By Andy Ward, Bradley Stoke Carnival Committee Things are going well with the Carnival Committee’s preparations for this year’s Bradley Stoke Carnival which takes place on Saturday 29th August. The parade commences at 11am (route to be confirmed) and arrives at the Jubilee Green on Savages Wood Road at around 12pm. Good weather would help, so please do keep your
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Pupils at Stoke Lodge Primary School have recently taken part in the ‘Game of Chance’, a fun, game show style quiz about road safety and sustainable travel. Primary school pupils aged between 7 and 11 have been playing the quiz, which is running in a number of primary schools throughout South Gloucestershire this week. The Game of Chance is an exciting, fun
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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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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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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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Last night our cat was subjected to a vicious dog attack. It happened on the footpath adjacent to the doctors’ surgery on Braydon Avenue. The fire brigade were called to rescue her from a tree after she climbed up to escape the attack. Following the incident, neither the dog nor the owner were anywhere to be seen. Peanut spent the
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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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Foxes roaming the streets are not an uncommon sight in Bradley Stoke, but one local family is currently being treated to a much closer encounter with the creatures after a vixen chose to raise a litter of three cubs in their back garden. Christina Hulbert, who lives within a few hundred yards of Meadowbrook Primary School in central Bradley Stoke,
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Ever thought of volunteering but didn’t know where to start? Want to offer assistance to, or gain experience in supporting: children and young people, animals, families, older people or those in need – through a variety of exciting volunteer opportunities? As part of Volunteers’ Week 2015, Patchway, Filton and the Stokes Volunteer Centre (PFSVC) is hosting a local mini ‘speed
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