Local housebuilder Crest Nicholson recently partnered with St Michael’s Primary School, Stoke Gifford, on a ‘walking bus’ initiative as part of Walk to School Week. Pupils, parents, guardians, carers, teachers and staff of the school took part in two walking buses on Thursday 18th May, that began at Crest Nicholson’s Highbrook View and Brooklands Park developments in Harry Stoke.
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A Bristol husband-and-wife team who run an autism- and neurodiverse-friendly shop enjoyed an unforgettable visit to Downing Street last week to share their inspiring community work with the prime minister. Community champions Lucy and Richard Smith, owners of Your Village Shop at Stoke Gifford Retirement Village, were invited as guests of their local member of parliament Jack Lopresti.
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Plans to introduce new or amended waiting restrictions on sections of 40 residential roads in Stoke Gifford have reached the final stage of development. The scheme involves “introducing double yellow lines to improve access and visibility on roads that have been identified and converting existing advisory white keep clear lines to double yellow lines”.
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Work has started on the construction of a major new hotel and retail development near the existing Sainsbury’s store in Stoke Gifford. The multi-million pound project will see the construction of a Premier Inn, Beefeater restaurant, Aldi supermarket and a Costa Coffee drive-through on the land at Fox Den Road.
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This year there is less concern about getting the Christmas lights on than about being able to keep any lights on, writes Rev. Tania Vaughan of Little Stoke Baptist Church (LSBC). What Christians around the world celebrate is the birth of a new hope which brings about new life through transformation. Our Christmas events start with a carol service on Tuesday (13th December).
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A charity Santa float is expected to make a tour of the Stokes this Friday night (9th December), raising funds for the maternity unit at Southmead Hospital. All being well, the Float Group’s enormous decorated trailer will make three separate trips on the same night, through parts of Stoke Gifford, Little Stoke and Bradley Stoke, as shown in the route map…
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Members of Little Stoke Baptist Church are so concerned that people on low incomes won’t be able to afford rising energy and other costs during the colder months, that they’re hosting a specific Sunday service to focus on how they, as a church congregation, can respond to the stark rise in poverty and provide support to local people.
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The Stoke Gifford branch of the Royal British Legion (RBL) launched its 2022/23 Poppy Appeal with a ceremony in the foyer of Bristol Parkway Station earlier today (Friday 28th October). Money raised through the Poppy Appeal goes to the RBL’s Welfare Fund, which is used to give help and support to serving and ex-service personnel and their families.
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A husband and wife team who run a shop at ExtraCare’s Stoke Gifford Retirement Village are delighted to have taken home a BBC Radio Bristol ‘Make a Difference’ award. Lucy and Richard Smith found themselves shortlisted for the BBC community awards after going out of their way to run an autism- and neurodiverse-friendly shop in the village.
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Residents at Stoke Gifford Retirement Village who created a knitted effigy of Queen Elizabeth II to mark the late monarch’s Platinum Jubilee have spoken of their sadness at her death. A letter sent from Balmoral Castle in August said Her Majesty had been “interested to see the splendid photos” of their creation and “touched by the care taken by all those involved”.
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