Raising Money for Local Animals in Need
Fundraising events are a vital part of our efforts to raise the £1,000 plus per day it takes to pay for our work with local animals in need. If you would like to help with fundraising in any way, from donating a raffle or tombola prize or helping run a stall at an event to organising an event please contact Jane on 07592 517836 or volunteering@rspca-suffolkcentral.org.uk
Join us for a Coffee Morning with yummy cakes and the opportunity to buy beautiful plants all in aid of animals in need in Suffolk.
Join us once again for our family-orientated fun day with a host of interactive stalls and refreshments!
This fun day out for the whole family (including well-behaved dogs) includes activities such as inflatable fun, games, raffle and tombola, live music, food stalls and local small business stands.
You will also be able to look around the Centre and meet some of our current residents (but no dogs in the Centre please).
£1 minimum donation at the gate.
We hope to see you there!
Please note: Pre-booked disabled parking only. Main parking available at the Martlesham Community Centre.
Come and enjoy a creative crafting day at our newest charity shop and café in Bury St Edmunds, with loads of things to do and make for adults and children of all ages!
Challenge yourself to make a bug hotel or bird feeder, a t-shirt dog toy, or a snuffle mat to help keep dogs entertained and mentally active. There’s even a snuffle mat kit to take home and make for your own dog. On the day and in the run up to One Fun Day, we’ll be handing out colouring sheets and will display the best pictures in our shop.
Our shop and café, which serves delicious hot and cold drinks and tasty cakes, buns and pastries, will be open and there will be a great raffle too.
A fantastic fun filled day celebrating 200 years of the RSPCA’s mission to change animals’ lives for the better – for every kind. Includes a fun dog show, refreshments and pizza van, raffle, games, crafts and animal related stalls.
Focused around a fun dog show – including a Dads ‘n’ Dogs class to celebrate Fathers’ Day – stalls include craft projects like make your own snuffle mat, guess the scent with a free prize draw, and a Wishing Tree to capture our hopes for the future of animals in our world. You can find out more about the Branch’s fundraising and education work including animal welfare talks to groups, how to volunteer with us and ways to support us such as donating to our shops or getting involved in other fundraising events like our Down Dog 200 yoga challenge and the Ipswich Half Marathon.
FREE entry and car parking on site.
Dog show registration from 12 noon, with judging from 1pm.
We are looking for 200 people to come together for a fun, but challenging yoga session including downward facing dog (or puppy) yoga poses and a deep relaxation crystal singing bowl sound bath therapy to raise funds for RSPCA Suffolk Central and our much needed Dog Sensory Garden at our Martlesham Animal Centre.
After checking in, make your way to the Grand Hall, where the event will last just over three hours including a gentle warm up, the yoga challenge and post-yoga relaxation at the end for you to enjoy a well-earned rest.
After a short comfort break you’ll then be treated to a sound bath to promote deep relaxation and encourage your body to heal and be calm. Lay back under a blanket and just relax – all while raising funds for animal welfare!
The yoga will be led by Kate Sheppard of Yoga Felixstowe and Katharine Lawrence of Ashtanga Yoga Ipswich – both experienced yoga teachers, who have crafted a varied and engaging session that will include a variety of sequences designed to provide an engaging session for all experience levels! The Crystal Singing Bowl Sound Bath Therapy will be run via Emma Atkinson of Fitology Studio.
Attendees can arrive from 10am, with a session start time of 10.30am.
Date: Sunday 23 June 2024
Timings: 10am-1.30pm
Location: Corn Exchange, King Street, Ipswich, IP1 1EG
Ticket cost: £20 **pre-booking essential**
Find out more or sign up here!
If you are up for an extra challenge we invite you to try to raise an additional £200 to help celebrate our anniversary year!
Can’t make the event day? Find out how you could take on a challenge of doing 200 Downward Dogs in your own time at home, work or school and help fundraise to support animal welfare across Suffolk.
We’re thrilled to be a charity partner for the Larking Gowen Ipswich Half Marathon in 2024!
