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Bridge Project announces closure

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On 14 March 2025 the Bridge Project Sudbury announced it was closing due to financial pressures. We believe their final day of operations will be 28 March with all staff being made redundant shortly after. This is a really really sad event for the users of the Bridge Project, the staff and volunteers at the Bridge and Sudbury Arts Centre and for Sudbury for whom the Sudbury Arts Centre was establishing itself as the go to venue.

What we will do: We, the Friends, will do our utmost to keep the Sudbury Arts Centre open after 28 March. We are working in close coordination with the Churches Conservation Trust, who are responsible for St Peter’s, to ensure the staff are kept on, the building kept open and for all events including those already booked and those yet to be booked to take place. For now a short term solution is required to ensure the building stays open, the staff stay employed and the venue continues to operate until a longer term solution can be put into place.

We have already spoken to the Sudbury Arts Centre staff to say that they have our full support to keep the venue going. We have been in contact with the Churches Conservation Trust who have assured us, at the highest level, that they are committed to keeping the building open and we have offered them our full support so this happens. Here is their most recent media release on their support for Sudbury Arts Centre.

We are sure that everyone in Sudbury and the nearby communities will be joining together to make sure this wonderful building continues to be a welcoming and exciting venue for everyone to enjoy. So – stay tuned for more news on how we can together make this happen.

This post .has been updated as of 22 March 2025 and we will update it as things develop.

Peter Gray, long term trustee, steps down

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Very sadly for us, Peter Gray stepped down as trustee in June 2024. He joined us back in the early 2010s and was very active managing events in St Peter’s and in working with the CCT on the renovation project. He was appointed Vice-Chairman, then Chairman and then stepped down to Vice-Chairman again as his personal work commitments mounted up.

Peter was always a joy to work with, a fine sense of humour, a very consensual style when dealing with people and a love of proper beer. Plus if there were any issues with the plumbing, the locks, the roof alarms or anything else at St Peter’s he was your go to man – if he could not fix it then he always knew a man that could.

We are very pleased that Peter will continue to be a volunteer for us and St Peter’s – but equally sad he is not part of the trustee team any longer.

Sudbury Arts Centre presentation – cancelled

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Great shame but just a week before the March 2024 Town Meeting the presentation by Dave Jackson of the Bridge Project to this meeting was cancelled due to a diary clash. It would have been a good for the Bridge Project to have given their views on the Great Name Debate and how the operations are going in St Peter’s and their plans for the future. Its obviously a huge challenge to run a venue such as St Peter’s and we should therefore expect its development to be done slowly and carefully. But we do think that the Bridge Project missed a trick by not sharing their plans with the town. Hopefully they will do so on another occasion.