Weekly Events
So much is happening across the Blyth Valley Churches and communities here are weekly activities.
Holy Communion
St Mary's Church, Halesworth
Every Wednesday at 10 am
Everyone welcome for our mid-week Holy Communion at St Mary's Church.
Cafe Church
On Zoom
Every Tuesday at 10 am
Everyone welcome for a time of community and support at our weekly cafe church.
For login details of how to join, or to be added to the mailing list, please email:
The Revd Canon Alison Alder at:
or
The Revd Linda Berry at:
Morning Worship
St Andrew's, Bramfield
9:30 am every Thursday
Everyone welcome every Thursday for our midweek worship at St Andrew's Bramfield.
Halesworth Men's Shed
Back of Chinny's Carpark
(27 Norwich Road, Halesworth, IP19 8BX)
Tues, Weds, Thurs 10-2 and Sat 10-12
Well equipped workshop, for anyone interested in working and socialising around a bench for themselves, others and the community.
Telephone: 01986 835 905 or drop in.
'Growing Younger' Prayer Group
Zoom
Every Monday (excluding bank holidays) 9:15 till 9:45 am
A new Diocesan prayer group 'Growing Younger' meeting weekly on zoom. To pray for children, young people, families, paid and volunteer workers, teachers, schools and churches.
To join contact:
Emma Allinson
Church Mice Tots Group
St Mary's Church, Halesworth
Every Thursday 11:30am-1pm
We are relaunching our Church Mice Tots Group from Thursday 12th September, focusing on under 2's. Come along to our relaxed group, led by Pauline a Qualified Early Years Teacher. Come along for a cuppa and cake and join in some fun activities with your little ones.
Rhyme Time and Play Session
Every Tuesday 10-11:30 am
Halesworth Library
Everyone welcome for our free Rhyme Time & Play session to sing fun songs followed by free play with our toys.
Halesworth Community Larder
St Mary's Church Hall, Halesworth
Monday, Wednesdays and Saturdays 10:30-11:30 am
The Halesworth community larder project is available for anyone in need. Every welcome just pop along to St Mary's church hall.
Time Out
Every Wednesday 10 am
Halesworth Library
We also hold a Time Out group for older people every Wednesday 10am, to make new friends and chat over a cup of tea.
Knit and Knatter Group
Halesworth Library
Every other Tuesday 2-4 pm
The Knit & Natter group meet alternate Tuesdays 2pm-4pm, staff can provide dates.
Barclay Bank
Halesworth Library
Every Wednesday from 9 am-5 pm
Barclays bank are present in Halesworth library every Wednesday for anyone who may need help with their banking or financial help.
Lego Club
Halesworth Library
Every Saturday 1 pm
Everyone is welcome to Lego club that happens weekly at Halesworth Library.
Citizen's Advice Bureau
Every other Tuesday 10am -12 pm
Halesworth Library
Citizen's advice have a drop in every other Tuesday. Contact library staff to check which Tuesdays they are there.
East Suffolk Council Customer Service
Halesworth Library
Tuesday's 10am to 4pm
East Suffolk County Council Customer Services run a drop in every Tuesday from Halesworth library for anyone that needs help.
Halesworth Dementia Carers' Fund
Mondays 11am – 12.15pm Seated Movement to Music at Holton Village Hall. Tuesdays 2pm – 3.30pm Memory Café in the Co-op Community Room. Wednesdays 2pm – 3.30pm Singing with Friends at Holton Village Hall. Thursdays 1pm – 3pm Creative Art at The Cut.
Fridays 12.30pm – 1.30pm Seated and Standing Tap in the Co-op Community Room.
Fridays 2pm – 3.30pm Carers Support Group in the Co-op Community Room.
We welcome all people caring for those with dementia, and those suffering from dementia. All these activities provide wonderful stimulation, and greatly enhance quality of life, so do come and support us.
Pastoral Ministry Support Group
The Pastoral Ministry Group (PMG) is a group of people from across the Blyth Valley Team who meet once a month to learn and develop their skills in pastoral care, and to support and pray for each other. The group is open to anyone involved in pastoral care, visiting or supporting people. It consists of people who have been involved in
pastoral care in the past or are currently giving support in their community. The group can offer advice or support in a safe and confidential environment.
The PMG usually meets on the third Monday of every month at 3.30pm at St Peter’s Church Room, Holton. For more information, please feel free to contact Revd. Canon Alison Alder or Revd Linda Berry.
