The 1st Bradley Stoke Beaver Scouts have been busy fundraising for Guide Dogs, one of the Scout Association’s partnered charities. As part of their St George’s day commemorations, the Beavers were set a series of sponsored ‘Knight’s Challenges’ to complete at home. These were designed to demonstrate their core promise of “doing their best” and being “kind and helpful”, and
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Pupils from Bradley Stoke’s Meadowbrook Primary School joined over 100,000 children across the UK taking to the streets on 10th June as part of the Giant Walk. Organised by road safety charity Brake and sponsored by Brantano, the initiative aims to get children walking and highlights the importance of road safety in helping them lead active, healthy lives. Schools taking
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There’s a strong sports theme in the July edition of the Bradley Stoke Journal magazine, which has reports from all the sporting events at the recent Community Festival (10k run, skate park competition, cricket match) plus news of Bradley Stoke’s first triathlon, planned for August. Other stories report on plans to close the Bradley Stoke to Winterbourne road for up to six
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With reference to the article in the June edition of the BSJ magazine concerning the proposed new helicopter base at Almondsbury (‘Councillors demand noise barrier if new helicopter base approved’), I live at Woodlands Park and have no objections whatsoever to the siting of the new base. We have lived here for eight years and have never been troubled by
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This summer, Dunkley’s Chartered Accountants, who are based in Bradley Stoke, are one of the lead sponsors of the exciting and ewe-nique Bristol ‘Shaun in the City’ trail. The eagerly-anticipated charity sculpture trail will feature 70 individually-designed sculptures of Aardman’s Shaun the Sheep. The sculptures will be installed in iconic locations and green spaces all across Bristol from 6th July
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A new junior football team in north Bristol is celebrating after securing its first sponsorship from local business Mama Bear’s Day Nursery and Pre-School. The Almondsbury Youth FC Under-8s team was set up in September by local man Stuart Lawrence and has grown to 36 players since the first training session was launched. Sponsorship from Mama Bear’s, which has local
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A cyclist from Bradley Stoke is hoping that his share of victory in the recent Bristol Grand Prix will inspire other people to get back in the saddle. Malcolm Dixon, 31, who works at Arriva Transport Solutions (ATSL), was part of the Dream Cycling team which stormed to gold in the prestigious race through Bristol city centre on Saturday 20th June.
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The proprietor of Ozzy’s Kebab van, which trades in the car park of Brook Way Activity Centre, has had his annual street trading licence renewal application referred to a South Gloucestershire Council (SGC) sub-committee following an objection from a local resident. The van has recently been trading at the site on just two nights a week, following a period of non-attendance
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Youngsters and their dads will get the chance to try their hand at climbing at a special Father’s Day event organised by Willow Brook Centre. This Saturday (20th June), Willow Brook will bring a 5.5 metre high climbing tower into the town square for children and adults to scale new heights for free. There will be a fully qualified instructor
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Jack Lopresti, MP for Filton and Bradley Stoke, has called a public meeting to discuss a planning application for a new operations base for the Great Western Air Ambulance and the police helicopter which has been submitted for a green belt site in Almondsbury, just across the M5 motorway from the RAC building in north Bradley Stoke. The public meeting will be held
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