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Opening of Haverhill’s new Mosque Haverhill Mayor, Liz Smith at the opening of Haverhill’s new mosque.

Haverhill Town Council has partnered with @GetSuffolkReading for their exclusive Haverhill Christmas trail! Running throughout December families are invited on a Christmas adventure based on

Meet Father Christmas and his elves in his Grotto on Queen Square! He will be there for Late Night Shopping on Friday 3 December and

In March 2022, Haverhill Town Council / Sustainable Haverhill is planning another green fair. If you are part of an organisation, or run a business with

Always an exciting time of year when the Market Square tree goes up! We can’t wait to see it lit, this year’s one is particularly

Live stream of Haverhill’s Remembrance Service from the cemetery organised by the Haverhill & Thurlow Branch of Royal British Legion with assistance from Haverhill Town

Lest we forget. Haverhill Town Council remembers those that have fallen in conflict. Today at 11.00am we will hold a 2 minute silence. Today we

The Heart of Haverhill group has unanimously agreed to work with Haverhill Town Council to organise the late-night family shopping event on Friday 3rd

Over 250 local children have contributed their creativity to the latest piece of public art in Haverhill High Street. The My Name Is project, run

After 26 and a bit years working for Haverhill Town Council, first as a Leisure Worker and more recently as Arts & Leisure Manager, Nick

Two local businesses have joined forces to create a unique piece of artwork to mark the start of this year’s Poppy Appeal. Sue Vallis from

Haverhill residents, please help with this survey. It will inform decisions about Suffolk County Council’s public transport provision in Haverhill. Let Suffolk County Council know

Here is the Spectator Guide for the Women’s Tour on Saturday. See you there!
Spectator Guide

For this year’s Remembrance Day, we would love your help with making more knitted and crafted poppies for the trees in St Mary’s Churchyard.

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Get Suffolk Reading

We are delighted to launch our The Women’s Tour bike trail, in conjunction with Heart of Haverhill!

We would like to thank every business, organisation

This Saturday: Haverhill Town Council has organised a green market and free activities on Haverhill Market Square between 10.30am and 2.30pm
o Free drop-in

The Women’s Tour comes to town on Saturday 9 October when we host the start of the final stage of this prestigious Cycle Race. Haverhill

The Women’s Tour 2021 goes through Haverhill!

Find out more…

https://www.womenstour.co.uk/stages/stage-6/

The world’s top cyclists will return to Suffolk in 2021 as the county hosts

An update on the Splashpad on the Recreation Ground our new play facility is due to open on 7th September

Delays have occurred due to

Haverhill Arts Centre re-opening Excellent news! The arts centre cafe and box office will be open from Monday 19 July. Come and get a coffee,

Haverhill’s Buskathon! Tomorrow is Haverhill’s first ever Buskathon! From 10.30am to 2.30pm over 10 local performers and musicians will fill the town centre with their music.

We are delighted to welcome our new Town Centre Manager, Julie Clark!
Julie will work with all the town centre businesses as well as liaising

Do you run a business in Haverhill or the surrounding area? Suffolk local authorities want to hear about the issues you face with a new

Armed Forces carrying D-Day veteran This Saturday the lead police car of the Armed Forces Day Convoy will be carrying D-Day veteran Harry Bowdery. Please

Let’s celebrate summer 2021!

Every weekend from 26 June to 4 September, Haverhill Town Council has organised family entertainment or activities in the town centre.

On Thursday 20th May Haverhill Town Council hosted a packed agenda of fascinating talks about sustainability.  Over 50 residents attended the webinar, hearing from Chris

Woohoo and hurray! The Zone play centre on Boundary Road will be open (as long as guidelines don’t change) on Saturday 22 May. All sessions

7 pm, Thursday 20th May, Haverhill Town Council hosts the Sustainable Haverhill live launch event online.  With a goal of making Haverhill a carbon-Neutral town

Persimmon Haverhill Development The Roundabout: Persimmon Homes and our contractor, Barcon will be continuing our next phase of works on the A143 at our Boyton

Haverhill Town Council embarked on this project as part of its aim to make our town a nicer and more pleasant place to live in

Visitors to Haverhill town centre in recent days may have noticed that nearly all the public benches, 22 in total, have received a much-needed

A new grant administered by West Suffolk Council launches today for customer facing businesses that have remained open during the Covid-19 restrictions open but have

After years of no maintenance, Haverhill Town Council and its staff have stepped in and are now replacing all the rotting and dirty wood on

If you are registered with Unity Healthcare (formerly known as the Clements) you can have your say about medical provision within Haverhill by taking part in this survey.

Since March, the response from the people of Haverhill to the Coronavirus pandemic has been truly inspiring and the relatively low level of infections in

Please share your views…
Haverhill Town Council is carrying out a survey on behalf of Suffolk Highways about further improvements to the safer spaces work

Volunteers needed to join our Good Neighbour Scheme to support vulnerable people by doing shopping and collecting prescriptions.
Please contact us if you could help

Haverhill Town Centre will be alive with socially distanced fun, music and shopping opportunities on Saturday 12th December. Not only will there be a Craft

It’s twinkly. It’s amazing. It’s Marvellous. It’s Magical!
A unique experience featuring a colourful cast of wintry characters.
If you’ve enjoyed one of Haverhill Town

The Zone Playzone Sessions Haverhill Town Council’s soft play centre, The Zone will re-open for Covid-secure play sessions from Wednesday 2 December. Please book in

This year, due to you-know-what Haverhill Town Council wasn’t able to a public switch on of the town’s Christmas lights. Instead we called

Haverhill’s town centre Christmas Tree arrived early this morning on the back of a large lorry and what a fine specimen it is! The lights

Haverhill’s Remembrance Day Service 2020 will unfortunately, in accordance with government guidance, not be open to the public BUT will be lived streamed. Please join

If you would like to come and join us for a play session at The Zone on Tuesday or Wednesday we would love to see

Update: following the government’s latest announcement on 31 October we are awaiting further guidance on whether our Remembrance Day plans can proceed as planned. As

Our venue, Haverhill Arts Centre is set to re-open soon.
Haverhill Arts Centre opens its doors: We’re back!

Local artists, young and old, professional and amateur, of all skill levels are invited by Haverhill Town Council to submit their work to be reproduced

Two minute doorstep silence for Remembrance Sunday 2020 https://www.mirror.co.uk/…/politicians-unite-behind… Haverhill Town Council had actually decided to do this before we knew about the Daily Mirror campaign

Do you need a bit of fun and frivolity in your life? Do you need that fun and frivolity to be full of fluster and

Who says community spirit is dead?! It’s not in Haverhill, that’s for sure. Thank you to everyone for the super-positive response to this idea.

Remembrance Day is coming up (Wednesday, 11 November 2020) and Haverhill Town Council is planning various ways to mark the day – in a Covid-safe

The war memorial in Haverhill is 100 years old this year. Here’s a photo of the unveiling and dedication in 1920 courtesy of:

Haverhill Family

Haverhill Community Kitchen Coordinator
Haverhill Town Council is seeking a special person to lead on the development of the Haverhill Community Kitchen. The role would

Join the Great British Spring Clean on Sunday 20 September starting at 10am.
Organised by Jill Moss, Coordinator of the Volunteer Centre and supported by

To give the town centre a post-lockdown boost Haverhill Town Council has arranged for local musicians willing to perform (free) for shoppers. Each musician

This Saturday it is VJ Day (Victory over Japan Day) to mark the occasion Haverhill Family History Group (Member of Suffolk Family History Society) have

We’re looking for some Local Musicians to play in the Town Centre. Could you fill these empty spaces? Haverhill Town Council would like to hear

Haverhill Town Council are running a series of workshops to help gather ideas to develop the former Chalkstone Middle School Playing Fields into a Community

How creative is Haverhill?
Please join Artistic License, Haverhill Group on Facebook to share your lockdown art projects with the rest of us.
Haverhill Town

West Suffolk Council is starting to open the play areas in town. See below for more details and please be patient as they are working

Our venue has been promoting arts and intellectual wellbeing in the town since 1883. Long may it continue. 
#LightItInRed is a UK based direct action

Haverhill Arts Centre will be lit up in red tonight between 9.45pm and 10.30pm to highlight the desperate plight of the performance industry.
HAC will

The Rainbow Flag flies in Haverhill today during Pride Month which celebrates and recognises the role played by the LGBTQ+ community. 28 June 2020 is

Councillor John Burns, Haverhill Mayor was on the James Hazell show on BBC Radio Suffolk today talking about Haverhill’s Armed Forces Day Military Vehicle Convoy.

Haverhill flies the flags for Suffolk Day – celebrating all that is good about Suffolk, our great icons, attractions, landscapes and institutions. The Suffolk flag flies

West Suffolk Council have asked us to assist them to reduce fly tipping by mini recycling banks.

Residents can help by informing the the contractor

Our young people are just as affected by the COVID-19 crisis as anyone else; school is out, exams are cancelled and they may be furloughed

Haverhill Town Council has produced an updated version of their Coronavirus Information Sheet which includes the latest Government advice plus new information regarding help lines

A message from Councillor John Burns, Mayor of Haverhill. I would like to say a very big thank you to all the support you gave

On 8th May 2020 it will be 75 years since the end of WW2 in Europe. Under normal circumstances we had planned to honour the