“It felt more like a calling than a choice.”
“It felt more like a calling than a choice.”
Ipswich Town CEO and chairman Mark Ashton made a surprise visit to Gusford Primary School on Monday, 8 June, bringing the club's 2025/26 Championship promotion trophy and raising money for local charities, including his own Lentonbrook Foundation.
From a 12-year-old to an 82-year-old, fundraisers of all ages conquered their fears this weekend to descend Ipswich Hospital's tower in wet and windy conditions, raising more than £60,000 for patients and families across East Suffolk and North Essex.
The judge found that putting women in men's prison puts them in danger.
Jean created a whopping 500 looks for "Cats: The Jellicle Ball."
Claire Boobbyer did not come to Ipswich to be impressed. She came, as many do, without particularly high expectations – and left a convert. Her travel feature in The Independent, published this morning, is a love letter to a town that has spent too long being told it is not worth loving.
A charity five-a-side football tournament hosted by law firm Birketts at Portman Road has raised £20,250, with funds split equally between East Anglia's Children's Hospices and Ipswich Town Foundation.
Twenty-eight teams braved wind, rain and two capsizes at Ipswich Waterfront on Saturday to raise a record £60,000 for children and young people affected by sexual abuse.
A new children's play area has opened at Murray Road Recreation Ground in Ipswich, featuring 29 pieces of equipment inspired by the site's history as a former racecourse.
"A wedding is a celebration of a couple in love, but it’s also a community... reminding us that we don’t move through the world alone."
"There was something about my own internalized homophobia where that word was something I really didn't want to say or admit."
“They have to realize it is not about them, it's about their child,” she said.
“It’s just going to cause hurt and pain and I don’t want to do that,” said one lawmaker.
PLUS: Drag Spider-Man and Pride Month vogueing at NYC's City Hall!
In a darkened convention hall in Chicago on May 31, a Harvard oncologist named Brian Wolpin stood at a podium and in a voice that sounded as if he was reading from the phone book, recited a set of numbers that brought a roomful of cancer doctors to their feet for 42 seconds. Adam Feuerstein, […]
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From sorting rails at the British Heart Foundation to cashing up at Oxfam, Ipswich's charity shop volunteers give thousands of hours every year – for free. This Volunteers' Week, we went behind the till to meet the people who make it all possible.
68% of registered voters agree that companies have a right to show support for the LGBTQ+ community.
"I’ll go to the mat to defend immigrants and trans people," state Sen. Scott Wiener said after his win on Tuesday.
"Some people back in 1985 marched with paper bags over their heads.... There were no Pride flags, no floats. Some people were assaulted."
He also reminded trans youth that they are not alone, and that there are "a lot of people who want to help you."
Gute Nachrichten heute für ein gutes Morgen.
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Sizewell C has become the official outreach partner of Ipswich Town Foundation in a three-year deal that will bring Premier League education and football programmes to schools in Leiston and Ipswich.
The Ipswich Windrush Society has unveiled the full entertainment line-up for this year's Heritage & Legacy Music Festival, a free event taking place on Saturday, 20 June, at Landseer Park, with a street parade, live music and Caribbean food stalls.
An Ipswich family raising £60,000 to keep their son at home as his health declines from a rare life-limiting condition has been overwhelmed by community support, after a local pub raised more than £2,000 at a fundraising event.
It's just the latest study to show the positive impact of gender-affirming care on trans youth.
"I hope people can see our story and feel the confidence to be themselves."
Sechs gute Nachrichten, die dir zeigen, dass auf der Welt auch jede Menge Gutes passiert.
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Four young iWill ambassadors from Ipswich travelled to Westminster on Tuesday to meet a government minister and share how youth social action is changing their town, with one telling Youth and Civil Society Minister Stephanie Peacock that being from Ipswich is now her "super power."
"It would take far more than a month to honor the contributions of queer and transgender New Yorkers," wrote NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani.