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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Bradley Stoke Way to be closed to traffic between 6am and 2pm for cycling stage of the event. Swimmers, runners and cyclists are being invited to take part in the first community-based triathlon event to be staged in Bradley Stoke. The Active Triathlon is taking place on Sunday 30th August 2015 and is expected to attract participants from all over
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Over the spring bank holiday weekend, around a hundred members of the 1st Bradley Stoke Scout Group attended the Brunel District Jamboree at Woodhouse Park Activity Centre near Almondsbury. This three day camp involved groups from across the district, so it was a real opportunity to get to know the wider Scouting family for both the young people and their
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Two kind-hearted local ladies have recently had their long locks lopped so they could donate hair to a charity that provides real-hair wigs to children suffering from cancer and other serious illnesses. The off-cuts, which need to be at least 17cm (7 inches) long in order to be useful for wig-making, have been sent to the Little Princess Trust,
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An update from Sara Messenger of Bradley Stoke’s Three Brooks Nature Conservation Group. Swans and cygnets By now we’re sure you all know that our mute swans Bradley & Brooke have, from their seven eggs, hatched three cygnets! We’re rather chuffed with them – and with the ducklings, grebe and moorhen chicks that can be seen at the lake. We had made
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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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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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