News from St Elizabeth Hospice
Get up and glow for St Elizabeth Hospice
ST Elizabeth Hospice’s biggest event of the year, the Midnight Walk, is back for its 11th birthday event – and if you sign up before the end of January you can save £5!
The hugely popular event, which saw a record-number of people taking part in May earlier this year, will return on May 20th 2017 and back by popular demand is the neon theme!
The Free Fit Club, Beccles
THE Free Fit Club was started in October with the aim of it being a fun, relaxed weekly event for all ages and abilities...and that's exactly what it's been so far. We've consistently had 20-25 people each week ranging from seven to 70 years old, some who are quite fit, and others who are starting to take steps in the right direction to improve their health and fitness.
Martlesham Brass
WE would like to wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
December is the busiest month of the year for Martlesham Brass - you will often find us playing Christmas Carols outside supermarkets, both in Martlesham and Ipswich, raising money for the charities nominated by our band members. This year we are raising funds for Cruse Bereavement Care Suffolk, Over the Rainbow Children's Charity and Tools with a Mission.
Suffolk Wildlife Trust Reserves Old and New
IS there a nature reserve on your doorstep? The answer should be provided when Suffolk Wildlife Trust present an illustrated talk entitled “SWT Reserves Old and New” at Woodbridge Community Hall on Thursday 15th December starting at 7.30 pm.
The Roger David Burrows Music Fund presents ‘Christmas Music’
The Roger David Burrows Music Fund presents ‘Christmas Music’. This will be light musical entertainment featuring Helen Ellison with students and singers and the Melton Folk and Abi Vaughan (accompanist) on
Saturday 10th December, 6.30 pm at St Michael’s Church Centre, The Drift, Martlesham Heath, IP5 3PL.
Rosedale’s Dee wants to say a proper “Thank you!”
STAFF at Rosedale Funeral Home in Halesworth, Beccles and Bungay have been busy all year wrapping and packing shoe boxes for Operation Christmas Child, the UK’s largest children’s Christmas Appeal.
Beccles Christmas Lights
PREPARATIONS are underway for this year’s Beccles Christmas light switch on along with a whole host of festive activities.
Various organisations, groups and volunteers from across Beccles and the wider community have come together in organising this year’s illuminations which will light up the town on Friday 25th, November.
News from Framlingham and Saxmundham Cats Protection
DECEMBER will be a busy month for the Fram and Sax CP fund raising team. From December 1st to December 7th you will find us at the iChameleon Pop-Up Shop in the High Street, Halesworth and on Sunday 4th December we will have our stall (outside Boots) at the Woodbridge Christmas Fair. The last of this year’s Cat Homing Events will be at the Market Hall, Saxmundham on Saturday 10th December; your chance to meet your new best feline friend. All of these events are ideal opportunities to stock-up on CP cards, Calendars and Christmas gifts and, of course, support the cats and the work we do. See full details on our website.
Good at Making Things?
Remap is a very special charity, working through a nationwide network of dedicated volunteers. These inspiring people use their ingenuity and skills to enable people with disabilities to achieve much-desired independence in some aspect of their lives, or to enjoy leisure opportunities previously closed to them.
Folk at the Leiston Film Theatre
MULTI award winning eight-piece folk band, Merry Hell, will be bringing their acclaimed talent to the Leiston Film Theatre on Friday 28th October, with an unmissable evening of brilliant Northern folk-rock entertainment.
Matinee Music Hall comes to Leiston Film Theatre
LADIES and gentlemen, roll up; roll up, for an afternoon of variety and nostalgia, as your most worthy Chairman proudly presents ‘The Good Old Music Hall Days’ at Leiston Film Theatre on Wednesday 19th October at 2.30pm.
Celebrate Bonfire Night with Wing Yip
Remember Remember the 5th of November with an Authentic and Oriental Wing Yip Dinner
Harleston University of the Third Age
THE University of the Third Age is an international organisation aimed at people who are no longer in full time employment. The over-riding philosophy is that of folk meeting together for all kinds of physical, intellectual and social activities. These are provided by the members for the members.
Furriner, an exhibition of work by Alastair Horner
AS a furriner - foreigner in the Norfolk dialect – Alasdair Horner from Harleston is bringing images of this locality and further afield to Bungay in an exhibition. The exhibition, entitled Furriner opened at the Gallery in the Fisher Theatre, Bungay, on September 11th and runs until October 6th and features photographs taken locally and from his travels around the world, but all with an added personal twist.
Framlingham First Responder News
HELLO everyone, it’s been a while since I’ve had time to sit down and type out a write up of our groups news, as some of you have mentioned to me. Rest assured we are still up and running despite my absence from these pages, just that life has been hectic for a few months but I’ve finally managed to put some time aside to bring you all up to speed.