Events Programme
Cherry Lodge Cancer Care fundraisers continue to put on an interesting and succesful range of events, getting 2024 off to an excellent start with the Summer Soulstice/Cherry Lodge Heart & Soul Ball on 17th February. This was followed, on Friday 23rd February, by the first Arkley Club Cha Night of the year. Iris’s Easter Flower Arranging Workshop, held on Thursday 21st March 2024 at Barnet Grange Care Home, was very much enjoyed. Thankfully, the weather stayed dry for the Cherry Lodge Easter Sponsored Walk ‘n’ Talk event in Oakhill Park on Sunday 24th April 2024.
We congratulate our six runners who successfully completed the 2024 tcs London Marathon on Sunday 21st April – there is still plenty of time to applaud their effort and sponsor them as generously as you can. Summer Soulstice is holding a festival Warm-Up event at the Black Horse pub, Barnet on Saturday 4th May 2024, with soulful beats from 4pm until midnight, wood-fired pizza and cocktails. Enjoy a fantastic comedy line-up at Laugh out Loud on Saturday 11th May 2024. There will be another lively Cha Night at the Arkley Club on Friday 17th May 2024. Thinking further ahead, tickets are available via this link for Summer Soulstice 2024, to be held on Saturday 15th June.
From coffee mornings and lunches to running events and bike rides, there is a whole range of activities you can enjoy while also supporting Cherry Lodge.
On this page of the website you can see our events programme presented in two different ways. Use the drop-down menu immediately below this text to select either ‘Agenda’ (an interactive list with dates, which is the default option) or ‘Month’ (an interactive calendar that shows the planned events month by month). Each of these options provides an overview of our scheduled events.
You can find out more detailed information about an event in the following ways. If you are using the Agenda view, click on an event to see a display box and a Read More button to take you to the event page, where you will find full details including a map. If you are using the Monthly Calendar, hover your cursor over an event date to see a display box and then click to go to the event page.
You are invited by Myra Goldberg and Cherry Lodge Cancer Care to take up a great opportunity to enjoy a Taste of Israel while helping raise money for Cherry Lodge’s much needed information and support services. This joyful event will will take place on Saturday 5th November 2022 from 4.15pm to 6pm, in the luxurious setting of The Landsby in Merrion Avenue, Stanmore, HA7 4RY.
Dancers in authentic costumes will perform a wide range of traditional Israeli dances, including Chassidic, Yemenite, Moroccan, Ladino and Modern Israeli.
The ticket price of £18 includes sandwiches and refreshments.
For tickets please contact tina@cherrylodgecancercare.org or call her on 020 8441 7000. Alternatively call Myra on 07789 982999.
The Cherry Lodge Cancer Care Christmas Fair is back – with its traditional mix of very enticing stalls, children’s entertainment (lucky dip and Olaf the Snowman), and festive cafe serving a range of refreshments.
As previously, this very popular event will be held at St James Church, East Barnet Road, New Barnet. This year’s date is Saturday 26th November 2022, from 11am until 4pm. The Cherry Lodge Fair is a great opportunity to buy Christmas gifts and beautiful hand-crafted items. You can also enjoy time with friends and have fun as well as helping raise money to fund Cherry Lodge’s much needed cancer information and support services.
The Cherry Lodge Cancer Care annual ‘Lights of Love’ ceremony will be held on Sunday 27th November 2022, at the bandstand to the rear of The Spires Shopping Centre in Barnet.
This moving ceremony offers an opportunity for people to come together to remember a loved one, to mark a special occasion, to share a token of love, or simply to enjoy the company of others. Attendance is by invitation only.
Before the event, people are invited to make a donation to Cherry Lodge Cancer Care to sponsor a symbolic light on the bandstand. Everyone on the Cherry Lodge mailing list should have received a donation form along with their Autumn Newsletter. If you haven’t received a form, please contact Tina on 020 8441 7000 or email tina@cherrylodgecancercare.org.uk.
On receipt of your donation, Cherry Lodge will send you a dedication card for each person you named plus an invitation to attend the lighting ceremony.
The ceremony is scheduled to start at 4.30pm. The lights on the bandstand will be switched on, carols will be sung, readings will be given, the names of people to be remembered will be read out, and refreshments will be served.
