Baby Ballet perform at the Bradley Stoke Community Festival 2015.

Another big crowd for Festival Saturday

The main day of Bradley Stoke’s annual Community Festival drew a big crowd to the Jubilee Centre this afternoon. The usual mix of music, dance, sport, demonstrations and sideshows was accompanied by bright weather for most of the afternoon, although a brisk wind caused a few problems for stallholders and kept temperatures down. The appearances of Sir Geoff Hurst MBE & Gary Mabbutt

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Picnic in the Park at the 2015 Bradley Stoke Community Festival.

Weather set fair for Festival Saturday following sunny Picnic in the Park

The 2015 Bradley Stoke Community Festival got off to a sunny start today with the traditional Picnic in the Park on Jubilee Green. Professor Panic entertained the children and parents with circus skills, juggling and entertainment in the big top, while the Friends of Jubilee Green staged a ‘sticker treasure hunt’ around the park, with an estimated 110 children taking part. The Friends

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Bradley Stoke Community Festival skate park competition 2014.

This year’s festival skate park competition to be “bigger and better”

Local young people are organising another two days of skate park events during the Community Festival, writes Graham Baker, Bradley Stoke Town Council’s Youth Development & Participation Worker. After the success of last year’s two days of skate park activity, local young people have again been involved in actively planning and organising another two days of skate park related events during

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photos from the 2014 Bradley Stoke Community Festival.

2014 Community Festival: Your verdict?

What did YOU think of the 2014 Bradley Stoke Community Festival, staged over three days last weekend? The town council spends around £24,000 staging the popular event, with most of this going to an events management company, which undertakes the bulk of the organisation on the council’s behalf. Events over the weekend include the pre-school ‘picnic in the park’ on the

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Crowd at the 2012 Bradley Stoke Community Festival.

Festival Saturday: The show goes on, whatever the weather!

The organisers of the Bradley Stoke Community Festival have stressed that Saturday’s events at the Jubilee Centre will proceed, whatever the weather. Responding to enquiries from members of the public concerned at the forecast of intense thundery downpours on Saturday morning followed by showers in the early afternoon, town clerk Sharon Petela said: “There are no plans to cancel Saturday’s event.

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