Red Gables

Red Gables A unique wellbeing centre in Stowmarket that has the community at heart. Red Gables is a Wellbeing Hub for the whole community.

As well as providing meeting and activity space for organisations, clubs and businesses, we actively promote services that help deliver better health and wellbeing for everyone. The main Red Gables building has been modernised to provide offices of varying sizes over three floors that are mostly leased to voluntary and community organisations that support local people in Mid Suffolk and the surrounding area. The Old Library was originally built in 1939 to provide library services to the local community. In 2012 it was extensively refurbished and was named as ‘Redwoods’. It is now a fully accessible facility that provides a large activity and meeting space with a modern catering kitchen, plus an attractive garden room for smaller meetings that overlooks our well maintained 1.5 acre gardens. The 1.5 acres of mature gardens sets a wonderful canvas for our facilities and contains beautiful Redwood trees, shrubs and lawns which provide a home for a variety of wildlife and will enhance your enjoyment when visiting Red Gables. It has also enabled us to develop a garden project that is supported and enjoyed by local people.

A massive thank you to Janine and Pete from The Aviary Cedars Park for their wonderful fundraising efforts from the Ceda...
09/12/2025

A massive thank you to Janine and Pete from The Aviary Cedars Park for their wonderful fundraising efforts from the Cedars Park Christmas Fayre that was held on Wednesday 23rd November.

We're delighted to share the total raised with our friends at Stowmarket Police Cadets, with whom we've collaborated on various projects. The impressive sum of £476.00 will go towards supporting Redwoods Lunch Club and has already helped with our first Christmas meal that we held yesterday.

Cedars Park Community Centre

Yesterday we held our first of our two Christmas Meals for the Redwoods Lunch Club. In the past 2 years we have signific...
09/12/2025

Yesterday we held our first of our two Christmas Meals for the Redwoods Lunch Club. In the past 2 years we have significantly expanded our membership with more than double the original members now in each group, which has resulted in us hosting two Christmas meals across the alternating weeks. 🎄

The day is full of festivities including a Christmas themed quiz, bingo and a larger raffle than normal featuring festive prizes. We also want to say a huge thanks to George (Buddy) the Elf, who not only brought his Christmas spirit and energy, but also two festive costumes as a brilliant surprise! The whole room cheered when George began the groups beloved bingo in a surprise inflatable Santa costume, whilst making festive-themed callings, 'Number 25 - Christmas Day!'🥁

On the menu our members were able to enjoy a roast turkey with all the trimmings including mulled wine braised red cabbage, carrots, parsnips and potatoes with a pig in blanket and gravy. Our incredible team were also offering two types of desserts, a Christmas pudding or a classic homemade trifle. 🎅🏼

We would also like to thank each and every one of our incredible volunteers that made yesterday run so smoothly! Thankyou to Sue, Maddy, Glynis, Mary, Pat, Sarah and George 🎁

We were kindly joined by Stowmarket Town Mayor, David Child and his Consort and fellow town councillor Maria Child. Stowmarket Town Council

Almost sold out! There limited availability on this year's Christmas pantomime at The Regal Stowmarket. Get your tickets
07/12/2025

Almost sold out!

There limited availability on this year's Christmas pantomime at The Regal Stowmarket. Get your tickets

03/12/2025

Did you watch the incredible performance by WeDrum UK CIC on Sunday at Red Gables? 🥁🎄

We Drum improves lives by empowering and enabling their participants to collaborate, create & perform contemporary drum focused music. A regular, solid source of purpose and guidance in peoples’ lives offering progression, longevity and a leap into the extraordinary.

What a privilege it was to be joined by the group on our site for the Stowmarket Christmas Fayre as our last live performance of the day. Truly incredible to hear that the group members had only first met and started practising 10 weeks beforehand.

This year WeDrum's community group (open to 11-19 year olds) runs weekly sessions at The Mix in Stowmarket which work towards exciting performances at local events.

Find a free session at www.wedrum.co.uk

A massive thank you to Janine and Pete from The Aviary at Cedars Park Community Centre for their wonderful fundraising e...
03/12/2025

A massive thank you to Janine and Pete from The Aviary at Cedars Park Community Centre for their wonderful fundraising efforts.
We're delighted to share the total raised with our friends at Stowmarket Police Cadets, with whom we've collaborated on various projects. The impressive sum of £476.00 will go towards supporting Redwoods Lunch Club.

