2010 Community Festival gets underway today
Posted on Friday 11th June 2010 at 6:50 am by SH (Editor)
The 2010 Bradley Stoke Community Festival gets underway at 9am today (Friday) with a coffee morning, table top sale and children’s entertainment at the Jubilee Centre in Savages Wood Road.
The annual pre-school Picnic in the Park runs from 11am to 2pm – with entertainment from Professor Panic’s Circus, bubble man Steve Price and a bouncy castle.
Saturday (12th June) sees a packed programme of music and dance events at the Jubilee Centre playing fields, with the action starting at 11:30am and running through to 6:30pm.
A special children’s zone will be created on the Jubilee Green, with Professor Panic’s Big Top providing the centre piece along with fairground rides, inflatables, mountain climbing wall, face painting and quad bikes.
Around 70 community, local business, information and food stalls will form the annual Community Fair in the Jubilee Centre Arena, while a schools football tournament for Year 1 boys / Year 3-4 girls, will take place on the upper pitch from 10:30am.
This year’s star guest at the football tournament will be former England and Southampton player Matt Le Tissier.
Robert Godwin of event management company Re-energize told The Journal:
“We have had a big increase in the number of stalls attending – including local vendors, crafts and community operations, schools, charities, PTAs etc.”
Sunday (13th June) kicks off with the Bradley Stoke 10k Run at 10am (from the Jubilee Centre), followed by a series of events at Baileys Court Activity Centre – starting with an open-air church service at 11am.
The church service will be followed at 12pm by a Teddy Bears’ Picnic, a Teddy Bear Dressing Up competition and entertainment for all the whole family.
