Events Around Leiston

Join Beach Bonkers from 10am to 12pm to discover your own beach treasures. Sizewell Beach is great for finding fossils and a cracking example of our special Suffolk shingle. There’s also the chance to handle some more unusual beachcombing finds. NOTE: We will walk a fair way.

3 acre wildlife garden designed as a garden within an organic farm, where wilderness areas lie next to productive beds. Large semi-walled vegetable and cutting garden, a spectacular crinkle-crankle wall. Extensive perennial planting, grasses and wild areas.

Beach Bonkers will be bringing a tableful of beach treasures, a portable beach and a giant beachcombing board game for the Sunday of the amazing Aldeburgh Carnival. This will be just one of many many fantastic things to do at the carnival. All activities are free.

A special evening walk to discover one of Dunwich Heath’s less well-known mammals! The varied habitats around Dunwich Heath attract several species of Suffolk’s bats.

A special opportunity for a close up look at some of the birds which make their homes here at Dunwich Heath. Find out more about bird ringing and how it provides a fascinating insight into the lives of the nation’s birds.

An exhibition of Art Textiles, including weaving, feltmaking, stitching and fabric dyeing. Unique, handcrafted items will be for sale in our gallery shop. Meet the artists, join our creative journey in our additional display of experimental samples and try your hand at Japanese braiding.

Join us for a Clay Workshop in your area for both Beginners and the more Experienced. Groups and Individuals catered for. Emma is a practising Ceramic and Applied Artist and highly qualified Tutor, offering various Clay Workshops and has many years experience working with all ages and abilities.

Explore the Ness including the Cold War weapons testing area. We are pleased to offer a small number of places on a rare expedition to spend a whole day on Orford Ness including working up close to the famous Pagodas in the Cold War AWRE area. You will be accompanied by rangers from the site who have been photograph.

Visit the unique museum at the former RAF Bentwaters, housed in the former hardened wing operations command post, the only such one open to the public in Europe, an ideal all weather attraction.

Badlands (1973) D. Terence Malick – 90mins Loosely based on two real-life killers, Sissy Spacek and Martin Sheen star as two teenagers who fall in love and set of on a crime spree across the Midwest to the Badlands of Montana. Malick’s beautiful masterpiece.

Held on the first Saturday of every month, The Old Jet Market is an excellent array of stalls, makers, secondhand shifters and sometimes even live music. With pizza, cake, coffee and music! It’s a smash. Bring the family.

People will be selling jumble, home wares, paintings, jewellery, vinyl and more! Commercial sellers £25 a pitch, private sellers £15. Further donations welcome! All pitch fees and donations will be going to charitable causes in the community. Tea, coffee and snacks available. Please contact ellie@oldjet.co.

A wide and ever-changing range of local foods and produce, crafts, plants, home-baking and pre-loved treasures. Refreshments available from the on-site cafe.

Learn how to rescue Whales, Dolphins & Seals. British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR) is a UK based marine animal rescue organisation. We have around 3,500 active volunteer Marine Mammal Medics around the UK and we are the only such specialist organisation covering England, Wales and Scotland.

Over 3 acres of varied gardens on a long established site which has been extensively landscaped and enhanced over the last 15 yrs. Long herbaceous borders, old established trees and a series of garden rooms created by beech hedges. Levels and sight lines have been carefully planned.

Artisan Craft Market held every Friday. Selection of local crafts including textiles, pebble art, photography, jewellery, homemade natural toiletries, paper cutting, prints, home knits, homemade cards, homemade cakes and more. Meet the makers! Everything you see is created by the stallholder.

Artisan Craft Market held every Friday. Selection of local crafts including textiles, pebble art, photography, jewellery, homemade natural toiletries, paper cutting, prints, home knits, homemade cards, homemade cakes and more. Meet the makers! Everything you see is created by the stallholder.

Following the success of their spring concert in Norwich, top young singers from all over the UK are coming together for a 30 minute ‘pop-up’ performance in the heart of Framlingham at 12pm on Saturday 25th August 2018.

Celebrating its 26th year, the Halesworth Antiques Street Market is probably the best known and longest running antiques street market in Suffolk.

A free beachcombing event in Halesworth Library. Can you decipher the clues to find the treasures hidden in the mini shingle beach? There will be a tableful of beachcombing treasures for you to handle. Have you ever seen a mammoth’s tooth?!

Suffolk Wildlife Trust family evening. Owl pellet dissection and crafts in the yard then go in search of creatures of the night including bat detector walk (weather permitting).

Suffolk Wildlife Trust family morning. Play with wild words and nature pictures, inspired by the book by Roger MacFarlane and Jackie Morris.

Outdoor play at Foxburrow Farm , exploration and adventure for the under 5s and their carers

Suffolk Wildlife Trust activity for 6-10 year olds Life as early man, hunting, cooking and ’cave’ painting.

Suffolk Wildlife Trust family activity. Hunt for mini beasts in the meadows and woods.