A Suffolk hotel group is offering a new four days on, three days off approach for new chefs recruited to work at five of their properties giving a better quality work-life balance. Under the new initiative, salaried chefs recruited by The Hotel Folk will be working 186 days a year and having 179 days off…
Woodbridge Tide Mill Museum, a rare and much-loved working tide mill on the banks of the River Deben in Woodbridge, Suffolk has been given full accreditation status. Administered by Arts Council England on behalf of the UK Accreditation Partnership, Accreditation is the benchmark for well-run Museums and Galleries. It means that Woodbridge Tide Mill Museum…
The Suffolk Hotel Folk group has opened a new training and development centre at Thorpeness, believed to be the first of its type in East Anglia. It will provide a safe and welcoming space for the group’s folk to gain a wealth of knowledge and basic skills needed for their role. The Folk’s learning journey…
Woodbridge Tide Mill Museum will open to visitors for the 2022 season on Friday 1 April. The Mill Volunteers and staff have been busy over the winter doing vital maintenance work, continuing to mill stoneground wholemeal flour for customers, developing better access to the Museum for visitors and ways to reach new customers. Keeping the…
Between Friday 11th to Sunday 13th March 2022, local residents and businesses can look forward to an exciting and impressive list of activities as part of Ipswich Borough Council’s Welcome Back Ipswich Weekend! The weekend will kick off with a very special reunion, thanks to St Elizabeth Hospice. The Suffolk charity is reuniting familiar faces…
The Suffolk-based holiday letting agency is up against some serious competition in the Visit East of England Marketing Campaign of the Year Awards. The finalists for the Visit East of England Tourism Awards 2022 were revealed over the weekend. Best of Suffolk was overjoyed at successfully getting through each stage of the judging process and…
A charming 15th Century pub has been given a much-needed refurbishment to create beautiful guest accommodation – that is stylish yet sympathetic to its Grade II* listed status. The Marlborough Head public house in Dedham, Essex, is steeped in history, but was in dire need of attention when acquired by entrepreneur Tom West. Having worked with…
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…