Join talented young Norfolk pianist, Jacob Öcal, for a special evening of live piano music at The Forum.
He will take you on a musical journey through a wide range of genres and eras, with something to suit every taste.
Audience requests are welcomed, either ahead of the evening via the Facebook event page or during the show.
Tickets £8.50 in advance, £10.00 on the door.
Jacob is raising funds in memory of his aunt, who received care at Priscilla Bacon Lodge, so all proceeds are coming to the Priscilla Bacon Hospice Charity.
buy ticketsOur new Knit and Natter Group takes place on the first Wednesday of every month at The Friends Café inside Priscilla Bacon Lodge.
If you’d like to support our Comfort Blankets project whilst attending the group, we’d be thrilled to have your help. You’re also very welcome to bring along your own knitting or crochet projects.
There is no need to sign up, please just come along and join us for a cuppa and some friendly conversation.
We look forward to seeing you!
Get In Touch
If you have any questions about the group, please don’t hesitate to contact our Community Fundraiser, Emma Venier, at [email protected], or call 01603 854102.
Our new Knit and Natter Group takes place on the first Wednesday of every month at The Friends Café inside Priscilla Bacon Lodge.
If you’d like to support our Comfort Blankets project whilst attending the group, we’d be thrilled to have your help. You’re also very welcome to bring along your own knitting or crochet projects.
There is no need to sign up, please just come along and join us for a cuppa and some friendly conversation.
We look forward to seeing you!
Get In Touch
If you have any questions about the group, please don’t hesitate to contact our Community Fundraiser, Emma Venier, at [email protected], or call 01603 854102.
Our new Knit and Natter Group takes place on the first Wednesday of every month at The Friends Café inside Priscilla Bacon Lodge.
If you’d like to support our Comfort Blankets project whilst attending the group, we’d be thrilled to have your help. You’re also very welcome to bring along your own knitting or crochet projects.
There is no need to sign up, please just come along and join us for a cuppa and some friendly conversation.
We look forward to seeing you!
Get In Touch
If you have any questions about the group, please don’t hesitate to contact our Community Fundraiser, Emma Venier, at [email protected], or call 01603 854102.
We are delighted to have been chosen to benefit from funds raised with the sale of refreshments in this lovely oasis in the heart of Norwich. We will be there selling teas, coffees and a selection of delicious homemade cakes and savouries.
Take a moment to relax in this stunning garden, ideally situated between Chapelfield and the Plantation Garden. It is a secret haven where you get the best view of the Cathedral Church from anywhere in the city. It has become a social hub for the parish community, and a place of quiet contemplation.
Please kindly note that the timing of this event is TBC.
Theme – Bee Bricks
This workshop will include activities such as:
- Making ‘bee bricks’, (a habitat for solitary bees), from natural materials
- Helping to create instructions, so others can make their own bee bricks
Join artist Jess Morgan and our Head Gardener, Jack Mackenzie, for monthly art workshops in the garden, celebrating the positive effects that gardening, creativity, and the natural environment can have on personal well-being.
Our workshops are inclusive and open to all, offering the opportunity to discover and engage with nature in a relaxed and welcoming environment. You will be guided through the gardens at Priscilla Bacon Lodge during a series of unique, creative workshops focusing on colour, light, texture, movement, and perspective.
The events will cover a range of activities including drawing, painting, writing, printmaking, and photography, through the use of simple resources that can be taken away to continue work in your own time.
Please wear appropriate clothing and footwear, as most sessions will be outdoors.
The Friends Café will be open for refreshments and toilet facilities are available.
To help us to plan for numbers, please book your free place.
Theme – Lino Print
This workshop will include activities such as:
- Creating prints using ink pads or rollers
Join artist Jess Morgan and our Head Gardener, Jack Mackenzie, for monthly art workshops in the garden, celebrating the positive effects that gardening, creativity, and the natural environment can have on personal well-being.
Our workshops are inclusive and open to all, offering the opportunity to discover and engage with nature in a relaxed and welcoming environment. You will be guided through the gardens at Priscilla Bacon Lodge during a series of unique, creative workshops focusing on colour, light, texture, movement, and perspective.
The events will cover a range of activities including drawing, painting, writing, printmaking, and photography, through the use of simple resources that can be taken away to continue work in your own time.
Please wear appropriate clothing and footwear, as most sessions will be outdoors.
