St Elizabeth Hospice is reflecting on a summer of success after revealing that its Hop to it! Suffolk 2025 art trail raised more than £410,000.
In total, the funds raised by Hop to it! Suffolk 2025 stands at £414,177 (with funds still coming in, this figure is correct at time of publishing), a record-breaking amount, surpassing the money raised by previous art trails hosted by the hospice, alongside creative partners Wild in Art, Pigs Gone Wild 2016, Elmer’s Big Parade Suffolk 2019 and the Big Hoot Ipswich 2022.
Hop to it! Suffolk 2025 filled the county with colour and creativity, culminating in a fundraising auction that raised over £250,000 for the independent charity on the night.
Running from 21 June to 29 August, the hospice’s fourth art trail featured more than 130 hare sculptures displayed across Suffolk.
For the first time, the trail extended beyond Ipswich to satellite locations in Beccles, Felixstowe, Lowestoft and Woodbridge, made possible with support from presenting partners East Suffolk Council, Ipswich Borough Council and Suffolk County Council.
Celia Joseph, Community & Projects Fundraising Manager at St Elizabeth Hospice, said: “Hop to it! Suffolk 2025 was our biggest and most successful art trail yet. We cannot thank everyone enough for their support in helping us to achieve this result which will go to provide care for local people living with life-limiting and progressive illness.
“Hop to it! Suffolk was a wonderful celebration of community, creativity and collaboration, which brought enjoyment to so many people across the region while raising funds and awareness for St Elizabeth Hospice’s vital services.
“We are very grateful to our presenting partners, sponsors, volunteers and the many local businesses, schools and community groups who made the trail possible and helped us have an ‘hare-mazing’ summer!”
All funds raised by Hop to it! Suffolk 2025 will go towards St Elizabeth Hospice. An independent Suffolk charity, every year the hospice delivers support to over 4,000 people throughout East & Mid-Suffolk, Great Yarmouth and Waveney living with a progressive or life-limiting illness.
Annually, these services cost around £12 million to facilitate, with 70% of funds needed being raised through local community support.
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About St Elizabeth Hospice
St Elizabeth Hospice improves life for people in East & Mid-Suffolk, Great Yarmouth and Waveney living with a progressive or life-limiting illness. Our work is centred on an individual’s needs, which means specialist support, whenever and wherever it is needed, whether at home, in the community or at the hospice. Through medicine and therapy we ease pain; we give life purpose and make life liveable.
About Wild in Art
Wild in Art is the leading producer of spectacular public art events that entertain, enrich, inform and leave a lasting legacy. It brings together businesses and creative sectors with schools and local communities through the creation of uniquely painted sculptures.
Since 2008 Wild in Art has animated cities across the world including Manchester, Sydney, Auckland, Cape Town and São Paulo, and created trails for the London 2012 Olympics, the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Historic Royal Palaces and Penguin Random House.
Wild in Art events have:
- Enabled over £26.5m to be raised for charitable causes
- Injected £4.3m into local creative communities
- Engaged over 1.2m young people in learning programmes
- Helped millions of people of all ages to experience art in non-traditional settings
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