No 57Brislington Community News 27th April 2024

Brislington Community News No 57 for the week from 27th April 2024

Brislington Community News

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Spring top up Covid-19 vaccination for people at highest risk:

The NHS is offering a seasonal spring Covid-19 vaccine to people who are at increased risk of serious illness from the virus. This includes people aged 75 and over (by 30 June 2024), residents of care homes for older adults, and those aged 6 months and over with a severely weakened immune system. If you are eligible, you will be invited to make an appointment by your GP or the NHS. You can also book a vaccination at a GP clinic, your local pharmacy or at a community vaccination clinic in the following simple ways:

* Download the NHS App and make an appointment

* Visit www.nhs.uk/get-vaccine to use the online National Booking Service

* Call 119 for free if you can’t get online (translators are available) There will also be walk-in vaccinations in community clinics - visit www.grabajab.net for more information. Vaccination appointments are available from 22 April 2024 while GPs started visiting adult care homes from 15 April. Spring vaccinations will be available until 30 June 2024.

Quiz Night at St Luke’s 7.00 pm on 27th April 2024 in the Church Hall

All are very welcome

Whether you are part of a team or not we can always join teams up. Maximum team size is six people.

£3.00 Per Head

There will be a Raffle and Hot Dogs for sale @ £1.50 each during the interval.

Please let us know if you are joining us, and how many you have in your team. To help with numbers for catering.

Please confirm if you have team members who can help with catering arrangements.

simgwy24@gmail.com

Hope to see you there for a fun evening.

It's that time of year!

Spend an evening in the fascinating company of our knowledgeable ‘Bat man’ ecologist Dan Flew.

He'll share research discoveries and facts on bats including lesser horseshoe bats and pipistrelles.

We’ll be joined by our very own resident bats at dusk. The tour will also feature a short talk by Janine Marriott, our public engagement manager, who’ll share the history of the landscape, the reasons why it's so special for bats, and how they are of such value to the cemetery and to Bristol

Book today because tickets sell fast

https://lght.ly/ae12kmj

Batch Cook Club: Four week course

30th April, 7th May, 14th May, 21st May

- Class time: 10am-12.30pm

- Lunch: 12.30 - 1.30pm

St Anne's House, Brislington, Bristol BS4 4AB

- Open to local residents living in St Anne's, Bristol

Have fun in the kitchen! Learn new skills and cook nutritionally balanced recipes in a series of 4 friendly classes led by Laurie and Seema from Batch Cook Club.

Each week we will explore a different theme to help you build confidence in the kitchen:

- Using spices to diversify your meals

- Reducing meat / vegetarian cooking

- Ideas to help reduce food waste

- Using cupboard staples in new ways

Take home up to 8 portions of the food you'll cook and enjoy a social lunch at the end of the session. Each participant receives reusable food bags, a freezer-to-oven dish and an apron to keep.

The total cost for attending all 4 sessions is £5. If you would like to attend but are unable to pay, please email us about our subsidised places.

Hello. I’m Naomi and this is my shop These Two Hands on my local high street in Bristol. The area I live in is a small creative community surrounded by so much green space and nature, which suits my shop perfectly as my collection is all about nature. All the designs I choose and commission are inspired by nature and made from natural, sustainable materials in the UK, mostly in the south west but all over. I stock the work of over 85 different small makers, almost all women and women that I know or have a connection to through our shared love of nature.

https://www.facebook.com/thesetwohandsuk

Read on Here

Flowers from a back alley.

Can you name them?

Happy Passover!

22nd -30th April

Passover is the most important Jewish festiva and commemorates the Israelites’ Exodus from Egypt, and their transition from slavery to freedom. The main ritual of Passover is the seder, which occurs on the first two night (in Israel just the first night) of the holiday

— a festive meal that involves the re-telling of the Exodus through stories and song and the consumption of ritual foods.

Read more about Passover Here

Across the country, people and communities are making swaps every day to help create a safer, greener future. This #GreatBigGreenWeek, let’s #SwapTogether for good

Join the UK’s biggest ever celebration of community action to tackle climate change and protect nature, taking place between 8th and 16th June

Get involved at greatbiggreenweek.com today!

Friends of Brislington Brook

A busy morning down at Nightingale Valley! We started to pull and cut back some of the Himalayan Balsam seedlings. They are tiny just now but growing an inch a day. We got a solid haul of garbage including a very heavy oxygen cylinder, a wheel and a shopping trolley.

Tickets by donation available on Headfirst.

Read more Here

We are inviting you to the Bristol Commons Community Gathering at St Anne’s House with a focus on rebuildingtheCommons!

We’ll be spotlighting some amazing local work and exploring how we can collaborate more effectively to protect these spaces that are vital for physical health, mental wellbeing, and biodiversity.

They are the lungs of our city and they belong to us all. The invitation is to come and get involved. There will be speakers, music, workshops, delicious food by the Coexist Community Kitchen, a children's play space and we will be sharing our draft manifesto for all to engage with. EVERYONE is invited!

Fancy a bit of light gardening at St Anne’s House?

