Taking place between 21st June and 29th August, Hop to it! Suffolk 2025 follows the success of previous hospice art trails – Pigs Gone Wild, Elmer’s Big Parade Suffolk, and The Big Hoot Ipswich 2022. This much-anticipated event will once again be hosted in Ipswich.
For the first time, it will also extend to satellite locations across the county, including Beccles, Felixstowe, Lowestoft and Woodbridge – with support from presenting partners East Suffolk Council and Suffolk County Council.
Created in partnership with Wild in Art, the project will see 33 large, ornately decorated hare sculptures take over Ipswich for the summer, each featuring unique designs.
Meanwhile, there will be a mix of 52 large and small hares located throughout the satellite locations, for the community to enjoy.
Celia Joseph, Community & Partnerships Fundraising Manager at St Elizabeth Hospice, said: “Excitement is building at the hospice, as we cannot wait for Hop to it! Suffolk to hit the streets of Suffolk this summer.
“It is set to be a summer of colour and creativity as our hares hop to towns across Suffolk – as part of the region’s biggest, free art event!
“Many thanks to our partners, sponsors, volunteers, and talented artists who have worked so hard to create such a brilliant trail for us all to enjoy this summer and we look forward to welcoming the local community to the trail next month.”
Coinciding with Suffolk Day on 21st June, Hop to it! Suffolk 2025 is set to be the hospice’s biggest art trail yet. Further details will be released in the coming months regarding the date for the all-important auction, where the sculptures will be auctioned off to raise vital funds for St Elizabeth Hospice.
There is also an opportunity to take in Hop on it! a fundraising cycle ride – of either 50 or 70 mile routes – being held by the hospice.
This will take place on 29th June and will see riders pass many of the art trail’s sculptures as they complete their challenges. For more details visit www.stelizabethhospice.org.uk/get-involved/events/all-events-challenges/hop-on-it/.
All funds raised by Hop to it! Suffolk 2025, and accompanying fundraising activities, will go towards supporting the work of St Elizabeth Hospice. An independent Suffolk charity which every year 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.
Find out more details about Hop to It! Suffolk 2025 and how you can support the trail by visiting www.stelizabethhospice.org.uk/hoptoitsuffolk/.
For details on how to volunteer as part of Hop to it! Suffolk 2025 – www.stelizabethhospice.org.uk/get-involved/volunteer/hop-to-it-volunteers
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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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