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Southmead News & What’s On
SOUTHMEAD LADIES KICK OFF! By Sarah Quinn
into all sorts of issues and mischief. We get them into sport instead with the hopes of them building more friendships, confidence, team spirit, orn and bred in Southmead, when I pride for their community and the was growing up in this community people in it. there weren’t many opportuni�es for When I was a teenager in this young girls and boys to be involved in community (a few years ago) I was sports and ac�vi�es. Not only were kicking a football around outside my facili�es an issue, but I can imagine house as I loved football, but it wasn’t things like money and opportuni�es to really “a girl’s game” or so I was told funding were also factors at the �me. I back then. But a guy called Paddy look around now and we s�ll have Dorney drove past and saw me kicking issues with such things. At Southmead that ball and stopped and asked me if I Community Sports I like to think we wanted to come training for a girls’ have an opportunity to try and help team at the youth club, playing for a this situa�on in a posi�ve way. We not set-up the community had started only get the young, but also the called ‘The Voice Of Southmead’. teenage kids at their most impressionable ages, off the streets of con�nued on page 3 . . . Southmead where I know they can get B�� M������ �� S�������� C�������� S����, C���������� ��� ������ �� S�������� L����� FC
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SOUTHMEAD FOOTBALL NEW & OLD THE LAUNCH OF SOUTHMEAD UNITED By Cllr Helen Godwin Football con�nues to be our na�onal sport and the beau�ful game holds something special for most children whether it's watching football on the telly, swapping Match A�ax or playing the game. Boys and girls are increasingly taking part in football, especially a�er the success of the Lionesses in the Women’s World Cup. It has struck me recently that we in Southmead do not have a youth team for younger age groups and along with Sarah Quinn at Southmead Community Sports (SCS) we want to change this! From September there will be FREE football training sessions every Saturday morning in term �me at SCS, open to boys and girls from year one to year four (U6-9). We want to get as many children involved as possible from across Southmead and are hoping to work with our schools Li�le Mead, Fonthill and Badock's Wood to encourage a�endees. The sessions will be for 60-90 minutes and there will be free tea and coffee for parents in the club house. In order to make the sessions happen we need volunteer coaches no experience required! Ideally coaches should be parents or carers of children who would like to come along, but we will also be ge�ng some support from the Bristol Rovers Community Trust. There is the poten�al for volunteer coaches to access the Level 1 FA Coaching Badge, supported by SCS. Sessions are planned to start from Saturday 13/20th September, 10am at Southmead Community Sports, off Pen Park Road. If you would like to find out more about volunteering as a coach please contact Sarah Quinn email: sarahmquinn@outlook.com or tel: 0117 950 1187.
From John Garland I was born and raised in Southmead but now live in Wiltshire so I don't receive a regular copy of The Mead. However, I have a copy of issue 63 (May & June 2019) and on page 15 there is an ar�cle by Alan Piper. Alan included a photo (below) and asked for further informa�on. I don't recognise any of the players or their strip but the adult standing at the back on the le� (as you look at the photo) is almost certainly Penry Williams. He was headmaster at Greenway School un�l he re�red in 1964. An ar�cle in the Greenway school magazine of the �me ran a short ar�cle on him which stated that he was Head of Greenway and its predecessors since 1942. The adult on the other side looks like a young Michael Bolhovener who was a maths teacher and Housemaster of Raleigh House at Greenway when I was there in the 1960's. However, I don't ever recall him being involved with football (unless it was a Raleigh House team) so it may not be him. Another possibility is sports teacher Mr Elkin but I thought he was taller. In the background I think you can see some prefabs that were in Bowness Gardens. They have now been demolished and I think there is a park there now. On the other side there appears to be a glimpse of Baddock's Wood. Greenway school's gym and changing rooms would be a short distance directly behind the cameraman. If I am correct then we o�en went past that spot as part of our school cross country route.
