A group of Bradley Stoke residents and some of their friends are in training for a 142-mile sponsored walk that they hope will raise thousands of pounds for a local children’s charity. “Ryan’s Ramblers”, headed by Steve Tovey of Huckley Way, are aiming to raise over £6,000 for Children’s Hospice South West, which supports children and their families who are
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A lab technician at a Bradley Stoke opticians had his legs waxed for charity on Saturday (24th March). Aaron Carter, lab technician at Specsavers in The Willow Brook Centre, had his legs stripped bare of hair to help raise money for Bristol hospital charity Above & Beyond. Mr Carter’s hair-raising efforts are part of a 12-month fundraising initiative for Above
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Somerset wildlife rescue charity Secret World has received a donation of £25,000 from the Bradley Stoke Pets at Home store. Secret World founder Pauline Kidner was at the Bradley Stoke store yesterday (Friday 9th) to receive the cheque, accompanied by two rescue animals from the centre – ‘Hope’ a four-week-old badger cub and ‘Star’ a tawny owl. The grant will
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A 16-year-old A-level student from Bradley Stoke is sketching out plans to trek across the Andes Mountains and carry out conservation work in Peru. Ross Startin, who is studying four AS-levels at Bradley Stoke Community School’s Post-16 Centre, is aiming to spend four weeks in Peru, as part of a World Challenge expedition in July/August 2013, for which he hopes
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Families from across North Bristol are set to benefit after a successful hamper appeal by Southern Brooks Community Partnership. The charity asked schools, churches and residents to donate non-perishable foods and small gifts to make up hampers for local people who struggle financially at Christmas time. Speaking about the appeal, Corrina Wood, Family Intervention Manger at Southern Brooks Community Partnership,
Continue readingGreat Western Round Table (GWRT) are again helping Santa Claus visit the Bristol area in the run up to Christmas and he and his elves hope to raise thousands of pounds to give to local worthy causes in the area. Santa will be visiting Bradley Stoke between 6pm and 8pm on Friday (9th December) and he is hoping to meet
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Fearless fundraiser Terri Jenkins will be going ‘Above and Beyond’ this weekend to raise money for a local charity The assistant manager at Specsavers in the Willow Brook Centre, Bradley Stoke, will be going to extreme heights to raise vital funds for Above and Beyond, a Bristol charity that raises funds for all nine hospitals in the city centre. She
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Next Friday (18th November) is BBC Children in Need Day and here at The Journal we’ve heard of a couple of events that are happening in the build up to the big day. Greggs the Bakers in the Town Square at the Willow Brook Centre are holding a fundraising event tomorrow (Saturday 12th November) from 11am. They are planning a
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Local MP Jack Lopresti joined the Stoke Gifford Branch of The Royal British Legion (RBL) to launch their Poppy Appeal at Bristol Parkway Station last Friday (28th October). The station is one of the main sites for the branch’s fundraising efforts, along with Sainsbury’s supermarket in Stoke Gifford and the Willow Brook Centre in Bradley Stoke. The branch, which covers
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A 31-hour marathon hockey match that took place in Bradley Stoke earlier this year has been officially recognised as setting a new world record. South Gloucestershire Hockey Club staged the event at Bradley Stoke Community School (BSCS) over the weekend of 28th/29th May, aiming to beat the record for “the world’s longest continuous hockey match”, which stood at 30 hours
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