The Friends Café will be open for refreshments and toilet facilities are available.
To help us to plan for numbers, please book your free place.
Theme – Myth and Symbolism in the Garden
This workshop will include activities such as:
- Modelling and sculpting, taking inspiration from Elisabeth Frink’s ‘Green Man’ images
Join artist Jess Morgan and our Head Gardener, Jack Mackenzie, for monthly art workshops in the garden, celebrating the positive effects that gardening, creativity, and the natural environment can have on personal well-being.
Our workshops are inclusive and open to all, offering the opportunity to discover and engage with nature in a relaxed and welcoming environment. You will be guided through the gardens at Priscilla Bacon Lodge during a series of unique, creative workshops focusing on colour, light, texture, movement, and perspective.
The events will cover a range of activities including drawing, painting, writing, printmaking, and photography, through the use of simple resources that can be taken away to continue work in your own time.
Please wear appropriate clothing and footwear, as most sessions will be outdoors.
The Friends Café will be open for refreshments and toilet facilities are available.
To help us to plan for numbers, please book your free place.
Theme – Paper-Making Using Botanicals
This workshop will include activities such as:
- Making a deckle frame
- Creating paper from pulp and adding botanicals from the garden
- Collaging with paper
Join artist Jess Morgan and our Head Gardener, Jack Mackenzie, for monthly art workshops in the garden, celebrating the positive effects that gardening, creativity, and the natural environment can have on personal well-being.
Our workshops are inclusive and open to all, offering the opportunity to discover and engage with nature in a relaxed and welcoming environment. You will be guided through the gardens at Priscilla Bacon Lodge during a series of unique, creative workshops focusing on colour, light, texture, movement, and perspective.
The events will cover a range of activities including drawing, painting, writing, printmaking, and photography, through the use of simple resources that can be taken away to continue work in your own time.
Please wear appropriate clothing and footwear, as most sessions will be outdoors.
The Friends Café will be open for refreshments and toilet facilities are available.
To help us to plan for numbers, please book your free place.
Following on from our incredibly successful and well-supported Sloughbottom Parkrun Pop-Up, our Retail Team are back, offering another fantastic selection of preloved sportswear to the running community.
This time our collaboration is with Catton Parkrun, and we sincerely thank them for allowing us to join their Saturday morning.
We know what runners like; and the combination of affordable sportswear teamed with cake is sure to be a winner!
Our items are not priced, as we believe they should be accessible to all. We just ask for a suggested minimum donation of £3 per item.
The cake stall will be stocked with post-run treats and will include vegan options.
We are also able to accept sportswear donations on the day, and would love to utilise any of your unwanted items to help generate funds for our charity.
Cash and card payments are accepted.
We can’t wait to see you again! 3-2-1 GO!
Our new Knit and Natter Group takes place on the first Wednesday of every month at The Friends Café inside Priscilla Bacon Lodge.
If you’d like to support our Comfort Blankets project whilst attending the group, we’d be thrilled to have your help. You’re also very welcome to bring along your own knitting or crochet projects.
There is no need to sign up, please just come along and join us for a cuppa and some friendly conversation.
We look forward to seeing you!
Get In Touch
If you have any questions about the group, please don’t hesitate to contact our Community Fundraiser, Emma Venier, at [email protected], or call 01603 854102.
The session offers guidance and understanding to help you navigate your thoughts and feelings in these difficult early moments of grief.
Losing a loved one often brings distress with intense, overwhelming thoughts and feelings and often a sense that we are not coping.
We offer a short presentation about grief and how it may manifest within you and your daily living, along with some guidance on how to care for yourself.
It is a safe space where you may also feel able to share your experiences with others who are on a similar journey.
Sessions are offered bi-monthly at Priscilla Bacon Lodge. It is free to attend and you do not need to have had previous contact with the hospice.
Please email the Bereavement Counselling Team to book your place: [email protected]
We have 10 FREE charity places available for the Larking Gowen Norwich Half Marathon, open to anyone who can pledge to raise a minimum of £150.00 in sponsorship.
Every penny raised will help us continue enhancing care for patients and their loved ones at Priscilla Bacon Lodge.
By joining our team, you will receive:
- A free branded running t-shirt
- A fundraising pack
- Ongoing support from our friendly fundraising team
To request your free place, email our Community Fundraiser, Emma Venier, at [email protected] or call 01603 854102.
