On Sunday 6th November 2016, Bradley Stoke Town Council hosted its annual fireworks event for the fourteenth year running. It was another successful year, where thousands came out to enjoy the fireworks once more. This year, a total of £3,486 was raised for the Mayor’s charities through donations, with £2,996 of the total coming from bucket collections and the remaining
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Bradley Stoke Town Council has finally reached a decision on the future of the hard court area and some of the surrounding grounds at its Brook Way Activity Centre, more than two years after it conducted a public consultation on the future of the site. The matter was tabled for discussion at July’s meeting of Full Council after mayor Cllr
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Alun Griffiths (Contractors) Ltd, building the MetroBus North Fringe to Hengrove Package, have recently helped Bradley Stoke Town Council (BSTC) at the new skate park within the grounds of the leisure centre. As part of the Griffiths community benefits initiative, and throughout the contract, the company works with and supports local community groups and provides assistance to local regeneration projects.
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The new mayor of Bradley Stoke was elected on Thursday 12th May: the chosen candidate was Cllr Elaine Hardwick, who has served on the town council since 2011. We managed to ask Elaine some questions about her aspirations as the new mayor of Bradley Stoke. Elaine says her main aim is to “keep up with the good work that has
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Details of an application made by local representatives of parkrun UK to hold two weekly running events in Bradley Stoke’s Three Brooks Local Nature Reserve have been published on the town council’s website. The application has been made to South Gloucestershire Council (SGC), which owns the nature reserve and will make the final decision on whether or not to grant permission, but the
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Members of Bradley Stoke Town Council (BSTC) have continued to express concern about a new weekly parkrun being established in the town’s Three Brooks nature reserve, despite assurances from an expert that the proposed event “will not conflict with the designation or long term management of the site”. The town council’s previous request that South Gloucestershire Council (SGC), which owns
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The 2016 Bradley Stoke Community Festival got under way yesterday (Friday 3rd June) with a well-attended Picnic in the Park, at which children were entertained in the Big Top by Professor Panic and took part in fun activities organised by the Friends of Jubilee Green. Saturday (4th June) sees a packed programme of music and dance events at the Jubilee
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At Bradley Stoke Town Council’s Annual General Meeting held on Wednesday 11th May, Cllr Elaine Hardwick was elected to the position of mayor of Bradley Stoke. The outgoing mayor, Cllr Roger Avenin, welcomed everyone to the meeting and explained that it was his pleasure, as his last action in the role of mayor of the town, to present cheques to the two recipients of
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Bradley Stoke’s new skate park was officially opened by Mayor Roger Avenin on Saturday 23rd April. The new concrete park, in the grounds of Bradley Stoke Leisure Centre, was commissioned by the town council at a cost now approaching £300,000. It is a replacement for a much smaller skate park on the same site that had reached the end of
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Bradley Stoke Town Council has issued an approximate running order for its ‘new skate park official opening’ event, which takes place tomorrow (Saturday 23rd April): 10.00am to 1.00pm – Prep for event 1.00pm to 1.15pm – Official opening/ribbon cutting ceremony and speeches 1.15pm to 1.45pm – ‘Free session’ (everyone can use the park) 1.45pm to 2.30pm – Scooter demo and jam
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