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SOUTHMEAD KIDS
Sarah Quinn, con�nued from page 1 . . . I went and realised there was a lot of
like-minded girls that just wanted to play football and thanks to the volunteers, people like Paddy and Pauline Teddy, we could do it. We received funding and through people �relessly working to help this community lots of girls and boys got to play football and basketball for Southmead. These volunteers helped and supported each other to try and make a change in this community. Over the years Southmead won lots of awards in sports, and teams did very well all because we were given opportuni�es. I o�en wonder if Paddy hadn’t drove past that day what I would be doing now, would I have gone down the same path? I played for Southmead for years and it was some of the best years of my life! Now we as a Club and people of Southmead want to try and give back like those volunteers did by developing our kid’s teams and running free fun football sessions (with snacks!) and ge�ng more involved with community. I have recently done my Level 1 Football Coaching and have started a ladies football team called Southmead Ladies FC, with the help of good people who organise it so we have the opportunity to play in the Gloucestershire County League and receive funding for kits and equipment. If we can get ladies, 16 years plus, kicking a ball around with friendly people for fun, and giving some hard-working mums a chance to have an hour out, I think it’s a great thing for the body and the soul. We as a Club hope we can at least try to help in some way with ge�ng kids and adults of Southmead par�cipa�ng or helping out in sports and keeping people fit and ac�ve.. If any ladies are interested in joining Southmead ladies FC all abili�es are welcome. Training is 7PM Wednesdays £2 per session at Southmead Community Sport, Jarra�s Road, BS10 6WF
BADOCK’S WOOD CHILDRENS CENTRE
By lyndsey Chappell
Centre is excited and striving to make the changes to the environment to ack before Christmas I wrote an promote this approach; it now looks so ar�cle explaining that there were much more invi�ng and there have some significant changes proposed for been a lot of posi�ve comments. the Badock's Wood Children’s Centre Family support services will and parents and carers were very con�nue, they are s�ll limited but this concerned and shocked about these is being monitored to ensure that the changes. needs of the area and parents are Last April I met with Dawn Butler, being met. Early Years Manager at Bristol City The Centre has been allowed to Council, for this AMAZING update. change its name and is currently taking Dawn reassured and deligh�ully ideas for the new name and logo; I informed me that by working together personally would like it to go back to with the working group (parents’ panel, Southmead Children’s Centre. The staff at the Centre and Bristol City Centre would love some feedback and council), it has been agreed that the ideas from the community to help with Centre this so please feel free to drop in and - Con�nues to accept early educa�on offer some ideas about the name placements for 15/30hrs per week from change and logo ASAP! age two 2 years The Centre has restarted - Con�nues to accept paid places from communica�on with parents/carers by ages two to four years relaunching newsle�ers. It also held its Stays open from 8:00am to 4:30pm first parents evening for children - Will offer new sessions to include moving up to Recep�on in September breakfast group, lunch�me 2019. Parents evening was a success wraparound and a�er school and I was able to ‘recruit’ some more wraparound (which I feel is essen�al for parents and carers to our ever-growing working parents like myself) Facebook page. Please feel free to join - Will con�nue with weekly Forest (if you have not already), search for: School (weather permi�ng) and will Badocks Wood Children's Centre hope to adver�se this as a private Parents/Carers Group. session offered to children not I would like to personally thank all a�ending the Centre – more details to parents on the parent’s panel and be confirmed. everyone who has helped to support The Centre has embraced the the Centre and shown true ‘Meader’ Curiosity Approach; this is a wondrous community spirit. THANK YOU ethos that focuses on curiosity, awe and wonder in early childhood and the SOUTHMEAD RESIDENT
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A GREAT SOUTHMEAD GET-TOGETER Thanks to Neighbours Connect Southmead, residents came together to celebrate kindness and community last June. The event was part of the na�onal Great Get-Together in memory of Joe Cox MP. With sunshine, tea, cake, and great company it was a brilliant morning on Arnside. Here are some highlights . . .
