Snuff Mills Action Group, Hillfields Community Trust, Sustrans Volunteer Wardens, Barton Fields Trust, Valley Action Group, Vassall Centre Trust, FLAG, Environmental Sub Group, Fishponds Planning Group, Fishponds Local History Society, Brunel Scout Groups, Friends of Eastville Park, East Bristol Partnership of Churches, Harry Crook Youth Activities Centre, Cossham Hospital's League of Friends, Glenside Hospital Museum, Vassall Centre Trust, Greater Fishponds Neighbourhood Partnership, Friends of the Railway Path
Local Action Groups that are helping to transform Greater Fishponds in to an excellent place to live and work!
Snuff Mills Action Group: blogsite: snuffmills.blogspot.com
Snuff Mills is a beautiful area in #Greater Fishponds, Bristol.
We are an active group of local people working together to improve Snuff Mills, Wickham Glen and Oldbury Court for people and wildlife. Please visit our blog for more details: snuffmills.blogspot.com
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Hillfields Community Trust hillfieldscommunitytrust.org.uk
For the furtherance of the community facilities in Hillfields and surrounding areas. With the furtherance of education of people living and working in the area. HCT are looking for an army of members across Hillfields.
Branching Out Community Centre.
2012 marks not only the Diamond Jubilee but also the diamond year of the Hillfields Park Community Centre which took 21 years to plan and develop with work completed in late 1951 on the community centre and in 1953 on the youth centre alongside. These buildings were developed by volunteers and news spread across the UK of this wonderful story and shortly after the Queens Coronation in 1953, the Duke of Edinburgh kindly visited the two centres during his visit to Bristol. Hillfields Youth Centre was redeveloped during the late 1980's by Bristol Council who controlled the youth building by then but unfortunately the community centre wasn't updated by the committee and fell in to decline and was demolished in 2004. The Hillfields Community Trust are now working to rebuild the Community Centre and call it Branching Out as part of a Diamond Jubilee project to help return a real sense of community to Hillfields after 75% of Hillfields community buildings have been lost during the past 25 years including Hillfields Park Baptist Church Scout Hut visit: hillfieldscommunitytrust.org.uk
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Barton Fields Trust bartonfieldstrust.btck.co.uk
Barton Fields Trust has a 'Friends of the Field' group which meets by monthly at the Rugby club, Duncombe lane, Speedwell.
This gives an opportunity for the local community to have a say in the development of the field. It also offers opportunities to work to improve the field through tree planting and planting flowers etc.
The meetings take place every other month on the 3rd Monday at 6.30pm
The year dates are January, March, May, July, September and November.
All members of the community are very welcome!
Mike Bond
Chair
Barton Fields Trust
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Sustrans Volunteer Wardens - Friends of the Bristol & Bath Railway Path
The Sustrans Volunteer Wardens help to keep our cycle ways clean and respectable. Our group for Greater Fishponds also cover the wider area from Saltford near Bath to Bristol's Old Market area area. During future events in Fishponds they'll let us know so that we can all participate to keep our area of the path clean. If you would like to be involved regularly then please visit the following website: volunteering-with-sustrans and for the specific Ranger scheme visit:
sustrans.org.uk/support-sustrans/get-involved/volunteering-with-sustrans/volunteer-rangers there are currently about 20 people looking after our Railway Path.
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FLAG - Fishponds Local Action Group
The Beechwood Club, Beechwood Road, Fishponds BS16 3TR
Fishponds Local Action Group (FLAG) - Fishponds Village Hall
We hire this hall to local residents & groups for parties, weddings, birthdays and meetings etc. We also have two offices for the use of local community groups and a community garden which we need help running, so if you like to grow things or want to use the hall or offices please email Terry King: tk007h9736@blueyonder.co.uk or Tel. 01179 650 203. This hall as in the picture is available from £15 an hour. Terry King, FLAG Treasurer.
Current users of the Beechwood Club and the times they are there.
Redemption life church 9.30 am to 1pm on Sundays.
Zumba fitness 9.30 to 10.30 am on Monday Wednesday and Friday.
Zumba fitness, Wednesdays 11am to 12 and Fridays 4 pm to 4.45 pm, 5 pm to 5.45 pm and 6 pm to 7 pm.
These cater for children and also people who have unfit or less mobile.
Ballroom dance tuition 3 to 4 pm Mondays.
Ju Jitzu 6.30 to 8.30pm Mondays
Slimming World 6.30 to 8.30 Tuesdays
Yoga 10 to 11.30am Tuesdays
Townswomens Guild meetings 2 to 4 pm 1st Tuesday in each month.
Hanah More senior citizen's afternoon 2 to 4 pm Wednesdays every other week.
Keep fit run by Bristol City council 7 to 8 pm Wednesday.
Cycle Bristol 8 to 10 pm Wednesdays 6 Winter months only.
Pilates < posture / fitness > 9.30 tom 10.30am Thursday.
Arab Egyptian dancing 11.30 to 12.30 pm Thursday.
Sequence dancing 7.30 to 9.30pm Thursday.
Fishponds History society 7 to 9 pm 1st Friday in each month.
There are contact details of these activities on the door of the Beechwood Club, but in most cases, new members are welcome to come along and join in with the activities on the day.
We also welcome one off bookings for childrens parties, charity events, other local organisations and the like.
Tutors looking to run classes are also welcome.
Terry King
tk007h9736@blueyonder.co.uk
Tel. 01179650203
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Coombe Brook Valley Action Group: website: valleyactiongroup.org.uk
We are a community based Action Group in Mayfield Park, Fishponds, Bristol.
Mayfield Park can boast to having a nature reserve (Coombe Brook Valley Nature Reserve) which has sadly been left to decay and has become a place where people no longer feel they can walk or let their children go to play in safety.
Please visit our website for more details: valleyactiongroup.org.uk
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Fishponds Planning Group: website: fishpondsplanning.blogspot.com
The Fishponds Planning Group is here to ensure that large scale planning by developers in the Greater Fishponds Neighbourhood is done in the best interests of the area and the wider community.
Visit: fishpondsplanning.blogspot.com
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Fishponds Local History Society: website: fishponds.org.uk
Fishponds Local History Society was created in 1979 by John Bartlett and John Penny, both Fishponds born and bred, to promote the study of, and disseminate knowledge about, the local history of Fishponds and the Bristol area. They continue to run the society today, John Bartlett as Chairman and John Penny as Treasurer.
The society holds regular meetings on the first Friday of each month (except January and August) at the Beechwood Club/Resource Centre, Beechwood Road, Fishponds, Bristol, during which there is usually a presentation from a guest speaker, on some aspect of local history. Visits to local places of historic interest are also arranged. The society is affiliated to the Avon Local History Association.
Annual membership fee: £7
Guests are welcome at meetings, entrance fee: £1.50
Please visit: fishponds.org.uk
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