Bradley Stoke Radio is feeling festive right now with the news that Ofcom has granted the station an FM broadcast licence for a two week period in December. From 3rd to 17th December the station will be broadcasting on 87.7 FM to the local community – and beyond. The team are already planning the schedule and have dusted off the
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“Where fashion can be affordable without costing the earth” [Advertising Feature] South Gloucestershire residents interested in clothes, fashion and reinventing their wardrobe are encouraged to attend Bradley Stoke’s very first Fashion Fayre on Saturday 5th November. The event will be held at The Jubilee Centre, Savages Wood Road in Bradley Stoke and will run from 10am until 3pm. It has
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Bradley Stoke’s 2011 firework display, organised by the Town Council, is to be attended by a representative of the Queen. The countdown for the display, which will take place at the Jubilee Centre on Sunday 6th November 2011, will be carried out by the Vice Lord-Lieutenant of Gloucestershire, Robert Bernays. The news, proudly announced by Mayor Ben Walker on the
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Everyone had great fun on the Stokes Cycling Club’s first mountain bike ride last month, and after requests for more, they are running another on Saturday 22nd October, starting at 2pm from Bradley Stoke Leisure Centre. It will be about 12 miles long, goes to Tockington and Old Down, and is mainly on tracks and bridleways, so a mountain bike
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A formal petition calling on South Gloucestershire Council (SGC) to implement a series of road safety improvement measures on Bradley Stoke Way is to be officially launched tomorrow (Saturday 15th). The move comes after an accident on Friday 30th September at a recognised crossing point on the busy road, in which a 13-year-old boy, believed to have been riding a
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Bradley Stoke Netball Club has been awarded the Bronze CAPS Clubmark Award. The prestigious recognition from England Netball is given to clubs who can demonstrate that they offer a good quality netball provision within their community. The Club Action Planning Scheme (CAPS) is part of the Sport England Clubmark accreditation system, the only national cross-sports acknowledgement for clubs with junior
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Community groups in and around Bradley Stoke are asking residents to vote for them in a nationwide competition that is offering £6,000 grants for local projects. NatWest CommunityForce has been set up by the banking group to act as a platform to help local projects and charities raise awareness of their work. In the North Bristol area, around 30 organisations
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A charity that offers rent-free space to community groups is to open a new ‘hub’ on the Almondsbury Business Park in the north of Bradley Stoke. Care 4 Community, a registered charity which currently runs projects at a number of venues in the West Midlands, plans to open the hub later this year at Unit 11, Apex Court [map]. The
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An article in Bradley Stoke Town Council’s latest newsletter reports a worrying increase in incidents of vandalism directed at Council-owned facilities in the town. The Council says it spent over £7,000 to repair vandalised property during the last financial year (2010/2011) and a similar sum (£6,750) has already been spent in the first half of this year. The figures do
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Bradley Stoke Community School (BSCS) says it remains on track to convert to an academy on 1st January 2012, thanks to hard work by governors over recent months. Once converted, the school will be run by an academy trust instead of the local education authority, and governors have chosen to call this the ‘Olympus Academy Trust’, a name said to
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