Halesworth Library this June
Sociable Sundays kickstart the month on Sunday 1st June at 10.30am, back again on Sunday 15th and 29th June. This month's book talk hosts Tim Forster on Thursday 26th June, 7.30pm. Tim has lived in Halesworth for 35 years, over the last 20 years he has studied with OU and recently completed an MA in Art History. In July 2024, Tim self-published Robert Calvert: Through His Work - Calvert is probably most famous for his work with Hawkwind in the 1970s. Tim’s talk will appeal to anyone interested in Hawkwind, 70s music, cultural and political history, the 60/70s counterculture. Talk is free but let library staff know your intentions to attend the talk. The Friends close the month with a session of Board Games Cafe on Monday 30th June, 2pm-4.30pm, a great opportunity to meet new people and play a few games!
Family Picnic
29th May 2025 from 11:30 am till 1pm
St Mary's Church in Halesworth
Everyone is welcome to our free family picnic. Join us for some yummy food, treats, games, activities, crafts and fun!
Starting Rite
St Peter's Church, Holton
Every Monday for 6 weeks at 10 am starting 2nd June 2024
Spiritual Nuture for babies and their parents. This is a group for children under 1 years old, full of baby massage, sensory play, stories and simple songs. It is a great way to connect with you and your baby, to deepen your relationship and start to explore spirituality.
Wenhaston Walkers
Tuesday 3rd June
Our first walk of the month will leave Wenhaston Village Hall at 10am on Tuesday 3rd June. The second walk, led by Nicky, will take place on Tuesday 17th June, leaving The Anchor, Main Street, Walberswick IP18 6UA at 10am. Details of lunch will follow. If you wish to add your name to the circulation list, please email: ipbigwood@btinternet. com or telephone 01502 478545.
Youth Space
St Mary's Church, Halesworth
9th June from 6:30-8:30 pm
This week at youth space we will be having some pizza together. We look forward to seeing you.
Yard Sale
Westleton Village Hall
Saturday 14th June
There will be yard sales around the village of Westleton.
The Lowestoft Shoremen
Shanties and Songs of the Sea
Saturday 7th June 2025 at 7 pm
Huntingfield Church
Everyone is welcome for an evening of fun. Tickets cost £15 per person and includes first drink.
Proceeds will go to the Excelsior Trust which enables under privileged children to experience sailing a drifter.
7th to 15th June 2025
Mothers Union
Garden Party
7th June 2025 from 2-4 pm
at 21 Dowining Close. Please contact Jane Leung for tickets. As well as afternoon tea, there will be a raffle and a variety of stalls. These events are all opportunities to bring friends who have yet to join Mothers’ Union, whether as a member or a friend. ‘Join in, Join Us’ is the theme for this year.
Poetry Speaks
Saturday 14th June 6:00 pm
St Mary's Church, Walpole IP19 9AU
We are thrilled to be welcoming Salena Godden to St Mary’s who will be delighting us with an hour of readings and poems. Salena is an award-winning novelist, poet and broadcaster. Her debut novel Mrs Death Misses Death won the Indie Book Awards for Fiction and the People’s Book Prize and was shortlisted for the British Book Awards and the Gordon Burn Prize. Salena’s literary childhood memoir Springfield Road - A Poet’s Childhood Revisited and a new full poetry collection With Love, Grief and Fury were published with Canongate in May 2024.
Tickets: £9.00 in advance on Eventbrite
Or contact Anita Hill 07717 503511 - anita.hill2006@gmail.com
All proceeds in aid of the upkeep of St Mary’s. Donation bar available Parking in field opposite the Church
Linstead BBQ
YOU ARE INVITED TO A SUMMER PARTY AT LINSTEAD VILLAGE HALL ON SATURDAY 14th JUNE FROM 7pm. With a BARBECUE And back by popular request: THE BACKWOODS BAND £15 PER PERSON IN AID OF CHURCH FUNDS PLEASE BRING YOUR OWN LIQUID REFRESHMENT To help us with numbers for catering, please contact Janet Heath 01986 785289 or Pauline Keable 01986 785347
Work Party
14th June 10 am -1 pm
All Saints Church, Blyford
Our next work party will be on Saturday 14th June. We gather in the churchyard at 10am and work until 1pm with a break for refreshments at the Queen's Head at 11.30am. Everyone welcome. We have tasks for people of all abilities.
