Thornbury's Farmers' Markets are held at the St Mary Centre every first and third Thursday of the month from 9am - 1pm.
Come and enjoy a wide selection of fresh, high quality produce from local suppliers.
For more information, contact Alan Cole on 01454 888822.

We are a voluntary group which started in Thornbury in 2004. Spokesman and founder Peter Halsey says - 'more and more people are getting fed up with litter so we wish to peacefully demonstrate to our Town that we will clear litter and hopefully encourage others to do the same and also join Litter Busters. There is no cost to joining Litter Busters, just a commitment to make a difference with litter in our community. Our goal is to promote and encourage a culture change towards a litter free community by attracting support from 1) the general public and 2) appropriate agencies, bodies and resources. Call Peter on 856670 for more information.
Litter Busters - picking up on more than just litter.

Oldbury is an operating twin reactor station, located on the river at Oldbury on Severn. It produces electricity around the clock, supplying on a typical day 435MW of electricity - enough to meet the needs of a city one and a half times the size of Bristol.
Oldbury's primary objective is to generate and sell electricity, while maintaining a safe and secure working environment. Work is also underway to ensure a seamless transition to the defuelling phase and the start of decommissioning.

We arrange walks each weekend as well as midweek evenings in the summer. The area and length of the walk varies greatly and members also arrange occasional weekends away.
We have regular social events such as skittles evenings, quiz nights, barbecues and the like, and there is always a Christmas dinner.
However, we are more than just a walking club. The Ramblers is a registered charity and one of its aims is to campaign to keep the footpath network open.
Click below to visit the website or download the newsletters, which contain details of walks.

Click here to download the Severnside newsletter, with details of local walks

Click here to download Avon Area News, which has details of ‘railway walks’

Local campaigns include transport, planning, recycling, wildlife and nuclear power.

Our aim is to promote the well-being of everyone living and working in the area, by promoting greater local self-reliance and a more cooperative and inclusive community. For more information phone the secretary on 01454 416778.

Meetings are held regularly (approximately monthly) depending on current activities. In 2008 the group is concentrating on :

• activities that seek to reduce waste which include: a campaign to reduce the number of plastic bags given out and used in our town, a project to discourage food waste by researching and publishing tasty recipes for leftovers, an event to encourage re-use
• action to stimulate debate and action to make our shops vibrant and give life to our town
• action to bring together various groups in the town to look at networking effectively so that we approach challenges together

The original award-winning Community Garden on Gillingstool, Thornbury, closed in January 2007 but South Gloucestershire Council gave us another derelict plot of ground next to Turnberries, the new Community Building on Upper Bath Road and we are designing and creating a new community garden, open to the public.
We have now been granted access to the new plot which has enabled us to erect a storage container at the bottom of the Garden which is covered with mesh to enable shrubs to grow over it, making it less conspicuous. We have just finished planning the main pathway and other hard landscaping areas and plan to start construction in February 2008. For all info' on previous garden, including photos of the NEW one, please visit the Thornbury Community Garden website.

For more information, click the link below:

The idea is to encourage people in the Thornbury area to get the savings habit.
We have a stall in library every Saturday from 10am to 12 noon. Members can make deposits there as small as 50p, and draw out their savings. People can also join the Club at the stall, and only members can save. It costs £1 for adults to join, and juniors under age 16 can join free.
The Savings Club is non profit-making, and is not owned by any commercial company. Savings are invested in Lloyds Bank. The Savings Club will normally pay a dividend to all members at the end of each year.
For more information, come to the stall or ring Bob Jeffery on 01454 413535.

Click the link below to find out what you can recycle at the Sort It! centre, along with directions and opening times.

Whether you're keen to support local suppliers and reduce food miles, crave more flavour and variety on your plate, or simply want a great range of delicious food on your doorstep, Tortworth Estate Farm shop is your answer.
Box Walk, Tortworth, Gloucestershire, GL12 8HF
Phone: 01454 261633
Fax: 01454 261705

CPRE wants a beautiful, tranquil and diverse countryside that everyone can value and enjoy; a working countryside that contributes to national well being by enriching our quality of life, as well as providing us with crucial natural resources.

This website is full of useful information and advice about recycling.