Tesco and FareShare are calling on charities and community groups in and around Bradley Stoke to register for an exciting new scheme which will see unsold food become meals for vulnerable people in the local area. As part of its ongoing pledge to cut food waste, Tesco’s Community Food Connection programme delivered in partnership with FareShare FoodCloud, recruits and supports
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The Willow Brook Centre will be on the Batphone inviting all budding superheroes to join them on Thursday 28th July when the Dark Knight rides into town. Batman has left Gotham City to bring the Batmobile to Bradley Stoke. The Batmobile from the 1989 film, starring Michael Keating, will be on display in the town square for families to see. The
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The annual FREE summer play scheme for children aged 5 to 11 gets under way on Monday (25th July 2016) at Bradley Stoke Community School (BSCS). Running Monday through Friday until 19th August, the play scheme is run by the Four Towns Play Association, which receives financial assistance from Bradley Stoke Town Council. The aim of the play scheme is
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The Journal is pleased to announce that Davina Smythe is the lucky winner of our exclusive prize draw to win a year’s free membership at the Anytime Fitness gym at Bradley Stoke’s Willow Brook Centre. The free prize draw was featured in the May 2016 edition of the Bradley Stoke Journal magazine and on our website, and the winner’s name
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Rumours that the only major road in and out of Bradley Stoke from the north is to be closed for up to eighteen months are unfounded, the Journal can reveal. Social media channels have been buzzing since a Temporary Traffic Regulation Order (TTRO) was published earlier this week on the website of Bradley Stoke Town Council announcing the closure of
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The north Bristol area now has 249 more people trained in life-saving cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), thanks to an initiative organised by Bradley Stoke Community School (BSCS) with support from the British Heart Foundation (BHF). Back in April, BSCS successfully completed a bid to become a designated CPR training school and was given over 30 sets of resuscitation training equipment by
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Award: Achievement Against the Odds (sponsored by LV Insurance) Nominated by: Victoria Parsons No. 1 in our series looking at the stories behind the eight Stars of the Stokes award winners honoured earlier this year at a presentation dinner held at the Hilton Bristol Hotel, following a call for nominations promoted in the Bradley Stoke Journal magazine. Victoria nominated her
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Alun Griffiths (Contractors) Ltd, building the MetroBus North Fringe to Hengrove Package, have recently helped Bradley Stoke Town Council (BSTC) at the new skate park within the grounds of the leisure centre. As part of the Griffiths community benefits initiative, and throughout the contract, the company works with and supports local community groups and provides assistance to local regeneration projects.
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An update from Sara Messenger of Bradley Stoke’s Three Brooks Nature Conservation Group. The wet weather has continued to cause issues on the reserve, although, ironically, it has yet to fill our ‘new’ pond in Bowsland Meadow and, at the other end of the reserve, much of the bottom of the lake is visible. When you can see a seagull
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You may remember that during last year’s May bank holiday, members of the 1st Bradley Stoke Scouts attended the district jamboree. This year they were at the Avon county jamboree with 4,200 young people from Beavers, Cubs, Scouts, Explorers, the Guiding community and all their supporting adult volunteers. Together they took part in activities across four themes – skill, adventure,
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