We’re proud of our home and the people who make it. Proud of our values and way of life. And we’re strong champions of giving back to communities.
Our mission is to provide a safe home for savers and a safe homes for communities in Suffolk and the surrounding areas.
We do this by providing carefully crafted products and a great service, but we’re also dedicated to giving back directly to the Suffolk community through causes that support our mission.
We’re proud to be Suffolk through and through. That’s why we champion like-minded businesses and non-for-profit organisations to place ourselves at the heart of our communities. From sponsorships to financial education, we’re driven by doing what’s right, supporting our county and promoting all that is good.
We’re pleased to showcase some of the organisations we are currently supporting.
Financial education.
Our bespoke financial education programmes are aimed at Year 2, Year 10 and college students. We also work with prison rehabilitation programmes in the county. Each session is delivered by our trained staff, teaching financial literacy through real life scenarios and games, meeting the needs of the National Curriculum.
Contact your local branch to book a session.
Volunteering.
We encourage our staff to get hands-on with charity groups and community enterprises, offering half a day per month to volunteer in work time. This can either be through regular roles or ad-hoc, one-off tasks and doesn’t need to be related to their role at the Society.
Get in touch if you would like to request help or promote a volunteer role to our team.
Financial support and grants.
As part of Suffolk Community Foundation’s ‘Suffolk Fund’ we help to support grass roots organisations.
From time to time we may also be able to support additional sponsorship requests and distribute smaller grants.
Help in kind.
If you have thought of a different way we may be able to help with your organisation or event please get in touch with your local branch and tell us more!
Sponsorships
Speak to us about your organisation
We’re dedicated to supporting causes that are aligned to our mission to provide safe homes for our communities as well as positively contributing to our environmental agenda. We’d love to speak with organisations in the community which share our common goals.
We’re proud to be a mutual organisation, founded in 1849 by a group of Ipswich businessmen to help the local community to prosper. It’s a simple ethos and one we are still rooted by today.
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Latest community news and information
Our blog contains the latest goings-on and updates across the Society and for members we offer a monthly roundup of must-have stories and latest news in our Freehold Post email newsletter.
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Helping Ipswich Families in Need
Hadleigh branch is buzzing from recent donation to The Bumblebee Children’s Charity
Suffolk Punch Trust: Unveiling the new AI centre
Sudbury branch bridges the gap with donation to the Bridge Project
Society’s Haverhill branch comes to aid of Suffolk Accident Rescue Service
Saxmundham branch delighted to donate to the Access Community Trust
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