St George Community Association

Art venues galore in St George.

Having problems with your hearing? You may find this drop in session at The Beehive Centre, Stretford Rd (round the back of St George Park) on Thursday 29th August really helpful.

If you or anyone you know would like to know more about hearing loss and deafness, please come along to this helpful drop in information session.

@ The Beehive Centre next Thursday 29th August, 11am-1pm, with Centre for Deaf and Hard of Hearing.

Thank you from some of the St George Strollers to The Beehive Centre volunteers for all the lovely planting they have done in St George Park. It really added enjoyment to their St George Park Strollhttp://www.troopers-hill.org.uk/strollers/StGeorgeParkStroll.pdf

Been a while since you had any leadership training, if any? In a role or thinking about undertaking a role that involves organising people? This could be useful if you are a woman aged 55+

Bristol Women's Voice and Bristol Older People's Forum invites women aged 55 and over to this interactive workshop to self-reflect, collectively explore and discuss feminist leadership principles in practice.

✨ What to expect ✨
We will be looking at power dynamics in society and the tools and skills we want to develop to be feminist leaders such as active listening, communication styles, consent, boundaries, individual and collective well-being and more.

The workshop is accessible, filled with activities and no prior knowledge of feminist principles is necessary.

We hope that you will be leaving with a new sense of your power and place in the world.

📅 Tuesday 1 October
🕕 10am - 1pm
📍 The Station

Free to attend, please register on EventBrite (🔗in bio)

Remember the post below from 2014?

The work continued and benches were installed along Church Road - Bristol. The one outside the Blue Sky Cafe is particularly appreciated. However the one on the corner of Roseberry Park, outside what was the CM3 shop became associated with anti-social behaviour and was removed.

If you look at Google Maps street view you can still the bench on the corner of Church Rd and Roseberry Park.

Your local Bristol City Council Councillor Rob Bryher writes:
"
You may have noticed that the bench at the junction of Roseberry Park and Church Road (outside the CM3 shop) was removed on 14th May 2024 having been raised as a removal job to the council’s contractors in January 2024 (before I was elected as a councillor).

I am seeking local views on whether the bench should be replaced, with a view to implementing whatever the majority decision of the survey is. This is a chance for the community to decide on a small part of local infrastructure, so please do take part!

Take part in the 1-minute survey: bit.ly/RoseberryParkBenchSurvey

Thanks so much for participating in shaping our community.
"

Have you heard of the Friends of Avon View Cemetery? Find out more.

If you like walking on Troopers Hill you may also enjoy visiting the lovely Avon View Cemetery, not only a working cemetery where friends and relatives can quietly remember their loved ones, but also experiencing improved care to make it even better for wildlife and visitors.

The Friends of Avon View Cemetery have a Facebook group that you might like to join on https://www.facebook.com/groups/878329606568790

There is a post there from 13th July asking for your feedback on the care of the cemetery and a more recent one on 4th August about thoughts on starting work parties to w**d, seed, keep paths clear etc. Why not have a look and join in the discussion?

Bristol Waste had a vehicle problem yesterday, Tuesday 13th August, so recycling was not collected in the St George Troopers Hill area. They say on their website
https://bristolwastecompany.co.uk/household/collections/
it will be collected this morning.

A pleasant summer evening activity at the top of Fir Tree Lane not far from the junction of Nicholas Lane and Nags Head Hill. Why not give it a try?

Gardening group dates for August 🌤️🍓🫐🍅🧅🥔🥕🌽

The St George Strollers newly arranged walk "Derailed" thanks to railway engineering works on the Severn Beach Line meant no trains on Friday 23rd August.

St George Strollers - Derailed - Friday 23rd August Linear walk from Lawrence Hill, finishing at Cabot Circus after visiting a series of pocket parks and a cemetery art work.This walk is run by the St George Strollers. To find out more about them and to access a 3-month programme of walks please visit www.

Have fun at the Bristol East Allotment Association show on Sunday 18th August.

Lots of photos of Bristol International Balloon Fiesta balloons on the Friends of Troopers Hill page. Enjoy the video.
Any photos of balloons from elsewhere in St George?

Balloon "flypast" at Troopers Hill Saturday 10th August- a wonderful evening on Troopers Hill enjoying Bristol Balloon Fiesta

Do you walk with the St George Strollers? They have had to change the walk they had planned for Friday 23rd August.

If you were intending to walk with the St George Strollers on their Lamplighters Marsh walk on Friday 23rd August please note the walk has had to be changed. All the walkers on the St George Strollers emailing list have been emailed with the new details and all those with no internet access who have given their phone numbers have been contacted.

