FAMILY CHALLENGE 2024
On 27th April 2024, over 600 runners took part in our Lady Garden Foundation Family Challenge at Battersea Park.
It was a great success, with so many families, friends, schools and colleagues turning out for a fabulous morning of fundraising!
Special thanks to our wonderful sponsors, KX, KXU and ME+EM who have been huge supporters of our fundraising efforts.
Students from DLD College came along for a morning of fundraising!
10TH ANNIVERSARY GALA
On 7th March 2024, we celebrated a decade of the Lady Garden Foundation at the glamourous Raffles London, The OWO.
Some of our guests included Trinny Woodall, Claudia Winkleman, Ed Westwick, Davina McCall and the fabulous host Alexander Armstrong.
We are so pleased to say we raised over £700,000 for women’s gynaecological health!
With special thanks to our main sponsor TELUS for making the event possible and supporting our mission.
9TH ANNUAL LADIES LUNCH
On 28th September 2023 Lady Garden returns to Langan’s Brasserie to raise vital funds for the Foundation. The afternoon was filled with pretty pink hues, personal stories and heaps of generosity from our guests. Vernon Kay hosted the event with Ollie Barker who lead the live auction.
FAMILY CHALLENGE
On 22nd April 2023 The Lady Garden Family Challenge such a success with Davina Mccall hosting the event with over 400 runners.
The Family Challenge is a walk/rum around Hyde Park in London. The money raised by all our participants and supporters at this year’s family challenge will help the Lady Garden Foundation to educate, empower and break taboos around women’s gynaecological health!
We’d like to give a special big thank you to our wonderful main sponsors KX LONDON and ME & EM who have been huge supporters of our fundraising efforts.
GALA 2022
On the 6th December 2022 the Lady Garden Gala took place at Claridge's Hotel and was possibly the most star-studded and superbly glamourous one yet. Some of our guests included Princess Beatrice to Georgia Toffolo. The Lady Garden knows how to throw an amazing party for a great cause!
From Ronan Keating and his impromptu rendition of 'When You Say Nothing at All' to the spectacular generosity of presence our wonderful guests and supporters...we can’t thank you enough.
With huge thanks to our wonderful sponsor Simply Health, we are hugely grateful for your support.
GUCCI SHOPPING DAY
On the 12th October 2022 Gucci hosted a brilliant breakfast event supporting The Lady Garden Foundation. The event included a discount and breakfast canapies. Our starstudded guest list included Ronan Keating and Georgia Hirst.
8TH ANNUAL LADIES LUNCH
On Thursday 29th September 2022 the Lady Garden Foundation hosted a brilliant 8th Lady Garden Ladies Lunch at Langans Brasserie for the first time. The room was filled with 120 influentional women which included Princess Beatrice, Trinny Woodall, Ruth Kennedy and Dame Gail Ronson.
The event included a patient speaker from The Royal Marsden, a live and silent auction. The live auction was held by Ollie from Sotherby’s Europe, many of items where in rememberance of the late Queen.
The Lady Garden 2022 Challenge!
We are so thrilled to announce we raised over £30k at this year’s Family Challenge in Hyde Park! The money raised will go towards funding vital research and awareness-raising campaigns to revolutionise women’s gynae health. After the Covid-19 Pandemic, this was the first Family Challenge back at Hyde Park after the online Family Challenges throughout the pandemic.
With thanks to our headline partner Simplyhealth, the UK’s leading provider of health financing solutions, for supporting the creation of this event and enabling us to get back together in Hyde Park!
And a huge thank you to our incredible host, Davina McCall: “Lady Garden is doing such important work, raising vital funds and awareness for the five gynaecological cancers. There is still so much work to be done in this space and it’s events like these that make life-changing differences, in terms of fundraising and educating more people.”
7TH ANNUAL LADIES LUNCH
On 28th September 2021 we had the pleasure of hosting our 7th annual Ladies Lunch with the incredible Vernon Kay as host at Fortnum and Mason to raise funds and awareness for gynaecological cancers. The event incuded a three course meal with a live auction and a patient speaker from The Royal Marsden. The Guest list was starstudded from Helena Morrissey to Natalie Imbruglia. We are incredible thankful for all the pledges and auction prizes brought at the event.
Lady Garden 2021 Challenge
Our virtual 2021 Challenge in March of 2021. Throughout the month you walked, ran, cycled, swam and generally exercised your way collectively to just shy of 28,000 kilometres which is the equivalent of travelling from London to Perth, Australia and back again!! Some of our runners include Lisa Snowdon, Rob Van Helden, Sofia Barratieri and Victoria Pendleton.
We raised over £146,000 for Gynae Cancer Research which is beyond phenomenal and wouldn’t have been possible without each and every single one of you!
Lady Garden Poker Tournament
In November 2019, Lady Garden co-founders Mika Simmons and Chloe Delevingne hosted the first Lady Garden Poker evening at Crown London Aspinalls in Mayfair. The tournament was a huge success, raising over £23k for the Foundation. The evening began with a private poker lesson held by professional poker player Roland De Wolfe before guests moved into the glamourous Sapphire Room for the main event. The atmosphere was tense as players, some more experienced than others, fought for the title. Guests on the night included David Haye, Georgia Hirst, Andrea McLean, Lauren Lyle, Jonah Hauer-King, Camilla Rutherford and Neil Stuke.
