Other fund raising entertainment includes the racing nights held in the Village Hall where bets are placed on home made wooden horses which are 'raced' by pulling them across the floor on strings. Quiz nights are also popular, involving small teams of village people answering general knowledge questions. Competition is often fierce. There is also an annual bonfire and barbecue on the nearest Friday to Guy Fawkes night.

The Harvest Supper has been revived and has been combined with a concert. The concert is organised by the village postmaster who also acts as organist, and the programme consists of items sung by the Village Voices Choir drawn from the villages between the Thurlows and Newmarket. The Thurlow churches benefit from plant sales and lunches held in the homes and gardens of parishioners, and from the annual Thurlow Steam Rally which is now held in neighbouring Little Wratting. The youth club meets for the children in the Village Hall on a Friday night.

The most significant event to have disappeared is the Thurlow Point-to- Point which used to be held between Great Thurlow and Withersfield, and which has now migrated to a permanent home at Horseheath some 6 miles away. The Thurlow Hunt still has its opening Meet in the village in November and the hounds can be seen regularly as they are exercised in the surrounding fields.

Thriving cricket, football and bowls teams still exist, although they are no longer comprised solely of villagers.

For all its size Little Thurlow cannot be said to be sleepy or dull. The author of Pocket Histories of Suffolk Parishes (1929), who signs himself Yeoman, is somewhat scathing in his view of the villages, when he suggests that there is nothing here 'to stir the admiration or quicken the pulse'. Deeper investigation would seem to reveal a fascinating microcosm of the world with as much variety and interest as is necessary to both quicken the pulse and to stir the admiration. All is not as it might seem.