A huge thankyou to everyone that visited our site on Sunday as part of the Stowmarket christmas Fayre 2025. We welcomed ...
02/12/2025

A huge thankyou to everyone that visited our site on Sunday as part of the Stowmarket christmas Fayre 2025. We welcomed 3,500+ of you across just 5 hours and with your support to the local stalls that joined us, we have helped raise over £6000 for our local community. Stalls included Suffolk Sight, Stowmarket Carnival, Kitty Kat Rescue, Red Gables Garden Project, SSAFA, the Armed Forces charity, , Beyond The Wall - Day Service - North Suffolk, Suffolk Prickles Hedgehog Rescue, WeCan - Achieving Aspirations, Parkinsons Support group, RSPCA Suffolk Central, Bacton Community Workshop, Leeann's Charity Wreaths , Stowmarket Oddfellows, Food Savvy Suffolk, Session Cycles, Stowmarket Rugby Under 11s, Bravo Theatre Workshops Stowmarket, Families Together Suffolk, and Stowmarket Brownies.

This event marks our 5th annual Stowmarket Christmas Fayre and we are delighted to announce that it is our most successful charity event to date!

We couldn’t have made the event possible without the incredible hard work of our staff and a delightful increase of volunteers, which truly made a difference in helping us set up and share the workload across café operations, music arrangements, and site management. We can’t express enough gratitude to our volunteer team for their invaluable assistance and want to also thank all of the stallholders, musicians and face painters for their wonderful feedback throughout the day.

We would also like to thank our music acts Castleton Brass, Stowmarket Operatic & Dramatic Society, WeDrum UK, , Bombshell Rheanne and with Woods and Law. (Further post to follow).

Yesterday at the Redwoods Lunch Club we were joined by Tracey from Suffolk Fire and Rescue Service to explain just how e...
02/12/2025

Yesterday at the Redwoods Lunch Club we were joined by Tracey from Suffolk Fire and Rescue Service to explain just how easily fires can spread in the home around the festive season. Thankyou for such an insightful talk, we look forward to seeing you again in the new year to visit our second Lunch Club group 🎄

To visit the Redwoods Lunch Club or our Friday warm space in 2026 to shed light on beneficial services for our members or talk about an organisation you are part of, please email kaitlyn.lay@redgables.org.uk 🎁✨

Our first time being joined by Castleton Brass and they were incredible!
02/12/2025

Our first time being joined by Castleton Brass and they were incredible!

A huge thankyou to FJ Loades Famous Miniature Fun Fair for attending our site for the Stowmarket Christmas Fayre on Sund...
01/12/2025

A huge thankyou to FJ Loades Famous Miniature Fun Fair for attending our site for the Stowmarket Christmas Fayre on Sunday! The miniature model funfair first started construction in 1920 when Frederick Loades was just a schoolboy. Scroll through the photos to see all of the incredible detailed work… 🎡🎟️🎠

Stowmarket Town Council

Ladies in Stowmarket and surrounding areas 👋🏽FREE self defense class tomorrow evening by Scorpion Martial Arts Wellbeing...
01/12/2025

Ladies in Stowmarket and surrounding areas 👋🏽

FREE self defense class tomorrow evening by Scorpion Martial Arts Wellbeing Academy

📅 Tuesday 2nd September
⏰ 7:30pm-9pm
📍 Red Gables, Ipswich Road, Stowmarket IP14 1BE

Refreshments break and free parking

No booking required 🤼

Our long term tenants and friends at Ace Anglia are looking for two people to join their board of trustees.Ace is an inf...
01/12/2025

Our long term tenants and friends at Ace Anglia are looking for two people to join their board of trustees.

Ace is an influential, people led, advocacy charity that supports and promotes inclusivity for people with a learning disability. The purpose of advocacy is to support people to have a powerful and effective voice.

They are looking for someone with the following skills, although not essential:
- Experience of caring for a person with a disability/autism/mental health
- Special educational needs and disability code of practise 0-25yrs.
- Experience in Health or Social care settings
- Experience of User led organisations
- Experience of the voluntary sector

If you are interested, send your CV to kat@aceanglia.com

Address

Ipswich Road
Stowmarket
IP141BE

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 4pm
Tuesday 9am - 4pm
Wednesday 9am - 4pm
Thursday 9am - 4pm
Friday 9am - 4pm

Telephone

01449 673947

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