Youth workers and local young people are delighted to once again be hosting a popular two-day package at this year’s Community Festival. The mix of skate park skills and creative arts will include competitions, demonstrations, and ‘have-a-go’ sessions spread over the main festival site at the Jubilee Centre and at the skate park.
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By Graham Baker, town council youth development worker. In recent years, the Bradley Stoke Community Festival has seen our town council youth work team and local young people work together to organise an extremely successful two-day package of activities. Saturday saw the return of our popular street art workshops and the King Ramps skate half-pipe, with ‘have-a-go sessions’ and pro
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During this year’s festival weekend, Bradley Stoke Town Council (BSTC) youth workers and local young people are repeating and enhancing the successful formula of recent years. The mix of skate park skills and creative arts will include competitions, demonstrations and have-a-go sessions at both the main Community Festival site (on Saturday 8th June) and at the skate park (on Sunday
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By Graham Baker, town council youth development worker On Saturday, Bradley Stoke Town Council youth workers and young volunteers organised the return, to Jubilee Green, of the popular combination of the skate half-pipe (provided by King Ramps) and street art workshops (courtesy of Paintsmiths). The half-pipe accommodated displays by the pro’ riders, coupled with the chance for festival goers to
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Local young people and Bradley Stoke Town Council (BSTC) youth workers are again planning and organising two days of exciting activity, competitions, demonstrations and have-a-go sessions at both the main Community Festival site (on Saturday 9th June) and at the skate park, alongside Bradley Stoke Leisure Centre (on Sunday 10th June). Saturday 9th June The Jubilee Green side of Saturday’s
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By Graham Baker, town council youth development worker This year’s Bradley Stoke Community Festival saw the return of two days of action-packed activity, organised by local young people and volunteers with the support of the town council’s youth worker. On Saturday, the queues soon built up as children and young people awaited their turn to create their own bespoke piece of
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Two enormous street art murals recently installed at the new skate park in the grounds of Bradley Stoke Leisure Centre have been attracting the attention of passers-by and visitors to the park. The installation marks the completion of a community art project which involved over 30 children and young people and was part-funded by a community grant award from South
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On Thursday 29th September, there was a large scale ‘volunteering day’ at the new skate park. More than 60 volunteers participated, including 45 local volunteers, several people from the Three Brooks Nature Conservation Group and Green Gym, local young people (who also demonstrated some BMX skills during the lunch break) and Bradley Stoke Town Council (BSTC) staff. In addition, the
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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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