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SOUTHMEAD KIDS SCOUT & ABOUT IN SOUTHMEAD FROM 4th BRISTOL 1st SOUTHMEAD SCOUT GROUP
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y name is Claire Mcginn and I run the Southmead Beaver sec�on on a Tuesday evening from 6:00-7:00pm. We take children from age 5 and a half to age 8. We do lots of badge work and play lots of games. My name is Phil and I run the Cub sec�on on a Monday evening from 6:15-7:30 pm. We take children from age 8 to 11. We run a great program and play lots of gam es and also go on camps. with half of our heart (the other half is By Thomas, Lilly May, Corey and Maya My name Ma�hew and I run the FROM BADOCK’S WOOD for chocolate). Scout sec�on on a Tuesday evening There are many things to be E-ACT ACADEMY AMBASSADORS from 7:00-9:00 pm. We take ages 11 to looking forward to in secondary school ast term we said goodbye to Primary 14. We go on camps and do badge and a few things that you might be School as we le� Badock’s Wood Ework. looking forward to, here are some of ACT Academy. We wanted to tell you If anyone in your family would like about some of our highlights and some ours: “I can’t wait to go to Bristol Free to join us please call on 07714 461 951. School because I want to do art “ Corey of the things that we are looking We are based in the Scout Hut on “I am not looking forward to forward to. Some of us are feeling Doncaster Road, down the lane dissec�ons but I am looking forward to nervousited (nervous/excited) but we opposite the fishing shop. The subs are doing tex�les “ Lily May are ready. These are some of our £25 a term per child, and any sibling is “I am looking forward to dissec�ons, highlights. £20. because at the moment I don’t know A few years ago, we worked with Come along and have fun! anything about it “ Maya years 4, 5 and 6 in a play called The “I am looking forward to science. Top Snow Queen and in a produc�on of �p – don’t put your hands in the Jack and the Beanstalk. We had fun Bunsen burner flame!” Thomas working together and put on an We want to tell you some of our amazing play. More recently we visited �ps so you are ready for secondary the SS Great Britain and learned all about Brunel. We have shared a picnic school. Here are our top five �ps: – Always have your �metable with you at the Greenway Centre and hosted a so you know where you’re supposed to Victorian Christmas Market, the best be bit was that we used the money we made at the market to buy supplies for – Don’t be afraid to ask if you are lost – Don’t expect to know everything on our end of year AirHop Trip. your first day Some things we will never forget. At – Behave yourself and be pa�ent camp last year we did amazing – Don’t worry if your old friends aren’t ac�vi�es like body boarding and team with you, you will make new ones building. We made bread out of If you are going to secondary s�nging ne�les and elderflower and school, we hope you enjoy it! baked it on the fire, it was delicious. Before we went to bed, we had hot chocolate. Thank you to Thomas, Lilly May, Corey and Maya. We have had amazing and friendly Please keep writing for The Mead from your next teachers while we have been at school. Good luck and best wishes for a happy Badock’s Wood, we want to say thank time wherever you are going to school next. you to them and we will miss them
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COMMUNITY NOTICES: Could you support a neighbour to feel more connected to their community? FREE - Cook and Chat Cooking Classes Are you age 50+? Join us for fun and friendly cooking classes. Learn how to cook simple, delicious and healthy dishes from around the world
Find out more on our website www.southmead.org or contact Letty on 0117 950 3335 or lettyanderton@southmead.org
NeighboursConnect Southmead Neighbours Connect
Fridays from 9.30 - 12.30 September 13, 20, 27 Greenway Centre Doncaster Road Bristol, BS10 5PY To Book: Call 07769 686858 or email eliza@91ways.org
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GERRY’S ARMY: Help ex Southmead Rugby players to scale new heights!
In memory of family members who have been taken from us, a few of us decided to challenge ourselves and raise some money for a worthwhile cause: research into the most common cancer in men, Prostate Cancer, in memory of our mates dad Gerald Robbins. During the weekend of the 7th and 8th September 2019 - eleven of us are se�ng off to tackle Ben Nevis, Scafell Pike and Snowdon. Those of you that know us will know we’re not the fi�est, not seasoned walkers or navigators, so it’s quite a task to walk the 23 miles and ascend the 10,052� across the three peaks over the course of the weekend, sleeping between each peak. Please find below a link to our Just Giving Page - any support you can give would be greatly appreciated - wish us luck! h�ps://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/ stephen-tucker8?utm_id=124
Could we help you unlock your potential?
