Work Party
Saturday 29th November at 10:30am.
The success of Holton Pits relies on its volunteers. Please help us maintain our beautiful community resource by supporting our next volunteer work party for just an hour or so. Please come along for a chat and some tree planting and natural fence work.
Meet at Southwold Road car park at at 10:30am on Saturday 29th November.
Beautiful Benches
After a grant from Adnams Community Trust, we were pleased to be able to pass this on and support another worthwhile, local organisation. We asked Street Forge Workshop to build us four benches, these are made of British Sweet Chestnut and we think they look beautiful. We hope you have enjoyed resting on them during your visit to The Pits.
Street Forge Workshop (www.streetforgeworkshop.uk) a fantastic organisation working with people with learning disabilities who craft bird, bat, and garden products from wood. A big THANK YOU to Adnams Community Trust for their generous donation to help fund the benches!
Green Print Forum visit - 30th October 2025
We were pleased to host a visit from members of the Green Print Forum. Click here to learn more about them. We had a lovely wander round Holton Pits in the sunshine - explaining the history of the site, the story of the community rallying and the purchase and what has been done since then. Mostly we were enjoying Holton Pits in all it’s wonder! Amongst the other wildlife we spotted a heron, a cormorant and a kestrel.
About The Green Print Forum:
“The Green print Forum is a non-statutory, voluntary network, facilitated by the district council to help enable community environmental action. A key part of that is to share knowledge and information and hopefully inspire replication of positive environmental action by grass roots actors in and around eastern Suffolk.
We compile a quarterly newsletter to showcase examples of community-led action from our members, and we also run a few events each year for our members which could range from site visits to see local projects or places of interest, practical activities, or full forum events to explore a particular theme. We also keep in touch with our members regularly to keep them informed of initiatives and opportunities (e.g. grants, training or consultations) that may be of interest to them and also help promote grass roots events coming up.
Whilst our focus is on eastern Suffolk, anyone, anywhere who wishes to contribute to and/or benefit from our knowledge share network is very welcome to join for free.”
Here's Green Print Forum's mini-report. https://www.eastsuffolk.gov.uk/.../Holton-Pits-30-10-25.pdf
Our thanks to talented local film-maker, Johnny Thompson for making this video and sharing IT with us...
Ownership & credit for this video belongs to Johnny Thompson
