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The Thornbury Chamber of Commerce exists to:

• promote common support among the business community
  
• encourage working to the mutual benefit of members
  
• provide a collective voice in discussions with local authority and other agencies
  
• encourage a high standard of excellence in business
  
• help businesses increase their trade
  
• help and encourage the promotion of Thornbury and its commerce

An established Chamber for more than 40 years, its members pride themselves on the position it enjoys as a respected and influential body within the town.

If you want have your say where and when it counts, then how better than through the Thornbury Chamber of Commerce?

The Chamber holds Quarterly General Meetings, one of which is an Annual General Meeting, usually held in Spring.

Occasionally special meetings are called to deal with specific developments, which may be important to the commercial landscape of Thornbury.

Community events are also arranged, such as the recent May Food Market, with Christmas events planned for 2008, and a Carnival on July 4th 2009.

All Thornbury Chamber members have access to the facilities of Bristol Chamber of Commerce. Visit their website for the latest business news and information: www.businesswest.co.uk

Latest news

From Olveston to Orange Grove

Olveston based landscape architects, and Thornbury Chamber members, Reckless Orchard have won a place in a prestigious international design competition - The Festival International Des Jardins at Ponte de Lima in Portugal.

A dozen garden designs have been selected from entries from around the world, including Japan.

The theme for this year’s competition is ‘Energy in the Garden’.

Flavia and Les, pictured above, are part of the team at Reckless Orchard, an exciting and innovative young practice which also won a major regeneration award for the SW in December. Although a small practice they work for major clients both in the UK and abroad – currently these include the Bristol city centre Broadmead regeneration project as well as projects for private clients in both Brazil and Dubai.

All projects are carefully selected and implemented, contrary to the impression their quirky company name might suggest! Reckless Orchard is, in fact, named after a ‘lost orchard’ in the Wye Valley and often encourages the planting of orchards in both urban and rural settings.

“Our design submission is an Orange Grove garden highlighting the concept of citrus pulp bio-fuel. This involves using a waste organic by-product rather than a planted crop to produce ethanol - a ‘green’ fuel.” Commented Les Baker. “The garden will be built in the spring and is expected to be seen by over 75,000 visitors over the summer. It will also be filmed as part of a new film festival. After the garden festival finishes the garden is likely to be permanently sited in Portugal”.

This is a typically stylish and sustainable show garden designed by the Reckless Orchard team – they are already well known for their walled, straw bale orchard garden built at Westonbirt Arboretum for the UK International Festival of Gardens in 2003.

To follow the development of the Orange Grove garden and to find out more about their work visit their web site at www.recklessorchard.com

Design information and photographic images will also be shown as part of the Severn Vale Open Studios art trail later on in the year.

How to get in touch

Contact the Thornbury Chamber of Commerce via The Secretary, Di Aldrich at 11 Sorrel Close, Thornbury, Bristol, BS35 1UH, by phone on 01454 853119 or by email:

See the website: www.thornburychamber.org.uk

Click here to download a membership form