Cherry Lodge Cancer Care held its 2015 Annual General Meeting at Howard House on Tuesday 12th May. The meeting was attended by a cross section of interested parties: members, volunteers, staff, trustees and patrons. Dr Margaret Clark, chairman of the trustees, began with a few words of welcome, which were followed by formal approval of … Continued
Our Spring into Summer Fair will be held on Sunday 14th June 2015 and plans for the day are already well under way. Can you help us put together our most inviting Tombola Stall to date? We need a wide selection of new and unused items, including: bottles of every shape, size and value, containing … Continued
The Cherry Lodge Singers last sang at Sainsbury’s Superstore, Hendon in December 2014, when their programme consisted mainly of Christmas numbers. With the arrival of Spring, it was clearly time for the Singers to return to Hendon on Friday 24th April 2015 to share a new programme, to provide musical entertainment for the shoppers and … Continued
A quick look at the results section of the Virgin London Marathon website on the afternoon of Sunday 26th April 2015 provided the good news that Paul Abbott-Williams, Steve Fletcher, Andy Georgiou and Alan Stewart had all safely completed their 26.2 miles – a great achievement. Months of training had to be fitted in around the … Continued
A Song to Sing! On 24th April 2015, Sainsbury’s, Hendon was the venue for the Cherry Lodge Singers’ first sortie of the year – and very successful it was too. The 15 Singers able to take part on the day were located just inside the main entrance doors, which proved a very successful move as … Continued
Local estate agents Hamilton Chase have generously agreed to sponsor our Spring into Summer Fair, to be held at the back of The Spires Shopping Centre on Sunday 14th June 2015. They would like to put up specially designed sponsorship boards on properties in the local area (Barnet, Arkley and Potters Bar). To make this … Continued
Post-race update (26th April): Congratulations and a huge thank you to the four runners who took part in the 2015 Virgin London Marathon to raise money for Cherry Lodge Cancer Care. All four successfully completed the course in very respectable times. Unfortunately, our fifth prospective runner, Paul Woodward, was unable to take part due to … Continued
We are still looking for runners to take up several of our reserved places for the Vitality British 10k London Run, which will be held on Sunday 12th July 2015. In return for an agreement to raise funds for Cherry Lodge Cancer Care, we can offer you a place, a running vest and lots of … Continued
On Tuesday 3rd March 2015, Cherry Lodge Cancer Care received a very welcome grant from The Foresters Charity Stewards UK Trust. Our photograph shows Tim Friend, a Foresters trustee, about to hand over a big cheque for £500 to Margaret Clark, our chairman, and Tina Papasavva, our charity administrator. The Foresters Charity Stewards UK Trust … Continued
We are delighted to announce the launch, on Monday 9th March 2015, of a new group activity for Cherry Lodge members. The Cherry Lodge Art Group has been set up to provide an opportunity for people to enjoy a range of artistic or creative activities – such as drawing, painting, knitting or sewing – in … Continued
John Churchill, a member of Cherry Lodge, successfully ran the 10k London Winter Run on Sunday 1st February 2015. The run, organised by Cancer Research UK, followed a very scenic route, starting at the London Eye and passing St Paul’s cathedral and Tower Hill. John raised £1,720 for Cherry Lodge, with a lot of the … Continued
Very many thanks to hairdressers Jackie and Jane of JJ’s Hair Salon for their recent donation of £205.75 to help fund Cherry Lodge services. This money was raised with the help of JJ’s clients who bought tickets for a very succesful Christmas raffle. The photograph, right, shows Jackie and Jane in their stylish and very … Continued
As reported previously (see Past Events on this website), Margaret Clark, chairman of the Cherry Lodge trustees, successfully completed the Brooks Serpentine 10k around Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens on 1st January 2015. This was Margaret’s ‘New Knee’s Day’ – when she was able to demonstrate that it would take more than a full knee … Continued
Once again the brains of Barnet congregated at the beautifully refurbished and re-decorated Mary Immaculate and St Peter’s church hall in Somerset Road, New Barnet. This really is a splendid venue with very good facilities, such as a first-rate PA system and most helpful staff. Some 90 people braved the elements on Saturday 31st January … Continued