Contact West of England Works on 0117 950 3335 or westofenglandworks@southmead.org
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COMMUNITY DIARY DATES: The What’s On weekly calendar is on the next page, or online at www.themead.org.uk Remember to add your dates for events, classes and clubs on the website so we can print them
TABLE TOP SALES Saturday 7 Sept 10:00am Saturday 8 Oct 10:00am GREENWAY CENTRE Contact: 0117 950 3335 CAFE DROP INS: NEIGHBOURS CONNECT SOUTHMEAD
Wednesday 4 Sept 10.00 am Wednesday 2 Oct 10:00am
GREENWAY CENTRE Contact: 0117 950 3335
BS10 PARKS & PLANNING MEETINGS Monday 9 Sept 6:00pm HENBURY & BRENTRY CC Monday 14 Oct 6:00pm GREENWAY CENTRE Contact: 0117 950 3719 INCLUSION SOUTHMEAD MEETING Tuesday 17 Sept 11:00am THE MEETING ROOMS Contact: 07867 690 422
TEAM SOUTHMEAD MEETINGS Tuesday 24 Sept 11:00am Tuesday 29 Oct 11:00am SOUTHMEAD LIBRARY Contact: 07790 426 609
HOW ABOUT SHARING YOUR EVENT OR MEETING WITH THE COMMUNITY? add it at www.themead.org.ouk
JOBS FAIR: WEDS 18th SEPT 10:00 am - 2:00 pm
Bristol City Council’s Ways2Work team, the Department for Work and Pensions, and South Gloucestershire Council are again ge�ng together to deliver our annual North Bristol Jobs Fair on
Wednesday 18th September, 10:00 - 14:00. at Horfield Job Centre, 23 Monks Park Avenue, BS7 OUD Employers will be ready to talk to everyone who wants a job or who wants to have another job or a be�er job. Our Jobs Fairs are for everybody, not just for unemployed people. We work in partnership to offer a range of employers with a range of jobs (including Christmas vacancies). If you have not been to one of our Job Fairs before it is a great opportunity to talk to an employer. If you like the sound of the job you then apply, but when it comes to interview you will have already met someone who works there - so the ice will have been broken which should make it easier to talk the second �me. Where else can you meet thirty or forty employers, all with jobs to fill, within just a few hours? We suggest that if you already have a work coach or an employment adviser, you contact them and talk about the Jobs Fair. If you do want a bit of help to prepare for it, look on our website www.ways2work.org.uk for Na�onal Careers Service or Work Zone. Both offer free advice and support.
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Reach A�er School Club Music Course for 11-16s Greenway Pool Club Legs, Bums & Tums
Core & Stretch North Bristol Wellbeing Choir Morning Boxercise Imps Toddler Group Forever Ac�ve Insane X (high intensity)
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STRONG by Zumba Walk for Health (Gentle Walking through Badock’s Wood)
Insane X (High Intensity) Zumba Boxercise TNT Gym (Circuit Training)
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Tai Chi Qigong Staying Steady
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Badminton Club Fitness Yoga
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Piloexercise Crea�ve Writers Group
Forever Ac�ve Staying Steady Circuits Myofascial Release
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STRONG by Zumba Yoga for Wellbeing
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If so, please let the venue concerned know by giving them a call on their adver�sed number. They will then let us know about any amendments or cancella�ons.
Spo�ed something wrong on our What’s On Weekly? Is something not up to date at a venue?
SCC Tai Chi Distrac�on Dance Bristol Keralites Associa�on Any further problems Fran�c Fitness please make contact Christ Embassy Group with us directly. SCC Sequence Dance email: Cubatone editor@themead.org.uk Brandon Trust Music Group SCC Knit & Na�er Thank you Harmony Bingo SCC Sensory Session Precision Dance SCC Bingo Precision Dance Bristol Alexander School Bristol Rugby Community Founda�on Walking Rugby Distrac�on Dance Bristol Alexander School Southmead Somali Associa�on
SCC Bingo Slimming World SCC Bingo SCC Coffee Morning & Bingo Southmead Young Mums SCC Sensory Session
Line Dancing GC Lunch Club (eat at 13.00) Ladies Club
SOUTHMEAD COMMUNITY CENTRE - tel: 0117 950 1187 Slimming World 3 Trees Ski�les Art & Sensory Slimming World
WHAT’S ON WEEKLY BY VENUE - SEPTEMBER - OCTOBER 2019
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Story & Rhyme - Baby Bounce Art Club on the Mezzanine (Adults) Southmead Shares Reading Junior Art Club Saturday S�tch (Adults)
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LPW Friendship (ages 13-24) SOUTHMEAD LIBRARY - tel: 0117 903 8583 Tues 11-5 pm | Wed 11-5pm | Fri 1-5pm | Sat 11-5pm Story �me Takeover
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Skip Box Westbury Art Club Support for Mental Wellbeing TNT Gym (Circuit Training) Cubatone Be�er Breathing Southmead Knit & Na�er Tai Chi (Improvers) Boxercise