Organised by Good Running Events, this popular race returns to the East Anglian running calendar for 2025, with a beautiful route through the heart of the Norfolk countryside.
- Registration and Event Village opens: 8:00am
- Half Marathon Start: 10:00am
- Event Close: 1:30pm
Age limit 17 years+
All runners will receive a bespoke medal and goodie bag. The event is chip timed, and trophies are awarded to the top 3 male and female runners, and the first male and female in each age category.
The course features fully closed roads and is clearly marshalled.
Unfortunately, no pets, prams or wheelchairs are permitted.
Cut-off time: 3.5 hours, to allow roads to be reopened.
Our Summer Fair is back! Come and enjoy a fun-filled day, whilst helping us raise funds to enhance care for patients and their loved ones.
This year’s event is kindly sponsored by Birchwood Energy and we are truly grateful for their support.
Stalls:
- Tarina’s Handmade with Love – local jams and preserves
- Jan’s Stained Glass – handmade stained glass creations
- Santosha Company – candles, diffusers and wax melts
- I Love Bows – hair accessories for kids and adults
- The House of Mouse – homeware and gifts
- Coastal Shore Designs – sea glass jewellery
- Bee Sweet – confectionary
- Paper & Clay – handmade ceramics inspired by nature and gardening
- Cake stall – run by the nursing team
- Priscilla Bacon Retail pop-up – clothing, accessories and much more!
- Priscilla Bacon Lodge Day Services – crafts made by patients and nurses
- Priscilla Bacon Lodge Garden Volunteers – small plants and crafts
Games and activities:
- The Grand Summer Prize Draw – drawn at 2:30pm
- Tombola
- Teddy tombola
- “Water or wine?”
- Spin the wheel
- Crockery smash
- Hook a duck
- Face painting
- Garden games – including beanbag toss, splat the rat, and tic-tac-toe
- Hang a heart – on our rose arbour, to remember a loved one
The Friends Café will be serving up BBQ delights, scrumptious cakes and refreshing drinks.
PLEASE NOTE: Disabled car parking only on-site. Please follow signage from our car park entrance straight ahead to the NNUH staff car park, which they are kindly allowing us the use of.
Stall spaces
Thank you so much for all the interest, we are now at capacity for stallholders.
Prizes wanted please!
We would be extremely grateful to receive any prizes for the raffle or tombola. These can be dropped off at Priscilla Bacon Lodge reception, Monday – Friday between 9:00am – 4:30pm.
Important Update - 17th June
We have made the decision to offer only the 5km Memorial Walk route due to the extreme heat forecast for Sunday. To help avoid the midday sun, the walk will now begin at the earlier time of 10.00am.
When you return to Priscilla Bacon Lodge after the walk, the Friends Café will be open, offering cold drinks, ice creams, and light bites for purchase to help you refresh and recharge. As the walk will now finish earlier than planned, we regret that there will not be a BBQ this year.
To help you stay hydrated, a water station will be available 3km into the route for refilling water bottles.
Please follow government advice to stay safe and comfortable in the heat:
- Drink fluids regularly throughout the day
- Wear lightweight, loose-fitting, light-coloured clothing
- Use a wide-brimmed hat to protect your face, eyes, and neck
- Wear sunglasses for additional sun protection
- Apply sunscreen generously and reapply frequently
Those more vulnerable to heat-related illness include:
- Adults aged 65 and over
- Babies and young children (aged 5 and under)
- People with underlying health conditions
If you originally registered for the 10km walk, your place has automatically been transferred to the 5km route. If you are unable to attend at the earlier time or prefer not to take part, please let us know – we will gladly arrange a refund.
We hope you can still join us to remember and celebrate your loved ones, while keeping cool and safe in the sun.
Remember the life of someone special whilst helping us to enhance the care for patients and their loved ones at Priscilla Bacon Lodge.
Walk a 5K or 10K route through the countryside surrounding the Lodge and join us in The Friends Café for a BBQ and refreshments afterwards.
Well-behaved dogs on leads are welcome. Some of the Pets As Therapy dogs will be joining us.
