April 2017
t: 01454 300 400
info@bradleystokejournal.co.uk
27
News
Young at Heart Club bags £2,000 Tesco grant
A
club for the over-50s which meets at a Bradley Stoke church has been awarded a £2,000 grant from Tesco’s Bags of Help scheme. The scheme distributes funds raised through the 5p carrier bag levy and three organisations in the local area (covering the Stokes, Patchway and Almondsbury) are selected every two months to take part in a customer vote to decide how the three awards of £5,000, £2,000 and £1,000 should be allocated. The money will help the club put on a series of monthly coach trips, which typically cost around £400 each. The first one, which has already been planned, will be to the Milestones Museum in Basingstoke. Club member Josie Hadden, who submitted the grant application on behalf of the club, praised Tesco’s local community champion Dawn Richards for
there were no social groups for older people. It has 56 paid-up members and an average of 36 attend the group’s weekly sessions on Thursday afternoons at Christ the King Church. The weekly sessions feature a diverse range of activities, including guest speakers, entertainment and quizzes. The popularity of the group is evidenced by the fact that it currently has a waiting list, as numbers are limited by the hall size and the numbers that can be accommodated on coach trips.
The Journal Send us your news! Club members receive the award from Tesco manager Kevin Vickery.
providing guidance about the scheme and said she had found Groundwork, Tesco’s partner for implementing the Bags of Help
scheme, “very helpful”. The Young at Heart Club was started in 1999 when Bradley Stoke was still being built and
TER S A E HE T F F O T A K R E C O W GEN L U D IN
GE L LAR IONA T SE NC I FU ERC X E CE SPA
NG I N I O EJ C I R P 17 F 0 L 2 A L I H PR A N I FEE
USING CODE HPJF17 ( S AV E £ 1 0 )
£32.99 (Monthly peak membership)
OL PO A P &S
C
NO ACTS TR AT ON T GRES JUSPRICE
May magazine Deadline for contributions: Monday 24th April info@bradleystokejournal.co.uk
BIG WEIG HT ROO S M
LADI ES GYM
£22.99 (Monthly off peak membership)
www.riversidebristol.co.uk • Tel: 01454 888 666 To advertise in this magazine or on our websites, phone The Journal’s sales team on 01454 300 400