St Elizabeth Hospice has announced its latest fundraising art trail – Hop to it! Suffolk 2025 – will take place between 21st June and 29th August this summer.
Following 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 – Beccles, Felixstowe, Lowestoft, and Woodbridge – with support from presenting partners East Suffolk Council, Ipswich Borough 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, the four satellite locations will collectively host 52 sculptures, with a mix of large and small hares.
Celia Joseph, Community & Partnerships Fundraising Manager at St Elizabeth Hospice, said: “We are delighted to announce the dates for our next art trail – Hop to it! Suffolk 2025. Our talented artists are already hard at work creating brilliant designs, and we’re grateful to the many supporters and local businesses helping us prepare for the launch.
“We cannot wait to see the trail hit the streets of Suffolk, bringing colour and creativity to Ipswich, Beccles, Felixstowe, Lowestoft, and Woodbridge this summer. We look forward to welcoming you on the trail for this family friendly activity in support of the work of St Elizabeth Hospice.
“If you’re interested in supporting the trail, we’d love to hear from you! We’re looking for volunteers to help make Hop to it! Suffolk 2025 our biggest art trail yet. Please visit our website to find out more.”
Further details about the launch will be released in the coming months, along with the date for the all-important auction, where the sculptures will be auctioned off to raise vital funds for St Elizabeth Hospice.
All funds raised by Hop to it! Suffolk 2025 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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