The Felixstowe Port Users’ Association’s (FPUA) flagship event of the year – its annual charity golf day – brought together twenty teams from the logistics and local business community on 22nd September and raised over £7,000 for local good causes and charities. Jason Flower, chairman of the FPUA, says: “After the last eighteen months and…
A team of colleagues are set to battle a muddy course all in the name of charity. Eight workers from Melton-based firm Infotex are taking on one of the toughest obstacle courses around, the Whole Hog, at Wantisden on Sunday. The team will be scrambling over cargo nets, through tunnels, climbing up steep banks and…
East of England family charity Ormiston Families has made the final shortlist for The Third Sector Award in The Investors in People Awards 2021. In a record-breaking year for entries, with nearly three hundred organisations involved, this is an outstanding achievement and one that everyone at Ormiston Families is proud of. The Investors in People…
Thanks to a chance encounter at a networking event run by Stowmarket & District Chamber of Commerce, the area’s Food Bank has just taken delivery of a much-needed 40-foot container from local company Secure Stores Nationwide. Mike Smith, who runs the Stowmarket & Area Food Bank, was a guest at the meeting where Sarah Manning,…
Aspiring Joe Root and Ben Stokes wannabes from West Suffolk are back playing the game they love most, after a devastating year for their youth cricket experience. Nowton Cricket Club has this week been awarded a grant of £700 from the Suffolk Community Restart programme, helping it to get upwards of 40 youngsters back on…
With restrictions easing, Do Good Networking is itching to get back out there in the community to help local charities. Kicking off with its first planned event of the year, the Do Good Team is spending the morning at Genesis Orwell Mencap one day in September. Genesis is a locally based charity that was started…
Woodbridge Tide Mill Museum has been awarded £1,041.50 by the East of England Co-op Community Cares Fund. The Grant will enable the Mill to improve accessibility for visitors with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) to experience the Tide Mill. Before the pandemic the Mill got some 12,000 visitors a year, a number the Mill’s…
A Suffolk project based in a former shipping container and designed to encourage men to talk, has officially reopened this week, thanks to a community grant. The Debenham Men’s Shed is part of a national network – UK Men’s Shed Association – and brings men (and women too) together to chat and exchange skills, on…