If you have a little spare time and would like to help improve your local environment why not join Snape Woodland Group as a volunteer? We only meet occasionally, but we would like some help to develop our new publicly accessible woodland which, over the last few years, has evolved from a barren field of mud to a lovely flourishing young […]
Queen’s 90th Birthday Celebration in Snape Melanie Thurston and Mary James were determined not to let the Queens 90th Birthday pass us by in Snape without recognising it in some way. So we put a notice in the magazine earlier in the year inviting anyone interested, to join us in a meeting to see what […]
The June coffee morning was really busy with everyone coming to view Brian Boulton’s fantastic photographic display, including children from Snape primary school. We decided to celebrate the Queens birthday early with Brian’s photos setting the scene perfectly with 90 years of Snape history. Joining in our celebrations were 3 of our Snape residents who, […]
As part of the Heritage Lottery Funded Touching the Tide scheme a small archaeological ‘test pit’ excavation was carried out by the Department of Archaeology at the University of Cambridge to discover how the area has developed over hundreds – even thousands – of years in the past. Below are the results of the pottery analysis from that dig: Pottery […]
We raised £150 for Snape Village Hall through ticket sales and £658 for the Royal Marsden Hospital from our prize laden Grand Draw with out Top prize of a London Theatre trip and meal for two going to a member of the audience. The event was an absolute sell out, and the Choir were 50 […]
What a difference a floor makes!! Our thanks must go to the Pargiter Trust, administered through Suffolk Community Foundation for their generous grant. The village hall looks like new! Amazing! The floor was sanded down and resealed during half term. Although the closure caused some disruption, the consensus of opinion is that it was […]
Snape’s Woodland Group has recently been delighted to receive three separate donations of trees for Priory Wood plus a fantastic gift of £200 from Snape’s Carol Singers following their successful nights out raising money for good causes. We have received a award of 105 trees from the Woodland Trust. These we have mainly planted these very young whips along […]
This year Snape School‘s nativity play, Hosanna Rock, took place in the 12th Century barn of Abbey Farm, the only remaining building from Snape Priory.
The renowned Suffolk Constabulary Male Voice Choir performed in Snape Village Hall on November 28th to raise funds for our new woodland area. As well as providing a great performance by the choir the popular event raised a much needed £300 for Snape Woodland group. The money will be used for maintaining and further improving the wood. If […]
We are so excited that “The Young’uns” spent the day at our School on Tuesday 20th October “The Young’uns” are an amazing trio who won the BBC Radio 2 Folk Group of the Year Award 2015. They came and sang for the grand opening of the new community funded classroom which will allow our 35 pupils to be […]