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Stokes Cycling Treasure Hunt feedback

Tuesday, April 17th, 2012

Wow, what a day! With no less than one hundred and thirty eight participants, this year’s Treasure Hunt was beyond everyone’s expectations and the helpers finished the day tired but happy, with everyone enjoying themselves.

Event manager and Stokes Cycling Club Chairman, Bryan Huish, said “This was a great event, with lots more people than we expected, and everybody ticked the box on the feedback form for “it was a lot of fun” so it was all worth it. We’d like to thank everyone for making this day a success, and BikeFix Bradley Stoke for the prizes and the Dr Bike.”

There was a constant stream of people queuing to register, pick up the freebies kindly supplied by South Gloucestershire Council, and to get their bikes checked by BikeFix Bradley Stoke mechanic Richard Burton, ably supported by club members.

Officially starting at 10:00, people started arriving at 09:30 before setting up was finished, but they were welcomed with open arms and signed in, given route sheets and clues, and wished good luck – which must have worked as most of them completed the course! The club designed the route to be family friendly for even the teeniest of cyclists, with a two part figure of eight course. The first section was short, only two miles, flat and mostly off road, whilst the second section was slightly longer at three miles and not quite so flat. The clues were mostly easy-peasy, with the odd cunningly contrived one to separate the men from the boys, so most people got most of them. Some people got so involved that they went back several times to check for clues that they’d missed, but most just had a good bike ride on local paths and had fun trying to spot clues on the way.

What a great event!

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Community Children take over the Park!

Thursday, July 29th, 2010

Designed entirely by 528 local children, young people and adults; two years of hard work; 324 hours of voluntary work; and 28 meetings later, the Trust Ground Improvement Group (TGIG) have been successful in gaining funding to build a new community play space at the Trust Ground, on North Road in Stoke Gifford, using Big Lottery Fund and Groundwork UK’s Community Spaces funding of £49,000.

The group are delighted to let the diggers roll, next month, to see a tired play space replaced by a positive natural community space for 0-90yr olds. The tireless efforts of the TGIG have worked in partnership with the Trust Committee, Southern Brooks Community Partnership’s Community Development Worker and Stoke Gifford Parish Council, through their Green Spaces Strategy.

The play space complies with the National Play Strategy 2007 and Play England’s principles to enable challenging play in a social environment offering motivational play. The group plan to launch this great space in October as an example of a community deciding on the needs of their community and taking joint action for the benefit of the community.

Congratulations TGIG for your efforts and we look forward to seeing the fruits of your labours later this year! If you are interested in running a community project of your own, visit Community Spaces on www.community-spaces.org.uk or phone 0845 3671 671.

For further information regarding the project contact Kate O’Brien, Community Development – Stoke Gifford, Southern Brooks Community Partnership, email: kateobrien@sbcommunitypartnership.org.uk or phone 01454 868572

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Play to success at Holy Family School

Tuesday, July 6th, 2010

Holy Family School in Stoke Lodge are delighted to have achieved their Platinum Play award. The school is one of just three schools in the country to have achieved this prestigious award. Dawn Breeze, the Head Teacher, is delighted that the school’s hard work with their play developments has been recognised.

The school’s playtimes have been transformed from being mainly football dominated to a fun-filled, vibrant, exciting place to be! The children have lots of opportunities to build dens, dress up and use their imaginations with the ‘play pod’ equipment that they have had since September. The school has also recently had some brand new play developments, including a stone circle with fire pit, an outdoor stage, a bird watching tower with a climbing wall and a giant story telling throne.

The children definitely give their new inspiring playtimes the thumbs up with Danielle Collins, aged 11, stating, “It is fun and exciting” and Ellie Gregory exclaiming, “I don’t feel limited at playtimes anymore!”

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Volunteers help to keep Little Stoke and Stoke Gifford safer

Thursday, May 13th, 2010

Volunteers from the community are helping neighbourhood police keep Little Stoke and Stoke Gifford safe. Since the volunteers signed up in autumn 2009 they have helped police identify anti-social behaviour (ASB) hotspots, enabled officers to seize alcohol from underage drinkers, identified 60 speeding vehicles and carried out community clean-ups.

Neighbourhood PC Mark Graham said: �We asked for volunteers to help us tackle the three issues that the community had told us were their priorities: speeding, ASB and littering.

�These people are making a real difference to their community. Making the neighbourhood safer and stronger is a team effort. Police work with other agencies like South Gloucestershire Council, but we need the support of local people as well.�

Volunteers are vetted and trained as:

� Community wardens, who patrol in pairs identifying potential ASB hotspots so that a police team can attend or

� Community Speed Watch members, who use speed guns to carry out checks on traffic at hotspots identified by residents. They take the registration details of speeding vehicles and the police send the drivers a warning letter.
People who volunteered to help collect litter were referred to an existing local group and the council�s Street Care team.

PC Graham said: �Information from the volunteers is helping us target our patrols more effectively to tackle community priorities. With just a few more volunteers we could make even more of a difference.�

Anyone who wants to join the volunteer group can contact the neighbourhood team at Filton Police Station by calling 0845 456 7000 or e-mailing ssnfilton@avonandsomerset.police.uk

The next public meeting to discuss policing priorities for the area will be held at Little Stoke Hall at 7pm on June 30 2010.

Anyone unable to attend the meeting can raise any policing issues with the team by calling Filton Police Station or visiting the police website – www.avonandsomerset.police.uk/inyourarea

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Little Stoke Garden Society Open Morning – All Welcome

Thursday, May 13th, 2010

Little Stoke Garden Society will be holding an Open Morning on Sunday 30th May 2010 from 10.00am to midday at the Bush Avenue Allotments.

The Open Morning is for non-members as well as members of the Little Stoke Garden Society. Come along and join in the plant sales and look around the allotments. There will be cakes, jams and chutney for sale. A gardening demonstration will be at 10.30 am. Refreshments, raffle and lucky dip will be available. The Garden Society Shop will be open as usual, it will also be a good time to join the Society for just �2.00. Opening times for the Shop is Sundays 10:00-12.00 where you can purchase your gardening sundries; everything from Growmore to pots.

On hand we will have many members with knowledge and experience so come along and ask any gardening questions you may have. Please do come along with your families and meet members of the Society and have a look around. The Garden Society hold talks once a month on a Monday evening during the winter period with interesting speakers.

Allotment gardening is still proving very popular with increased enquiries for allotments. At the moment the waiting list for allotments is closed, but hopefully when the list is reduced we will be able to re-open it.

The Garden Society website is proving very popular, there are regular updates why not visit out website to see what is happening – www.littlestokegardensociety.co.uk

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Holy Family Stars Take Centre Stage!

Wednesday, April 28th, 2010

On Thursday 11th March, six year 4 pupils (Harvey Nash, Will Wyatt, Kenedi Cross, Chelzey Rivera, Kieron Obee and Stephanie Palmer) from Holy Family Primary School in Stoke Lodge, Patchway, wowed audiences at the prestigious Mid Somerset Festival in Bath.

Their fantastic acting; comedy timing; and superb team work meant that they swept first place position with a phenomenal score of 87%.

Clare Parsons, their class teacher, was delighted at their professionalism and Dawn Breeze, the head teacher stated, �I am extremely proud. The children worked so hard � they are all stars!�

The children impressed the three judges with their performance of �When they count to 3� by John Godfrey. The six pupils were excited, but nervous. One of the pupils, Kenedi (age 8) exclaimed, �I�m really glad that I went!�

Holy Family are delighted that the children were able to showcase their dramatic talents at such an esteemed event.

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