As Spring arrives in 2024, we are getting together with volunteers to help make the most of our outdoor space at St Anne’s House. It could be a space with potatoes, berries, and other edible goodies, as well as flowers to brighten up the space and make it more attractive for us and for wildlife.

No experience needed, sessions will involve things like planting, clearing weeds and cutting back but there will also be time to contribute to the future of the space and drink tea.

Come along for as long as you like and bring gloves if you have them

Find out more here.

Upcoming sessions:

Thursday 25 April, 11am - 1pm

Monday 06 May, 10.30am - 1pm

BRIZ

The free community newsletter for all things Brislington

BRIZ is a twelve page physical newsletter, developed by the BRIZ volunteer editorial team.

The content is about all things Brislington, touching on local curiosity, local actions, local groups, local creativity, and local happenings.

www.stanneshouse.org/projects/briz

We are looking for writers!

We need some writers to help produce the content for the next summer issue.

We’d like to collaborate with a writer who is keen to write articles and do stories for local engagement topics happening in Brislington.

You do not need to be an amazing writer, just have a passion to get involved and practice your writing!

Please get in touch with us on: briz@bricksbristol.org

Or fill in this form

Community groups and activities in Brislington church halls

What a choice!

Beavers, Bingo, Brislington Carers Group, Brislington History Group, Brislington School of Dance, Bristol Concert Wind band, Broomhill Food Club, Brownies/Guides, Chair dance, Changes Support Group, Coffee morning, Craft & Hobbies Club, Creative Stitchers, Cubs, Flow Yoga, Gardeners’ Club, Hound plus Puppy Training, Karate, Keep Fit, Kick Boxing, Kung Fu, Line Dancing, Little Elephants, Little Treasures, Luncheon Club, Memory Café Alzheimers, Perform Dance and Drama, Pilates, Postnatal, Rainbows, Repair Café, Rockout Baby, Scouts, Slimming World, St Luke’s Players Drama, Story Stars, Taekwondo, Tai Chi, Time for Tots, Trefoil Guild, Zumba, Tea Club,

Why not have a look by clicking on any of these?

St Anne’s Hall

St Christopher’s Hall

St Cuthberts Hall

St Luke’s Hall

United Reformed Church St Peter’s Methodist Church

St Anne’s House Easter holiday regular activities

Vinyasa Flow Yoga with Lucy.

From the 01 April, this session will be moving to Monday evenings, 6-7pm.

Mini Milk is taking 01, 08 + 15 April off, returning on 22 April, 11am - 12pm. - just drop in 4 O’Clock Club will be returning on 25 April, 4pm - 5pmjust turn up.

Reengage for 75+, on 09 April this month, 1-3pm.

Shared Reading is running at their usual times, Wednesdays 10.30am - 12pm - just drop in.

Morning Meet up is remaining open at their usual times, Thursdays, 10am - 12pm - just drop in.

St Anne's Young People (for 13-16 year olds)

Join us for a special easter session next Tuesday April 2nd from 2-4pm with artists Sylvia Rimat and Charli Clark exploring meadows, plant life and growing,

Half term dates:

Usually running on Tuesdays, 5-7pm. The group will be off for the half term: 9th and 16th, and will return on the 23rd April.

If you'd like to come along, please get in touch with Jack via email or WhatsApp.

jack.young@bricksbristol.org / 07718106953

British Ukrainian Aid

Turning polluting vehicles into humanitarian aid for Ukraine In an amazing project between Transport for London and British Ukrainian Aid, London high polluting vehicle owners who scrap their vehicles are entitled to a substantial payment. They can donate their vehicle (and their payment) to charity British Ukrainian Aid who will fill it with humanitarian aid – from medical kits to portable generators – and take the vehicle and the kit to Ukraine for life saving purposes

In Brislington we don’t live in the London Ultra Low Emission Zone, but we can donate to British Ukrainian Aid to fill the vehicles with life saving equipment Donate Here

This Sunday with the bible

Every Sunday we have three short passages from the bible to reflect on. There's usually one from the Old Testament - the Jewish bible as well as Christian; one from the life of the early church after Jesus; and one from the gospel stories of Jesus' life.

Have a read Here

The Day of Resurrection may be past but we are still in the season of Easter for several weeks yet!

It’s all about connection. Roots branches and fruit,there’s no having the one without the others. Without the root there is no fruit – Jesus is the rootstock; and without the branches, there’s no relationship

Around our Brislington churches

Annual Parochial Church Meetings

What are they?

Every year, every Church of England parish must have an Annual meeting, open to the public and announced well in advance

At these meetings, two churchwardens are elected and the electors are anyone who is resident in the parish, whatever their religion or none

Each parish church has a Church Council with elections for membership. The electors are those on the Church Electoral Roll which is open to anyone living in the parish

At APCMs, reports on activities and finances are given

The APCMs for the Brislington churches are on these dates:

St Christopher’s: Sunday 19th May at 5.00pm

St Cuthbert’s: Tuesday 21st May at 7pm

St Anne’s: Wednesday 29th May at 7.30pm

All parishioners are welcome to attend

Church services across Brislington April 2024. There’s a great choice of churches, times and types of services across the Brislington churches.

