“Big Help Out”

Sleepover, Camps, give it a Go Day, badge activities and not forgetting our District Coronation Party to celebrated the Kings’ Coronation.

Do look out in Leiston for the shop window display showing what Guiding offers for you.

The Rainbows song emphasises what Guiding means to them, so come on everyone join the fun.

Look at the world around.

Look, Learn, Laugh, Love.

Learn everything you can. Rainbows have begun.

Laugh as you go along. We’re all here now.

Love this world of ours. Come and join the fun.

The opportunity is here for girls and adults today, register your interest at Girl Guiding UK, https://www. girlguiding.org.uk/get-involved/ become-a-volunteer/register-tovolunteer/

Rainbows, Brownies, Guides, Unit Helpers, Leaders of Leiston and Knodishall Units

Quiz fans will need their thinking caps in June, when Alde and Blyth Community Radio celebrates their second anniversary by holding a fun Quiz Night, to help raise funds towards the refurbishment of their new studios.

Many of the station’s presenters will be on hand to host ten rounds and as you would expect, questions will include various music based rounds, plus a host of other topics too. The aim, as always, is to have fun and there will be prize for the winning team and the obligatory ‘booby prize’ for the lowest scoring table.

Alde and Blyth Community Radio was founded in April 2021, serving the ‘coastal corridor’ between Orford and Southwold and currently broadcasts every weekend from 17:00 on a Friday until midnight on a Sunday. You can find ABC Radio online at: www.abcradio.co.uk, via the new ABC Radio app and by asking Alexa to “play ABC Radio”. The varied programme schedule is available on the station’s website.

The quiz night will be held at the L.T.A.A. (Leiston Football Club), Victory Road, Leiston, on Friday 30th June at 7.30pm. Spaces are limited and tickets cost just £3.50 each, with a maximum of six people per team and are now available from the L.T.A.A. and also from Leiston Film Theatre.

If you are interested in joining ABC Radio, as a potential presenter, studio support, or simply a contributor, please email: aldeandblythcommunityradio@gmail. com

For full details about the Quiz Night, please visit the stations website at: www. abcradio.co.uk

Leiston’s Long Shop Museum has been awarded over a million pounds of public funding to protect and secure the fabric of this icon of Suffolk’s industrial heritage. As part of the second round of awards from the Museum Estate and Development (MEND) fund, the museum will receive the money needed to fulfil a comprehensive programme of repairs and restoration to the 250-yearold buildings.

The chair of museum trustees, Angela Leonard, commented ‘The work is essential in order to preserve these unique buildings, and the collections they hold. This project is the result of careful planning and preparation, and we are thrilled that DCMS and Arts Council England have recognised the cultural and commercial benefits that this award will bring to East Suffolk.’

The project will be delivered over 24 months while allowing the museum to remain open as normal during its April –October season. As well as addressing urgently needed repairs to roofs, walls and windows, the work will also result in the museum’s buildings being more accessible and sustainable.

Museum Director, Fraser Hale, said ‘This award means that we can again look confidently forward; now that the future of the buildings and collections is secure, we can begin development and fundraising for our planned programme of new displays, hybrid learning activities, and further community support & collaboration schemes.’