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Children’s charity invites you to get on your bike with Santa

10/11/2021

Local children’s charity Fresh Start new beginnings (FSNB) has launched its latest fundraising drive, calling on families, individuals, gyms and businesses to sign up to ‘Cycle Santa’. The charity provides therapeutic services for children and young people in Suffolk and Norfolk who have been victims of sexual abuse and is now hosting a festive fundraising campaign…

Garden Activity Day

21/10/2021

The People’s Community Garden has a fabulous Family Half Term Activity Day this October …. Read on for more info

Teams tackle neighbourhood crime across Suffolk

19/10/2021

Two new area teams dedicated to community engagement and responding to emerging neighbourhood crime are now up and running. The Neighbourhood Crime Proactive teams or ‘Kestrel’ teams will play an important role in supporting the force’s capability to dynamically deploy into particular areas for a period of time to target crime and engage with…

Big Suffolk Quiz is back

18/10/2021

One of the biggest trivia events in the region is making a welcome return to help raise money for this year’s BBC Children in Need Appeal. The Hearing Care Centre, a family-run hearing care company with 24 centres across East Anglia had up until last year, been organising charity quiz nights twice a year, raising…

Ipswich to take part in The Great Big Green Week to help tackle climate change

16/09/2021

Ipswich Borough Council is bringing The Great Big Green Week to Ipswich next week to help inspire residents to make positive changes to tackle climate change and protect green spaces. Taking place between 18 – 26 September 2021, the climate action campaign known as The Great Big Green Week will see thousands of local events…

Ride for Helen raises over £7,000

06/09/2021

Over 200 cyclists from around the county and beyond, gathered at Trinity Park near Ipswich yesterday (Sunday 5th September) for the inaugural Ride for Helen Suffolk cycle ride organised by Helen Rollason Cancer Charity raising over £7,000. The event offered cyclists the chance to sign up for either 65 or 35 mile routes through some of the beautiful Suffolk countryside. Social distancing measures were put in…

Help to reduce carbon footprint

05/08/2021

Train operator, Greater Anglia, has launched a new online ‘green hub’ which includes a new carbon calculator to help travellers see how much they could help the planet by switching from car to train. The hub at greateranglia.co.uk/GreenerAnglia offers information about why it’s more sustainable to travel by rail and lets people calculate the environmental…

Police launch E-scooter Campaign

04/08/2021

Police in the Ipswich and surrounding area are conducting a month-long campaign on the illegal use of e-scooters in the area. Currently in the UK, you can legally buy an e-scooter, but you cannot ride it on a public road, cycle lane or pavement. The only place it can be used is on private land….

Police launch Suffolk-wide speed awareness campaign

26/07/2021

Slow down, save lives – that is the simple message this year as police in Suffolk launch annual speed operation. The campaign, co-ordinated by the National Police Chiefs’ Council, launches today (Monday 26th July) and will run until Sunday 8th August and will see an increased amount of checks and enforcement across the county. As…

Take part in a Gameshow

23/07/2021

On Sunday 8th August at 3:00pm and 7:00pm the New Wolsey Theatre is hosting Pagan Pandemonium- a bonkers and surreal out-door gameshow. Pagan Pandemonium features techno Morris dancing, a wrestling straw bear and a singing standing stone! Two teams of four will compete in fun games to win a great first prize of dinner for…