Volunteers are always welcome - call Sue Rider on 01454 857754. For more information, please call in at the Age Concern Office, 34 St Mary Street, Thornbury, email us using the link below or phone 01454 858750.
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We have been granted charitable status as our role in providing information, especially to immigrants to this country has become more apparent. We have also been praised by independent assessors for the educational aspect of our work.
The committee is drawn from the Sodbury and Dodington Councils, Chipping Sodbury Lions and Rotary Clubs, the Festival Society and representatives from local schools and traders.
For more information please contact Brian Hardy on 01454 852978 or by email.
GRANTnet is a service which can help to identify suitable funding and grants for activities or projects. It allows community and voluntary groups, social enterprises and small businesses to search across a huge range of funding sources.
We encourage visits by individuals and groups to and from linked towns and the development of personal contacts. By doing so we aim to broaden mutual understanding of the cultural, recreational, educational and commercial activities of the linked towns.
For more information, please click below or call Jeff Flynn, Treasurer on 01454 322639.
The LINk will be a network of local people, organisations and groups that want to make health and social care services better.
The LINk’s membership is small at the moment and urgently needs people from the local community who feel strongly about local health and social care services.
For more information, please click below.
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Elton Room, The Chantry, 52 Castle Street, Thornbury BS35 1HB
Tel: 01454 865134
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It is affiliated to the National Pensioners' Convention, and liaises with Help the Aged and Age Concern. Membership is free.
It will meet regularly to share information about key issues that concern us all and work together to develop a constructive response.
It will strengthen the links between voluntary sector representatives and the groups they represent, provide a focus for consultations with statutory bodies, facilitate the two-way flow of information between the voluntary sector and the statutory sector, and provide an opportunity for voluntary sector organisations to meet, discuss, share expertise and decide on how to progress on key issues.
For more information, contact Gillian Graham on 01454 865205.
Come and get all your leaflets and brochures of where to go and what's on, bus and train timetables, accommodation list and much more.
If you would like to become a volunteer for the Tourist Centre please call Laura on 01454 888686.
Our service is free and friendly: visit our website below to find out more, or phone 01454 324102. We are based in Yate Library and are open Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays between 10am and 3pm.
We also host the South Gloucestershire Vinvolved scheme, which works with volunteers aged 16-24. If you are a young person interested in volunteering, call 01454 317289 or email southglos@youngbristol.com
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10th August–18th September (Tue-Thu and Sat), 10.30am-4.30pm, Yate and District Heritage Centre, Church Road, Yate, BS37 5BG
Local historians have come together to produce a fascinating history of Station road and the people who have lived here from the early Victorians to the shopkeepers and residents of today. Station Road will be full of information about Yate people you could never have imagined.
There have been immense changes to Station Road over the years especially the stretch around the Shopping Centre.
You'll also find interesting objects on display including the Swan Inn pub sign, a potato chip maker used at the workhouse and a 1915 Cow Mills calendar. Sprint Print has part funded the display.
For more information please contact Yate and District Heritage Centre on 01454 862200 or click below.
www.myyate.co.uk/yate/history/yat...
Walkers can book in from 8.30am at the Beaufort Inn, Hawkesbury Upton, (back garden). 10-mile walkers should aim for an 8.30am start, with 4-mile ramblers setting off around 10.00am, both groups aiming to be back by 12.30/1.00pm for a BBQ in the garden of the Beaufort.
The Rotary Club of Chipping Sodbury annual sponsored walk is now in its 14th year. We are continuing to support a children’s charity this year - the Children’s Hospice sw.
Donations from the walk have varied between £4000 and £3000 depending on the enthusiasm of walkers to collect sponsorship from friends and colleagues. Already some of our regular groups have promised to join us – Walking to Health group, U3A cyclists and the Wild Wanderers.
In addition to Rotary International charities, this year we have added the BUI (Bristol Urological Institute) Southmead Prostate Cancer Appeal to our list.
A feature of the sponsorship plan is that half of an individual walker’s donations can be allocated to their own charity (last year walkers supported Wotton Animal Rescue, Cancer Research, Help for Heroes. RSPCA), with the other half divided between the other three charities.
The BUI charity has a mascot, DAVED the bear, who will be joining us walking ‘Along the Edge’. Our Rotary President Peter Heffer might carry him on the day, however there is some competition for the honour. A number of other Rotarians intend to take along their own bears to keep DAVED company. Walkers are encouraged to book in their own favourite bears on the day. There will be a “Best Bear” competition judged by DAVED!
The route is a real favourite with walkers, starting from the attractive village of Hawkesbury Upton, taking in sections of the Cotswold Way and Monarch’s Way through the Kilcott Valley to visit the villages of Alderley and Tresham. (10-mile walkers)
Sponsorship forms are available in the Tourist Information Centre in Chipping Sodbury and from Barry Riley the Walk Organiser on 01454-314192 or by email below.
www.rotary-ribi.org/clubs/homepag...
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7.30pm-12.30am, Chipping Sodbury Town Hall
Live band: "Tundra", raffle, tombola, fun stalls. Dress code: party/evening wear - DJs optional. Tickets £15 (all for Cancer Research UK), includes nibbles on tables. Tickets available from 07711 115391, 01454 882328 or 07833 366333. Admission by ticket only - there is a limit on numbers.
10th August–18th September (Tue-Thu and Sat), 10.30am-4.30pm, Yate and District Heritage Centre, Church Road, Yate, BS37 5BG
The Yate & District Oral history Project present a history of the fallen soldiers which so greatly affected the families and communities of the Yate & Sodbury areas. As well as numerous stories the display will cover the impact of the Great War on our remaining communities
For more information please contact Yate and District Heritage Centre on 01454 862200 or click below.
www.myyate.co.uk/yate/history/yat...
