Proud sponsor of Hop to it! 2025
We’re proud to announce our support of St Elizabeth Hospice’s latest art trail project ‘Hop to it’!
CF Social Work Ltd, 3-4b K Line House, West Road, Ipswich IP3 9SX
Contact UsWe’re proud to announce our support of St Elizabeth Hospice’s latest art trail project ‘Hop to it’!
The Hop to it! art trails will see beautiful big hare sculptures form an art trail around Ipswich, with local businesses sponsoring each of the sculptures and visitors following a route map and app to find them. Each sculpture is also auctioned off at the end of the campaign, with the project helping raise vital funds for the hospice and raise awareness of its services.
A a satellite trail in Felixstowe, Beccles, Woodbridge and Lowestoft will feature small 'stargazer leverets'. We have also sponsored one of these via CF Education.
Ipswich’s St Elizabeth Hospice on Foxhall Road is based near to the CF Group headquarters, and provides valuable care for adults with progressive and incurable illness in the community, in their own home or in the hospice across Ipswich and the Waveney area. They also have a young adult service, Zest, which supports young adults aged 14+. Two CF Group staff members, Jake Rush and Gemma Holland already support the charity through volunteering.
CF's AQA and Attendance Lead, Gemma, has volunteered there for 11 years and was instrumental in our support of the campaign, presenting the fantastic opportunity to our directors.
It costs around £12 million a year to run the hospice and its services, a third comes from the NHS and the rest comes from events and fundraising.
CF Group Operations Director Nina Livermore explains: “We’re so excited to be part of this wonderful project, which raises such critical funds for the hospice. It provides such important care and support for people living with progressive and incurable illnesses and we’re delighted to be able to help raise funds through the art trail.
“Our staff will be getting involved through our volunteer days and we’ll be doing all we can to promote the trail and encourage more people to get involved.
“We’ve also asked some of the young people we support to participate by helping us create the artwork for our small hare. We hope this will create a legacy for the group and its commitment to supporting others as we deliver our services.”
More information on the art trail can be found here.
We're excited to be launching a special competition to support the Hop to it! Art trail.
When the trail is live, if you visit Aqua the CF Group hare during your visit, you can be in with a chance to win a fantastic prize.
Just sign up to our CF Group newsletter via the form below, and you will be entered into a free prize draw to win a 'Best of Suffolk' prize bundle.
The bundle includes:
Anyone who signs up to the newsletter between 21st June and 29th August 2025 will be entered into the draw.
The lucky winner will be selected at random on the 1st September and notified via email.
Sign up to our newsletter and automatically enter the prize draw via the form below.
Full terms and conditions here.
We're delighted to be working with Karis Youngman, a professional illustration artist from Norfolk, who is the mastermind behind the design of our large hare.
We spoke to Anna about her career, her love of the Wild in Art trails, and why she loves seeing her art on display.
Children and young people supported by CF Education have worked together to help create a beautiful design for our ‘stargazer leveret’ set to be displayed as part of the St Elizabeth Hospice ‘Hop to It! art trail.
To design our small hare, we asked some of the children who are supported by our education team, to come up with their own hare artwork, based on a brief of ‘sunny days, bright colours and bold shapes’.
