Since the start of 2015, Community Payback teams have been carrying out work at Bowsland Green Primary School in Bradley Stoke. Community Payback work is organised through the Bristol, Gloucestershire, Somerset & Wiltshire Community Rehabilitation Company (formerly Avon & Somerset Probation Trust). The project sees individuals who have been sentenced to anything from 40 to 300 hours court orders completing
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This Easter, Circadian Trust, the charitable organisation that operates eight Active Centres across South Gloucestershire, including Bradley Stoke Leisure Centre, has donated Easter Eggs to fellow local charities and foodbanks. Potential new members were encouraged by Active staff – whose organisational vision is to ‘give more’ – to exchange an Easter Egg for a reduced Active joining fee. The centres
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Youngsters are in for a day of fabulous Easter fun at the Willow Brook Centre in Bradley Stoke this Wednesday (1st April). The Easter Extravaganza organised by Willow Brook will have comedy walkabouts from Bread & Butter Theatre’s Pete and Ged Moss. The two hapless gardeners, along with their musical wheelbarrow full of colourful Easter eggs, will entertain shoppers with songs,
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Travellers have set up camp in the car park of a business in north Bradley Stoke. At least three caravans/motorhomes and associated vehicles are currently stationed in the car park of global food ingredients company Kerry Group at Equinox South, Great Park Road [map]. Local UKIP councillor and parliamentary candidate Ben Walker tweeted last night: “Disappointed that travellers have decided to
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Just noticed that the Royal Mail seems to have changed the last posting times at Baileys Court from 6pm to 4.15pm – really poor service in my opinion. What do others think? Always lots of people posting down there just before 6pm. We already have a very poor post office service, particularly in the south of Bradley Stoke. Now we can’t even post things
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Two students from Bradley Stoke Community School (BSCS) are among eight finalists in a design & sewing competition organised by the John Lewis store at Cribbs Causeway. Over 70 pupils in Years 10 to 13 at local schools submitted prom outfit designs for the competition launched in September last year. Eight designs were selected by a panel of judges from
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Nikki Hallur meets the Bradley Stoke man who donated a kidney to someone he has never even met. Grzegorz Maniecki, a twenty-eight year old who lives in Bradley Stoke, and works at the Willow Brook Tesco, recently had an operation in order to donate one of his kidneys. The kidney was donated to someone Grzegorz didn’t know and the operation
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Local MP Jack Lopresti has been asked to investigate why hundreds of people in Bradley Stoke are still unable to order superfast broadband despite claims by South Gloucestershire Council (SGC) that its rollout programme has been completed, with all cabinets “live and ready for service”. The upgrade work across South Gloucestershire, which is due to be completed by 31st March,
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World Book Day was celebrated across the generations at Bradley Stoke Library today as pre-schoolers and their parents, students from Bradley Stoke Community School, library & leisure centre staff and residents from the nearby Brook Court retirement apartments gathered for a special reading session. The event was opened with a short address by Cllr Howard Gawler, Chair of South Gloucestershire Council, who stressed the important role
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The local branch of the Rotary Club, known previously as the ‘Rotary Club of Bristol Aztec’, has been officially renamed the ‘Bradley Stoke Rotary Club‘, in order to identify itself more closely with the community it serves. It is hoped the name change will lead to “greater awareness and integration with local residents and make the club more identifiable for
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