Buying tickets for the Cherry Lodge Cancer Care Annual Grand Raffle is a great way to help fund our many services while also giving you the chance to win a very attractive prize! Books of 20 raffle tickets were sent out with the Cherry Lodge Summer Newsletter and further tickets are available on request. To avoid disappointment, please make a note of the dates below.
THE DRAW
The draw will take place at the Trustees Meeting on Tuesday 29th November 2022.
TICKETS AND PRIZES
Tickets cost £1 each and give you a chance of winning one of the following:
1st prize: 3 night break for 2 people on the Isle of Wight including ferry crossing and 4 star hotel
2nd prize: £150 restaurant gift card
3rd prize: £100 M&S vouchers
4th Prize: luxury Christmas hamper (available mid December)
ENTRY DEADLINE
Ticket stubs (with your contact details written on the back) and payments must be received at Howard House no later than 15th November 2022.
PAYMENT OPTIONS
Cheques should be made payable to Cherry Lodge Cancer Care. If you would like to pay for tickets or make a donation using Bacs or a credit or debit card, please email tina@cherrylodgecancercare.org.uk for details.
OBTAIN MORE TICKETS
If you need more tickets, for yourself or for friends and family, please phone Tina on 020 8441 7000 or email Tina@cherrylodgecancercare.org.uk.
Click on the raffle ticket image below to enlarge it.
The annual Barnet Christmas Fayre, organised by the Mayor’s Appeal committee, will take place on Sunday 4th December 2022 between 12 noon and 5pm. The main streets will be closed to traffic and hundreds of people are expected to turn out to enjoy the fun.
The Mayor will open the Fayre at 12 noon together with the Bull Theatre Players outside the Post Office. A fantastic range of festive activities will then continue through the afternoon. See the map below for location details. You will find something for all the family, including children’s funfair, shows, music, dance and the Christmas courtyard. A tempting assortment of food, drink, craft and gift items will be on sale from the many market stalls.
The Cherry Lodge shop will be open from 12 until 4pm and the Cherry Lodge Information and Merchandising stall will be in The Spires.
Click on the map to enlarge it.
After a two-year absence due to the pandemic, groups of children from several Barnet schools will again be singing carols and other festive music to raise money for Cherry Lodge Cancer Care. Please support them at The Spires Shopping Centre (outside Savers) on Wednesday 7th December 2022, between 9.30am and 3.30pm. Enjoy the children’s singing and help them raise lots of money to help fund Cherry Lodge’s much needed information and support services for people affected by cancer.
You are warmly invited to enjoy another Cha Night at The Arkley Club, Barnet. This exciting event will be held on Friday 10th March 2023, from 7.30pm until midnight. Everyone is welcome and all proceeds will help fund Cherry Lodge Cancer Care’s much needed information and support services.
Listen and dance to a fantastic mix of 60s and 70s Soul, Stax, Motown, Ska, Reggae and Philly Sound from the club’s regular DJs.
Entry is £5 at the door, with the option of making a card payment direct to Cherry Lodge’s bank account. Top-up donations will of course be welcome.
Cha Nights at the Arkley Club are held in memory of Bob Parrott.
You are invited to show your support for Cherry Lodge Cancer Care and enjoy a leisurely, sociable, circular walk in Oakhill Park, East Barnet on Sunday 2nd April 2023.
The Cherry Lodge Information and Merchandise Stall will be set up near Oakhill Pitch and Golf, off Parkside Gardens, near the car park (note NOT by the cafe on Oak Hill Road). You will find an attractive selection of Easter cakes, chicks and merchandise on sale.
Our walk, to be led by CL chairman Margaret, will set off at 11.15am.
The tcs 2023 London Marathon is taking place today, Sunday 23rd April 2023 – back at its usual pre-pandemic time of year, and just six months after last year’s very successful event.
Cherry Lodge Cancer Care has eight runners taking part in this iconic event. The money they raise through sponsorship will make a big difference, helping Cherry Lodge continue to provide much needed cancer information and support services completely free of charge.
