Cherry Lodge Cancer Care is hugely grateful to Psychobilly Kicks Back (PKB) and the wider psychobilly rockabilly music community for their fantastic ongoing support. Their donation of £1,889 in early 2025 takes the total they have raised for us to date to a most impressive £52,595. Once again, we give special thanks to PKB founder Steve Meadham and his wife Amanda.
Putting on an Event for Cherry Lodge
If you would like to put on an event to raise money on our behalf, either as an individual or through your workplace or another organisation, we would be delighted to hear from you.
We believe that raising money for Cherry Lodge Cancer Care should be a joint venture and we will be happy to support you in any way we can. For example, our Fundraising team can give you advice, help you plan and perhaps run your event, help you with publicity, lend you promotional material, and, as appropriate, provide Cherry Lodge signs, T-shirts and certificates.
Whether your plans are big or small we really would love to hear from you. We can help you over the phone, in person at our Centre, or by coming to talk to your group. For more information please contact our Charity Administrator and Fundraising Events Coordinator, Tina Papasavva, on 020 8441 7000 or email tina@cherrylodgecancercare.org.uk.5.
Cha Nights at the Arkley Club
Cha Nights at the Arkley Club in aid of Cherry Lodge Cancer Care are typically held four times a year. Thank you very much indeed to Keith and everyone else who helps put on these very successful evenings. All proceeds are donated to Cherry Lodge Cancer Care. Everyone is welcome to come and hear great music from the 1960s and ’70s and dance the evening away for a very affordable £5 entry fee. A special Summer Soul Night was held at the club on Friday 17th July 2026, followed by another very enjoyable Cha Night at the Arkley Club on Friday 4th September.
Events at The Landsby
We again thank Myra Goldberg for her ongoing support of Cherry Lodge. 0ver the last few years, working with Tina, Myra has organised a series of very successful and imaginative fundraising events for us in the luxurious surroundings of The Landsby in Stanmore. Most recent of these was the Summer Shopping Extravaganza held on Thursday 9th July 2026, with a great range of beautiful French clothes, jewellery, scarves, hats and sunglasses on sale. Events in 2025 included a Festive Extravaganza in November, a Tea and Talk with guest speaker Esther Rinkoff in October, a Summer Sale in August, and a Taste of Flamenco and Tapas in March.
Hadley Wood Golf Club
Cherry Lodge Cancer Care thanks Hadley Wood Golf Club for raising money for us, especially in 2025-26 when Katherine Edwards (Co-chair of Cherry Lodge) was Lady Captain and named us as her chosen charity. Events during Katherine’s captaincy included a fun Pink Event for Breast Cancer Awareness in October and the very popular and successful HWGC Christmas Market held on Thursday 27th November 2025, which raised an impressive £2,500. The 2026 HWGC Christmas Market will take place on Thursday 26th November.
Blue Hills Garden Open Day for Cherry Lodge
Thank you very much indeed to Anne Bickel for again opening her splendid 3-acre garden to raise much needed money for us to help fund our many services. The Blue Hills Garden Open Day on Sunday 31st May 2026 was very much enjoyed and raised a much appreciated £1,725.
New Ground OWCH
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. We thank OWCH for their ongoing support. Their most recent event raising money for Cherry Lodge was a very successful Preloved and Reloved Sale held on Saturday 25th April 2026, featuring a range of quality preloved and labelled items.
Summer Soulstice 2025
The Summer Soulstice festival returned to Old Elizabethans’ Memorial Playing Fields on Saturday 21st June 2025. This was a fantastic day out for lovers of soul music, with top class performances from Kenny Thomas, Jaki Graham and Lauraine Mcintosh. It was followed, on August Bank Holiday Sunday (24th August) by the customary, follow-up Soulstice Payback event at the Black Horse in Barnet. Held each year in memory of Andy Weekes, the Summer Soulstice festival is by far the largest third-party event in aid of Cherry Lodge Cancer Care. The 2025 payback cheque brought the total raised for us since the first festival in 2007 to an incredible £530,000. Trustees, staff and CL members are extremely grateful to Summer Soulstice for this wonderful support.
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