\n City of Ipswich mayor Teresa Harding thanked the landlord of the Thomas Wolsey in St Peter’s Street after they launched a successful campaign for Ed Sheeran to visit whilst on his tour in Australia.\n<\/p>\n
\n After 10 months of campaigning, the shape of you singer visited the city where he was named co-mayor on his travels and signing a giant pink mural of himself.\n<\/p>\n
\n Damon Jeffrey, landlord of the Thomas Wolsey in Ipswich with City of Ipswich Mayor Teresa Harding (Image: Damon Jeffries)\n<\/p>\n
\n Mayor Harding had employed the help of Thomas Wolsey landlord Damon Jeffrey to convince Sheeran to make the trip, whilst on a visit to our Ipswich last year.\n<\/p>\n
\n As a thank you, The Thomas Wolsey has been awarded a letter of appreciation from the City of Ipswich.\n<\/p>\n
\n In her letter, Mrs Harding says: “From the very first spark to the final celebration, the campaign to bring Ed Sheeran to our Ipswich was something truly special.\n<\/p>\n
\n The Thomas Wolsey had turned into ‘The Old Phone’ ahead of Sheeran’s homecoming gigs (Image: The Thomas Wolsey)\n<\/p>\n
\n “After I officially invited Ed Sheeran, inspired by his visits to multiple Ipswich cities, our community took the idea and turned it into ten months of creativity, humour, and pure Ipswich spirit.\n<\/p>\n
\n “The result was unforgettable, with our campaign bringing the Ed Sheeran to the biggest and best Ipswich in the world. With the pink dust now settled, I want to celebrate everything we accomplished together and thank you for the role you played in making it happen.\n<\/p>\n
\n The letter from the City of Ipswich Mayor in full (Image: The Thomas Wolsey)\n<\/p>\n
\n “Over ten months the momentum kept building fuelled by creativity, imagination and a good dose of fun, generated the extraordinary result of around $3 million in earned media value at no cost to ratepayers.\n<\/p>\n
\n “Businesses brewed, baked, painted, and dreamed up ideas that captured national attention. Schools, performers, and community groups added their own flair. Residents shared the message far and wide.\n<\/p>\n
\n “I want to thank you once again for your contribution. It was a privilege to champion the campaign, but it was the people of Ipswich that made it all possible. We can officially say, ‘Mission Ed-complished!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"City of Ipswich mayor Teresa Harding thanked the landlord of the Thomas Wolsey in St Peter’s Street after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":653845,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-653844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/653845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}