Bradley Stoke has plenty of events to keep children and young people occupied this half term. Bradley Stoke Leisure Centre’s October Holiday Programme (for children aged 4 upwards) runs from Monday 28th October to Friday 1st November and includes activities ranging from roller-skating to trampolining. On Monday (28th October), between 2.30pm and 4pm, there’s a free ‘Bonkers Conkers’ craft session
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Free taster evening this Thursday (24th October) at BSCS From Picasso to Banksy … and from Windsor Castle to the privies of Bristol and Bath … via intriguing forays into Islamic mosques and Scandinavian interior design … There’s no limit it seems to what you might learn about at an adventurous new hub for art appreciation in South Gloucestershire. These
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Bradley Stoke Radio (BSR) has begun broadcasting on FM, nearly two years after being offered a full-time licence by Ofcom. The community radio station previously broadcast on FM for two short periods in June and December 2011, under a Restricted Service Licence (RSL), and since then has been streaming programmes over the internet. Based at the Brook Way Activity Centre,
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The Discover Festival is back for its second year, with an exciting programme of over 200 events to help you discover something new in South Gloucestershire. The festival runs from today (12th September) to 1st November. Activities include nature walks, heritage open days, advice sessions, concerts and crafts – there is something for everyone to enjoy. The festival is organised
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Local residents have another chance to get ready for the town’s first-ever August Bank Holiday Brazilian Carnival Parade when the second of three preparation workshops takes place at the Jubilee on Sunday (18th August). The workshop is accessible for all ages and open to all Bradley Stoke residents and community groups. Those attending the session, which runs from 11am to
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The Willow Brook Centre in Bradley Stoke is hosting an exclusive preview concert tomorrow (Friday 12th July), ahead of the weekend’s popular Southmead Festival. Headlining will be Ronan Parke, the runner-up in the fifth series of Britain’s Got Talent, who is now performing all over the world to millions of fans. Joining Ronan are acts including the fresh and hot
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There was a welcome return to sunny conditions for the Bradley Stoke 10k Run today, following two rainy years in 2011 and 2012. A record field of 567 runners set out from the Jubilee Centre at 9.30am, beating the previous record turn out by almost a hundred. First home after completing the six-and-a-quarter mile course that takes in the Three
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Fine weather once again drew a big crowd to Bradley Stoke’s Jubilee Centre for the main day of the annual Community Festival. The action got under way at 11.30am when the first matches in the Schools Football Tournament kicked off on the upper pitch. Youngsters from local schools battled it out in a competition where marks for fair play were
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The 2013 Bradley Stoke Community Festival gets under way at 9.30am today (Friday 7th) with children’s entertainment at the Jubilee Centre in Savages Wood Road. Professor Panic presents his range of circus skills in the Big Top, alongside Steve the Bubbleman and a bouncy castle. Refreshments will be served alongside a range of local craft and community stalls. The Friends
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[Advertising Feature] There’s still time to enter the Bradley Stoke Journal magazine’s exclusive free prize draw to win a year’s free gym membership at Anytime Fitness, Bradley Stoke. Anytime Fitness is the world’s largest 24-hour gym chain with over 2,000 sites worldwide. There are currently three sites in Bristol, one of them located in the Willow Brook Centre at the
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