Running for Cherry Lodge this year are:
Bobby Pratt
Clicking on on the names in blue (above) will take you to our runners’ fundraising pages. There, you will find more information about the runners and can make a simple, safe, online donation to sponsor them. Alternatively, contact a runner to sponsor them directly, or contact Tina.
Unfortunately, our signed up ninth runner, Gary Withers, has had to withdraw due to an injury. Thank you Gary for the effort you made – we send our commiserations.
Do join us for another great Cha Night at The Arkley Club, Barnet on Friday 2nd June 2023, from 7.30pm until midnight. Everyone is welcome and all proceeds will help fund Cherry Lodge Cancer Care’s much needed information and support services.
Listen and dance to a fantastic mix of 60s and 70s Soul, Stax, Motown, Ska, Reggae and Philly Sound from the club’s regular DJs.
Entry is £5 at the door, with the option of making a card payment direct to Cherry Lodge’s bank account. Top-up donations will of course be welcome.
Cha Nights at the Arkley Club are held in memory of Bob Parrott.
Please help Cherry Lodge Cancer Care’s neighbours raise money to help fund our many services for people affected by cancer. OWCH (Older Women’s Co-housing Community) moved into ‘New Ground’, Union Street, Barnet in November 2016 and have been supporters of Cherry Lodge from the beginning.
On Saturday 3 June 2023, New Ground Cohousing is putting on a sale of Pre-loved Clothes and Accessories. You are invited by them to ‘Come along and find a bargain and know that you are supporting the work of this wonderful local charity’. Refreshments will be provided. All proceeds will go to Cherry Lodge Cancer Care.
If you have pre-loved items you would like to donate, they will be very welcome – please email owch.org@gmail.com to arrange delivery.
Cherry Lodge Cancer Care invites you to take part in a Sponsored Swim to help fund our much needed cancer information and support services.
The event is being held in the swimming pool of QE Boys School, Queens Road, Barnet, EN5 4DQ, from 4.30pm to 6.30pm on Sunday 11th June 2023.
The sponsored swim is open to people of all ages and abilities. Everyone is welcome.
The pool is 25m long. Set your own target (e.g., 10, 20, 30 lengths) and try to beat it!
To register, please contact Tina@cherrylodgecancercare.org.uk.
The award winning Summer Soulstice soul festival will return to Old Elizabethans’ Memorial Playing Fields on Saturday 24th June 2023. Headlining at the festival will be The Brand New Heavies, acid royalty, bringing their signature eclectic sound with iconic hits like “Midnight at The Oasis” and “Dream On Dreamer”.
With the event date now fast approaching, check out the Summer Soulstice for regular updates.
Standard ticket prices for the 2023 festival are: Adult £44.50 ; Teen (13-17yrs) £22.50 ; and Kid (1-12yrs) £5. Booking fees apply.
Visit the Eventbrite website for more information and to buy tickets.
You are invited by Myra Goldberg and Cherry Lodge Cancer Care to enjoy a Bollywood Extravaganza. This exciting event will take place in the luxurious setting of The Landsby in Merrion Avenue, Stanmore, HA7 4RY, on Saturday 8th July 2023 from 4pm to 6.30pm. Have a wonderful time as well as raising money to help keep Cherry Lodge Cancer Care’s many information and support services completely free of charge.
Take part in a joyful session of Bollywood dancing and workshops led by Ambur from Vibes Dance. There will be a prize for the best Bollywood costume, and a fabulous raffle on the day.
The ticket price of £35 includes a welcome drink and a delicious two-course Indian meal.
For tickets please contact tina@cherrylodgecancercare.org or call her on 020 8441 7000. Alternatively call Myra on 07789 982999.
Cherry Lodge Cancer Care is delighted to invite you to the Mad Hatter’s Flower Arranging event on Thursday 20th July 2023, from 2pm to 4pm.
The event will take place at the very welcoming Open Door Centre and Café in St Albans Road, Barnet, EN5 4LA.
Professional florist Iris will delight you with her flower arranging skills and then give you a step-by-step guide to help you achieve great results of your own.
The ticket price of £12 includes the flower arranging workshop plus tea and cakes.
To book your place please email Tina or call her on 020 8441 7000.