A group of residents at Stoke Gifford Retirement Village, off Coldharbour Lane, have spent nearly 200 hours creating a knitted effigy of the Queen to mark Her Majesty’s Platinum Jubilee. The figure was guest of honour at afternoon tea on Sunday (5th June 2022) as the 230 residents at the village came together to celebrate.
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Members of Stoke Gifford WI assembled in Royal Park, Stoke Gifford on Saturday 30th April to attach a plaque to a tree they had planted late last year to mark Her Majesty The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. They decided to plant a tree as part of The Queen’s Green Canopy initiative, which invites people from across the United Kingdom to ‘Plant a Tree for the Jubilee’.
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The owners of a property in the old hamlet of Harry Stoke are opening their garden to the public for two days this month to raise funds for a number of charities. The event forms part of the National Garden Scheme, which this year will see over 3,500 gardens opening on selected dates to benefit numerous good causes.
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Dramatic scenes in Bush Avenue, Little Stoke, on Sunday night (10th April) saw a mother and two children escape from a blazing semi-detached house. Approximately 30 firefighters from Patchway, Avonmouth, Southmead, Temple, Kingswood and Yate attended the incident, which was first reported to the emergency services at 8.25pm.
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The plan for a community garden has not been forgotten, but to be entrusted with a piece of land large enough for one we first had to show we could gather volunteers and organise small projects, writes Rev. Tania Vaughan. So Little Stoke Baptist Church sourced, emptied and refilled two large planters and placed one at the church and another at the entrance to Little Stoke Park.
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The wholesale felling of trees around a large parcel of vacant land behind the Sainsbury’s store in Stoke Gifford has exposed the site of new mixed-use development that will include an Aldi supermarket, a Costa drive-through, a Premier Inn hotel and a Beefeater restaurant. Construction is now set to begin “in the second quarter of 2022”
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A Bristol-based lettings management company has been ordered to pay a total of £2,700 in fines and costs after South Gloucestershire Council’s Private Sector Housing Team prosecuted them for failing to obtain Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMO) licences for two properties located in the Scholars Chase area of Stoke Gifford.
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One of the largest employers in Stoke Gifford is looking to let out space in its enormous office complex near Parkway Station as a consequence of a move towards permanent ‘flexible working’. The Aviva Centre has been rebranded ‘Lake View’ and it is being marketed with the tagline “Modern office space in a parkland setting near Parkway train station”.
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The new minister at Little Stoke Baptist Church, Rev. Tania Vaughan, has been demonstrating her passion for the community of Little Stoke through free events for adults and children. The recent October half-term holiday club is to be followed by a Christmas market with a difference on Sunday 5th December.
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The Stoke Gifford branch of the Royal British Legion launched its 2021/22 Poppy Appeal with a ceremony in the foyer of Bristol Parkway Station on Friday 29th October. A Festival of Remembrance concert will be held on Saturday 13th November followed by a ceremony at the cenotaph on Remembrance Sunday (14th November).
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