Welcome to Wickhambrook

Wickhambrook is one of the parishes of West Suffolk Council and Suffolk County Council

General News

Mental Health Services – Have your say!

Mental Health Services – Have your say!

12th July 2018 |

People living in east and west Suffolk are being urged to have their say about local mental health services as part of a unique engagement opportunity. The NHS Ipswich & East Suffolk and NHS West Suffolk clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) want to transform the way mental health provision is delivered across the county. In order to do that, they first need to find out how effective the people who deliver and receive the current services think they are…

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Wickhambrook Carnival 2018

Wickhambrook Carnival 2018

27th June 2018 |

The ‘walking procession’ will leave Wickhambrook Primary Academy playground at 12.30 led by the Bury St Edmunds Sea Cadets Marching Band. This will take a short route through the village, approx 1.2 miles, and back to the MSC recreation ground. Those not wishing to walk the full route can join the procession at The Greyhound. Please come along and join in the fun…

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Wickhambrook Surgery Exhibition

Wickhambrook Surgery Exhibition

12th June 2018 |

During the week commencing 2nd July 2018 we, the Patient’s Group and Practice Staff of Wickhambrook Surgery, plan to have a small exhibition in the waiting room at the Surgery celebrating 70 years of the NHS…

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Christian Aid 2018

Christian Aid 2018

26th May 2018 |

Together we’re stronger than the storms. This year’s event was held as usual at Wickhambrook Methodist Church as a Sunday afternoon joint service at 3pm and was organised by Wickhambrook Churches Together.

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Save the date Wickhambrook Carnival 14th July

Save the date Wickhambrook Carnival 14th July

3rd May 2018 |

Procession update, we would love to have a procession again this year if you are interested in participating in a procession please get in touch without entries we can’t make a procession. The Theme this year is BOOK CHARACTERS, its a walking procession so no need to find vehicles…

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Wickhambrook walk including Baxters Green

Wickhambrook walk including Baxters Green

28th April 2018 |

This circular walk heads north of the village and makes use of the green lanes in that area. Total mileage is between 6 miles and 7 miles and will take around three hours at gentle pace. The circuit is best undertaken in the drier months. It is also enjoyable in the winter, just a bit more of a challenge. For reassurance take Explorer map 210 Newmarket & Haverhill with you…

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Walk around Wickhambrook

Walk around Wickhambrook

28th April 2018 |

This walk around Wickhambrook was first published in April 2005 and was the first of, what eventually became, many circular walks in the village and surrounding area. At reasonable pace this one takes around 3 hours and covers about 5 miles…

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Wickhambrook Walk

Wickhambrook Walk

27th April 2018 |

This is the third of a series of local walks being prepared for the Discover Suffolk leaflet. The route sticks mainly to the village centre but includes some countryside stretches, which can be muddy in winter, and four short sections of road…

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News from Wickhambrook Carnival Committee

News from Wickhambrook Carnival Committee

27th March 2018 |

Well, once again we held another successful carnival day last year, enabling us to help out with village activities. We held the Children’s Christmas Disco in November, which was attended by 60 children, who were entertained by the brilliant DNA Kids, always a good job from them. The children all visited Santa in his grotto and each child received a present. This event is open to all children living in the village or attending Wickhambrook Primary Academy, aged 11 years and under…

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New campaign encourages smokers to ‘Take it Outside’

New campaign encourages smokers to ‘Take it Outside’

23rd March 2018 |

A new campaign is raising awareness of the health and fire safety risks of smoking in the home. ‘Take it Outside’ highlights the health harms to family and friends of second hand smoke, and aims to reduce the devastating impact of house fires as a result of smoking. It is a joint campaign between Suffolk County Council Public Health, Trading Standards and Fire & Rescue Service…

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Stroke survivors club to launch new choir

Stroke survivors club to launch new choir

14th March 2018 |

Stroke survivors are being encouraged to join a new choir which is being launched with the support of St Edmundsbury Borough Council funding. The Second Chance Stroke Survivors Club was set up eight years ago to provide social and emotional support to stroke survivors in the Bury St Edmunds area…

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Reminiscing back in the 1970’s

13th February 2018 |

One of my memories was the Carnival back around 1970, when you had the dodgems set up along with lots of other things, it was SO exciting!, and I stood on the edge of the “rink” with my friend Jeanette listening to “The world is just a great big onion”, at 13 years old it was like the world was our oyster! Any information would be lovely…

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Community public access defibrillator

Community public access defibrillator

17th January 2018 | , ,

We now have two community public access defibrillators that can be used by anyone located at Wickhambrook Fire Station and the Memorial Social Centre (MSC) – you don’t need to have received training in its use as the machine talks you through what you need to do – step by step!

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Thank You – World’s Biggest Coffee Morning 2017

Thank You – World’s Biggest Coffee Morning 2017

28th November 2017 |

I would like to send a BIG THANK YOU to everyone who attended and so generously supported our 26th annual Coffee Morning recently. The event was part of Macmillan Cancer World’s Biggest Coffee Morning and was a wonderful morning, with over 160 people attending…

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A Hundon Walk

A Hundon Walk

4th August 2017 |

This route which takes you from Hundon to Poslingford and back is just over five miles and if you wish for a picnic midway there are several seats in Poslingford churchyard. The walk is one of undulating contrasts with one particularly long cross-field path which should be clearly indicated, good views and several short sections of great interest. Enjoy…

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Carnival Day 2017

Carnival Day 2017

21st June 2017 |

On Carnival Day, Saturday 8th July, Oscar and his two attendants will ride in an open top car and lead a Disney themed ‘Walking’ procession, along with the Sawston Youth Group Marching Band, Fire Engine, and classic cars…

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Hawkedon Circular Walk

Hawkedon Circular Walk

20th February 2017 |

The Hawkedon website states ‘Hawkedon is one of the strangest places in Suffolk. There’s nowhere else quite like it. Here, in the rolling landscape between Haverhill and Bury, is where the Chiltern Hills come to die. On their journey through Bedfordshire and Essex they become lower and softer, with the occasional last stabs of glory before sinking beneath the Suffolk heathlands…

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New facilities put our Memorial Social Centre on the map

New facilities put our Memorial Social Centre on the map

26th September 2016 | ,

The Wickhambrook Memorial Social Centre (MSC) management committee has spent five years raising over £23,000 towards a £45,000 kitchen facilities project. The future of an important hub in one of West Suffolk’s most popular villages has been secured, thanks to extensive refurbishment funded in part by a £10,000 grant from St Edmundsbury Borough Council…

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