Bowls legend David Bryant CBE, three-times world champion and four-times Commonwealth Games champion, is to perform the opening ceremony of the new Bradley Stoke Bowls Club on Saturday 1st May. Representatives of the City & County of Bristol Bowling Association and the Gloucestershire Bowling Association are also expected to attend the event. The sport is returning to the Baileys Court
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Conservative Councillors have welcomed the signing of an agreement between Bradley Stoke Town Council (BSTC), South Gloucestershire Council (SGC) and Southern Brooks Community Partnership (SBCP) that secures annual funding of £93,000 for youth work in Bradley Stoke. Councillors claim that the new agreement will produce “better value for the money that both Councils put into youth services in the town”.
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Organisers of the second Bradley Stoke Aquathlon, a swim and run event based at the Leisure Centre, have announced that the race is now full. Sandra Webber of Thornbury Running Club says that a maximum field of 140 athletes will line up for the event on Sunday 14th March, which represents a 50% increase over the number that contested last
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Bradley Stoke Community School has begun the search for a teacher to head up its new post-16 (sixth form) centre, which is due to open in September. The ‘Director of Post 16 (Assistant Headteacher)’ position will be remunerated at the L11 – L15 level on the teachers’ pay scale, corresponding to a salary between £46,944 and £51,710. Construction of the
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Councillors on Bradley Stoke Town Council’s Planning Committee have taken exception to proposals from South Gloucestershire Council (SGC) to install a number of ‘raised table’ cycle crossings in the town. As reported last month, SGC has opened a consultation on plans to install the crossings on Baileys Court Road, Fiddlers Wood Lane and across the access road to Bradley Stoke
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Local residents are being encouraged by South Gloucestershire Council to report road potholes brought on by the severe weather. The Council has allocated an extra £350,000 to its highways maintenance budget to tackle the problem. The number of staff dedicated to tackling potholes is said to have been increased by 50 per cent and maintenance teams are “working longer hours
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A meeting of the Southern Brooks Area Forum this evening (Tuesday 2nd March) will allocate funding of £29,220 to a selection of projects proposed by local voluntary organisations under the Small Grant Scheme. A total of 27 applications have been received, from organisations which include: Four Towns Play Association (£3,000 for equipment, staff training and publicity), Three Brooks Nature Conservation
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Letters detailing offers of primary and secondary school places for admission in September 2010 are being posted today (using 2nd class mail) by South Gloucestershire Council. Parents/carers who applied online will be able to view the results on the Internet from “late afternoon” today, provided they can remember their username and password (chosen at the time of application). Popular schools
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A charity looking to build an MS Therapy Centre on land off Bradley Stoke Way has made a U-turn over the proposed arrangements for vehicular access into the site. In plans approved last year, the Moonstone Appeal said it would construct a new ‘left in, left out’ access road into the site from Bradley Stoke Way. This arrangement was consistent
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