Open Gardens at Scotts Hall
22nd June 2025
Westleton
There will be an Open Garden at Scotts Hall. Head over to Westleton Village Hall website here to find out more.
Deanery Synod Meeting
There will be a meeting of the Synod on Wednesday 25th June 2025 at Holy Trinity Church, Bungay (NR35 1EH) at 7.30pm
Everyone is welcome to join this meeting. (However, if there is a need to vote on a particular
issue only those nominated as parish representatives may do so.)
Children Family and Youth Prayer Meeting
26th June 2025 9:30 to 10:30 am
St Mary's Church, Halesworth
Everyone is welcome to come along and pray with us for our children, family and youth across the Blyth Valley Parishes and for our ministry in this area. This prayer meeting happens at St Mary's Church in Halesworth, with coffee and cake!
Halesworth Branch of Cancer Research
Street Meets
27th June - Thoroughfare
28th June - Coop
Pop along and say hi to the team at our next street meets in Halesworth.
Sensory Story Time for Under 2's
St Mary's Church, Halesworth
27th June 10-11 am
18th July 10-11 am
A new free group for parents and carers with children under the age of 2. Join us as we explore the bible through stories, sensory play, baby massage and singing.
St Peter's Day Festival
St Peter's Church, Spexhall
28th June at 3 pm
We will celebrate our festival at Spexhall with a special fundraising concert in church on Saturday 28th June at 3pm. The Aurora Consort, led by Vetta Wise, will be giving an hour of lovely music: A Summer Garland of Song: Madrigals and Songs to Celebrate Summer.
Many remember their Advent concert, which we so appreciated, and we very much look forward to welcoming them again.
Tickets are £7.50 and you can reserve them by email (spexhallwoodpecker@ gmail.com) or pay on the day by cash or card. Interval drinks will be available too. Celebrate St Peter’s Day and Summer with us!
One man went to mow
St Peter's Church, Spexhall
Tuesday 1st July from 6pm
Fred Woods definitely does NOT want to be on his own, strimming and mowing the churchyard. Not so catchy but, ‘Ten People Went To Mow’ would be much better! Those who can strim, mow or help clear are very much needed to help our wildlife churchyard rest and rejuvenate. Please help if you can. If you need to start earlier in the day, that would be fine.
Summer Family Picnics
Every Thursday in the Summer Holidays
11:30 am till 1 pm
St Mary's Church, Halesworth
Everyone is welcome to come and join us for our free family picnic. Come along for family fun, free food, kids games, activities and crafts.
Bramfield Village Fete
We will be having a Village Fete on the new Village Green on Saturday 26th July, 12pm-4pm. Anyone interested in helping out with a stall, or just on the day, do get in touch. My number is 07780 833450.
There will be a hog roast, Morris dancers, Black Deek Band, stalls, classic cars, cakes, tombola and raffle. We are looking for anyone with a volunteering spirit to help out with the set up and running of the fete, as well as interested vendors. We can be reached at: standrewsbramfield@gmail.com
Halesworth Branch of Cancer Research
In July, we will be in the i-Chameleon pop-up shop from Thursday 3rd - Wednesday 9th. The shop will be full of bargains and we are delighted that the Ukulele Band has agreed to play for us again on the Tuesday morning at about 11.30am (weather permitting), and Jane Bastow will be with us again on the Friday with her extremely popular plant stall. Please visit us on the Saturday for the cake stall.
Children's Society Box Opening and Coffee Morning
Saturday 5th July, 10 am-12 pm
St Peter's Church, Holton
It will soon be time for the annual Box Opening and Coffee Morning, which will be on Saturday 5th July 10am till 12noon, at St Peter’s, Holton. Everyone is welcome, whether you are a box holder or not. Please put the date in your diary or on your calendar and bring friends and family members.
Children Family and Youth Prayer Meeting
31st July 2025 9:30 to 10:30 am
St Mary's Church, Halesworth
Everyone is welcome to come along and pray with us for our children, family and youth across the Blyth Valley Parishes and for our ministry in this area. This prayer meeting happens at St Mary's Church in Halesworth, with coffee and cake!
Halesworth Branch of Cancer Research
In August we are so excited that The Old Hall Café has offered to hold the Maize Maze by Torchlight again for us on Friday 29th. This is such a fun event and one we all look forward to, especially the competitive Welly Wanging. We will have more details to follow but please put the date in your diary.