BRADLEY STOKE MATTERS

WOW Happy 20th Birthday to Us!  It’s hard to believe that what started as something to do whilst I stayed at home with my first born (soon discovering there was nowhere to find out any local information on the community in which I lived), has grown into a 20 year endeavour – with both of my children now at University!

A huge thank you to all of our local community and to all of our advertisers who have supported us over the last 20 years.  Amazingly our very first advertiser, Medway Design, is still with us, along with many other small businesses owners who have been working locally and advertising with us since our old black and white days.  Initially, as you can see from our very first front cover, highlighted on this edition’s front cover, we only delivered to 6000 homes, and now we cover 15,000. We have also spread to cover neighbouring areas.

We have seen many changes over the years and have covered in our pages, and been present for, a lot of Bradley Stoke history in this time.  We are also not the only ones celebrating 20 years!  Both the Bradley Stoke Festival and 10k run also held their first events in 2005, the Bradley Stoke Football Club was founded in 2005 and the Bradley Stoke Community School also opened its doors to its first cohort in September 2005.  This is off the top of my head! I am sure there are others.

Inside our pages this month we bring you reports from the activities over the Bradley Stoke Festival weekend, along with more local events for you to enjoy over the coming summer months.  We have school news from three of our local primary schools, notice of forthcoming school open days that we have been made aware of, as well as a new local author in our community – his novel sounds intriguing!

If you are a business looking to promote your services across the local area, do get in touch and we will be happy to help. And please, if you get the opportunity, do let our advertisers know that you have seen them within our pages.  As I write this it is 28 degrees outside!  Enjoy the summer and enjoy the read, with a glass of something cool!

Deadline for the July edition is 18th July 2025.

Established in 2005 and now in our 21st year Bradley Stoke & Little Stoke Gifford Matters continues to help our advertisers’ businesses grow and flourish. We’d like to thank all our advertisers for their continued support of our local community magazine – advertising with us doesn’t just increase your revenue, it creates and enables connection within our community.  If you’d like to promote your business with us – please get in touch! [email protected]