Community News

“Can’t Wait”?
12th Nov 2018
Can’t Wait is a scheme run by SGDEN with assistance from South Glos Council to encourage businesses to make their toilets available to disabled people with an urgent need. We created a local, credit card-sized ‘Can’t…
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Great Western Air Ambulance Charity takes up tenancy in new air base
12th Nov 2018
Great Western Air Ambulance Charity (GWAAC) have taken up tenancy of a new air base in Almondsbury. The charity will share the facility with the National Police Air Service (NPAS), and currently have a ten…
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Bradley Stoke Bowls Club AGM
8th Nov 2018
On the evening of the 25th October over fifty members of the Bradley Stoke Bowls Club met for the AGM at the Baileys Court Centre. The chairman, Robert Bertram conducted proceedings with his usual calm…
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“WE MUST NOT FORGET”
6th Nov 2018
by Brian C Hewitt, MBE, Gloucestershire County Chairman, President Stoke Gifford Branch, The Royal British Legion. At Eleven O’clock, on the Eleventh Day, of the Eleventh Month, 100 hundred years ago, all the Leaders of…
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Firework spectacular set to shine bright at WillowBrook’s Christmas lights switch on
6th Nov 2018
The official start of Christmas festivities at the WillowBrook Centre will be celebrated with a spectacular firework display on 16th November. This year’s seasonal lights switch on is set to be nothing short of sensational with…
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£492,000 boost for young people in South Gloucestershire
31st Oct 2018
This week, Youth Work Week, an innovative new partnership funded by the Big Lottery Fund will begin work to provide more joined-up services to better support young people in the county. Young people are in…
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Fencing Champion takes to the court for Great Britain
31st Oct 2018
Congratulations to Caron Hale who has qualified as one the World’s top-ten Veteran Fencers in her age category of 50-59 years in women’s foil. The title comes hot on the heals after winning the Veterans…
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Local Poppy Appeal Launch 2018 and Remembrance Sunday
24th Oct 2018
The Stoke Gifford Branch of the Royal British Legion has confirmed that its 2018 Poppy Appeal launch will take place on Friday 26th October 2018 at 2pm at Bristol Parkway Station, it hopes to have…
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Concerts to commemorate 50 years since first organ transplant
24th Oct 2018
The brother of the first person to donate an organ is organising a series of concerts to mark 50 years since the first transplant in Bristol and the south west region. Clive Hook’s brother Ellis…
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THE ROYAL BRITISH LEGION BRISTOL POPPY APPEAL
22nd Sep 2018
AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN AND IN THE MORNING, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM Bristol Cathedral and College Green will be the centre point of the fortnight of Remembrance for the Bristol area, where…
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