Our Youth Club will re-open after Easter 2027 - our Facebook has all the details. Are you new to the area? Please contact Sarah to find out more or pop along on a Thursday evening - new Youth Clubbers are very welcome!!!
We welcome new volunteers and look forward to hearing from YOU!! - please contact Sarah to find out more, thank you!
** PLEASE CHECK OUR FACEBOOK **
Thank you - Sarah Freeman, Youth Club coordinator - sfreeman26@sky.coShow & Tell - do you have a talent, skill, business or trade that you'd like to show the kids or to get the kids to interact with?? This would be amazing!!
https://www.facebook.com/somershamyouth/

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
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
AFTERNOON - Meat (beef, chicken, liver, pork and more) Bacon, Sausages - plus frozen Lasagne and frozen Cottage Pie (Oak House Farm, Sproughton)
Friday:
EARLY - Bread (Palmers)
AFTERNOON - Shire Foods East Anglia (wholefoods etc.) - fortnightly

*Smaller portion sizes, but just as yummy* - we offer a Seniors’ Set Menu every Friday from 12pm to 2:30pm, featuring 2 courses - including options such as beer-battered fish, gammon, sausage & mash, soup and desserts such as apple crumble and jam sponge.
The Duke of Marlborough is a 15th century community-owned village pub near Ipswich, in the pretty village of Somersham. Managed by husband and wife, Claire and Matt, who invite you to enjoy their warm welcome and the friendly atmosphere created by the wonderful team of staff and volunteers!
You can contact them by phone on 01473 831283 or email. You can also book a table online or walk-ins are welcome.
The Duke’s kitchen produces great value, hearty meals featuring many British pub classics - always see our SPECIALS BOARD for new dishes and Duke Favourites!! - and enjoy our wide range of drinks – in a building that has been welcoming people for nearly 500 years!
HAPPY HOURS - enjoy a range of selected drinks at a reduced price! - every week on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Sunday: 5 – 6pm

Bus routes 111 and 111A serve Somersham, and the buses now have USB charging points for each passenger seat; so you can charge your mobile, tablet etc as your travel. 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.
Our village bus is 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
:: Rail network route map for East Anglia:
https://www.suffolkonboard.com/ways-to-travel/train/maps/

Welcome to our acoustic nights - last Sunday night of each month!! 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…..you’re also welcome as spectators, enjoying the music and our bar!
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!

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.

IMPORTANT UPDATE - the timings for the mobile library stop in Somersham are changing slightly.
The stop at the Community Shop (16B) will run from 9.30-10.00am and the Willisham stop (16C) will be from 10.10-11.00am as it’s now busier there, more time is required at the Willisham stop.
These new timings will start from THURSDAY 29^th October 2026.
NB: there will be NO Mobile Library for our route run during December 2026. 
:: Somersham has a regular four-weekly Mobile Library visit on a Thursday - stopping in the car park next to the Community Shop. You can reserve books from any other library in Suffolk and then collect them when the mobile visits - and return your books to any branch / mobile library across the county. You may also suggest possible new titles, and make reservations online or library staff can help. It’s free and easy to get a library user card - you can get a card at the Mobile Library! There’s also a HOME LIBRARY service.
TODDLERS AND CHILDREN
This is a great occasion for toddlers and children, lots of books to choose from - and as the Mobile Library is in the village for 30 minutes, they can settle down and have a reading adventure!