Freemasons raise and donate around £1 million

Owls were chosen as the charity has taken patients with progressive illnesses, and their families, “under the wing of its care” for 32 years.

The charity’s last trail, of elephants in 2019, raised £260,000.

Terry Hunt, a trustee at St Elizabeth Hospice, said: “We are so pleased to reveal the Big Hoot Ipswich 2022 and hope the whole community is as excited as us with the sculptures.”