Events Programme
Cherry Lodge Cancer Care fundraisers continue to put on an interesting and succesful range of events. Summer Soulstice 2024, our biggest third-party fundraising event by far, was held on Saturday 15th June. This was followed, on Monday 24th June by a very enjoyable fundraising Shopping Extravaganza at The Landsby in Stanmore. Six swimmers took part in the CL 2024 Sponsored Swim in QE Boys’ School on Sunday 7th July and raised in excess of £2,000.
Next up are the annual Summer Soulstice Big Payback event at the Black Horse pub on Bank Holiday Sunday 25th August, followed by another Cha Night in aid of Cherry Lodge at the Arkley Club on Friday 30th August. Iris will be holding an Autumn Flower Arranging workshop, and we will have a team of runners taking part in the 2024 London 10K on Sunday 22nd September.
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.
Arkley Club Cha Nights are back in 2024! For a great evening of music and dancing join us at The Arkley Club, Field End, Barnet on Friday 23rd February 2024, 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.
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Make the most of beautiful Spring flowers and support Cherry Lodge Cancer Care at professional florist Iris’s Easter Flower Arranging Workshop. This friendly event, open to all, will take place on Thursday 21st March 2024, from 2pm to 4pm. Be sure to note our new venue: Avery Collection, Barnet Grange Care Home, 59 Wood Street, Barnet, EN5 4BS.
Professional florist Iris will delight you with her flower arranging skills and then give you a step-by-step, easy-to-follow guide to help you achieve great results of your own.
The ticket price of £12.50 includes the flower arranging workshop plus tea and cakes. Please contact Tina to book your place.
Please note that the event will be held by the entry to the Oakhill Park Pitch and Putt, which is off Parkside Gardens near the car park – NOT the cafe on Oak Hill Road.
Cherry Lodge Cancer Care’s Sponsored Easter 2024 Walk’n’Talk on Sunday 24th March (the weekend before Easter) promises to be a great morning out with friends, family and pets. It also provides an excellent opportunity – for walkers and their sponsors – to help fund CL’s much appreciated cancer information and support services.
Oakhill Park, East Barnet (EN4 8JP) in springtime is a perfect place for a leisurely, companionable walk. Particpants in our sponsored walk, starting at 11.15, will cover a gentle 1-mile course at a speed that suits them. Our lovely nurse Kirsty will be there walking too. Afterwards every walker will be presented with a medal. To register your place in advance and to obtain sponsor forms, please contact Tina by email or call her on 020 8441 7000.
There will also be live music and a stall selling cakes and Easter merchandise.
The tcs 2024 London Marathon will take place on Sunday 21st April.
Cherry Lodge Cancer Care has a team of seven* runners raising money for us by taking part in this iconic event. The money they raise through sponsorship will help Cherry Lodge continue to provide our much needed cancer information and support services completely free of charge.
Running for Cherry Lodge this year are:
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 by email or call her on 020 8441 7000.
*Update on 18th April 2024: Very unfortunately, Liam Pratt has been signed off by his doctor is unfit to run. We send our commiserations to him.
Join the Soulstice crew and other supporters of Cherry Lodge Cancer Care on Saturday 4th May 2024 for a soulful Warm-Up at the Black Horse pub in Barnet.
Boogying, Soul and Good Times from 4pm until midnight, with Soulstice DJs, wood fired pizza and cocktails.
Tickets cost £5 – book in advance via Skiddle.
Enjoy a great night of JokePit comedy and help raise money to keep Cherry Lodge Cancer Care’s support and information services completely free of charge.
You are invited to ‘Laugh Out Loud’ at Totteridge Cricket Club, N20 8PB on Saturday 11th May 2024. Doors open at 7.00pm and the show will run from 8pm to 10.45pm with two intervals.
We have a fantastic line up of comedy talent for you, including:
• Fiona Allen – Double Emmy winner, star of Smack The Pony, on Mock the Week, 8 Out Of 10 Cats and more
• Carwyn Blayney – Straight outta Cymru, So You Think You’re Funny finalist, tour support for Elis James
• Olivia Lee – Star of Channel 4 and Comedy Central
• Johnny CT – laid back North Londoner, observer of urban culture
• Shruti Sharma – sassy Indian rising starAll hosted by Cherry Lodge’s loyal supporter and favourite MC, Sion James.
The acts shown are correct at the time of going to press – in the unlikely event that an artist needs to cancel, we reserve the right to change the line-up without notice.
TICKETS
Tickets cost: £15 before 1st May; £18 after 1st May; £23 on the night (subject to availability). Note this is an 18+ event.Click here to buy tickets. Space is limited so book early to save money and avoid disappointment!
For a great evening of music and dancing, note the date and come along to the next Cha Night at The Arkley Club, Barnet – to be held on Friday 17th May 2024 from 7.30 until midnight. Everyone is welcome and all proceeds will help fund Cherry Lodge Cancer Care’s many 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.
The Cherry Lodge Cancer Care stall will be at the Hearts of Arkley Village Fayre at Brickfield Lane on Saturday 18th May 2024.
