Award: Champion Carer (sponsored by Milestones Trust) Nominated by: Jo Russell No. 2 in our series looking at the stories behind the eight Stars of the Stokes award winners honoured earlier this year at a presentation dinner held at the Hilton Bristol Hotel, following a call for nominations promoted in the Bradley Stoke Journal magazine. Adam Jones was nominated by
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Tesco and FareShare are calling on charities and community groups in and around Bradley Stoke to register for an exciting new scheme which will see unsold food become meals for vulnerable people in the local area. As part of its ongoing pledge to cut food waste, Tesco’s Community Food Connection programme delivered in partnership with FareShare FoodCloud, recruits and supports
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The annual FREE summer play scheme for children aged 5 to 11 gets under way on Monday (25th July 2016) at Bradley Stoke Community School (BSCS). Running Monday through Friday until 19th August, the play scheme is run by the Four Towns Play Association, which receives financial assistance from Bradley Stoke Town Council. The aim of the play scheme is
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The Journal is pleased to announce that Davina Smythe is the lucky winner of our exclusive prize draw to win a year’s free membership at the Anytime Fitness gym at Bradley Stoke’s Willow Brook Centre. The free prize draw was featured in the May 2016 edition of the Bradley Stoke Journal magazine and on our website, and the winner’s name
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Award: Achievement Against the Odds (sponsored by LV Insurance) Nominated by: Victoria Parsons No. 1 in our series looking at the stories behind the eight Stars of the Stokes award winners honoured earlier this year at a presentation dinner held at the Hilton Bristol Hotel, following a call for nominations promoted in the Bradley Stoke Journal magazine. Victoria nominated her
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Alun Griffiths (Contractors) Ltd, building the MetroBus North Fringe to Hengrove Package, have recently helped Bradley Stoke Town Council (BSTC) at the new skate park within the grounds of the leisure centre. As part of the Griffiths community benefits initiative, and throughout the contract, the company works with and supports local community groups and provides assistance to local regeneration projects.
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You may remember that during last year’s May bank holiday, members of the 1st Bradley Stoke Scouts attended the district jamboree. This year they were at the Avon county jamboree with 4,200 young people from Beavers, Cubs, Scouts, Explorers, the Guiding community and all their supporting adult volunteers. Together they took part in activities across four themes – skill, adventure,
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By Arthur Allen of Bradley Stoke Bowls Club. On Sunday 12th June, Bradley Stoke Bowls Club held their annual charity event, this year to support the local West of England MS Therapy Centre (MSTC), based in Wheatfield Drive. With the event coinciding with the main weekend of the Queen’s 90th birthday celebrations, many members chose to wear red, white and
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Staff at the Tesco Extra store in Bradley Stoke have taken part in a special fundraising initiative that will contribute towards the cost of potentially life-saving treatment for a five-year-old Bristol boy who suffers from a rare form of cancer. Kaylum Ryan’s family is desperately trying to raise £280,000 so they can take him to America for a pioneering treatment
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An update from Sara Messenger of the Bradley Stoke in Bloom group. What we lacked in numbers on our June workday, we made up for in other ways. We spent the morning at the Willow Brook Centre, tending our planters in the town square. Our heuchera planter is doing well, now all the vine weevil larvae have been removed, and
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