East Suffolk Council

Framlingham, Wickham Market, Kelsale, Yoxford and villages Community Partnership

Chair

Councillor Sally Noble

Priorities

• Priority 1: To increase awareness of transport services available and work to ensure gaps are filled (Theme: Transport)
• Priority 2: To promote the offer of existing health resources and activities around physical health, mental health and dementia and create new opportunities based on identified gaps in provision (Theme: Mental health through activity (physical and emotional))
• Priority 3: To enable communities to share skills and knowledge within and between communities to increase resilience and preparedness in the community (Theme: Skills sharing)
• Overarching priority: To facilitate opportunities for local people to care for the environment and biodiversity (Theme: Environment and biodiversity)

Other information

• Data pack
• Meeting information
• Programmes and projects

Latest news

Our Community Partnership launched the ‘Wild About’ initiative in 2024. This is an initiative encouraging communities to run their own event or project that raises awareness and increases engagement about biodiversity and the wider environment. The idea behind Wild About is communities decide what sort of activity/event/project suits their community best. Since the first Wild About event in February 2024, there have been a few Wild Abouts pop up around the patch and each have had their own locally distinctive flavour – one did a picnic with pond dipping, another did an event with information stalls and activities, another did a talk on hedgehogs and another has linked up existing provision. All different approaches but each tailored to the community it is happening in.

• Wickham Market’s ‘Wild About Wickham’ event - Celebrating biodiversity in Wickham Market
• Kelsale-cum-Carlton’s ‘Wild About Kelsale-cum-Carlton’ event
• Ufford’s ‘Wild About Ufford’ brings together existing groups such as the Ufford Gardening Club and the Friends of Parklands Wood Group and is exploring potential links with adjoining parishes around biodiversity

Are you feeling inspired? Why not run your own Wild About event or project in your community? Need some more pointers? Our Wild About event/initiative guidance has lots of information about how to establish something.

Community Partnership Call for ideas

Calling local parish and town councils, community groups, charities, village halls!

Have you got project ideas or actions you would like to do in your community around:

• Transport?
• Mental health and physical health? Dementia? Carers?
• Skills sharing?
• Environment and biodiversity?

Share your local idea to see if your local Community Partnership can help with it, deadline is 12pm on 20 August 2025.

• Submit your idea

Get in touch

To get in touch, please contact our Communities team.