If you walk with the St George Strollers and are not on the mailing list you can add yourself via http://tinyurl.com/stgstrollersmail

More details of the St George Strollers, what they do and a link to their revised programme is on http://www.troopers-hill.org.uk/strollers/

Did you manage to take photos of the balloons this morning from St George? We'd love to see them if you did.

Any good photos to share of the balloons this morning? They are a little far away today.

If you are free this Thursday 8th August from 10am-noon why not book yourself a place to give St George's only Local Nature Reserve a helping hand at a nature conservation work party.

Troopers Hill Nature Conservation Work Parties Many dates for 2 hours "green exercise" while helping maintain the mosaic of habitats needed by the wildlife of Troopers Hill's heathland.

A new poster will be going up on local community noticeboards soon, giving updated information with more opportunities to contact your local St George councillors.
Please note that if you email Councillor Fabian Breckels, the councillor for St George Troopers Hill, you will receive an automated reply saying "I am currently out of the office because of illness. Please contact [email protected] in my absence. Thank you. " We wish him a swift recovery.

We wish local Bristol Councillor for St George Troopers Hill, Fabian Breckels, a speedy recovery. If you have urgent matters that need to be addressed he wrote in an earlier post "For anything urgent please email [email protected] and you will get support."

Excellent news - Save the date for 2025 - the last weekend of July is 26-27.

Redfest is pleased to announce that we will be back in the park in 2025 (no, not this weekend..!). It will be the last weekend in July 2025, not the normal August slot. So get it in your diary now! 🌳😍☀️

The park licence has been applied for and we have started assembling a crack team of production maestros.

The festival will have a renewed focus on community. It will have music and food, spoken word and wellbeing, creating a celebration of our neighbourhood where we hope everyone feels welcome. More to come in the coming weeks and months.

Footnote: Grounded are running their own ‘Redfest’ event this weekend. Grounded was one of the original venues and has always done a festival in their garden since Redfest started, whether or not the park event has happened. Their event will be very much in the spirit the Redfest started which is DIY and for the community, and while it's not an official Redfest event, they will have donation buckets for the festival next year.

We plan to have some community events over the next 12 months. If there's a venue or business that wants to be involved we will try our best to accommodate!

Age UK Bristol has published guides to what's on in Bristol. You can also find copies on their website at https://www.ageuk.org.uk/bristol/our-services/linkage/

What's On Guides are online and printed! Let us know if you would like a copy?

St Aidans Community Garden has a page where you can see some on the great work they have been doing. https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61559193804435

St Aidans Community Garden All welcome: Community Garden Transformation

An invitation to celebrate the opening of a new community garden here in St George.
Find out more on https://staidansbristol.co.uk/garden-project/ including how you can join in the gardening activity.

Give a helping hand to St George's only Local Nature Reserve.

Enjoy good company while helping Troopers Hill. Book via www.tinyurl.com/thworkparty
Some places left on tomorrow's nature conservation work party.

Bookings open today for the St Aidan's quiz

An update to the poster on "How to contact your local St George Councillor" - if you don't know what Bristol ward you live in or how to contact your Councillor visit www.bristol.gov.uk/councillors

The page for :
Councillor Fabian Breckels is https://www.facebook.com/CllrFabianBreckels
Councillors Cara Lavan and Abi Finch is https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61559467921436
Councillor Rob Bryher is on X at https://x.com/RobBryher

There's now a regular 40 minute ferry service from Netham Lock to the centre of Bristol.

After a successful trial and overwhelming support from the East Bristol community - Bristol Ferry will be offering daily trips from Netham Lock into the city centre starting from June 3.
Ticket payments can be made upon boarding - all details can be found at https://www.bristolferry.com/waterbus/netham/
We hope to see you on board!

Two sets of keys found on Troopers Hill

Have you lost your keys including a car key?

They were spotted at the weekend and left on the dog bin at the top of Troopers Hill where you pass from the Hill (Local Nature Reserve) into Troopers Hill Field.

Yesterday we also had a report of "a big set of keys" on the information board at the Summerhill Terrace entrance to Troopers Hill Field. No photo of that set. If anyone is passing today and sees them, could they take a photo and add it as a comment below?

Many thanks.

If you live in St George Central ward and want to talk to your local Bristol City Councillors they will be holding a surgery this coming Wednesday 12th June at Meadow Vale Community Centre, BS5 7RF from 2.30pm-4pm.

Not sure which ward you live in? Use www.bristol.gov.uk/councillors or the map on https://tinyurl.com/stgeorgecentral to find out.

If you live in one of the St George wards these are your current Bristol City Council councillors and how to contact them.
Not sure what ward you live in and who your councillors are? Use www.bristol.gov.uk/councillors

You can also find 3 of the St George Councillors on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61559467921436 and https://www.facebook.com/CllrFabianBreckels