All the commission painted hares have been sponsored by a local business or company. The commission painted hares will go to auction at the end of the trail to raise vital funds for St Elizabeth Hospice. 

The Hopscotch leverets designed by local school and community groups, as part of the Learning and Community programme, have pledged a fundraising target for them to meet by the end of the trail. However, these sculptures will not be going to auction. Instead they will return to their school or group as a lasting legacy of the trail. 

Opportunities to donate to St Elizabeth Hospice are available on our website. Proceeds from the merchandise, app and map sales will also support the hospice. 

The large hare sculptures, with the exception of the Memory hare, and the Hopscotch leveret sculptures, designed by artists, will be available at our Hop to it! Charity Auction on Wednesday 17 September 2025 at Milsoms Kesgrave. 

The leverets designed as part of our Learning and Community programme by local schools and community groups will not be available to buy, as they will be returned to the schools as a lasting reminder and legacy of taking part in Hop to it! Suffolk 2025. 

Find out more about our auction here.

Hop to it! Suffolk 2025 is a free, sculpture, art trail through the streets, parks and open spaces of Ipswich, lasting ten weeks, from 21 June to 29 August 2025.

It will feature painted hare sculptures; 60 large and 18 commission painted leverets. Alongside these there will 71 leverets decorated by local schools and community groups participating as part of the Hopscotch Learning and Community programme. 

Ipswich has 36 professionally painted hares and 43 Hopscotch leverets. 

Woodbridge has 6 professionally painted hares and 15 Hopscotch leverets.

Felixstowe has 6 professionally painted hares and 3 Hopscotch leverets.

Beccles has 7 professionally painted hares and 3 Hopscotch leverets.

Lowestoft has 5 professionally painted hares and 7 Hopscotch leverets.

The Hop to it! Suffolk 2025 art trail is on from 21 June to 29 August 2025.

The hospice’s vital services are increasingly far-reaching and support communities throughout Suffolk. Hospice staff, like hares, swiftly travel across the local area, through towns, villages and the rural countryside, to deliver compassionate care, when it is needed most.

We appealed for artists across the country to submit designs. Of the designs we received, a proportion were shortlisted and shown to our sponsors. Each sponsor then chose their designs, which then became the hares on the trail. 

Schools and community groups decorated all the stargazer leverets, using various means to select their chosen designs, whether that be whole group projects, competitions or selected individuals.

Wild in Art is the leading producer of spectacular public art events that entertain, enrich, inform and leave a lasting legacy. It brings together businesses and creative sectors with schools and local communities through the creation of uniquely painted sculptures.

Since 2008 Wild in Art has animated cities across the world including Manchester, Sydney, Auckland, Cape Town and São Paulo, and created trails for the London 2012 Olympics, the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Historic Royal Palaces and Penguin Random House.

Wild in Art events have:

• Enabled over £23.6m to be raised for charitable causes
• Injected £3.8m into local creative communities
• Engaged over 1 million young people in learning programmes
• Helped millions of people of all ages to experience art in non-traditional settings.

You can follow this trail for free, as often as you’d like! Beyond simply participating, you can also contribute to St Elizabeth Hospice in various ways, both during and after the event.

You can pick up a trail map for £1 from Hop HQ in the Buttermarket Ipswich, or in various participating retail stores. 

A full list of participating stockists can be found here.

Yes! It’s £1.99 and available from the Google Play Store and the Apple App Store. By following the trail using the app, you can ‘unlock’ rewards from our partners and sponsors along the way, reach milestones for collecting as many sculptures as you can, share photos, register how many steps you’ve taken, and so much more!

See the separate App FAQ section below.

Yes, the trail will be accessible to pushchairs and wheelchair users. Please note there may be different footing materials and some slight slopes. 

Thank you for helping out if you see a problem.

We have a dedicated hotline to report any issues: 01473 932495. Please provide as much detail as possible and include the name of the sculpture and its location.

You can also get in touch via hoptoit@stelizabethhospice.org.uk include photos of the problem you’re reporting.

Hop HQ is located in the Buttermarket Ipswich. Come inside and explore the variety of Hop to it! Merchandise. 

Open 10am-4pm every day of the week.

Yes. It will cost £1.99 from the Google App Store or the Apple App Store. There are a number of benefits to downloading the app, including rewards provided by our partners and sponsors as you collect certain sculptures.

Search in your app store for Hop to it! Suffolk 2025, or follow these links:
Apple App Store
Google Play

Check you’re connected to the internet, either Wi-Fi or a mobile network. Then please try again. If you see a message saying you have already registered go to ‘log in’ and log in using the email and password, you used to create your account.

If you have further problems, please report them here and we’ll do our best to help as soon as we can.

Location settings on your phone need to be turned ON to see your location on the map Use the map; pinch and swipe the map to zoom in and out.

Or, go to the sculptures tab to access the sculpture listings and search for the sculpture name, artist or location.

Further app support is available here.

There is a four digit code for each individual hare or group of leverets, found on the sculpture plinth. Click COLLECT + and enter the number. You have now collected that sculpture and if you’re lucky, you may have collected a reward at the same time! 

To collect the reward, follow the instructions on the screen. You may be invited to go and collect your reward directly from the sponsor or asked to enter you details for an online competition. 

Yes!

To add a photo to the App Gallery, click Upload on the sculpture’s page. You’ll have the option to either take a new photo or select one from your library. Please note all images are reviewed by our team. Not all images uploaded are able to be displayed in the app galleries. Once approved, your photo could be visible to other app users and may be shared on social media. So, get creative and have fun with your photos! We can’t wait to see your selfies. 

Follow this link to our support page.