The Board of Trustees of Cherry Lodge Cancer Care are delighted to announce the appointment, on 6th January 2015, of Christine Halloran as our new Members’ Trustee. Christine has lived in the Borough of Barnet for most of her life and worked as an NHS Manager locally for 36 years, managing a range of hospital … Continued
On 1st January 2015 – ‘New Knee’s Day’ – Margaret Clark, chairman of the Cherry Lodge trustees, took part in – and successfully completed – the Brooks Serpentine 10k around Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens. She was one of 466 participants, of whom 196 were women. For many years, Margaret always enjoyed running in the … Continued
Over the years, Cherry Lodge has often had reason to thank the very charming patrons of The Coffee Bean coffee shop. Not only do brothers Krino and Paul serve excellent coffees, sandwiches, light lunches and cakes to their customers in The Spires, they have often provided refreshments, completely free of charge, to be enjoyed by … Continued
Members of the Cherry Lodge Singing Group have not only had fun singing together in the run up to Christmas 2014, they have also made three much appreciated public appearances. The Singers’ first pre-Christmas performance was at the Cherry Lodge Christmas Market on 29th November, where attendance was undoubtedly boosted by friends and family eager … Continued
As in previous years, children from Barnet primary and secondary schools raised funds for Cherry Lodge by singing a selection of festive music in the courtyard of The Spires shopping centre. Taking part this year were pupils from the following schools: Broadfields, Cromer Road, Danegrove, Foulds, Grasvenor Avenue, Livingstone, Queen Elizabeth’s Boys’, and St Catherine’s. Everyone who … Continued
What can one say about Adrian? Dozens of lovely things. Husband, father, teacher, nurse, marathon runner, creative cook and trustee of Cherry Lodge. Adrian sadly died on 21st November 2014 at home, surrounded by his loving and always supportive family. He had borne his long illness with bravery, humour and the determination to “live until … Continued
We are pleased to announce that our application for a grant from the Lloyds Community Fund has been successful – in fact, very successful, as we have won our area’s top award of £3,000. These grants are made by the Lloyds Bank Foundation to help small and medium charities working to improve social and community … Continued
For the past three years we have had the good fortune to benefit from the very energetic fundraising efforts of Signet (jewellers) of Borehamwood. Signet employees have ‘enjoyed’ raising money for us by taking part in such hair-raising sponsored activities as walking on coals, climbing mountains and parachute jumping. As well as donating the grand … Continued
Tickled pink is a good way to describe how we all felt at the end of the Pink Tombola in the Spires on Saturday 18th October 2014. During the past few weeks people readily responded to requests for good quality pink goodies to be brought into Cherry Lodge for this event and our barrow was … Continued
The Trustees and staff of Cherry Lodge were saddened to hear of the death, on 9th October 2014, of Sir Sydney Chapman, a good friend and patron of this charity. By ceremoniously cutting a blue ribbon, on 13th May 1998, he officially opened Cherry Lodge while it was still a Tardis-like portakabin on the site … Continued
Thanks to the generosity of Tradition Financial Services, four Cherry Lodge members – Nigel Francis, Tony Scully, Richard Fielden and Harry Francis – were able to take up an opportunity to enjoy a VIP evening of hospitality and football at Wembley Stadium. Their donated tickets, worth £1,000 each, were for the evening of Wednesday 3rd … Continued
Thank you very much indeed to the four triathletes who agreed at short notice to raise money for Cherry Lodge by taking part in the 2014 Virgin Active London Triathlon. Thank you also to their sponsors for choosing to support our very good cause. The London Triathlon, held this year on 2nd and 3rd August, … Continued
The Summer Fair, held at The Spires on Sunday 1st June this year, is one of Cherry Lodge’s best known fundraising events and, with the weather being wonderful, hundreds of people visited the various stalls. Goods on sale ranged from highly attractive jewellery and beautiful glass objets d’art to a huge assortment of homemade cakes, … Continued
Fundraising update: our six successful runners in the 2014 Virgin London Marathon have between them raised the very impressive sum of £8,898 for Cherry Lodge. We offer our heartfelt thanks to all our lovely runners and also to all their generous sponsors. The day of the run, 13th April 2014, was possibly the hottest of … Continued
