The top pitch area at the Jubilee Centre on Saturday 4th June was host to the annual Bradley Stoke Youth FC (BSYFC) Festival of Football. This was the tenth anniversary of the BSYFC festival and is the final stage of the Club School Link Program, where the club coaches have been going into 14 local primary schools providing in-school football
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Graham Baker, Bradley Stoke Town Council’s youth development & participation worker, writes: We had two days of extremely well-attended activities with young people again actively contributing to the planning, promotion and voluntary staffing of activities over the Bradley Stoke Community Festival weekend. On the Saturday, we brought a skate half-pipe to the main festival site with ‘have a go’ sessions and
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A field of 548 runners contested Sunday’s Bradley Stoke 10k, organised by Sole Sisters, on the final day of the 2016 Bradley Stoke Community Festival. Entries for the popular event, which has its start and finish at the Jubilee Centre, had sold out on 31st March, more than two months ahead of raceday. Local residents turned out in force on a bright
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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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Last minute route diversion adds nearly 0.5km to course length. A record field of 584 starters contested today’s tenth anniversary Bradley Stoke 10k Run, organised by Sole Sisters, on the final day of the 2015 Bradley Stoke Community Festival. The tenth running of the race, however, turned out to be a little longer that the nine previous invocations, due to the
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The main day of Bradley Stoke’s annual Community Festival drew a big crowd to the Jubilee Centre this afternoon. The usual mix of music, dance, sport, demonstrations and sideshows was accompanied by bright weather for most of the afternoon, although a brisk wind caused a few problems for stallholders and kept temperatures down. The appearances of Sir Geoff Hurst MBE & Gary Mabbutt
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The 2015 Bradley Stoke Community Festival got off to a sunny start today with the traditional Picnic in the Park on Jubilee Green. Professor Panic entertained the children and parents with circus skills, juggling and entertainment in the big top, while the Friends of Jubilee Green staged a ‘sticker treasure hunt’ around the park, with an estimated 110 children taking part. The Friends
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Local young people are organising another two days of skate park events during the Community Festival, writes Graham Baker, Bradley Stoke Town Council’s Youth Development & Participation Worker. After the success of last year’s two days of skate park activity, local young people have again been involved in actively planning and organising another two days of skate park related events during
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What did YOU think of the 2014 Bradley Stoke Community Festival, staged over three days last weekend? The town council spends around £24,000 staging the popular event, with most of this going to an events management company, which undertakes the bulk of the organisation on the council’s behalf. Events over the weekend include the pre-school ‘picnic in the park’ on the
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A field of 551 starters contested today’s Bradley Stoke 10k Run, organised by Sole Sisters, on the final day of the 2014 Bradley Stoke Community Festival. First home after completing the six-and-a-quarter mile course that takes in the Three Brooks Local Nature Reserve, Bradley Stoke Way and Brook Way was Matthew Krelle (Bristol & West AC) in a time
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