If you have not been to one yet or recently, you’ll be very welcome!

St Christopher Livestream can be seen Here

St Anne’s Church

We are extending our rewilding efforts in the church garden. We have a great volunteer who always looks after the grass cutting and he is now leaving wider patches along some of the edges. If you are walking along Langton Road do come and have a look to see what might be growing.

Our seeds are being a bit slow growing but hopefully we will have some flowers during the summer.

St Christopher’s church

St Christopher's Church Hall

Weekly Events

MONDAYS Time for Tots

Play time for youngsters, parents and grand parents 07825278045 or 07818 097926 Beavers,

Sensory story telling for babies to 18 mths

stars.co.uk

jen@145scouts.co.uk

St Cuthbert’s church

Left in St Cuthberts church

This rather lovely scarf was left at St Cuthbert’s after a Sunday service

Please claim from Anne Bannerman

Did you hold a special family event at St Cuthbert’s?

Were you married there, or your children christened - or maybe there was a family funeral?

Before we begin on some major changes to the inside of the building, we have prepared a 2025 calendar with pictures of the church in its original layout. Each month has a different picture showing the church through the seasons, with room for you to write your reminders and appointments.

The calendars cost £6 and all the money raised will be used to help finance the building works.

The calendars will be available at our coffee morning on Easter Saturday or phone 07519 146241 and leave your details and we will get back to you.

St Luke’s church

Quiz Night at St Luke’s 7.00 pm on 27th April 2024

in the Church Hall

All are very welcome

Whether you are part of a team or not we can always join teams up.

Maximum team size is six people.

£3.00 Per Head

There will be a Raffle and Hot Dogs for sale @ £1.50 each during the interval.

Please confirm if you have team members who can help with catering arrangements.

simgwy24@gmail.com

Hope to see you there for a fun evening.

Beautiful Spring churchyard around St Luke’s church

Activities in St Luke’s Church Hall Brislington

Monday

6.00pm: Every week in term time. Rainbows.

7.30pm: Every week Creative Stitchers

Wednesday

2nd Wednesday Mothers’ Union

3rd Wednesday

4th Wednesday

St Luke’s Ladies

Alzheimer’s Memory café

7.30pm Every week St Luke’s Players Drama Group.

Thursday

7.30pm Every week Line Dancing

St Peter’s Methodist church

Craft and Hobbies Club

Monday 19.30 – 21.00

Carol Payne 0117 9710747

We are a friendly group of Crafters who love to chat while making items for charity and family. Join us and knit, crochet, sew, cross stitch, etc.

Brislington Carers Group

We are a friendly supportive group of people who care for someone who has dementia. The meetings allow us time to discuss our caring roles and to feel genuinely listened to.

First Wednesday of each month 10.30-12.30

Louise Brown 07752 340370

Brislington School of Dance

Tuesday 16.45 – 19.30

Thursday 19.00-21.20

Friday 17.30 – 18.30 18.45-20.45

Saturday 09.00 – 17.30

term time only

Debbie Bassett 01761 472 109 Stagehandsdance@gmail.co

The Brislington School of Dance was established over 30 years ago by principal dance teacher Debbie Bassett who still runs the school today. Many of the students that grew up taking dance classes now send their own children here. Dancing can impart many skills that can be used throughout life.

Zum Zumba

Thursday 17.00-19.00

Gill Tippetts 0782 7441 109 Gilltip@gmail.com

Jacqui Price 0776 6467 093

Zumba is a combination of salsa and aerobics involving your entire body, from your arms to your shoulders and your feet, so you’ll get a full-body workout whilst having fun and enjoyment.

Tai Chi

Monday 14.15 – 15.15

John Bruce 0771 8745 815

Tai Chi is a set of exercises which seek to establish a balanced and relaxed body. Based on Chinese wisdom it is well known for reducing stress and producing excellent health benefits, both mental and physical.

Broomhill Food Club

Tuesday 12.30 – 14.30

FOOD CLUB | Ebcc (eastbristolchildrenscentre.co.uk)

Runs in partnership with Family Action. For £3.50 each week we offer a food parcel worth approx. £15 for anyone who lives in the local community who wants to reduce waste and save money. You are welcome to contact us.

Keep Fit

Wednesday 10.00 – 11.00

Eileen Scott 0796 9929 733

Scottyartois@hotmail.com

Improve mobility, flexibility, strength, balance and general wellbeing, whilst having fun and making new friends. All are welcome. Try the first session for free.

Bristol Concert Wind Band

Wednesday 19.30 – 21.30

Ian Maitland-Round Info@bcwb.co.uk 0117 4057369

Bristol Concert Wind Band (BCWB) has rehearsed at St Peter’s since 2001 and enjoys an excellent relationship with the Church providing concerts and playing at our Carol Services. BCWB is among the premier wind band in the Bristol area.

Nightingale Valley Community Choir

Monday 19.30-21.00

Anya Szreter 07720

Brislington United Reformed Church

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