Fundraising Lunch Guest Information

Tickets

No need to print the email ticket, your name will be on the guest list.

Timings

12:00pm - Reception

12:30pm - Call for Lunch and Welcome

• Silver Shovel Spotlight Awards
• Live Auction
• Q&A with Alan Titchmarsh MBE VHM DL

4:30pm - Carriages

A cloakroom is available.

Dress code

Lounge suits (typically shirt and tie / formal dress)

Guest Names and dietary requirements

If you haven’t already done so, please send through any guest names and dietary requirements to events@perennial.org.uk. Please send this through by Wednesday 18 September, thank you.

Live Auction

Please click here to view the Auction lots – we really hope there are some items you would like to bid for so we can raise as much as possible! 

Please do forward this link to all your guests for their information and to whet their appetite.

Envelope Raffle

We will be running our fantastic envelope raffle with some amazing prizes up for grabs. Tickets will be £40 for a Gold envelope and £20 for a Silver envelope and there’s a 1 in 3 chance of winning a prize! Prizes include A Garden on a Roll, Mamma Mia theatre tickets, Rob Beckett tickets, Tour and Tasting for Two at Kingscote Vineyard and Clarins beauty products.

Cash and Card

Please be aware that the venue is a cashless venue so they will only be able to take card payments for additional drinks orders. We will however be able to take cash for anything relating to fundraising on the night including our envelope raffle, we do encourage cash for the envelope raffle where possible!

Photography

On the day of the event we like to take photos to use in our literature and social media to help promote our events further. If you would not like your image used in this way, please do ensure that you speak to one of the staff at the raffle desk so they can let the Team know.

Hear more from Perennial

We'd like to keep in touch with everyone who attends our events, please can you share the following link with your guests to allow us to keep on touch with them. perennial.org.uk/email-sign-up/

After Party

If you would like to continue the festivities and are looking to go somewhere post event, you may like to make a booking for the Cumberland Sound Bar. Please click here to make your reservation.

Directions

Our venue for the lunch is:

The Arena, The Cumberland, Marble Arch, London, W1H 7DL

In a prime position between Oxford Street and Marble Arch, yet just yards from the oasis of Hyde Park, it's the perfect base for a rocking time in London.

Destination (by foot)        Distance            Duration

Covent Garden                      1.8 miles         36 mins

Hyde Park                              0.2 miles          4 mins

Oxford Street                         0.8 miles          8 mins

Picadilly Circus                     1.3 miles         26 mins

Bus routes

13, 137, 148, 2, 23, 36, 390, 414, 74

Nearby train stations

Paddington / Marylebone

Nearby tube stations

Marble Arch - Central line

Bond Street - Central, Jubilee and Elizabeth lines

Parking

Please note, the hotel does not have parking on site. Drop off and pick up are available in front of the hotel. The hotel also has a partnership with the Q-Park Marble Arch which is located 8 min walk from The Cumberland hotel and is outside the congestion zone. Guests are entitled to a 25% discount: this can be claimed upon departure with the reception team.

Donations

Our work depends on you. It’s only with your support and through your generosity that we’re able to get involved in time to help people in horticulture and stop small problems becoming life-changing crises.

Click here to make a donation