Welcome to our June acoustic night!! Bring your favourite instrument and join in. Performed in and around the table, buskers format. All musicians and singers welcome. Very many talented people turn up, and enjoy a lovely atmosphere, like buskers’ evenings of old. 
Lovely to see so many happy people enjoying themselves and the ambience of our lovely, dear community-owned pub!
There’s a warm welcome waiting for accordions, banjos, double basses, fiddles, guitars, harmonicas, percussion, ukuleles, and a plethora of other instruments - not to mention plenty of a cappella and other singing. Everyone, from beginners to experienced musicians and singers, is welcome! ……it’s amazing to think that there’s probably been music and singing in our village pub for over 500 years!

The Agenda will be available on the Somersham Parish Council page of this website from late June.
Our Parish Council is looking to recruit two new Parish Councillors - please contact Jennie Blackburn, the Parish Clerk, for more information - thank you. 
:: County Councillor for this area:- Cllr Gary Keogh (Reform) - Gary.Keogh@suffolk.gov.uk
:: District Councillor for this area:- Cllr Adrienne Marriott (Liberal Democrat) - adrienne.marriott@midsuffolk.gov.uk
The Somersham Parish Clerk & Responsible Finance Officer:
Mrs Jennie Blackburn
The Knoll, 1 All Saints Road, Creeting St Mary, Ipswich IP6 8NF
Telephone: (01449) 721369
Email: clerk@somershamsuffolk-pc.gov.uk

WHEELIE FUN DAY is a large traditional village fête held on Somersham playing field in Suffolk, we welcome young, old and families
CONTACT US
To help in any way or for general enquiries, contact: Terry on 07733 226898 or  wheelieenquiries@btinternet.com 
** Social Media Find us on Facebook
Thank you, and looking forward to a wheelie great fun day 2026!!
FIND US
:: WHEELIE FUN DAY, Somersham Playing Field, Main Road, Somersham, Suffolk - IP8 4PF   What 3 Words: displays.passages.amplifier
:: Parking for Wheelie Fun Day - please use the Village Hall car park - What 3 Words: successes.kingpin.songbirds - thank you.
ABOUT US
** Photographs from our yearly event are on our Facebook
** Wheelie Fun Day is coordinated by and raises funds for the Somersham & District Community Association, registered as Charity Number 1214025 
:: OUR SPONSORS, SUPPORTERS AND FUNDERS
Ashworth Financial | Bacton Transport | Binder Ltd | Cory Brothers | NFU Mutual Lavenham | Palmer Fencing | Somersham Parish Council | Tubeway | Turners Blinds, Awnings and Shutters | Vitavia Greenhouses
**Somersham Football Club, Somersham Tennis Club, Auto Animals, Great Blakenham/Somersham Cycle Speedway, Somersham Youth Club, The Duke of Marlborough pub and numerous local volunteers and sponsors support the planning and co-ordination of the annual Wheelie Fun Day - massive thank you to one & all!! 

WHEELIE FUN DAY 2026 - SATURDAY 4th JULY 2026 - we look forward to seeing you all - FREE ENTRY! It's all loads of Family Fun!!
WHEELIE FUN DAY is a large traditional village fête held on Somersham playing field in Suffolk, we welcome young, old and families - activities and attractions include: Live music + entertainment on our stage all day, classic + cherished vehicle show and all sorts of wheel-power…..cycle speedway, bicycles and motorcycles, skateboarding… plus Suffolk Punch horses, birds of prey, a marketplace of local + trade stalls, plus choices for hot + cold food, three bars, fête games, children’s and family entertainment and a Grand Raffle.
Don't Miss the Wheelie Warm-Up Acts!
:: Special Fundraising Quiz at the Duke of Marlborough - Thursday 18th June, 7:30pm - fun, fun, FUN! Gather a team of up to 6, booking a table is strongly advised (entry £2 per person)  venue: Duke of Marlborough - PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF DATE FOR OUR QUIZ!
:: Somersham Open Darts Tournament and Raffle - Saturday 27th June, 10am-6pm - over the years, this fabulous event has raised thousands for the S&DCA's 'WHEELIE FUN DAY'. Loads of players enter each year (female, male, all ages) and if you don't enter - it's a great day out at the Duke, full of fun and Darts-drama! Join friends and family...meet friends you haven't made yet!.......and there's also a Raffle with LOADS of fabulous prizes, don't forget to buy your tickets! - venue: Duke of Marlborough
Further details: https://somershamsuffolk-pc.gov.uk/whats-on/somersham-open-darts-tournament-and-raffle-27th-june/?date=2026-06-27
:: Wheelie Grand Raffle - not-to-be-missed! Last year's prizes included family day tickets & vouchers to Jimmy's Farm, Crown Pools, Baylham Rare Breeds Farm, Regal Cinema, Jump In, Orwell River Cruises, Go Frolic!, New Wolsey Theatre and….. champagne! BUY YOUR TICKETS, sold on the day from the Grand Raffle HQ at the community pavilion. Draw held on our entertainment stage, during the afternoon of Wheelie Fun Day.

