Category Archives: Community News

Customers can collect vouchers in store from 27^th January – 3^rd May to help registered schools, groups and clubs across Sudbury/ Cornard and surrounding areas get sports and cooking equipment and experiences.   The scheme is supported by double Paralympic gold  (…)

Between 13th and 28th May Sudbury will come alive with art!  Thanks to the generosity of local businesses, Winch and Blatch, The Angel Wine Bar and The Art and Framing Centre, artists living in and around Sudbury have been given the opportunity to display their work as a prelude to the ever popular Suffolk Open Studios (…)

Local residents, businesses, community groups and schools came together to celebrate Sudbury and Great Cornard travelling 52,000 miles for Beat the Street.   Over six weeks, Beat the Street has transformed Sudbury and Great Cornard into a giant walking, running and cycling game – residents travelling around the area tapping (…)

With over 4,500 people taking part and travelling over 52,000 miles in the six week game last year, Beat the Street have continued to promote and support groups in Sudbury and Great Cornard.  Whether your children would like to join the Dodgeball Club organised by Fresh Sports on a Monday evening in the Stevenson Centre or (…)

Beat the Street want to know what impact it has had on you since you played last Autumn. Please fill out the short six month survey to let them know what impact it has had for you.  As a thank you for filling out the survey, they will put you into a prize draw to win £50. It will only take a few minutes and your feedback will help them make the game bigger and better.  https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/BTSSGCSurvey

The life-size St George and the dragon made their first appearance at Sudbury on Show at the beginning of March, and a number of children and adults were photographed.   George will continue to appear around the town, including a visit to Tesco who have added their name to the list of willing sponsors, alongside (…)

Start the New Year by making sure you know what is going on in Sudbury by visiting our new website regularly for all the latest news, events and offers. You can also find places to shop, explore, dine and stay.  If you have not been to Gainsborough’s House recently then it is well worth the visit with their current exhibition (…)

February is the month for romance and if you are looking forward to Valentine’s Day why not come to Sudbury to have a meal, go shopping, visit the exhibition at Gainsborough’s House or take a romantic walk along the river.  Sudbury has a fine selection of pubs, cafes (…)

The What’s On page at See and Do Sudbury has the December events happening in Sudbury including The Snow Queen panto at The Quay Theatre and the booking signing by Loyd Grossman at Gainsborough House.  If its happening in Sudbury, add your 2016 events now.

Find out more about Sudbury’s fascinating history; Simon of Sudbury, Capital of Silk, The Common Lands, 101 Dalmatians, River Transport and lots more at the Heritage Museum, Gaol Lane, Sudbury, Suffolk.  Normally open Monday to Friday, 10am to 4pm, it will also be open during the Taste of Sudbury Food & Drink Festival on Sunday 12th June 2016.

Churches Together in Sudbury and District have organised an Easter Egg Hunt during Holy Week (21^st -26^th March).  Local shops and businesses around Sudbury will be displaying signs with lettered eggs on them. The aim is to collect all the letters and make an Easter related sentence. You can collect entry forms from 21^st March from the  (…)

Free Parking is available for up to 3 hours in District Council Car Parks.

If you are interested in volunteering to help with Walking for Health there are free one day training sessions available to ensure that you feel well equipped for taking part.  The training focuses on leading a health walk and also touches on the benefits of walking, route planning and leading walkers with special requirements.  There will be a training (…)

Businesses in Friars Street and Quay Lane are open as normal whilst essential undergrounding works to Black Friars/ School Street and Friars Street/Quay Lane in Sudbury take place between 1^st and 26^th August.  With a wide range of shops and cafes in Friars Street, the businesses look forward to seeing existing and (…)

A new game which encourages people living and working in Sudbury and Great Cornard to ditch their car and walk, run and cycle as far as possible is set to kick off next month.  Running for six weeks from 21 September to 2 November, Beat the Street is a free, fun game where local residents are rewarded with points and prizes for (…)

Taking over the Market Hill in Sudbury and St. Peter’s on Sunday, 12^th June, the Taste of Sudbury Food & Drink Festival which celebrates the fabulous diverse range of food available on the Suffolk/Essex border.  Jam Tartz Catering based in Sudbury will be providing the perfect summer treat for all food lovers, with a pop up restaurant (…)

Javelin throws itself into business again with the opening of its refurbished women’s store at The Anchor on 6th February.  After the tragic Sudbury fire in September we have finally been able to refurbish the store, we had thought that the store would have been opened much sooner but (…)

Keeping three hours free parking in Sudbury is important to both businesses, visitors and residents as demonstrated in two recent surveys carried out by the Sudbury Town Team.  In a survey of businesses in Sudbury Town Centre in January 2014, free car parking was the main issued which was raised as the most important (…)

Everyone is welcome to Kettle & Fish which is open most Thursdays in St. Peter’s on Market Hill, you can sit and relax over tea and coffee with delicious freshly filled rolls, soup, cakes & pastries. If you want to be alone that’s fine or if you want someone to talk to we have listeners with a ready ear. Those of you with very young children can take (…)

Lettice & Lovage is coming soon! The much-awaited new play from Quay Productions (Directed by Trevor Laver) following on from the critical successes of Not About Heroes and Kennedy’s Children, this multi-award winning Peter Shaffer play is rapier-sharp and enormous fun to boot! Playing 7th – 9th April. Hurry and book your tickets!

On May 28th local artists will be in Sudbury, Suffolk at the Market promoting this years Suffolk Open Studios event and Artists Trail weekend of 4/5th June when all ten artists involved will be opening their studios over the same weekend.   Some of the artists involved will be on the Saturday Market in the centre of Sudbury to talk to visitors (…)

Customer voting will soon be open at Sainsbury’s Sudbury for the retailer’s Local Charity of the Year scheme.  Each Sainsbury’s supermarket and convenience store has shortlisted a maximum of three charities to put forward for the customer vote. Customers can vote through the in-store voting system or online at (…)

Beat the Street will bring an interactive game for all ages to Sudbury and Great Cornard between the 21st September and 2nd November.  They are looking for a full time temporary Maintenance Assistant to earn up to £70 per day between the 14th September and 9th November 2016 to ensure all the beat boxes remain operational.  Flexible hours (…)

More funding for St George’s Celebration Weekend in Sudbury (photo of Lesley Ford Platt receiving a SCC Locality Grant from County Cllr John Sayers).  Work is well underway for a St George’s weekend of celebration in Sudbury on April 22 and 23. A grant of over £7,000 from the Big Lottery Fund to (…)

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.