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Thursday 30th July 2015 SH (Editor)

Buggy push will raise funds for Bliss premature baby charity

The annual Bliss Buggy Push through Bradley Stoke’s Three Brooks Local Nature Reserve takes place on Saturday (1st August), raising funds to help care for babies born prematurely at Southmead Hospital. The event was started in 2012 by Kerry Robinson, whose inspiration for drawing attention to Bliss came from her birth experience with daughter Amber, who was born prematurely but is

Wendy Donaldson has her hair lopped to help the Little Princess Trust create a real-hair wig for a sick child.

Monday 13th July 2015 SH (Editor)

Local ladies have hair chopped to help sick children get theirs back

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,

Monday 1st June 2015 SH (Editor)

Local athlete aiming to be in peak condition for charity challenge

A Bradley Stoke man is preparing to take part in a gruelling ‘bike and hike’ adventure that involves climbing the highest peaks in Ireland, Northern Ireland, Scotland, England & Wales AND cycling the 960 miles between them, all in the space of just seven days. The ‘Five Peaks By Bike and Hike’ challenge is being attempted by a team of

Hope for Morgan quiz, organised by Specsavers bradley Stoke.

Thursday 28th May 2015 SH (Editor)

Specsavers to host second pub quiz to raise funds for Morgan Walker

A Bradley Stoke opticians recently pledged to support Hope for Morgan during 2015 and will continue its fundraising efforts on Friday 19th June with a pub quiz. Specsavers, based in the Willow Brook Centre, is holding a charity quiz night at Little Stoke Social Club from 7.30pm. Teams of either four or six can enter for £3 per person with all

Hockey world record attempt at BSCS, Bradley Stoke, Bristol

Saturday 23rd May 2015 SH (Editor)

Hockey world record attempt this weekend at Bradley Stoke Community School

Members of South Gloucestershire Hockey Club (SGHC) are hoping history will repeat itself in Bradley Stoke this bank holiday weekend as they try to reclaim a Guinness World Record. Starting at 10am today (Saturday 23rd May) and ending at 12noon on Monday (25th May), SGHC plans to play the longest single continuous field hockey match of all time. The event

Friday 22nd May 2015 SH (Editor)

Bradley Stoke woman’s appeal to 10k runners after losing sister to cancer

A Bradley Stoke woman taking part in next weekend’s Bristol 10k is calling on runners to support local charity St Peter’s Hospice at the event, after losing her sister to a terminal illness. Lenka Stastna, 25, gave up her life in native Slovakia to move to Bristol and care for her only sister Zdenka, when she was diagnosed with skin cancer

Kayleigh Smallcombe of Bradley Stoke, Bristol, who shaved her head to raise money for cancer and dementia charities, in memory of her late grandmother, Rose.

Wednesday 13th May 2015 SH (Editor)

Kayleigh’s charity head shave in memory of late grandmother

Seventeen-year-old Kayleigh Smallcombe, a Human Resources apprentice working for Circadian Trust at Bradley Stoke Leisure Centre, has shaved her head to raise money for cancer and dementia charities, in memory of her late grandmother, Rose. Kayleigh decided to take the plunge after experiencing first-hand the pain of losing someone she loved dearly to dementia. Her decision to do this is

Tuesday 21st April 2015 SH (Editor)

Opticians to host quiz in aid of Hope for Morgan

A Bradley Stoke opticians recently pledged to support Hope for Morgan during 2015 and will continue its fundraising efforts this Friday (24th April) with a pub quiz. Specsavers, based in the Willow Brook Centre, Bradley Stoke, is holding a charity quiz night at Little Stoke Social Club from 7.30pm. Teams of either four or six can enter for £3 per person

Gok Wan models Specsavers' Red Nose Day comedy glasses.

Thursday 12th February 2015 SH (Editor)

All eyes on Red Nose Day in Bradley Stoke

Red Nose Day 2015 is set to offer more than just Red Noses this year. Bright red comedy glasses with hair raising eyebrows, as modelled by the fabulous Gok Wan are also coming to Bradley Stoke. Visitors to Specsavers located in the Willow Brook Centre can follow in the footsteps of Gok Wan and make their faces “funny for money”

Morgan Walker (centre) with dad Darren, sisters Anais & Emmie and mum Zoe.

Tuesday 3rd February 2015 Nikki Hallur

Town rallies round to raise hope for Morgan

Morgan Walker, an eleven-year-old who attends Wheatfield Primary School, has been through challenges few people can imagine. He was born eight weeks prematurely, after which he suffered twenty minutes of cardiac arrest and damage to parts of the brain which doctors felt would make him unable to walk or talk. Morgan has proved their predictions wrong as he started walking