Sudbury Suffolk Branch

President Air Commodore Peter Maybury		Chairman  Mr Colin Smith  01787 379704
Vice Chairman Mr Stuart Hume  01787 374277		Secretary Mrs Cynthia  Hume  01787 374277
		Treasurer and Welfare Secretary Mrs Jane Brockbank  01787 376050
County Caseworker Mr Alan Brockbank  01284 725833		Standard  Bearer Mr David Brooks 01787 269242
Membership Secretary and Poppy Appeal Organiser. Mr Rod Kilby 01787 373948

The Branch in Sudbury is very active and successful. They meet every month at the Northcroft Social Club premises in Sudbury either with a Branch meeting or open meetings when speakers come to talk to us on a variety of subjects. Meetings are normally on the second Tuesday starting at 7.30pm. The bar downstairs is open before and after meetings.

Additionally they organise social events ranging from BBQs, Fish & Chip Suppers and outings to places of interest such as the Mechanical Music Museum, the Royal Chelsea Pensioner's Hospital, RAF Mildenhall, RAF Wattisham, RAF Honington, RAF Neatishead, and the National Memorial Arboretum in the Midlands, to mention but a few.

They also take part in County events and join with other branches in their activities around the county.

Additionally, from time to time in the past, outings have been arranged to places like Yarmouth, Southend, Bulmer Brick Works, Greene King Brewery, Cannon Avent, dog racing at Mildenhall, horse racing at Newmarket, Bletchley Park Code Centre, the Suffolk Show, Giffords Hall vineyard, an old-vehicle restorer, Ypres, the Battlefields of northern France, even caravanning weekends.

It all adds up to a varied, active and interesting means of meeting with friends with similar interests.

Awards

Over the past ten years we have achieved several awards starting with the County Small Branch Efficiency Award, followed the next year by the Medium Branch Award and the year after that by the Large Branch Efficiency Award. This was partly due to the increase in membership and performance of the Branch and also because the parameters for the award changed slightly! With a gap of a year we once again achieved the Large Branch Award plus being Runners Up in the National Lister Cup Award. The certificate for this was presented by the National President to our delegate at the National Conference. Since then we have won the Suffolk County Large Branch Efficiency Trophy for no less than seven consecutive years and been runners-up for the Haig Trophy Cup in 2009.

In 2007 the Branch was awarded the prestigious Haig Cup, a national award for efficient branches, so, a feather in the cap for Sudbury and also for the county of Suffolk. For the latest news on awards, visit our News & Events section.