Tony Hardy is a Systems Engineering Consultant who has lived in Bradley Stoke since 2006. Last year he ran the London Marathon for the first time, raising £3,000 for Mind. This year, he is running twice the distance. He’ll be running his second London Marathon on 21st April and then the Berlin Marathon on 29th September. Each marathon is 26.2
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A local charity is appealing for supporters to abseil Avon Gorge and raise money to help people living with Multiple Sclerosis (MS). The abseil, on Saturday 11th May, will see 50 people taking on this 90 foot cliff face, each raising money to support the West of England MS Therapy Centre in Bradley Stoke. You’ll need nerves of steel as
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Bristol Aztec Rotary Club is gearing up for two major charity events in the coming months. Firstly there is the popular Swimathon from which 40% of the money raised goes to support Rotary Charities and 60% to nominated good causes of the swimmers’ choosing. The Swimathon takes place at Bradley Stoke Leisure Centre’s swimming pool on Saturday 9th March from
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A Bradley Stoke mum is preparing to cycle more than 300 miles alongside the Great Wall of China, to raise money for a cause close to her heart. Jo Bray is the Bristol Branch Chairman and Trustee for Leukaemia & Lymphoma Research, a charity she is passionate about because her mum has leukaemia. Having been involved with fundraising for the
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The Santander agency at Bradley Stoke’s Willow Brook Centre has announced that it is looking to nominate a local charity for the chance to win a community grant award of up to £5,000. The money will come from the £1.23 million Community Plus fund that has been set aside by the Santander Foundation for distribution during 2013. There are no
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Over the past couple of months, Year 9 students from Bradley Stoke Community School (BSCS) have been working closely with North Bristol Foodbank and several local primary schools. Their aim has been to raise awareness about local food poverty and to collect food for the foodbank’s new distribution centre in Filton. The students – Ben Maxted, Connor Maule, Heidi Sermulins
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Pupils at Bradley Stoke’s Wheatfield Primary School took a break from lessons yesterday afternoon to cheer the BBC One Show’s rickshaw as it passed through the town. The 2012 Rickshaw Challenge is raising vital funds for disadvantaged children and young people across the UK on an arduous 411-mile journey from Llandudno to London, and is due to arrive at BBC’s
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The Bristol branch of Chelsea Building Society has chosen to support The West of England MS Therapy Centre with a charitable gift. The charity needed new wheelchairs after the old ones became worn out after years of use. The Chelsea Building Society, through its group charity the Yorkshire Building Society Charitable Foundation, has donated £300 to the MS Therapy Centre
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Bristol Aztec Rotary Club, the local branch of Rotary International, recently staged an awareness day at the Willow Brook Centre in Bradley Stoke and Journal reporter Kieran Hyland went along to find out more about their work in the local community and beyond. Rotary International is a worldwide organisation that aims to bring together business and professional leaders in order
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Bradley Stoke Leisure Centre is hosting a charity Halloween party this Saturday (27th October) in aid of a local four-year old boy who needs a life-changing operation. Jude was born eight weeks premature weighing just 4lb 1 ounce and spent six weeks at Southmead Hospital and was diagnosed with cerebral palsy. Jude’s family is trying to raise £31,000 for him
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