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A Suffolk New College lecturer from Kesgrave, who has already completed 58 marathons and raised around £100k for charity, is taking on his toughest challenge yet – 13 half-marathons in 13 days – after being inspired by a fellow runner who completed the London Marathon carrying a fridge on his back.
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A team of more than 30 riders will set off from Southampton on Tuesday, 22 September, cycling 400 miles over five days to Ipswich Rugby Club in support of local plumber Ryan Horsfall, who was diagnosed with motor neurone disease (MND) late last year.
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Ivan Ambrose has not left his home in years. His only weekly in-person contact is with family members – and, on occasion, a close friend. That is partly because adult autism support in Ipswich disappears once someone turns 25 – something Ivan is now campaigning to change.
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Fourteen Suffolk businesses swapped the office for Trinity Park this year, taking on egg and spoon races, a rodeo bull and a straw-and-sticky-tape bridge-building contest to raise over £10,000 for Home-Start Suffolk.
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Hundreds of runners and walkers filled Christchurch Park with colour on Saturday, 12 September, as Colchester & Ipswich Hospitals Charity's Colour Run returned to Ipswich.
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St Elizabeth Hospice's Suffolk Dog Day will take place at Trinity Park on Sunday, 13 September, with tickets now on sale for the annual celebration of all things canine.
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When Ian Spilling died in June, his wife's colleagues at Bluebird Lodge rallied around her, and together they are now building something that will outlast their grief.
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Suffolk residents are being encouraged to nominate local volunteer groups for The King's Award for Voluntary Service, the UK's top honour for voluntary organisations.
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Aston French will cut off hair he has grown since school and shave his head at John Olivers on Great Colman Street, in solidarity with his cousin Claire, who is being treated for leukaemia.
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Four years after a motorbike collision left him with a broken spine, Pedro Santos, 45, is trekking 2.4 miles in Cambridge this month to raise money for the East Anglian Air Ambulance crew who flew him to hospital.
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Sir Lenny Henry and Chris McCausland are joining this year's Happy Christmas Ipswich, a fundraiser show that has raised around £700,000 for East Anglia's Children's Hospices since 2019.
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Girls Anatomy, an Ipswich support organisation founded by two women living with chronic health conditions, will host its first event at Belstead Arms on Sunday, 30 August, featuring guest speakers, a sunflower painting session and a charity raffle.
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