Community support

Clubs and Groups

Lowestoft Club for the Elderly (next to main Library)
Address: Clapham Rd S, Lowestoft NR32 1QS
Phone: 01502 561438

The Unity Centre
6 Milton Road East
Lowestoft
Suffolk
NR32 1NT
Telephone:    01502 539 810
 

Pakefield Men's Shed
 

Leading Lives Community Hub, Rotterdam Road
 

A support page for our Ukrainian guests and their hosts.

Перегляньте цей сайт українською мовою 

There are already dozens of Ukrainian refugee families being welcomed by Lowestoft families and the wider community. 

If you are a Refugee..

Dunx Cycle shop has generously donated two second hand bikes, new helmets and padlocks to new arrivals from that war torn country. 
 

Iryna, an Economist and her daughter Karyna, a logistics manager arrived in June and are already settling in to the town, having been made to feel welcome by the local community. The gifts will help them get to English language lessons and to travel to find employment. 
 

The Great Big Green Weekend event low-carboned its way through Sparrow's Nest on Saturday. Our Lowestoft Town Council wanted to highlight the issues facing us all from Climate Change.

The rain held off, the wind was sensible, and a good few people turned up. A very rough estimate would be at least 2000 people and a fair few dogs through the day.

There were many stalls, mostly green or nature themed in some way.

21 November 18:00-21:00, East Suffolk House, Melton

The next full Greenprint Forum event – their first in-person since the pandemic – which they intend to use to hear about the challenges faced by communities in the face of climate change, how communities are making positive changes towards resilience to face these challenges, and what the aspirations of our communities are.

This will be held at East Suffolk House, Melton,on the evening of Monday the 21st of November 2022.

Finally. We have a base of operations!

North Lowestoft Men's Shed has become 'custodians' of a piece of land just to the east of the signal box next to Denmark Road.

We're officially 'Station Adopters' and we have a free hand with the land, though of course we can't build on it. Current thinking is wildlife area, a few fruit trees, and area to sit and contemplate...

We're hoping to get a container – our first Shed' - within the next few months.

A few things have to happen first, though.

Local Elections –

East Suffolk Council Councillors

Your newly elected councillors are:

Kessingland Ward -

Alan Green – Labour

Turnout: 31.2%

Kirkley and Pakefield -

Peter Byatt - Labour

Louise Gooch – Labour

Malcolm Pitcher - Labour

Turnout: 26.2%

Gunton St Margarets –

George King – Labour

Graham Parker – Labour

Turnout: 30%

Oulton Broad -

Edward Back – Conservative

Andre Gee – Conservative

Keith Robinson – Conservative

North Lowestoft Men's Shed landed last Wednesday 5th July 2023.

The lorry hove into view around 5.30pm. 

We were taking delivery of a 6m x 2.3m flatpack steel shed – with windows, and, usefully, a door.

We've spent the last two weeks pondering on and creating the foundations – not finished yet.

Once they've been done and cured, we'll start the build. The instructions look simple...

Right now, we can't take on any more members, but once our shed is built, we hope to be able to do so.  

On July 5th 2023 our new flatpack shed was craned onto the Land of Hope and Dreams we're borrowing from Greater Anglia.

We finished the foundations the following week, and on 19th July we unpacked the flatpack and began the build.

https://youtu.be/Ex8PcxKTHhs

Our ambitious plan to do it in a day was not achieved, but a good day's work.

The next week we completed the build.

https://youtu.be/dsMkf_9KO9E

True Colours is a new group for the LGBTQ+ (over 18) community in Lowestoft. We meet socially once a month at The Kirkley Centre and we also organise walking trips, days out and other events for the LGBTQ+
community.