Events Around Suffolk

Designed to enhance your children’s co-ordination and rhythm and nurture their natural love of movement in a structured yet relaxed environment.

Talk by Jill Hazell on growing and showing sweet peas.

A real life treasure quest running throughout May and June to Sun 7th July 2019. First prize of £200 cash to the lucky winner.

Every Wednesday during June, July & August we are opening the Great Hall and Linenfold Parlour. Our Tour Guides are on hand to explain the importance of these rooms within British and American history and detail how Otley Hall has remained largely intact for over 500 years.

Otley Hall is surrounded by 10 acres of beautiful gardens, both formal and informal. Enjoy the tranquility of the knot gardens, walk our labyrinth, wander along the H-canal and through the vine tunnel. This is our final year of opening the Hall and gardens to the public, so please come and visit us soon!

Visit Lavenham Guildhall on one of our spinning days and see our wonderful volunteers in action; demonstrating the traditional art of spinning wool into the yarn we see and recognise today. Our spinning demonstrations are ongoing throughout the day.

Practice your green finger skills with our plant it, grow it, eat it workshops! Join us in our walled garden for our children’s planting workshops. Children will learn all about what plants we grow at Ickworth and how to take care of them, before planting their own to take home! Booking Essential.

Southwold Makers 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.

The residents of Mill Lane Nursing Home in Felixstowe, Suffolk are looking forward to celebrating all things Suffolk and extend a special invite to their friends, neighbours and the community to join them at their home on Suffolk Day. There will be ‘Suffolk’ entertainment, afternoon tea and cakes for all to enjoy.

Friday 21st June at 8 pm, I-Salsa who are a young group of talented professional musicians from London are coming to bring their special version of Cuban salsa music to Saxmundham, and a dancer will again lead the class beforehand, so that people can revise their steps and gain confidence.

Join the residents at Foxgrove and Maynell House residential homes in a special music therapy session on Friday 21st June from 2pm, for this year’s Suffolk Day. The session will be delivered by Maria King who will supply all the various instruments for all to be able to participate.

This market is going from strength to strength and is now a popular event in the town centre every Friday.

Residents at Aldringham Court nursing home are inviting friends, family and neighbours to join them for a special ‘Suffolk Slides’ coffee morning Friday 21st June from 10.30am until noon to celebrate Suffolk Day. Suffolk Day is the annual celebration of all things Suffolk.

Come and join us for this spectacular fun filled family day out. 11am to 5pm Tractor run at 10am Modern & Vintage tractors Tractor & trailer rides Have-a-go activities Stalls, crafts and children’s games BBQ with locally sourced meat Other exciting refreshments ONLY £5 PER CAR TO...

Our tiny Suffolk village - in the middle of nowhere but only a short distance from Ipswich - is opening its gardens for the first time in four years.

A fully guided tour of the vineyard, with a talk on the grape varieties we grow and the wines they produce, followed by a tasting and presentation of three wines and three liqueurs. The cafe is open for cakes, coffee and ice creams and the shop is full of lovely things to buy!

A return to Ipswich Waterfront which showed great promise in 2018 and this year we coincide with the Ipswich Jazz Festival week (venues throughout the town) and the Pride Festival whose procession ends up at the waterfront and we think, brings us plenty of extra customers.

If you’d love to learn how to arrange your favourite seasonal cottage garden blooms into a bouquet, then join us from 10am–12pm for a creative few hours of all things floral.

Step back over 1000 years in time to enjoy the sights, sounds and smells of Anglo-Saxon life at this evocative time of year as Wulfheodenas set up camp for a weekend full of reenactment. Enjoy the sights and sounds of Anglo-Saxon East Anglia and immerse yourself in Anglo-Saxon life with Wulfheodenas.

Capture a glimpse of the past as a day in the life of a 1930s Servants Quarters unfolds around you. During the summer months the family make the most of the warmer weather by hosting garden parties and having the odd picnic or two down by the lake.

Thetford Forest is a large pine forest to the east of England. We’ll be meeting at St Helen’s picnic site, in an area of the Forest where this diverse environment allows for many wild plants and mushrooms to flourish.

Bubble Rush is a fun run with a difference – it features lots of coloured bubbles! Join us for the biggest, brightest, happiest and frothiest the East Coast has ever seen! For more information, go to www.eastcoastbubblerush.org.uk This event is a fundraiser for the East Coast Hospice appeal.

FETE, SCARECROWS & CEILIDH! Donkey rides, Cribs & Bibs bouncy castles and classic cars from 11am. Plus art and craft stalls, activities, games, music from Key Change and the popular free ‘treasure hunt’.