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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South Gloucestershire Council (SGC) has announced that Bradley Stoke Library will be closed tomorrow (Saturday 28th September) as a result of industrial action by staff. Members of the UNISON union have voted for a one-day strike in response to changes to council policies on enhancements and allowances paid to staff, which are being introduced on 1st October. From that date,
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Bradley Stoke Library will be closed for the day this Friday (20th May 2011) for the installation of self-service equipment. Readers in possession of a PIN may renew books using the 24 hour telephone service on 0845 0020 777 or via the Libraries West website. The library re-opens on Saturday 21st May, when it hosts a “Back to the ’80s”
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As part of the events programme to mark Holocaust Memorial Day, South Gloucestershire Council is piloting an event at Bradley Stoke Library called the Human Library. A Human Library is where the public take out a book in the form of a person who can provide first hand experience of an issue, belief or experience. Over a period of about
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Bradley Stoke Library is inviting residents to a “murder mystery with a difference” event on the evening of Wednesday 15th September. When poet Colonel Kipling’s reading at the Poetry Festival is interrupted by a murder, it falls to the audience to decide ‘whodunit?’ by following the plot and solving the clues in an intriguing murder mystery by poet Sara-Jane Arbury,
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A free 18- week IT and literacy course for adults begins on Wednesday 8th September at Bradley Stoke Library. Participants will: Gain skills needed for life and work Gain an up to date qualification Move on to further courses Learn how to use a computer The course is aimed at people returning to work. Seesions run from 9:30 – 12.:30
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The annual Summer Reading Challenge was launched at the recent official re-opening of Bradley Stoke Library, following a major extension to allow the library to improve services to children. This year’s ‘Space Hop‘ Challenge, which invites youngsters to help the young crew of the Ex Libris to set up the first library on the moon, is an adventure to help
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Conservative campaigners have welcomed today’s re-opening of Bradley Stoke Library after a five-week closure period, during which the library has been extended by around 60 square metres. The extension maintains the large open plan design and enables the whole of the rear of the library to be used for children’s services and create a more dedicated space for this age
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Bradley Stoke Library has closed for a five week period to allow completion of an extension that was begun in March. The nearest alternative libraries are at Filton and Yate (note that Winterbourne and Patchway libraries are also closed during some or all of this period). South Gloucestershire Council says that Wi-Fi access normally provided by the library will continue
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Work on an extension to Bradley Stoke Library began last week, just days before the end of the financial year in which the Council promised to make the investment. Money for the extension was allocated in South Gloucestershire Council’s (SGC’s) 2009/2010 budget announced in February 2009 and a planning application was submitted in September. With the end of the financial
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