4th Lady Garden Gala
Held every 18 months, the Gala is one of the largest events organised by the Foundation and 2019 was the biggest and best ever. The Ballroom at Claridge’s was awash with golden pink hues as 200 guests filled the room surrounded by heavenly flowers by Rob Van Helden. Georgie Ainslie hosted the evening keeping guests including Dame Joan Collins, Sarah Ferguson Duchess of York, Storm Keating, Thom Evans, Arizona Muse, Erin O Connor, Clara Paget, Samantha Cameron, Katherine Jenkins and Yasmin Le Bon entertained. The inimitable Johnny Vaughan ran the live auction and Ella Eyre got everyone out of their seats and dancing. With a three course meal, guest speakers, raffle, silent auction and plenty of raucous conversation, the evening was a huge success raising over £400k for the Foundation.
The 6th Ladies Lunch
The 26th September 2019 saw a flurry of pink descend on Fortnum & Mason for the 6th annual Ladies Lunch hosted by Vernon Kay. 170 guests took a seat in the Diamond Jubilee Tea Room for 3 hours of fabulous fundraising with pink lips adorning the room, courtesy flowers by Flowerbx and a limited edition bespoke Lady Garden Foundation Hotlips ring by Solange. Vernon Kay kept the room in check and guests were treated to a special performance by the legendary Alessandro Ristori. The silent and live auction were a huge success and the whole event raised over £150k for The Lady Garden Foundation. As a cornerstone event of our calendar it was wonderful to be surrounded by of some of the Foundations biggest supporters on this special day in the midst of Gynaecological Cancer Awareness Month.
The KX & LXU Lady Garden Run 2019
The Lady Garden Foundation sprinted back into action on Saturday 18th May for the 2019 KX & KXU Lady Garden Run in Hyde Park hosted by Davina Mccall, supported by Chucs Restaurants and Oakley Capital. The 500 participants were joined by long-term Lady Garden supporters such as Victoria Pendleton and Elizabeth Saltzman. Before setting off on either a 5k or 10k course, everyone got warmed up thanks to Paola’s Bodybarre, with Charlotte De Carle on the decks. The incredible £90k raised by this years event will go towards even more life changing research and gynaecological cancer support at The Royal Marsden Hospital.
Lady Garden x Gucci T-shirt Launch
Launch of Exclusive Lady Garden x Gucci T-shirt at Gucci, Sloane Street
The Lady Garden Foundation celebrated its 5th anniversary with their second exclusive breakfast at Gucci’s flagship store on Sloane Street, this time launching their highly anticipated limited edition t-shirt in collaboration with the Italian brand. Photographed in the t-shirt outside the store by Amelia Troubridge, the photographer behind the first ever Lady Garden campaign, where Lady Garden Ambassadors Suki Waterhouse, Ikram Abdi Omar, Serghinio Wooter and Kayden H. Lady Garden supporters Mary Charteris, Yasmin Le Bon and Storm Keating and Georgia Toffolo all enjoyed the delicious breakfast canapes and juices, as well as all the incredible craftsmanship that Gucci has to offer.
Women In Business Breakfast
Generously hosted in the Garden at Annabel’s, an otherwise cold Monday morning was transformed by the first ever Women In Business Breakfast, in aid of The Lady Garden Foundation. Guests, who had careers in everything from Finance to Fashion, were treated to a delicious breakfast, whilst listening to an inspiring Q&A between Lady Garden Chairwoman, Jenny Halpern Prince, and Author, Financier and all-round heroine, Dame Helena Morrissey.
The aim of the event was to raise enough money to fund a clinical research nurse for a year, which equates to around £45k. The guests heard from Lady Garden Foundation’s Medical Director John Butler, a consultant gynaecologist and cancer surgeon at The Royal Marsden, about the difference their money would make to the lives of his patients.
The 5th Annual Ladies Lunch
Not only did September 2018 mark Gynaecological Cancer Awareness Month, it also saw The Lady Garden Foundation hosting its 5th Anniversary Ladies Lunch at Fortnum and Mason, hosted by Vernon Kay.
170 guests sat down for lunch in the incredible Diamond Jubilee Tea Room, which was transformed into its own kind of Lady Garden by Rob Van Heldon Flowers. With incredible raffle, silent and live auction prizes to be won, the Ladies Lunch has become a cornerstone of the Lady Garden fundraising calendar.
Lady Garden Rumble —
From London to LA we gathered an impressive selection of individuals to compete in our charity boxing event, these included Aimee Fuller, Jamie Laing, Emily Hunt and Flora Beverly.
This year’s participants range from TV personalities, YouTubers, and models to entrepreneurs, business owners and professional athletes; all who trained hard and joined in the fight against gynaecological cancer.
2018 Gucci Shopping Day
On 5th December 2018, The Lady Garden Foundation celebrated its 5th Anniversary with an exclusive breakfast at Gucci’s flagship store on Sloane Street. Celebrating The Lady Garden Foundation milestone in style, it also marked the exciting announcement of an upcoming collaboration between the charity and fashion house in the new year. Hosted by The Lady Garden Foundation Co-founders Tamara Beckwith Veroni, Jenny Halpern Prince, Astrid Harbord, Josephine Daniel and Chloe Delevingne, the well-attended event kicked off at 9am, with the more eager shoppers queuing around the block before the doors even opened. The Lady Garden Foundation supporters were out in force, with Esther Coren, Jamie Winstone, Mary Charteris, Storm Keating, Thea Green, Millie Mackintosh and Tina Hobley enjoying the breakfast canapes.
Carols by Candlelight —
The Lady Garden Foundation celebrated the start of the festive season with Carols by Candlelight at Christ Church Kensington. The star studded line-up of readers included AP McCoy, Simon Le Bon, Trinny Woodall, Lauren Lyle, Mika Simmons and Tina Hobley. Guests, including Poppy Delevingne and James Cook, also got to enjoy a glass of mulled wine and mince pies, as well as a chance to get their hands on some of our Stripe and Stare Lady Garden Knickers. The night was a huge success, raising an amazing £26,700 for the charity.
