The UK’s leading supplier and installer of commercial coffee machines, Liquildine, has partnered with Change Please, a social enterprise that helps lift people out of homelessness. It may be bold to say that a cup of coffee changed your life, but when you choose Change Please coffee for your business, it will genuinely be helping…
A Suffolk business has raised more than £5,000 for charity in a single weekend by relaunching a limited-edition scented wax melt in memory of Captain Sir Tom Moore. Cosy Aromas, a home fragrance company based in Ipswich, first created the ‘Life is Beautiful’ scent in the summer to boost the fundraising efforts of the pensioner…
From this week, hundreds of Suffolk based clubs, groups, sports centres, wellbeing health, meet-ups and community buildings are to be given a helping hand in getting ‘back to their best’ as part of a county-wide restart initiative. The Collaborative Communities Board has commissioned Community Action Suffolk to manage the vital support project – working in…
An Ipswich charity that provides hospice care for children has received a donation of £1,500 from the Amazon delivery station team in Ipswich to help it continue to support the local community. The Treehouse, part of East Anglia Children’s Hospices (EACH), received the donation as part Amazon’s programme to support the communities around its operating locations…
With family carers playing such an important role in so many households, Suffolk Family Carers is pleased to launch new and enhanced services for unpaid carers across Suffolk. The services, jointly commissioned by Suffolk County Council, West Suffolk Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), Ipswich & East Suffolk CCG & Norfolk & Waveney CCG, will improve support…
Suffolk charities are collectively calling for more volunteers to play a vital role in keeping the county’s residents connected, supported and healthy, as the third lockdown extends toward March. Organisations throughout the region have seen an unprecedented pull on their services since the pandemic began, and this month has seen another surge in requirement to…
An award-winning family-run housebuilder has helped two charities recently – including donating furniture from one of its former Show Homes. Bennett Homes, based in Nowton, near Bury St Edmunds, has given furniture from its Abbey Gardens development in Thorpe-le-Soken to the charity Newlife. The items from the Show Home included mattresses and bed bases, as…
A new era in services for carers in Suffolk begins in April 2021, with Suffolk Family Carers having been chosen to deliver a county-wide provision of support for adults, covering the next five years. With an estimated 88,000 adult carers living in Suffolk, the County Council and local NHS Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) worked collaboratively…