St Michael’s Church organised two Easter-themed trails over the holiday period, one around Stoke Gifford village and another in Stoke Park. Due to the pandemic, the popular Good Friday ‘Messy Church’ service took place on the Zoom videoconferencing platform, as did the Easter Day family celebration.
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Plans to revamp Stoke Gifford’s medieval church to make it ‘fit for the future’ are being shared with villagers at a series of community events. The proposed changes to the interior of St Michael’s Church have been designed to increase visibility and accessibility, improve safety and add extra seating.
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Local children are celebrating the arrival of exciting new play equipment within the play area in Meade Park, Stoke Gifford. The total cost of the project was £26,140, funded by South Gloucestershire Council through the Community Infrastructure Levy.
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The Stokes area proudly hosts one of the UK’s seven temporary NHS Nightingale Hospitals set up in response to the Covid-19 pandemic and local residents are now being offered the chance to learn more about how it was conceived and constructed via a unique live online event.
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Goats will soon be returning to Stoke Gifford, as a small group takes up residence on scrubland surrounding the Parkway North Park & Ride site on Hunts Ground Road. The goats are owned by community urban farming project Street Goat, which has several herds of goats on land in and around Bristol.
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Splatts Abbey Wood Conservation Group has received a £500 grant from a local Asda store. The volunteer group helps maintain Splatts Abbey Wood, a small area of woodland close to the MoD complex, on the borders of Stoke Gifford and Filton, and close to Cheswick Village.
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We all know how front-line workers across the country are continuing to work through the coronavirus lockdown. But what isn’t as well known is the army of sewers that are helping supply the essential workers with face masks and scrub bags, in order to make their lives a little easier.
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Our aerospace industry in Filton and the South West of England is dynamic, innovative and world leading. It is a showcase of the best that British engineering has to offer the world, but as I am sure you will be aware this is an extremely challenging time for the aviation/aerospace industry.
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Stoke Gifford’s three district councillors have welcomed the news that sports facilities in Little Stoke Park are set to benefit from more than £120,000 worth of improvements, through funding that South Gloucestershire Council has secured from local developments. The grants are part of a package of more than £310,000 that is being invested across South Gloucestershire, thanks to funding secured
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…asks local history enthusiast Adrian Kerton. Conservationists are worried that the UK is losing much of its wildlife through loss of habitat and that certainly seems to be the case in Stoke Gifford ‘village’. In the past, builders filled in inconvenient ponds, though today, the new Harry Stoke development has had to cater for the protected great crested newt colonies.
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