Author Archives: Sudbury Town Team

The new cycling map is to encourage everyone to leave their cars at home and enable children to bike to school without encountering hazards.  Suffolk County Council worked with the town council and the local community to bring the map together.  It is available at the Sudbury Tourist Information Centre located in the Library or (…)

Sudbury’s Party in the Park will return again in 2019.  The date for the event will be announced shortly and we will confirm this as soon as possible.

Transition Sudbury have organised a preserving class at the Stevenson Centre, Great Cornard, Suffolk on Saturday, the 2nd July at 10am.  Libby Laurence will give a talk on preserving whilst showing how to make strawberry conserve and strawberry jam, there is a difference!  Everyone in the class will get a 8oz jar to take away (…)

Everyone in Sudbury and Great Cornard are being encouraged to go the extra mile by running, walking or cycling as much as possible as Beat the Street enters its final week.  Over the past five weeks, Sudbury and Great Cornard have been transformed into a giant game where residents collect points and prizes for being active. Since (…)

Thousands of Sudbury and Great Cornard residents are expected to take part in a community-wide game that encourages people to get active by walking, running and cycling as far as possible in return for points and prizes.  Beat the Street is a unique competition that challenges local residents of all ages to see how far they can (…)

What happens next? If you were unable to make our first Open Day Gainsborough’s House invites you to a second Open Morning to find out more.  Gainsborough’s House, birthplace and home of the renowned artist Thomas Gainsborough, has received Heritage Lottery Fund support of £4.73 million, including (…)

Sainsbury’s Local Charity of the Year scheme is back and the Sudbury store is looking for a new charity to support from the Sudbury/Cornard area.  Over the next couple of months, Sainsbury’s stores will make a shortlist of charities for customers to vote for. The winning charity will then receive a year of support from the store, which includes (…)

Sainsbury’s Sudbury names Age UK, Chilton Club as their new Local Charity of the Year.  Following an online and in-store customer vote, Sainsbury’s Sudbury has announced that Age UK, Chilton Club will be the store’s new Local Charity of the Year for 2016 – 2017.  The Chilton Cub is a specialist Day Club for those affected with (…)

Sudbury’s businesses are proud to be able to offer their customers 3 hours free parking in their District Council Car Parks.  However, there is currently a review by Babergh District Council who are considering starting charging for the currently free period and businesses (…)

The overwhelming amount of comments received from shoppers by See and Do Sudbury, the Best of Sudbury and the local press support the Save Free Parking in Sudbury campaign.  They oppose any charges whatsoever being imposed (…) 

Tuesday 5th – Saturday 9th July, SDS will be treading the boards again at The Quay, Sudbury, Suffolk with a stunning production of Shakespeare’s ‘The Tempest’, marking the 400th anniversary of The Bard’s death. An ensemble of 9 actors and 3 musicians bring this mystical play to life through music, physical action, visual images and, (…)

There are lots of reasons to shop in Sudbury this Christmas with the shop local campaign urging everyone to support their local shops and take part in the two competitions over the Christmas period.  Read more ….

Shop Local this Christmas campaign highlights the reasons to shop in Sudbury and visit the wealth of shops in the town and take advantage of the 3 hours free parking.  Read more ….

There are still tickets left for the fantastic comedian, Simon Evans, he of Radio 4 and Live at the Apollo fame. If you like your humour intelligent and well researched, he’s the man for you! Playing at The Quay on 14th April at 8pm. Tickets: £14.00.

The nation’s favourite Simon and Garfunkel Tribute slip slide into The Quay Theatre in Sudbury, Suffolk with their highly acclaimed All The Hits 1957-1987 tour on 18th June.  Now in its tenth year of touring, The Sounds of Simon delighted theatre audiences up and down the UK with its note-perfect reproduction of the award-winning (…)

The Rude Strawberry Cafe, 5 Friars Street have a special Tapas Evening on 14th February.  For a set price of £50 for two and a bottle of wine, booking will be essential on 01787 881999

Judging took place on April 4 of the 45 nominations received for Volunteer Awards. All those short-listed will have received an invitation to the ceremony on Saturday, April 22, at 4.00 p.m. in the Quay Theatre. Winners will be announced at this ticket-only event and presented with engraved shields, with runners-up being given certificates to (…)

The true spirit of Christmas will shine in Sudbury this December thanks to a new initiative by Churches Together in Sudbury and District.  The Sudbury Advent Art Trail will lead visitors and shoppers to the town on a trail around the shops to find artwork relating to the Christmas story.  Local artists and schoolchildren are being invited to (…)

Residents in Sudbury and Great Cornard have travelled over 150 times the length of Hadrian’s Wall in the first few days of community-wide competition, Beat the Street.  More than 3,000 people in Sudbury and Great Cornard have run, walked and cycled 9,700 miles in just five days for Beat the Street – a free competition that challenges (…)

Sudbury Citizens Advice is moving out of Belle Vue and into new premises within the town. On June 18th they are having an Open Day at Belle Vue and inviting people to come and have a look round before they move out, as the building has an interesting history. Anne Grimshaw from the Sudbury Society has previously given (…)

A new Community Kitchen is open every Monday at St Gregs Hall, Princes Street, Sudbury between 12 – 2pm for a free lunch of homemade soup, cake, tea and coffee. Everyone is welcome to come along for a chat, drink tea, read the papers or meet friends.  There is no charge as ingredients are donated by Sainsburys and others and it (…)

Sudbury Farmers Market is now one of the busiest town centre Farmers Markets in Suffolk.  The market is held on the last Friday of each month in St. Peter’s, Market Hill in the centre of Sudbury between 9.30am and 2pm – Free Entry.

Sudbury Farmers Market is now one of the busiest town centre Farmers Markets in Suffolk.  The market is held on the last Friday of each month in St. Peter’s, Market Hill in the centre of Sudbury between 9.30am and 2pm – Free Entry.  Friday, 30 September visit the Beat the Street stand and enter the free prize draw with a top prize (…)

Jerry Thatcher stepped out in memory of mum Kate with friends, and families from around Sudbury to lead the Sudbury Memory Walk to raise money for people with dementia and their carers.   The weather was kind and there was a brilliant atmosphere from the start.  With an amazing band to entertain the walkers at the start and an (…)

Care UK,  South Suffolk Leisure and the Hadleigh Dementia Action Alliance are working in partnership to support local resident Jerry Thatcher to organise a Sudbury Memory Walk.  The aim of the event if to raise awareness and understanding of Dementia and to mark the memory of those that we love and wish to remember.  The event is FREE (…)

Walkers are Welcome is a community lead scheme run by the towns themselves. There are Walkers are Welcome towns and villages in all parts of Britain and we would like to make Sudbury the first Walkers are Welcome town in Suffolk to strengthen the towns reputation as a place for visitors and residents to enjoy the outdoors and promote the (…)

Vital funds from the Dedham Vale AONB Sustainable Development Fund helped Nayland Farmers Market run a Smoothie Bike Challenge last Saturday which proved to be a huge success.  Quirky events such as these really help pull in the crowds and with this in mind Justine Paul, owner of Suffolk Market Events and the person behind (…)