- 10K Walk – 10:45am arrival for 11:00am set off
- 5K Walk – 11:45am arrival for 12:00pm set off
Ticket prices
- Adult (18yrs+) – £12.50
- Child (5-17yrs) – £7.50
- Under 5s – Free
- Family ticket (2 adults, 2 children) £35.00
Your registration fee helps to cover event costs, so we kindly encourage all adults to raise at least £75.00 in sponsorship if they can.
- Raise £100.00+ to receive a branded t-shirt.
- Raise £200.00+ to be entered into a draw to win Afternoon Tea for two at The Friends Café.
- The top fundraiser will receive Afternoon Tea for two and a bottle of Prosecco!
Once registered, you will receive an information pack by email, which includes full event details, a link to our team JustGiving page, a sponsor form, and a printable message sheet to wear on the day.
After the walk, you will be given a paper heart on which to write a personal message in memory of your loved one. These will be hung on the rose arbour in the garden at Priscilla Bacon Lodge for temporary display, before being buried in the garden after the event — creating a lasting tribute.
Supporting You to Support Others
This free event taking place ahead of Dying Matters Week aims to give you the tools to help at a time of loss.
Atrium
• Information, advice and drop-in sessions from charities, (including us and NCH&C NHS Trust), businesses and organisations supporting end of life.
• Norwich Death Café providing tea, cake and conversation.
• Create your own token of remembrance.
Gallery
‘Continuum’ – Immerse yourself in a contemplative space where natural materials and gentle music alongside sounds and visuals inspired by nature invite reflection on our connection to the rhythms and cycles of life.
Auditorium
Join experts for presentations between 9:00am and 12:00pm:
• ‘What to say, when all you want to do is help.’
• ‘Getting your house in order.’
• Recognising Dying
• Understanding Grief:
-Unexpected loss
-Supporting children
-Living with grief
Theme – Drawing and Mark-Making
This workshop will include activities such as:
- Continuous line drawing
- Speed drawing
- Back to back drawing
- Drawing with ink and brushes made from things found in the garden
- Still life drawing
Join artist Jess Morgan and our Head Gardener, Jack Mackenzie, for monthly art workshops in the garden, celebrating the positive effects that gardening, creativity, and the natural environment can have on personal well-being.
Our workshops are inclusive and open to all, offering the opportunity to discover and engage with nature in a relaxed and welcoming environment. You will be guided through the gardens at Priscilla Bacon Lodge during a series of unique, creative workshops focusing on colour, light, texture, movement, and perspective.
The events will cover a range of activities including drawing, painting, writing, printmaking, and photography, through the use of simple resources that can be taken away to continue work in your own time.
Please wear appropriate clothing and footwear, as most sessions will be outdoors.
The Friends Café will be open for refreshments and toilet facilities are available.
To help us to plan for numbers, please book your free place.
Easter Sunday Service.
All are very welcome to attend.
If you would like to speak with a member of the Chaplaincy team, please contact [email protected] or visit the Chaplaincy office at Priscilla Bacon Lodge.
Good Friday Service of the World.
All are very welcome to attend.
If you would like to speak with a member of the Chaplaincy team, please contact [email protected] or visit the Chaplaincy office at Priscilla Bacon Lodge.
Palm Sunday Service with distribution of Palm Crosses.
All are very welcome to attend.
If you would like to speak with a member of the Chaplaincy team, please contact [email protected] or visit the Chaplaincy office at Priscilla Bacon Lodge.
The Norwich City Community Sports Foundation’s annual 10km event, Run Norwich, returns for its 10th year on Sunday 7th September 2025.
The award-winning road race takes place in the heart of Norwich’s beautiful and historic city centre. Capacity for the event is set at 8,500 entrants and general entry opens at 9:00am on Wednesday 5th March here.
If you secure a place and would like to use it to fundraise for the Priscilla Bacon Hospice Charity, we would be delighted to have you on our team! Please get in touch with our Community Fundraiser, Emma, at [email protected].
We will supply you with a free fundraising pack, a branded t-shirt or vest to run in, and support you every step of the way with your fundraising!
“We had a fantastic time completing the 5K inflatable run, and even better, it supported the Priscilla Bacon Hospice Charity! The numerous obstacle courses made it feel like we weren’t running 5 kilometres. After our team regrouped at the finish line, we agreed that we would have to do this again next year!”
Shane Julian, 2024 participant
“We all had a blast, thank you to all who organised the event!”
Emma Cole, 2024 participant
