This year (2022) is a very special one for us here at Bristol North Swimming Club (BNSC) as we celebrate our 100th anniversary, and we’ve got plenty lined up to mark the occasion, writes club chair Steph McNally. For a start, we’re reaching out to our local community to donate 100 hours of volunteering with local organisations and charities.
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After having to take a 2-year break due to the Covid-19 pandemic, North Bristol Running Group will be starting a new ‘Couch to 5k’ course from February. The course will be held on Friday evenings, with ‘homework’ nights on a Wednesday evening. It starts on 4th February and will take place at Bradley Stoke Community School, commencing at 6.30pm.
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Players, coaches and officials at Bradley Stoke Junior Netball Club celebrated the club’s 10th anniversary on 25th August, writes club secretary Lyn Moreton. The club was officially 10 years old in July but, due to Covid restrictions, celebrations had to be postponed until August.
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At Bradley Stoke Ladies Football Club we are really looking forward to playing in the Gloucestershire County Women’s Football League for the seventh season since the club was first established in 2015. Training has continued since the last league match was finished and we plan to continue running training for the rest of summer.
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It’s been a tough year for grassroots sports. Like many other community groups up and down the country, Bristol North Swimming Club has had to adapt to survive and find new ways to keep its members fit, healthy and engaged. But now we’re back in our chlorinated happy place, we’re getting ready to race again.
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Blessed with fine weather, Bradley Stoke Bowls Club reopened for the new season on Monday 12th April. As required by law, limited numbers enjoyed two club events to welcome back members, many of whom had not bowled since the 2019 season.
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Bradley Stoke Youth FC have been busy preparing for the safe return of football across all age groups, after a prolonged break due to the national lockdown. The return to training and games from April onwards will provide a much-needed platform for boys and girls to re-unite with teammates and friends to play football in a fun, safe environment.
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Bradley Stoke Bowls Club has already arranged a full season of fixtures in the hope that bowling could resume as normal or in a Covid-safe way from around mid-April, subject to the government’s roadmap out of the coronavirus lockdown being achieved.
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Nicola Phillips describes how members of local ladies-only running group Sole Sisters supported one of their fold to prepare for and compete in this year’s virtual London Marathon. Claire Stone raised funds for the Grand Appeal following a friend’s 3-year-old daughter being diagnosed with a kidney tumour.
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The Championship competition finals at Thornbury Indoor Bowls Club should have been played in March but were delayed due to the Coronavirus outbreak, writes Arthur Allan of Bradley Stoke Bowls Club. The Men’s Pairs event was eventually played on 11th October…
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