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BS10 Community Bingo, The Woodnook, tel: 07968 277 787 SUNDAY CHURCH SERVICES Catholic Mass at St Vincent’s Church C of E Service at St Stephen’s Church Community Church at Greenway Centre New Brunswick United Reformed Church Pentecostal Holiness Church Southmead Somali Associa�on at Southmead Community Centre Christ Embassy Group at Southmead Community Centre Senegambian Cultural Group at Southmead Community Centre
Westbury Walkers - meets in W-o-T, tel: 0117 330 1194 Debt Advice appts - Greenway GP Surgery, tel: 0117 924 1930 Henbury Walking Group - meets at Crow Lane Flats, tel: 0117 377 6247
Ac�vi�es for 60+ at Westbury Fields, tel: 0117 377 3700 Coffee Morning at Pentecostal Church, tel: 0117 987 1327 Wicketz - ages 8-11 at Bristol Free School, tel: 07398 211 598
Keep Fit for Living (also 09.45 AM at Scout Hut, Tranmere Ave, Brentry) Aadra Kalaa Dance Southmead History Group Girls Brigade - 3rd Bristol Aadra Kalaa Dance ACTIVITIES AT OTHER VENUES
NEW BRUNSWICK URC - tel: 0117 950 7776
Bristol Credit Union Job Club Stop Smoking Advisor Bristol Credit Union Bristol Credit Union
SCC Bingo Irish Dancing SCART SHOP - tel: 0117 950 6823 Benefits Advice (Appointment Only)
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RESIDENTS WRITING THE WONDERS OF READING By Deana Perry SECRETARY, TEAM SOUTHMEAD
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hilst reading the last edi�on of The Mead I no�ced an ar�cle asking for volunteers to read to children at Li�le Mead School. As this a Team Southmead priority I phoned Li�le Mead and spoke to the lady that is responsible for co-ordina�ng this project. I arranged to meet her at the School, and she told me what it would entail - a few hours a week on a day of my choice. My own son went to Li�le Mead (then called Embleton) and he loved it, so it felt special to be back there. I then invited the lady to our Team Southmead mee�ng so that she could tell everyone about reading with schoolchildren. Of course, the benefits for the children are not just to a�ain a higher level of reading, but they can ask ques�ons about the book, and because we have the �me, we can explain everything to them. If you have 30 children per class, the teacher would never have �me to read one to one with the pupils, but this is so important. We have around twelve members of Team Southmead interested in this project and the school desperately needs more volunteers. This subject is very special to me as when I was 3 years old my mum took
me to work with her as I was too young to go to school. I was the youngest of seven and my dad died when I was two years old. My mum was lucky enough to be able to take me with her for her cleaning job which was in a big house with tennis courts and an outdoor pool. Her employers were the Grimaldi family, both of them local doctors, and their house was at the top of Pen Park Road (now turned into flats). Imagine my surprise when we turned up on the first day and Dr Grimaldi (the wife) opened the front door smoking a pipe! I was whisked inside, and she took me upstairs to the Library where she taught me to read and write before I went to school. We even did all the jigsaw puzzles and when they went away for six weeks in the summer our family were allowed to use the pool and the tennis courts. Such kindness is hard to put into words, but I will always remember that she invested her �me in me and I like to think that I can do the same for li�le ones. My husband works at Rolls-Royce and one of his colleagues was boas�ng the other day that he had lived next door to the Grimaldis. My husband told him - "that's nothing - my wife used to swim in their pool!". If you’d like to join the Team Southmead group to read to children at Li�le Mead, please contact me email: zazu@sky.com tel: 07790 426 609
THE WONDER OF WENDY
By Shirley Neville SOUTHMEAD RESIDENT, TRAVELLING TEAPOT & BS10 BINGO
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any of you may have seen Wendy in The Mead several �mes either fundraising for the Bristol Oncology Centre, or volunteering at the BS10 Bingo and the Travelling Teapot. Although Wendy s�ll receives treatment and weekly chemo for Acute Myeloid Leukaemia, she s�ll finds �me to tend to her beau�ful garden at the Woodnook in Southmead. She calls it her ‘li�le haven’ where she can go and po�er around and enjoy the fresh air. Most of the flowers and plants have been lovingly grown from seed, and the garden has an array of solar lights so when the sun goes down the garden starts to twinkle. This is Wendy’s favourite �me of the day to enjoy her garden and to watch the birds and wildlife as she sits on her bench.
