ActivLives News
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General ActivLives News
Belle Vue Park is looking great!
Our Sudbury ActivGardens team have been working hard in the sunshine recently! A few of the volunteers still wanted to come along to help maintain the gardens at Belle Vue Park despite the warm weather, which was great. Reports were that it was 29 degrees by 11:30am,...
Councillor Mary Rudd visits ActivLives
Recently Cllr Mary Rudd was invited to spend some time with our Chief Executive Julie Stokes to find out about the work of ActivLives, here's what she had to say about her experience: “I was invited by Julie Stokes to spend some time with her to see the work of...
Latest news from the team at Belle Vue Park, Sudbury
Today was very busy! We had a delivery of chipped branches from Kevin and crew, which we used to create a new pathway and also mulch the new border under the trees. Also Katherine from Katie's Garden nursery (a Sudbury in Bloom contact) brought us four trays of...
News from ActivGardens
Belle Vue Park is looking great!
Our Sudbury ActivGardens team have been working hard in the sunshine recently! A few of the volunteers still wanted to come along to help maintain the gardens at Belle Vue Park despite the warm weather, which was great. Reports were that it was 29 degrees by 11:30am,...
Councillor Mary Rudd visits ActivLives
Recently Cllr Mary Rudd was invited to spend some time with our Chief Executive Julie Stokes to find out about the work of ActivLives, here's what she had to say about her experience: “I was invited by Julie Stokes to spend some time with her to see the work of...
Latest news from the team at Belle Vue Park, Sudbury
Today was very busy! We had a delivery of chipped branches from Kevin and crew, which we used to create a new pathway and also mulch the new border under the trees. Also Katherine from Katie's Garden nursery (a Sudbury in Bloom contact) brought us four trays of...
Chantry Walled Garden prepare Ipswich Town Centre planters
The team at the Chantry walled garden centre have been hard at work, preparing the planters that were to be erected in Ipswich high street. The team worked tirelessly to ensure these planters were planted to the required specifications, and are extremely proud of...
Place your plants order with our charity nursery!
Why not pop on down to our Chantry Park Walled Garden Nursery to browse our fabulous range of plants and get your garden looking amazing this Summer! You can also order your plants online so why not take the time to browse our online catalogue for our bigger and...
Invertebrates at Belle Vue Park
At Belle Vue park we grow lots of different types of plants and shrubs and this creates a range of different habitats for many invertebrates. Our tall grasses have dense tussocky bases where beetles and spiders can survive over winter. We grow lots of flowers with...
News from ActivHubs
Councillor Mary Rudd visits ActivLives
Recently Cllr Mary Rudd was invited to spend some time with our Chief Executive Julie Stokes to find out about the work of ActivLives, here's what she had to say about her experience: “I was invited by Julie Stokes to spend some time with her to see the work of...
New fun seated exercise sessions for Kirton and surrounding villages
Local Charity ActivLives has been supported by Suffolk Community Foundation and the East of England Co-op Cares Fund to develop the ‘Keep on Moving Project’, running four 12 - week seated exercise programmes in different areas of Ipswich and East Suffolk. The first of...
Fantastic news…
Julie Stokes ActivLives CEO was on the Mark Murphy BBC Radio Suffolk show this morning 16/3/22, as ActivLives was shortlisted for the High Sheriff Awards - East of England Co-op – Supporting the Isolated Award. ActivLives was shortlisted with two other amazing...
ActivLives has been shortlisted for High Sheriff Awards 2022
ActivLives has just heard some brilliant news – we have been shortlisted for the Suffolk Community Foundation - High Sheriff Awards 2022. There were 130 nominations and we have been shortlisted with two other organisations for the East of England Coop – Supporting the...
CANCELLED Health Walk – Christchurch Mansion 21 Feb 2022
Please note that the Health Walk planned for Monday 21 February in Christchurch Park has been cancelled due to the adverse weather conditions.
Funding from East of England Co-Op announced for the Keep Moving Project
We are thrilled to announce we've received community funding from East of England Co-op for the Keep Moving Project. This amazing funding will help us to hold new chair based exercise sessions and these will improve people's mobility & give them confidence to...
News from ActivSport
Councillor Mary Rudd visits ActivLives
Recently Cllr Mary Rudd was invited to spend some time with our Chief Executive Julie Stokes to find out about the work of ActivLives, here's what she had to say about her experience: “I was invited by Julie Stokes to spend some time with her to see the work of...
Heatwave halts play on the bowls green!
We had to cancel our popular Lawn Bowls session this week for the very first time since we began to play outdoors at Halifax Road, way back in June 2015. Since that time we have moved to Kesgrave, and of course we have played in drizzly rain on a few occasions, but we...
A Rackets Taster for Suffolk Day
A Rackets Taster event was held recently at Ipswich Sports Club in Ipswich, attracting 24 participants. The activities, which were targeted at athletes with a learning disability, included a variety of tennis and badminton skills and challenges. Several of the players...
Suffolk badminton players get back to competition
Above: The photo includes our Suffolk players together with members of the GB Paralympic Badminton squad, including Dan Bethell, Silver medallist from Tokyo in 2021. Eight athletes from the ActivLives/Special Olympics Suffolk group competed recently, at a new...
ActivLives boccia players get ‘Back to Boccia’ at Boccia England competition
ActivLives boccia players have been busy competing at the ‘Back to Boccia’ Central tournament held recently in Hatfield, Hertfordshire. Eleven players from the ActivBoccia group, who play weekly at Whitton Sports Centre in Ipswich, competed in a variety of...
ActivBowls are back outdoors!
ActivLives bowls sessions are about to go back outdoors for the summer season. We start back at the Kesgrave Community Centre, IP5 1JF, on Tuesday 10 May, 10.30-12.30. It’s a lovely green to play on with plenty of space. The session fee is £4.50. We have spare...
News from ActivSinging
Councillor Mary Rudd visits ActivLives
Recently Cllr Mary Rudd was invited to spend some time with our Chief Executive Julie Stokes to find out about the work of ActivLives, here's what she had to say about her experience: “I was invited by Julie Stokes to spend some time with her to see the work of...
Fantastic news…
Julie Stokes ActivLives CEO was on the Mark Murphy BBC Radio Suffolk show this morning 16/3/22, as ActivLives was shortlisted for the High Sheriff Awards - East of England Co-op – Supporting the Isolated Award. ActivLives was shortlisted with two other amazing...
ActivLives has been shortlisted for High Sheriff Awards 2022
ActivLives has just heard some brilliant news – we have been shortlisted for the Suffolk Community Foundation - High Sheriff Awards 2022. There were 130 nominations and we have been shortlisted with two other organisations for the East of England Coop – Supporting the...
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