Tag: Beacon Playground

Bradley Stoke’s Jubilee Green play park has been nominated in a competition to find the “best free places to go with the family in South Gloucestershire”. Readers of the parenting advice website ‘netmums’ are being asked to vote for three of the seven places nominated within South Gloucestershire. Chair of the Friends of Jubilee Green volunteer group Michelle Dent told

The Friends of Jubilee Green (FoJG) group has announced that it has won a grant award of £350 from the Wakeham Trust to go towards its Enablement Project. The money will allow the group to employ the services of a landscape architect to help produce plans and obtain costings for three future projects at the play park on Jubilee Green.

The Friends of Jubilee Green (FoJG) group has announced that it has been unsuccessful in a grant application for further equipment at the play park on the green. A message on the group’s website reads: “Unfortunately, we were not successful in our first ever grant application to Biffa to raise £50,000 for the Youth Structure and flying carpet.” Biffa’s feedback

The Friends of Jubilee Green (FOJG) are throwing a party on Saturday (24th July) to celebrate the first anniversary of the Jubilee Green Park. The £160,000 park, next to the Jubilee Centre on Savages Wood Road, was officially opened twelve months ago by the then-Mayor Cllr Mark Forsyth only to be temporarily closed days later to “allow completion of the

Vandals have struck again at the play park on Jubilee Green just days after a large number of  trees and shrubs forming the final phase of the original Beacon Play Scheme project were planted. Two silver birch birch trees planted behind the staged seating area at the rear of the park were snapped off within a week of being planted

The Friends of Jubilee Green (FOJG) are staging an Easter Fun Day this Sunday (28th March). The group is hoping for fine weather between 2pm and 3pm , when an Easter egg hunt and Easter bonnet parade will take place around the park. Refreshments will be available in The Woodlands Suite of the adjacent Jubilee Centre, where craft activities will

The Friends of Jubilee Green are holding a public meeting on Monday (15th February) to plan their activities for 2010. The independent group, set up to improve and promote the play park and community space adjacent to the Jubilee Centre in Savages Wood Road, says it will be discussing fund raising and planning family activities for the year. The main

The results of a survey of users of the Jubilee Green play park have been published by the Friends of Jubilee Green volunteer group. 89% of the 55 people polled said they would like access to toilets at the park and 71% said they would visit the park more often if they had permanent access to toilets at the Savages

The Friends of Jubilee Green group have announced that Bradley Stoke’s new adventure play park at Savages Wood Road is now fully open. The park had been temporarily closed for a few days after the official opening on Friday 24th July “to allow completion of the site”. Information on the Friends website says: “Following the incredibly popular opening of the