Bus routes 111 and 111A serve Somersham - click here for the bus timetable - at SuffolkOnBoard, Suffolk County Council’s passenger transport and sustainable travel information service - including free travel pass information, SEND travel training, live bus & rail news, school travel, roadworks updates and much more. Operated by Mulleys Motorways (01359 230234) and sponsored by Suffolk County Council.
VILLAGE BUS STOPS: Main Road at the Duke of Marlborough, the bus shelter next to the playing field, and the lay-by opposite the turning to the Community Shop.
Discover your transport options and ways to travel:  https://www.suffolkonboard.com/ways-to-travel/
Suffolk bus and train network map
https://www.suffolkonboard.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Suffolk-Network-Map.pdf

SOMERSHAM SCARECROW TRAIL - our village scarecrow display is a beloved, annual community event, where residents craft and display creative figures and scenes from straw - and many other materials!  Locals craft often-hilarious, pun-filled figures using old clothes, recycled materials, straw, and props…….displaying them on garden walls or hedges, or in trees or windows. Many will be hidden away, just waiting to be discovered!!
The event, which is organised by FOSS, is an opportunity to walk around the village and enjoy creative talent as well as have a really jolly time!
:: HELP CREATE THE SCARECROW TRAIL AROUND SOMERSHAM - this year's theme is ROCK AND POP STARS!  Join in with the Scarecrow Trail and make your own fabulous scarecrow, family-made scarecrows are very welcome! Please email the FOSS team on fossfundraisers@gmail.com with details of whom your scarecrow will portray, and where it’ll be located (villagers of Somersham only please).
:: JOURNEY ALONG THE SCARECROW TRAIL - The Trail is displayed from 1st August to 31st August 2026. Scarecrow Trail Maps can found at Somersham & District Community Shop and at the Duke of Marlborough - from 1st August, £2 each.
[ Photograph shows scarecrows made by SOMERSHAM YOUTH CLUB ]

It’s £1.00 per month to enter the Somersham Tennis Club Lottery, with 50% of the proceeds as prize money, and 50% towards the upkeep of the tennis courts. 
The courts are free for all to use for tennis, no booking is required. If you’d like to make a donation, please use the QR code on the court gate.
Our community Lottery keeps the courts available to local people.
We welcome new Lottery players | each player also helps to support Junior Tennis, lessons for children and teenagers aged up to 16 - where local youngsters learn to play, and are taught new skills to help improve their game.
Junior Tennis coaching re-started on 13th April, on Monday evenings - thank you!
5pm - age group 4-8 years | 5:45pm - age group 8+
Limited places left - £3 per child per session each Monday, starting after Easter, weather depending.
:: The Somersham Tennis Club Lottery is licensed with Mid Suffolk District Council.
:: Somersham Tennis Club was established in 2007.

A shop for Somersham and the surrounding villages, largely run by volunteers, please call us on 07424 955931. Our shop supplies daily essentials as well as useful ingredients, and quality goods from Suffolk and East Anglian food producers - many of whom are local, regional or national award-winners. Some producers deliver direct to us, so we all get to know each other!
Our shop is also a social & information hub, and is welcoming for volunteers and customers alike.
If you wish to order items, or simply want to pop to our shop when the products you’re after are available: please see below. Orders can be one-off or regular.
Somersham & District Community Shop - telephone: 07424 955931
ORDERS
Monday: eggs
Tuesday: bread and meat
Wednesday: milk, fruit & veg
Thursday: bread, and Shire Foods East Anglia (wholefoods etc)
Friday: bread
Saturday: Bookers (fortnightly, wholesale general stock)
Sunday: pies, milk, fruit & veg, and tomatoes - and cheese etc. (fortnightly)
DELIVERIES
Monday:
EARLY - Bread (Palmers), Milk and Fruit & Veg (Richards)
12:30pm - Tomatoes (Suffolk Fresh)
Tuesday:
EARLY - Eggs (Gate Farm, Flowton)
11am - Bookers (wholesale general stock) - fortnightly
1:15pm - Pies: with meat, vegetable and sweet choices - plus sausage rolls, pork pies, quiches etc (Country Pies)
Wednesday:
EARLY - Bread (Palmers)
12:30pm - Cheese, Ham and Smoked Fish (Hamish Johnston Cheesemonger, Lane Farm Country Foods of Suffolk, and Pinney's of Orford) - fortnightly
Thursday:
EARLY - Milk and Fruit & Veg (Richards)
AFTERNOON - Meat (beef, chicken, liver, pork and more) Bacon, Sausages (Oak House Farm, Sproughton)
Friday:
EARLY - Bread (Palmers)
AFTERNOON - Shire Foods East Anglia (wholefoods etc.) - fortnightly