Welcome The Association exists to preserve for the public benefit the Alde, Ore and Butley Creek rivers and their banks from Shingle Street to their tidal limits and such of the land adjoining them or upstream as may be considered to affect them, together with the features of beauty and or historic public interest in that area.                                                                                         Registered Charity No 1064789    The valley of the River Alde has long been an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and the estuary is protected by a number of national and international designations.  It is this beguiling spot which the Alde and Ore Association is determined to protect and preserve.   The River Ore flows from Shingle Street at the mouth past the RSPB bird reserve on Havergate Island and the historic medieval town of Orford. The River then becomes the Alde and flows past Aldeburgh and Iken reaching Snape home of Benjamin Britten’s internationally famous Snape Maltings Concert Hall. On the seaward side it is bounded by Orfordness, now owned by the National Trust, with some of the most significant coastal marshland sites for birds and flora in Europe.   We would like to encourage anyone, whether you are a visitor to this area, live here either as a second home or permanently, whether you are a fisherman, sailor, birder, golfer, rider or just come to enjoy the culture at Snape, to join the Association and help us ensure that this remains ‘an exceptional slice of English landscape’.		Help us protect our rivers Read our latest brochure on how you can join us and make a difference Click here > AGM 8th May Jubilee Hall 11am. Speaker: The Honourable John Gummer MP  Members and Non Members Welcome. Details to follow>  Final Draft of the Shoreline Manangement Plan >  SCDC vote to approve Shoreline Management Plan > The plan seeks to ensure that any subsequent studies take into account the view set out in  the plan that a breach in the coastal defences should be permitted south of Slaughden.  Alde & Ore Association response to Trinity House - click here > Facing rising sea level rise - latest document > New Friends of the River Fund> FOTR Fund Grant Criteria and Application Forms now available> New Inter Coastal Zone Management Initiative (ICZM) for Alde & Ore gets underway >   Butley Ferry Opens 3rd April 2010 >   River Defence Committee For all the latest information and reports on the activity of the River Defence Committee More > Publications Walk the Banks of the Alde and Ore - to get your copy of this excellent booklet and view the featured walk More > Butley Ferry The Butley Ferry is operated by volunteers organised by the Alde and Ore Association.To find out when the Ferry operates or how to volunteer. Butley Ferry opens 3rd April 2010 Details >  A membership application form can be downloaded by following this link. More details can be obtained from our Membership Secretary Tom Miller-Jones, West View, Saxmundham Road, Aldeburgh, Suffolk IP15 5PD Tel. 01728 452120 | Email. tommillerjones@mac.com.