A report on the prize-giving ceremony held at Almondsbury Garden Centre. “The range of gardens was amazing, from well-established ones to several very new ‘lockdown’ gardens, but whether new or old, big or small, the care and attention and the pride taken was very evident in them all.”
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It is with great excitement that Bradley Stoke Town Council invites the schools, businesses and residents of Bradley Stoke, to participate in a new community event that the town council will be hosting during the October half-term.
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We’re slowly finding our new normal and have been able to complete a few tasks, even though we’ve yet to reinstate our regular workdays and the blazing hot weather has not been kind to any of us gardeners. Plus: Debbie (the calf) and Treacle (the dog) have both been stolen from our display on Manor Farm Roundabout.
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Although our VE Day celebrations this year were not what we had planned, it was reassuring to see that the ‘Blitz Spirit’ that sustained so many through the darkest days of World War II continued to keep us buoyed in our own dark times (writes Sara Messenger).
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Children from a local school have created a ‘happiness snake’ along the side of a local footpath to cheer people up during the current coronavirus emergency. Located near the Ellicks Close footbridge, the colourful snake was created by Year 3 pupils at Bowsland Green Primary School.
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“Although I sometimes felt that I was nailed to the spot as the Covid-19 storm raged around me, sweeping aside all that I thought I knew, Mother Nature was having none of it and seized the moment and bloomed.” (Sara Messenger of the Bradley Stoke in Bloom group).
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The start of 2020 has seen some monumental changes in the way we all live, work and play and this has affected the way that everybody accesses the support and help they need to manage and maintain their health. The members of The Brightwell are no different.
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Since the beginning of lockdown, Bradley Stoke Town Council and other local community organisations including Assistplus CIC, have been looking for ways to continue supporting our community and keep residents engaged.
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The Bright Sparks pre-schools in Stoke Lodge and Downend have changed hands, and plans to make the settings more flexible for local families have been revealed. The pre-schools, which are located within the grounds of Stoke Lodge and Stanbridge primary schools, will be run by new managing director Vicky Ashbolt.
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Prints of an incredible drawing of a mask-wearing nurse created by a Bradley Stoke art student using the word ‘hero’ repeated thousands of times are now available to order in exchange for a donation to a local NHS charity. The original ‘hero’ drawing was created in April 2020, at the peak of the UK’s coronavirus emergency, by Jessica Willcox-Drew, 18.
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