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
Congratulations and and a big thank you to the five Cherry Lodge runners who all successfully completed the North London Half Marathon on Sunday 20th March 2016. This year, for the first time, the run started and ended in Wembley Stadium, with Saracens’ Allianz Park at the half-way point of a picturesque 13.1-mile route through … 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
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
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
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
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
An early morning fall of snow on 21st November 2015 was a very apt reminder to all of us to go to St James Church in New Barnet for Cherry Lodge’s annual Christmas Fair. The change of venue proved hugely popular as there was a friendly atmosphere and plenty of space for stalls and activities. People … Continued
The Ionian Clarinet Choir (ICC) celebrated its 45th anniversary in great style on Saturday 7th November 2015, by putting on a special concert at St James church, New Barnet – with proceeds to Cherry Lodge Cancer Care. This really was a musical evening to remember. The ICC is a very proficient and enthusiastic group of … Continued
Dawn Ledgard’s Autumn Fashion Sale, held at the Hadley Wood Association Centre on Wednesday 28th October 2015, was, as always, a popular draw for regular and new customers. These seasonal sales offer fashion-conscious local and not so local ladies an ideal opportunity to buy up-to-the minute designer clothing and jewellery at well below recommended shop … Continued
Copies of the Autumn 2015 edition of our newsletter – Cherry Lodge News – should now have been received by everyone on our mailing list. A digital version (pdf) of the newsletter is also available via this website, to read onscreen or to print out. Thank you very much indeed to editor Freddy Kater for … Continued
This excellent demonstration of seasonal flower arranging by Your London Florist of Southgate was the second ingredient of the very successful Autumn ‘Flowers and Food’ event held on Monday 19th October 2015 to raise funds for Cherry Lodge Cancer Care. At lunchtime it seemed that the morning demonstration of Lebanese cookery would be a hard … Continued
The Autumn ‘Flowers and Food’ event, held on Monday 19th October 2015 to raise funds for Cherry Lodge Cancer Care, proved to be a very successful mix. Both ingredients – the cookery demonstration in the morning and the flower arranging in the afternoon – were new ventures for Cherry Lodge and both were very much … Continued
Everything was truly ‘in the pink’ at Cherry Lodge’s Pink Tombola held at The Spires Shopping Centre, Barnet on Saturday 17th October 2015. This is an annual event – put on each each October to mark Breast Cancer Awareness month – for which every item on the stall has to be pink, whether it be … Continued
On Monday 12th October 2015, some 32 people – all of them active in making Summer Soulstice 9 such an incredibly enjoyable and wonderful fundraising event – gathered at Cherry Lodge for a thank you evening. Although it will not be Halloween until the end of the month, the lit-up pumpkin made a wonderful (off) … Continued
The Barnet branch of TSB really did run the extra mile for Cherry Lodge Cancer Care on Friday 25th September 2015 as part of their commitment to raise funds for our much needed services. The branch was decorated with Cherry Lodge balloons (which toned in beautifully with the bank’s own corporate colours) and all staff … Continued
On 22nd September 2015, singer Chirag Goyate presented an afternoon of delightful music to Cherry Lodge members, volunteers and their friends. We first met Chirag in July when he sang with the band that gave us New York, New York, an evening of music from the Big Band era and American Songbook. Getting him back … Continued
The Cherry Lodge Autumn Quiz, held on 19th September 2015, was indeed the fun event it promised to be. The BBC (Brilliant Barnet Cleverclogs) were out in force and eagerly pitted their wits against each other. With pencils at the ready, distracted only by the sharp intakes of breath, one could hear a pin drop, … Continued
