Remembrance Sunday
Residents are able to pay their respects to those who have died in conflicts around the world at Remembrance Day services across the borough.
Services and parades will take place in solemn commemoration on Sunday 9 November, as well as on some other days around that date.
The Mayor will attend and lay wreaths on behalf of the Mayor, Councillors and Burgesses of the London Borough of Barnet at the war memorial at St Kilda’s and Finchley United Services Club on Remembrance Sunday at 11am, the Watling Community Centre memorial service at 2pm and will also lay a wreath at the war memorial in Arkley.
The Mayor will lay a wreath at the service at Finchley Memorial Hospital on Friday 7 November, led by Barnet War Memorials Association, and will join school children to lay a wreath at St James the Great War Memorial in Friern Barnet on Armistice Day, Tuesday 11 November.
Meanwhile, the Deputy Mayor and the Leader of the Council and opposition will lay wreaths to mark Remembrance Sunday at Hendon War Memorial. Armed Forces reservists, veterans, cadets, emergency services, multi-faith representatives, scouts and the Salvation Army Band will also be attending. The service begins at 10.40am and two minutes of silence will be observed at 11am.
The Worshipful Mayor of Barnet, Cllr Danny Rich, said: “It’s important for us to remember all those who have given their lives for us in wars around the world. Remembrance Sunday gives us the opportunity to pay tribute to their sacrifice, and to all those who have lost loved ones in conflict. People across the borough can join commemorations to pay their respects to the fallen. Lest we forget.”
The Town Hall will also be illuminated in red on Armistice Day on 11 November.
Remembrance commemorations in the borough are listed below.
Services on Remembrance Sunday – 9 November 2025:
- Hendon War Memorial - A41, Watford Way - 10.40am
- High Barnet – St John’s Church, Wood Street - 10.40am
- New Barnet – Station Rd War memorial - 9.15am
- East Barnet – East Barnet Methodist Church War Memorial - 10.30am
- Edgware War Memorial - 9.50am
- Mill Hill - St Paul’s Church & Middx Regt The Ridgeway NW7 - 9.50am
- St Kilda’s & Finchley United Service Club (Ballards Lane) - 10.45am
- St Mary-at-Finchley - 9.50am
- Totteridge - St Andrew’s Church - 9.50am
- All Saint’s Church, Oakleigh Road North – 9.40am
- Hampstead Garden Suburb - Free Church – 10.40am
- Golders Green – Clock Tower War Memorial - 10.30am
- Golders Green – Greek Orthodox Cathedral - 10.30am
- Friern Barnet – St John the Evangelist, Friern Barnet Road - 9.50am
- Monken Hadley – St Mary the Virgin and war memorial (Camlet Way) – 10.15am
- Watling Community Memorial Service, Watling Community Centre – 2pm
Services on other days:
- Hendon Crematorium – Saturday 1 November,10.30am
- Finchley Memorial Hospital - Friday 7 November, 10.30am
- Friern Barnet – St James the Great, War Memorial (Friern Barnet Lane) - Tuesday 11 November, 10.50am
- Lodge Lane Memorial Bench - Tuesday 11 November, 10.50am
Wreaths have also been sent to Barnet’s Twin Towns in France - Chaville and Le Raincy - for their Armistice commemoration events on 11 November.