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Women's self-defence classes, pickleball sessions for Chantry Academy students and football for children with special educational needs are among the projects set to continue after Ipswich secured a further £1m from Sport England.
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Asha Plavny-McKeon, a gym manager, says the damage to Dunwich Heath "really hit home" – this Thursday, 20 August, she will walk continuously on a treadmill for 12 hours, raising money to support Dunwich Heath's recovery.
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Since 1974, thousands of Ipswich residents have walked through Citizens Advice's doors with their most difficult problems. Five decades of frontline experience have given the charity a unique vantage point on a town that has changed a great deal since it first opened.
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Young people from Whitehouse, Stoke Park and Chantry came together last Wednesday, 12 August, to share their views on how £40m of government funding should be spent in their neighbourhoods, as part of the Pride in Place programme.
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Sixteen-year-old Jake Turner had only been volunteering at Gainsborough Community Library for a few months before taking charge of planning its 90th birthday celebration – now set to be one of the year's biggest community events.
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A year ago, Mahjabin Anwar built a space for Global Majority women in Suffolk to feel seen. This Saturday, with a DJ, pizza and a raffle built entirely around local women's businesses, she is celebrating just how far that idea has come.
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Feel Good Suffolk is appealing for new volunteer walk leaders to run wellbeing walks in and around Ipswich, as part of a county-wide scheme that already sees more than 1,000 people take part every month.
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Ipswich law firm Ellisons has launched a year-long partnership with Suffolk Mind and Mid and North East Essex Mind, with colleagues set to fundraise, volunteer and raise awareness for mental health.
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New figures show one in six children in England and Wales will experience sexual abuse before turning 18 — this is up from one in ten. Suffolk charity Brave Futures says just 15% of the children it has supported over the past 14 years have seen their case reach prosecution.
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From two nervous children finding the courage to sing, to youngsters flying through the air with a circus school, TreeFEST at The Treehouse in Ipswich gave families a rare chance to enjoy a festival built entirely around them.
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With the school summer holidays in full swing, ActivLives is inviting Ipswich families to a free nature day featuring bug hunts, butterfly counts and a chance to meet the bees at Maidenhall Allotments.
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