Wendy you’re inspirational. We’d like you to help The Mead with a gardening competition we’re planning to run - we’ll be in touch.
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WRITERS IN RESIDENCE IT WASN’T ME MISTER ‘ONNIST!
By Dawn Payne
SOUTHMEAD RESIDENT
Now look at me what a sight What a li�le scrap like something out of Dickens not looking so bright. This was a crater in Mina Road Park, but I was not allowed there day or dark. My Mum thought I was at my friends, but this is not where the story ends! Home I went Oh I had lost track of �me, wai�ng on the doorstep my Mum, my Mum looked quite mad, and then I became sad - Where have you been don’t say at friends and there in her clenched hands “The Evening Post” I had made front page, I was fearing the worse at this stage, I was whacked with the paper as I went through the door, “Let me tell you” my Mum said, “you won’t be going out no more”. P.S. I was very good as escaping!
Above: Dawn’s picture makes the then ‘Bristol Evening Post’.
MEMORY OF JANINE Birthday wishes to you I send Your Birthday moments together will never end No card to buy no watch to choose No little drink together Time may go, but this I know Your birthday memories will last forever Love you to the moon & back, Love Dawn Janine would have been 53 on June 4th
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THE BEST OF THE SOUTHMEAD FEST! What a lovely day - thank you to the organisers & to everyone who came . . .
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SOUTHMEAD FESTIVAL 2019 See all the photos in the Facebook album @greenwaycentre
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THE RANCH UPDATE By James Creed YOUTH TEAM LEADER, SOUTHMEAD DEVELOPMENT TRUST
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t the beginning of this year Bristol City Council made Southmead Development Trust custodians of the Southmead Adventure Playground, and a new management team called for Residents to volunteer and lend a hand to get The Ranch in be�er shape. In February a team of volunteers took part a ‘Love The Ranch’ Day to assess and �dy the grounds. Since then, step by step changes have been made to keep making improvements, while charity Bristol Playbus have put on three sessions of ac�vi�es every week plus meals. During the school summer holidays Bristol Playbus, Southmead Development Trust and Fare Share worked together to provide an extra session on Mondays so that families could enjoy the Ranch for four days a week. Southmead Resident Melissa has started up a toddler group every Friday morning from 9:30am to 11:30pm where all tots and carers are welcome (the sessions cost £1 which buys the refreshments for the group). So far, Melissa’s group has been a great success and the children have been enjoying the so�-play room and ballpit, as well as playing and singing in the main area (this has taken a break during school holidays). Unfortunately, Bristol Playbus have found it increasingly difficult to secure funding for the ac�vi�es they run across the City. They have now taken the difficult decision to close the charity a�er 45 years of serving children and families citywide. Their closure will be felt far and wide. We are sure you will join us in thanking them for all their wonderful work in Southmead. The management Team for The Ranch is working hard to ensure that the playground stays open. One way for The Ranch to earn a bit of money is to rent spaces out for events, par�es and mee�ngs so if you would like to consider it as a venue for an event you are planning to put on, please get in
touch with us - telephone James Creed on 0117 950 335 or email info@southmead.org. If you have any fundraising ideas please do let us know, with thanks.
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NEWS FROM ARNSIDE & THE SQUARE SOUTHMEAD PROJECT CELEBRATES By Imogen McCabe OPERATIONS MANAGER
Here at the Southmead Project we are celebra�ng our 25th year anniversary in the heart of community! We provide one-to-one counselling for people that have experienced abuse in childhood. We also have counselling specifically for people that have developed an addic�on to drugs or alcohol as a way of coping with the abuse they have experienced. A counsellor will work to help that person reduce their alcohol or substance intake and they may be referred for our longer-term counselling if this is appropriate. Please note that our clients do not need to have an addic�on to receive counselling with us. Our highly skilled counsellors can support adults who live in the Southmead area, as well those in wider Bristol and its surrounding areas. Our Family Support Group takes place on Wednesday evenings from 7:00 to
9:00pm. Anyone can join if they have a loved one facing addic�on issues who may be in need of support. This is a drop-in group where someone can come for as many sessions as they wish, in a welcoming and nonjudgemental environment.