Enjoy the fun of the fair – and visit the CL stall to meet friends, have a chat and buy merchandise to raise funds for our cancer information and support services.
Visit the Summer Soulstice website for more information about Barnet’s very special family music festival, which returns to Old Elizabethans’ Memorial Playing Fields on Saturday 15th June 2024. Held in memory of Andy Weekes and raising money for Cherry Lodge Cancer Care, this hugely popular event is in its 17th year.
Appearing live this year are 10-piece supergroup Brit Funk Association, British R&B legends Loose Ends, and singer/songwriter FiL Straughan.
Buy your tickets now to enjoy great summer soul music and family fun – three music arenas, live acts, over 30 of the UK’s favourite DJ’s, a wide range of delicious food and drinks, attractive stalls, and entertainment for children.
Click here to BUY TICKETS. (Note that the following prices do not include Eventbrite’s booking fee.)
Standard Adult tickets: £44.50
Teens (13-17): £22.50
Kids (1-12): £5.00
Pre-booked Event Parking: £10.00
Camping 1 night per person: £22.50 (includes parking)
Camping 2 nights per person: £40.00 (includes parking)
Please join us for a Shopping Extravaganza and help raise money for Cherry Lodge Cancer Care in the luxurious setting of The Landsby in Merrion Avenue, Stanmore on Monday 24th June 2024. Ruth Isaacs will be selling beautiful clothes and jewellery, scarves, hats and sunglasses. There will also be homemade cakes, flowers and candles on sale. Plus, to keep you entertained, there will be live Rat Pack music.
For tickets and information please call Tina on 020 8441 7000 or email Tina@cherrylodgecancercare.org.uk.
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 stunning swimming pool of QE Boys School, Queens Road, Barnet, EN5 4DQ, from 4.30pm to 6.30pm on Sunday 7th July 2024.
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.
Among the swimmers taking part are Cherry Lodge staff members Yvonne and Tina and 88-year-old Mike Wood. Click on their names in blue to visit their Enthuse fundraising pages and please sponsor them if you can.
Following this year’s very successful Summer Soulstice 2024 festival in June, the award-winning Black Horse pub in Barnet will be hosting the always popular annual Big Payback event on August Bank Holiday Sunday.
Supporters of Cherry Lodge Cancer Care and fans of Summer Soulstice are invited to join a lively gathering at the Black Horse pub, Barnet on Sunday 25th August 2024, from 4pm until midnight. You will be treated to a fantastic 8-hour free session of soulful grooves, funky jams & bank holiday beats, delivered by Summer Soulstice DJs.
Be sure to be there at 6pm, to cheer when Summer Soulstice is scheduled to give Cherry Lodge a Big Cheque for moneys raised from Summer Soulstice 2024.
The Black Horse is situated on the junction of Wood Street & Union Street, Barnet EN5 4BW.
Tube: High Barnet (Northern Line)
Buses: 107, 263, 307 & 384.
Parking: There is no car park at the pub but there is limited parking in nearby residential streets which is free all day on Sundays & Bank Holidays. There is also off street paid car parking about ¼ mile from the venue @ Stapylton Road Car Park, behind The Spires Shopping Centre.
For a great evening of music and dancing, come along to the next Cha Night at The Arkley Club, Barnet – to be held on Friday 30th August 2024 from 7.30 until midnight. Everyone is welcome and all proceeds will help fund Cherry Lodge Cancer Care’s many 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 warmly invited to come along to Iris’s Autumn 2024 flower arranging workshop. This event, led by popular professional florist Iris, will take place at the Memorial Hall, 29 Hadley Highstone, Barnet EN5 4PU, on Wednesday 18th September, from 1pm to 3.30pm. As previously, all proceeds will go to help fund Cherry Lodge Cancer Care’s many services for local people affected by cancer.
Iris will begin the afternoon by showing how a selection of beautiful seasonal flowers can be arranged to best effect. Next she will guide you step by step as you produce an impressive flower arrangement of your own. Tea and cakes will then be served.
The ticket price of £14 includes flowers to take home, the workshop, and tea and cakes. There will also be a raffle, with Iris’s arrangements among the prizes.
To book your place please email Tina or call her on 020 8441 7000. Iris’s workshops have proved very popular in the past and you are advised to book early to avoid disappointment!.
Cherry Lodge Cancer Care will have a team of runners taking part in the 2024 Vitality London 10,000 run on Sunday 22nd September 2024. This is a fun and friendly 10k race, suitable for beginners and experienced runners, around the streets of London. The course starts and ends near Buckingham Palace and goes past some of the city’s most famous landmarks, including Trafalgar Square, St Paul’s and the Houses of Parliament.
Would you like to be part of our team? As well as joining 15,000 others in this iconic London run, you will have a great opportunity to raise vital funds to support Cherry Lodge Cancer Care and so make a difference to the lives of people affected by cancer. To be given a place, we are asking you for a minimum sponsorship pledge of £200.
If you are interested, please contact tina@cherrylodgecancercare.org.uk or phone her on 020 8441 7000.