We are offering limited free charity spaces if you’d like to run on behalf of RSPCA Suffolk Central – all we ask in return is that you fundraise a minimum of £250 on our behalf (that could be much easier than running a half marathon!)
To apply for one of our Charity places, sign up here.
Spaces will go fast, so sign up early!
Event details
Sunday 22 September 2024
Start 9.30am
The fantastic route starts at Portman Road stadium, takes you through Holywells Park before turning down to the Ipswich Waterfront, then following the River Orwell before heading back along the Wherstead Road, and Grafton Way before reaching the big finish at the stadium!
What’s included?
- Chip timing
- Finisher’s goody bag
- An option to pre-order a finisher t-shirt
- Exclusive medal
- Memories of a brilliant day!
Full details about the event can be found on the event website here.
Please email fundraising@rspca-suffolkcentral.org.uk if you have any questions.
May 2024
A grand night out…
Many thanks to all who supported our spring quiz on Saturday 27th April. Everyone seemed to enjoy themselves and together we raised a “grand” total of £1,012 for the animals in our Branch area.
The winners on the night were the Rebels, in a close run competition that saw the top five teams all within five points of each other. Congratulations, too, to the Happi Days team who brought up the rear.
Many thanks to Geoffrey for writing and hosting the quiz, to Kate for promoting and booking in the teams, to Dawn for doing the raffle and Ray for donating the bottles of wine for the winners. The kitchen team of Stephen, Susanne, Diane, Jan and Mary, cooked and served almost 100 piping hot baked potatoes, and many thanks to them. The hall hire fee was donated by a regular supporter.
The raffle on the night raised £260 (included in the total above), and we very much appreciate everyone who donated a prize, including East of England Co-operative Society whose gift voucher bought three prizes.
Watch the website for details of more quizzes and events this year, and if you would like to help out, please contact Jane on 07592 517836 or via volunteering@rspca-suffolkcentral.org.uk Without the hard work and enthusiasm of our volunteers, we would not be able to help the number of animals and families with pets that we do. Please consider joining our volunteer team, no matter how many or few hours you feel you can give, especially in 2024, our 200th anniversary year.
RSPCA Family Fun Day
Less than 1 Month to Go!
It’s not long now until our Family Fun Day on 26th of May and we can’t wait to welcome you back for a day filled with fun and family favourites!
Here’s some of the things you can look forward to:
- Our famous cake and refreshment stall
- Bouncy castle and inflatable fun
- Live music
- BBQ
- Lots of stalls from charity stands to small businesses
- A visit from the fire engine
- Paint a bug/fairy house
- A look around our Animal Centre
- Have a go at agility with your dog
Why not bring along a picnic blanket and get settled to enjoy the day?
Please spread the word far and wide so we can raise as much money as possible for animals in need!
February 2024
Woolpack Quiz night raises over £800!
Many thanks to all the quizzers and volunteers who helped raise a magnificent £812 at our quiz night hosted by The Woolpack in Ipswich on Sunday 11 February.
It was a sell out night, with the winning team ‘Cats and Dogs’ taking the honours and winning bottles of Prosecco kindly donated by Punch Pubs.
Many thanks to Will and the whole team at The Woolpack for being such kind and generous hosts, Brian for stepping up to be quiz master (and writing questions); Sarah and Fran for kindly volunteering to set up, run the raffle and generally be amazing helpers; and Terry for providing the Geography questions! The whole branch team helped in writing a variety of the question rounds – so thanks to everyone involved.
Big thanks also to the companies that kindly donated such amazing raffle prizes – Ufford Park Resort, Dial Lane Books, The New Wolsey Theatre and Artisan Savant florists. The fundraising total wouldn’t have been as high without your generosity.https://artisansavant.co.uk/https://www.wolseytheatre.co.uk/
Keep an eye on our website for details of more quizzes later in the year and if you would like to help out at any of our events, please contact Jane on 07592 517836 or via volunteering@rspca-suffolkcentral.org.uk
Without the hard work and enthusiasm of our volunteers, we would not be able to help the number of animals and families with pets that we do. Please consider joining our volunteer team, no matter how many or few hours you feel you can give, especially in 2024, our 200th anniversary year.