If you would like any further informa�on on the work of the Southmead Project, joining the family group or are interested in suppor�ng us, please contact us on telephone: 0117 950 6022 or email: admin@southmeadproject.com
NEW HOMES ON GLENCOYNE SQUARE: WHO WILL THEY BE FOR? FROM ARNSIDE & GLENCOYNE SQUARE REGENERATION PROJECT
The regenera�on of Glencoyne Square is currently moving at a fast pace and, while this is exci�ng for many of us, we want to know who the new homes will be for. In Bristol, social and affordable housing alloca�on is dictated by HomeChoice Bristol who use their own �ered system to priori�se who they feel is in most need of social housing. Band 1 is the highest priority under HomeChoice and some of Band 1’s criteria includes foster carers, transfer from acute overcrowding and urgent medical need. However, it’s recognised that this system doesn’t always respond to specific local circumstances, such as here in Southmead. In response to
this, Southmead Development Trust is preparing a Local Le�ngs Policy to work alongside the HomeChoice Bristol scheme. The Local Le�ngs Policy for Glencoyne Square will be designed to address the issues specific to our Southmead, and led by our residents the community is exploring which groups of people should be a priority for new homes in Southmead. These groups include: • •
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Exis�ng residents of Southmead so they can stay in community Key workers such as staff from Southmead Hospital and Community Support Officers Southmead Residents who are in homes no longer suitable for their needs Younger Southmead Residents who want to stay in the community
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People with a connec�on to Southmead such as their family or place of work Vulnerable individuals at risk of homelessness or domes�c violence People living with a disability who may require adapted accommoda�on
The aspira�on is for the Local Le�ng Policy to cover 100% of the homes on the scheme, and conversa�on with Bristol City Council is already underway to put this into place. tel: 0117 950 3335 (Regen Team)
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THE MEAD NOTES & MESSAGES 75 today! 1st September
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO OUR WONDERFUL WRITER DAWN Have a lovely day Dawn and thank you for all your writing for The Mead, as well as for all your interest and continued support. LETTER FROM VOLUNTEER EDITOR, SUZANNE DAGGAR Dear Readers I’m so sorry we could not print the last edition (July/August). This is because the computer software we use to design the layout became ‘corrupted’ (totally buggered!). Since then we have bought new software and I have been learning to use it which reminded me of learning to drive! It’s been trial and error and very bit slow. But here it is, the first printed edition on our new computer software. Setting out the items for the printed edition is quite fiddly and as we are volunteer run we need everyone’s help to keep going. Please add your item to The Mead website, which is our document file, yourself or ask a friend with a computer to help. This halves the amount of work it takes to put the printed edition together and means we can keep going in the long run. As no-one is paid to produce The Mead it has to be a community-wide effort to share our information and keep all our residents in the loop. Thank you, keep writing, & best wishes, Suzanne
THANK YOU
to this month’s adver�sers, and to kind dona�ons from:
CONTACT THE MEAD:
Look out for the launch of the Southmead Butterfly Garden Competition!
website: www.themead.org.uk email: editor@themead.org.uk telephone: leave a message at Greenway Centre Reception Desk - 0117 950 3335 - we will return your call asap postal address: The Mead, c/o Greenway Centre, Doncaster Road, Southmead, BS10 5PY. Pick up your up at: SCART Shop, Greenway Centre, Southmead Community Centre, Greenway GP Surgery, Southmead Health Centre. Some residents have The Mead put through their letterbox - this is because they are lucky enough to have a volunteer living in their street who picks up a batch from Greenway Centre and delivers them. Why not do this for your street? Just get in touch and we’ll arrange it. The Mead can only go to print if we raise enough money to pay for the printing costs. We raise funds through advertising and donations. If we can’t print, all items and notices are still online for us all to read, so ask a neighbour with a computer to show you our website or call in at the Southmead Library or SCART Shop where computers are available.
PLEASE CHECK THE WEBSITE FOR DETAILS OF OUR NEXT PRINTED EDITION, INCLUDING THE NEXT DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS.