Jetty Lane is all about Community and none of it would happen without the help of others. Here are some people who are partnering with us to raise funds, improve the site and spread the word.
Sincere thanks to all of them!
If you have a fundraising idea that you can put into practice to help us raise money for the Playscape, we would love to hear from you! We are a very small team, all volunteers, and your input could make a big difference.
Just42
Just42 are a charity making a positive impact on the lives of young people and children in rural Suffolk. They are the only open access youth provider in 200 square miles of rural Suffolk and last year they came into contact with about 2500 different children and young people. Through their work on different projects they build relationships with children and young people over a number of years. In this way they build confidence and self esteem, build community, reduce crime and anti-social behaviour and improve employability. Their work also increases wellbeing, school attendance and therefore results.
Just42 have their main office at Jetty Lane, currently in the two portacabins on site. They were originally tenants of the old Woodbridge Youth Centre and after it was demolished they moved into the portacabins as there was nowhere else affordable that they could go. They have been freezing there during the winter ever since!
They are very much looking forward to having a permanent, purpose-built base at the Youth Hub and we plan for them to be one of Jetty Lane’s Anchor Tenants.
Caroline Rutherford is both Just42’s Charity Manager and Jetty Lane’s Chair of Trustees.
County Councillor Caroline Page, Caroline Rutherford and other Just42 staff outside the old Youth Centre just before it was demolished.
Jason Alexander, Suffolk Green Hero
Jason is the founder of Rubbish Walks CIC, an award winning social enterprise raising awareness about the issues of littering, single-use plastics and waste in general across East Suffolk and beyond. He is also the person behind the UK’s first Vintage Litter Museum. It is currently based in one of the blue containers at Jetty Lane although once the Youth Hub is built, our plan is for him to become one of our Anchor Tenants and for the Museum to have a purpose-built, permanent home there.
Toby Robins
Toby is the Jetty Lane Collaborator and innovative thinker who dreamed up our latest project: The Grand Idea. To find out more, go to www.thegrandidea.org or watch this video:
Hilary Whyard and Transition Woodbridge
Transition Woodbridge runs the Saturday afternoon drop in session at The Pod for anyone feeling like a cuppa and a chat. But also, visitors have been collaborating to make a very unique board game called EcoWoodbridge. It highlights some of the businesses and organisations who are working to reduce their carbon footprint and to care for our environment.
Everyone at Transition Woodbridge loves to get their teeth into such projects. Their aim is to guide the town from oil dependence to local resilience. They have championed local food producers and providers, planted over a hundred community fruit trees and they also harvest unwanted fruit in the area, channelling it into food banks and the like.
Hilary Whyard, who moved from living off grid in the Pyrenees to be near family in the area, invented the board game which when finished, should be a lot of fun as well as being educational, and will be played at fetes, in schools, retirement homes and anywhere else we are invited to!
Woodbridge Fundraising Car Wash
This is run by Farlingaye School students JB, Sam and Josh. They are studying economics and have set up their own enterprise in car washing and gardening. They give us half the money raised, how impressive is that!
Would you like to have your car washed? JB, Sam and Josh are highly recommended and have streamlined their bookings process by creating an online booking facility.
To book your space please click here
If the above dates are not convenient, they’ve got more planned – they will keep you informed.
Or email them at woodbridgefundraisingcarwash@gmail.com
Charlie Zakss at Suffolk Wildlife Trust
The wonderful Charlie is the Wild Learning Officer at Suffolk Wildlife Trust AONB, and she has been building Stag Beetle Stacks near the Jetty Lane site with local children. In the below picture, she’s with the Newbourne Home Education group out working on a cold rainy day – a great use of time and resources!
If you are a teacher / educator who would like to bring a group of children to Jetty Lane for some wild learning and doing, please contact charlie.zakss@suffolkwildlifetrust.org
Thank you also to www.eastsuffolk.gov.uk/ who are working with us to transform a previously unloved strip of land next to the car park by Jetty Lane.
