A charity festival in High Barnet featuring music, food and arts and crafts will raise money for a charity treating seriously ill children.

Organiser Alda Olafsdottir says she is looking forward to the event, which has been a “mammoth task” to organise over the past six weeks.

The fundraiser, in the Old Courthouse Recreation Ground on Sunday (tomorrow), will raise money for Noah’s Ark Children’s Hospice, based in High Barnet.

Alda decided to raise money for the charity in honour of her nephew who was diagnosed with Leukaemia at the age of six.

Thanks to ground-breaking treatment, courtesy of a charity that does similar work to Noah’s Ark, he has since made a full recovery.

Sunday’s festival features ten hours of live music from a variety of local bands, as well as stalls, a raffle and games.

A percentage of the money taken on the stalls will be donated to the hospice, which provides care and support for seriously ill children.

Alda said: “It has been a full-time job to organise this but I have been very pleasantly surprised by how people are receiving the whole thing.

“It will be good for the High Barnet community and we’re hoping to make it an annual thing if it is a success.”