Marham Park Community - Events & Local Life

22/10/2026

🎃 An action-packed October half-term, right on our doorstep! 🍂

Who says you need to travel far to keep the children entertained? We’ve got a fantastic line-up of activities happening locally this half-term, provided by local community organisations ❤️

🦸 Tuesday 27th October | 2–3:30pm
Family Superhero Party
Join West Suffolk Vineyard Church for an afternoon of superhero fun at the Vineyard Centre on Northern Way

🍁 Tuesday 27th October | 2–4pm
Autumn Crafts
Get creative with The Village Bury St Edmunds CIC at the Methodist Church on Northumberland Avenue. £2 per participant.

🌿 Thursday 29th October | 11am–1pm
Dead Hedge Building
Join Marham Park Community - Events & Local Life and our Bury St Edmunds Town Council Wardens to help create a wildlife-friendly dead hedge in our Nature Play Area. A chance to get outdoors, get a little mucky and do something wonderful for nature!

👻 Friday 30th October | 2–4pm
🚫FULLY BOOKED🚫
Halloween Party
The Village BSE is hosting a spooky afternoon of games, crafts and activities at the Scout Hut next to Greengage. FREE, booking required.

🎃 Saturday 31st October | 3:30–6:30pm
Marham Park’s Halloween Scareground!
Finish half-term with a frightfully fun Halloween experience at the Top Playground! Choose from our quieter Gentle Ghouls session or the spookier experience later in the evening. FREE, booking required.

It’s lovely to see so much happening for local families, with community groups, volunteers and organisations all helping to make half-term a little more exciting (and affordable!).

Please check the individual posters for full details and booking information. Some activities have limited spaces.

Five fantastic activities, all within walking distance, and plenty of opportunities to make some lovely half-term memories! 💚

22/10/2026

Looking for something a little different to do with the children this half-term? 🌿

We’re teaming up with our lovely Town Wardens, Bradley and Charlie, to build a dead hedge in our nature play area!

Not only will it help create a natural windbreak, but it’ll also provide a little haven for woodland wildlife. 🐛🐜

📅 Thursday 29th October
⏰ 11am–1pm
📍 Nature Play Area

It’s completely free, and we’ll provide gloves and a few refreshments. Children must be accompanied by a grown-up.

Come along, get a little mucky and help us make something lovely for our woodland!

Please sign up here: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/r/ZXiQCA9UbY

Bury St Edmunds Town Council Wardens
The Village Bury St Edmunds CIC

19/10/2026

🎃 HALLOWEEN RAFFLE 🎃

We have not one, but TWO Halloween bundles for you to win. You can enter both or choose which you’d like to have a chance to win.

👻 Bundle 1 is a child friendly bundle with fun activities and treats to enjoy on Halloween.
🧙 Bundle 2 is a self care collection so you can relax with a face mask, drink and some chocolate after a busy evening Trick or Treating.

To enter click here and choose how many tickets and which bundle to enter: https://www.zeffy.com/en-GB/organizations/the-village-bury-st-edmunds-cic

14/10/2026

🎉 We have our October lottery winner! 🎉

Congratulations to our lucky October winner, who has scooped £43 in our second Marham Park Community Lottery draw!

A huge thank you to everyone who bought a ticket this month. Every entry helps us raise funds to support community events, activities and improvements across Marham Park.

Fancy being our next winner?

Tickets cost just £5 each, and you can buy as many as you like! Our draw takes place on the 14th of every month, with 45% of ticket proceeds going towards the winner’s prize and 45% supporting Marham Park Community (the remaining 10% covers administration fees).

Enter here:
https://draw.ourclublotto.co.uk/marham-park-community-champions/

You play, we all win! 🎉

13/10/2026

Please don’t ghost me! 👻 (see what I did there?)

We have nearly 150 children booked across both sessions. We REALLY would appreciate volunteers. Even just an hour or two would make a huge difference. Please see the original post, read about the volunteer roles, and if you can, sign up to volunteer. It would really help us deliver an amazing event for our community. Thank you 🎃

🎃 Halloween Scareground Volunteers Wanted! 👻

We’re looking for some brilliant volunteers to help bring this year’s Marham Park Halloween Scareground to life!

We need help with welcoming families, stewarding the Scareground, handing out treats, setting up and packing away – plus we’d especially love to hear from local teenagers who fancy becoming one of our spooky Trail Characters for the evening session! 👻

Whether you can help for part of the event or get stuck in from set-up to pack-down, we’d love to have you involved.

Read more about the volunteer roles: https://marhamparkcommunity.co.uk/halloween-scareground-volunteer-roles/

Sign up to volunteer: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/r/fUA7UB2fhZ

Thank you! Events like this really do rely on local people giving a little of their time 🧡

13/10/2026

Super pleased that this eyesore has been removed! Thank you Ross for bringing it to our attention and our Bury St Edmunds Town Council Wardens for reporting it to the relevant teams for removal! 🌳🎉 it takes all of us to keep out town beautiful 😅

13/10/2026

Lovely morning well-spent giving the woods a bit of love 🌳

13/10/2026

Today, the lovely Helen from The Village Bury St Edmunds CIC, along with our brilliant Bury St Edmunds Town Council Wardens joined us for a mini 'Reclaim the Woods' (maintain the woods?) session.

We focused on collecting some of the litter we couldn’t access during our big clean-up back in June, cutting back overgrown paths to make them safer and more accessible, and continuing work on the nature play area.

We’re also hoping to get local children involved over half term to help us build up the dead hedge and make their own contribution to this lovely little space. Keep an eye out for more information on that soon!

It was a really productive morning, and it’s lovely to see the woodland continuing to improve, little by little. Although there was an obscene amount of dog poo 🥲

A huge thank you to everyone who came along and gave their time 💚

12/10/2026

🎉 Our October lottery draw is nearly here!

Fancy being in with a chance of winning a cash prize while supporting your local community?

Our Small Society Lottery helps raise much-needed funds for Marham Park Community, allowing us to organise events, cover running costs and support improvements across the estate.

Here’s how it works:

🎟️ Tickets cost £5 each, and you can buy as many as you like!

* Our prize draw takes place on the 14th of every month.
* 10% of ticket sales goes to our lottery provider, OurClubLotto, to cover administration costs.
* 50% of the remaining proceeds goes to one lucky winner!
* The other 50% goes straight back into our community, helping us do even more for Marham Park.

The more tickets sold, the bigger the potential prize and the more money we raise for our community.

You play, we all win! 🎉

Sign up today!

https://draw.ourclublotto.co.uk/marham-park-community-champions/

10/10/2026

🍃Our next community litter pick is on the 1st November!🌱

Time: 10:00am - 12:00pm
Meet at the playground next to David Lloyd

All equipment provided and supervised children are always welcome! No need to sign up, just come along and help us keep Marham Park beautiful!

This also marks our second year of litter picking on Marham Park and what an impact we’ve made 🎉 Thank you so much to every one of you who have showed up over the last two years, or done your own bit solo 💚

Hopefully see you soon at our last litter pick of the year!