Staff and pupils came together to raise money for their school’s chosen charity. Ipswich High School Prep School in Woolverstone held a fundraising day for St Elizabeth Hospice last week. After enjoying a bake sale in the morning which raised more than £350, the Prep School children burned off some of their cake-fuelled energy with…
A Suffolk children’s charity is set to benefit from a share of £2,500 as part of a fundraising scheme supported by recently bereaved families. Over the Rainbow children’s charity, which was set up in 2015 by local woman Bev Lambert is one of nine charities picked by the East of England Co-op Funerals Service’s Community…
A ‘guardian angel’ rescued the wedding of a couple after their big day was left in tatters. Mim Seager-Abbott and Chris Abbott booked their reception at Arlingtons in Ipswich back in February 2018, but shortly before their wedding, they were devastated to hear it had closed and had new owners. But, despite being in the…
£100,000 has been handed over to the CEO of AMEND in person after a fundraising campaign in memory of a local businessman. Nick Fayers was MD at Barnes Construction for 18 years before he passed away from MEN 1 in December 2017. Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia (MEN) Type 1 is a rare genetic disorder that causes…
Visitors attending the upcoming FitEast festival at Trinity Park on July 6 will learn more about the role that data analytics can play in helping you to achieve your fitness goals. Keynote speaker Sam Cleaver, director of Ipswich-based Stoic Performance, will help visitors understand why it’s so important that we use new data-monitoring techniques to…
Would you like to learn how to pair wine with certain foods? If the answer is yes, then the wine tasting event at Arlingtons in Ipswich is for you. Walter Pretorius, winemaker at South Africa-based Sumaridge Wines, and Mr Wheeler Wines will be leading the event on Tuesday, 4 June. He will take guests through…
Members of a leading Suffolk technology company took on the challenge of climbing Mount Snowdon during Mental Health Awareness Week. Comms Unite, based in Martlesham took part in the climb on Friday 17 May as a team building exercise and raised money for a local charity. As well as being a personal ‘bucket list’ goal…
Ellisons has made a raft of promotions across its four regional offices, which include one new partner and eight new senior associates, as well as four new associates. It is the first time that Ellisons has ever appointed any of its lawyers into the position of senior associate, a senior fee-earning role which will be…