The full line-up of bands and dance groups for the first day of next weekend’s Bradley Stoke Community Festival has been revealed. Saturday 8th June 2024 will see a full-format festival return to the Jubilee Centre fields following a barren year in 2023 after councillors embarrassingly failed to secure the services of a management company…
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The addition of a musical accompaniment to the 2023 edition of Bradley Stoke Town Council’s annual fireworks display has been hailed as a great success. The event is free to attend, with bucket collections being made for the mayor’s charities. This year’s collection raised £3,508 (including £490 donated by traders) for Prostate Cancer UK, The Brightwell and Mamas Bristol.
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Bradley Stoke’s hugely popular annual FREE fireworks display returns with a musical twist this Sunday (5th November). Following suggestions from members of the public, this year’s event will be accompanied by music broadcast from a beefed-up sound system comprising around 18 speaker cabinets. The town council has budgeted a cost of £11,500 for staging the display.
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This year’s ‘traditional format’ Bradley Stoke Town Council fireworks display received predominantly positive feedback from those who attended the free event. However, the amount raised for the mayor’s charities through a ‘bucket collection’ once again fell well short of the amounts raised in many previous years.
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You’d be forgiven for wondering what has happened to Stokes Singers, the well-established local community choir. Lockdown was a huge blow to everyone as meeting to sing together was not possible for a long time but the enforced break gave the group a chance to make some changes for the better. The biggest change has been a move back to Bradley Stoke…
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A new social group has been formed for adults with hidden disabilities who live in Bradley Stoke or the wider South Gloucestershire and north Bristol area. Hidden Gems (formerly known as Path to Aspios) was formed in June 2022 by Jonathan Broadbent after he found himself struggling to meet other adults with hidden disabilities similar to his own.
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Bradley Stoke WI has continued to thrive and grow during 2022 and has welcomed several new members which has swelled our numbers to 40 and above the pre-Covid membership level, writes branch secretary Janet Hunt. Activities have included handbell ringing as well as crafting, knitting and sewing. Talk topics have ranged from travel to local charities and businesses.
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Following the trial of a ‘low noise’ format in 2021, Bradley Stoke’s hugely popular FREE fireworks display reverts to a ‘traditional’ (loud) format for this year’s renewal on Sunday 6th November. After considering feedback from the public regarding the 2021 event, councillors voted 6:4 for a return to a ‘traditional’ format. The agreed budget for this year’s event is £9,300.
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Bradley Stoke WI members are back enjoying our group meetings and clubs and we have been really delighted to welcome several new members in the last couple of months, writes Janet Hunt. A really popular activity is our table tennis club that meets every Monday at Bradley Stoke Leisure Centre.
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Bradley Stoke Town Council’s first-ever ‘low noise’ fireworks display, held in fine weather conditions at the Jubilee Centre on Sunday 7th November, received a mixed reaction from the public, both at the event itself and afterwards on social media. A decision on the way forward for the 2022 display has since been made by councillors…
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