November 2023
And the results are in! – Quiz raises over £900
Many thanks to all the quizzers and volunteers who helped raise a magnificent £912.30 at our quiz on Saturday 25 November.
Despite the freezing weather, 18 teams battled for the top spot with the 50 Percenters taking the honours and the winners’ bottles of wine. Team Coco gallantly brought up the rear and won themselves a consolation prize of tiny chocolate bars.
Many thanks to Lorna, Rach, Sarah, Jan and Stephen for helping set up and run the kitchen and to Rach also for baking. It was certainly quicker and easier with such a good team. Many thanks to Dawn and Ray for doing the raffle and donating the winners’ prizes and to Geoffrey for writing the quiz.
Final thanks to everyone who donated a raffle prize, especially Deben Inns and East of England Co-Op for their vouchers and TESCO Martlesham Heath for the Baileys and chocolates.
Keep an eye on our website for details of more quizzes next year, and if you would like to help out at any of our events, please contact Jane on 07592 517836 or via volunteering@rspca-suffolkcentral.org.uk Without the hard work and enthusiasm of our volunteers, we would not be able to help the number of animals and families with pets that we do. Please consider joining our volunteer team, no matter how many or few hours you feel you can give, especially in 2024, our 200th anniversary year.
Christmas Sparkle in Bury St. Edmunds
Our new Bury St. Edmunds shop team and generous volunteers manned a stall at the town’s light switch on event on Thursday 16th November. We were keen to update everyone on our new charity and coffee shop that will be opening on Bartons Retail Park on 15th December. We chatted to lots of lovely people about volunteering opportunities at our new shop, and appealed for stock donations.
The festive stall sold Christmas cards, wrap, pet toys and branded goods – and our competition to guess 3 scents to win free entry into our prize draw proved very popular. The amazing prizes of an afternoon tea for two (donated by The Ickworth Hotel) and luxury scented candles (kindly donated by Illumens) really attracted the crowds – and dogs – despite the rain!
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Successful Christmas Fair raises over £1400
Many thanks to everyone who attended or helped at our Christmas Fair at Holbrook Village Hall on Saturday 18 November. We raised a magnificent £1457.06 for our animals.
Despite the very wet morning, attendance was better than last year, and a great thank you to the stallholders whose excellent selection of high quality goods added to the upbeat feel of the event.
Huge thanks to everyone who made goodies for and served on our popular refreshments stall, especially Jean, Diane, Susanne, Janet, Maggie, Sue and Stephen. Our gratitude also goes to Geoffrey and Richard who ran the new goods stall, and Stephen and Fran on tombola and for setting out the tables and chairs. Many thanks to Bob who helped on the raffle (despite only coming to visit the event with his family), to all who donated prizes and to Sue for seeing them safely delivered to the winners.
Keep watching our website for the latest information on our 2024 events; it’s going to be an exciting year as the RSPCA is celebrating our 200th anniversary and we plan to have some amazing events.
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Christmas Fair on 18th November
We hope you can join us on Saturday for our lovely Christmas Fair at Holbrook Village Hall, IP9 2PZ. Open from 10am – 2pm, and entry is free.
Shop for that special gift at a selection of quality craft stalls, including photography, Christmas wreaths, felted decorations, animal themed accessories, pyrography, sweetie bouquets, jewellery, wooden bird boxes, soaps, and preserves. In addition to RSPCA stalls such as the raffle and tombola, we’ll be offering RSPCA logo Christmas cards, calendars and diaries. Our traditional bric-a-brac stalls will be there with a variety of first-rate pre-loved items. Animals Asia will be having their ever-popular raffle and we’ll be serving hot and cold refreshments.
All proceeds go to helping animals in need in our local area.
September 2023
Open Day & Fun Dog Show – The Result
A great day was had by all and we would like to thank everyone who helped in so many ways before, during and after the event.
A wonderful £2,200 was raised which will go towards helping animals in need in Suffolk.
The dog show was, as usual, very well attended and Best In Show went to Oscar, a lovely black retriever who had previously won the Second Chance (for rescue dogs) class.