The vice chairman of the Woodbridge Tide Mill trustees has stepped down after five years in the role. Bob Spillett took up the volunteer position after the Mill’s extensive restoration with funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF). He has been an intrinsic part of the effort to make the Mill commercially capable of economic […]
A new festival is coming to Woodbridge this autumn courtesy of The Riverside Theatre and Restaurant. Film Feast Suffolk will take place from the 5th to the 7th October 2018 as a fringe event of the highly celebrated, Aldeburgh Food and Drink Festival. The festival will showcase feature films, documentaries and short films from around […]
A driver training course which allows 10-year olds to get behind the wheel has announced it is launching in Woodbridge. The scheme offers driving lessons to 10-17 year olds and will take over the airfield at Bentwaters Park on June 2. Participants will be in real cars with real instructors and have the option to […]
It’s #WoodbridgeWednesday and we wanted to shout from the rooftops about a very exciting event coming to town thanks to the Woodbridge Emporium. The biggest-selling female historian in the UK is coming to Woodbridge. Alison Weir who has published 23 titles and sold more than 2.7 million books – a million in the UK and […]
A tea party with a royal twist is being held in Woodbridge to celebrate the wedding of Meghan Markle to Prince Harry. Town shoppers are being asked to don their wedding hats for a bake sale to raise money for charity. Cakes are being made by Christine’s Patisserie and tearoom, The Cake Shop, Honey and […]
The decline in swift numbers is causing alarm to wildlife experts and nature lovers. One of the major factors is the lack of suitable nesting sites which tend to be holes in building roofs. Major efforts are being made UK wide to encourage builders to incorporate special bricks under the eaves for them to nest […]
The Beowulf festival was hailed a huge success by organisers after it encouraged hundreds of people to visit the town. The event was organised by outgoing Woodbridge Mayor Clare Perkins with help from Woodbridge composer Jan Pulsford and was held in lieu of a Mayor’s ball. “It was amazing,” said Ms Perkins, “The music was […]
An experienced journalist who manages the PR for Choose Woodbridge visited a local primary school this week to help their press gang write a newspaper story. Sixty pupils from Kyson Primary School worked with columnist and reporter Ellen Widdup who provided some top tips on how to put a news story together. The children, aged […]
It’s #WoodbridgeWednesday – time to meet another member of the Woodbridge business community. Tony Moorcroft is the managing director of Coast Consulting Ltd, which aims to help individuals, teams and businesses achieve their full potential through focused coaching and training. What would you say are the top three skills needed to run a successful business? I would […]
A Woodbridge inventor has created a coffee cup which can be recycled in existing systems. Martin Myerscough, from Woodbridge, Suffolk, hopes Frugal Cups will help cut the estimated 2.5 billion coffee cups thrown away in the UK each year. In late October Blue Planet II started running on the BBC and not for the first […]
