer … Continued
Thank you to the Wesley Hall coffee makers for again choosing to give money to Cherry Lodge Cancer Care to help us provide our much needed information and support services. Wesley Hall is an excellent place to enjoy coffee and a cake as a break from shopping in Barnet on a Saturday morning. It is … Continued
Cherry Lodge Cancer Care was very pleased to receive this week a cheque for £300 from Dignity Caring Funeral Services. Each year, in lieu of sending Christmas cards, Dignity directors allocate money to their business managers to donate to charities of their choice. We were fortunate that Tina Hill, business manager of two local funeral … Continued
Most unfortunately, an injury prevented Cherry Lodge chairman Dr Margaret Clark from taking part in the 2016 Serpentine New Year’s Day 10k. Margaret had been looking forward very much to this annual sporting event, which has been part of her life for the past 25 years. Having had to pull out was a great disappointment … Continued
Very unfortunately, the Big Band’s concert of Christmas Classics due to have taken place at Arkley Village Hall on Saturday 12th December was cancelled on the day due to the illness of two key band members (singer and drummer). We have attempted to contact everyone who bought tickets. Please accept our apologies. For more information … Continued
Shoppers at The Spires on Wednesday 9th and Thursday 10th December 2015 had the pleasure of hearing children from Barnet primary and secondary schools singing and playing Christmas music to raise funds for Cherry Lodge Cancer Care. Taking part this year were singers and instrumentalists from the following schools: Broadfields, Cromer Road, Danegrove, Foulds, Livingstone, … Continued
Sunday 6th December 2015 was a special day for Barnet, being the day of the annual Barnet Street Fair and also the one Sunday in the year when the Barnet Cherry Lodge charity shop is open. The almost seaside weather (wind and rain) did not put people off and both the High Street and The … Continued
Cherry Lodge Cancer Care relies on volunteers to work alongside staff members to provide its wide range of information and support services to people affected by cancer. The Volunteers Christmas Party, held this year on Friday 4th December at Totteridge Village Hall, was a very enjoyable and successful event. A good cross section of volunteers … Continued
On Sunday 29th November 2015, Cherry Lodge Cancer Care held its annual Lights of Love event in The Spires Shopping Centre, Barnet. Fortunately for us, the Spires’ management had kindly allowed the use of an empty shop, which made life a lot easier and kinder as the wind was fierce and the rain cold and … Continued
