CF Group ‘hops to it’ for St Elizabeth Hospice

We’re proud to announce our support of St Elizabeth Hospice’s latest art trail project ‘Hop to it’.

The hospice has shared its plans for the ‘Hop to it’ art trail that will go live across the county next Summer. The hospice’s art trails have been hugely successful, and have featured Pigs Gone Wild, Elmer's Parade and most recently the Big Hoot. These art trails see beautiful big 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.

Next year will see the ‘Hop to it’ hares across Ipswich, with a satellite trail in Felixstowe, Beccles, Woodbridge and Lowestoft.

CF Group has sponsored a large hare, and CF Education a small hare, and will be engaging both staff and service users in the fundraising programme. In November, we’ll have the chance to select the artwork for our large hare from the many creative submissions provided by local artists.

In the New Year, we’ll be asking our young people to participate in the project by creating designs to decorate our small hare.

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.

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’ll also be asking the young people we work with 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.