Bath Road, Thornbury, BS35 2BB
Tel: 01454 868485
Email:
The Group is based at Sinclair Hall, Park Road and currently caters for some 160 boys and girls with an active waiting list. The Group is the largest in Cotswold Edge District and provides action and adventure for all ages between 5 and 14.
Click below for more information.
Email:
We have been granted charitable status as our role in providing information, especially to immigrants to this country has become more apparent. We have also been praised by independent assessors for the educational aspect of our work.
Our facilities include, Sports hall, Coffee bar with Pool table, Table tennis table, Big Screen projector TV, DJ equipment and computers.
We run a full programme of activities including cooking, arts and crafts, photography, music, dance, sport etc.
For more information please click below or call 01454 865752.
Email:
We work where the need is greatest, regardless of religion, through local organisations in more than 50 of the world's poorest countries. At home and overseas, Christian Aid campaigns to change the structures that keep people poor, challenging inequality and injustice.
The West office in Thornbury supports the work of hundreds of churches and thousands of volunteers in Bristol, Gloucestershire, Somerset and Wiltshire.
Click below for more information.
GRANTnet is a service which can help to identify suitable funding and grants for activities or projects. It allows community and voluntary groups, social enterprises and small businesses to search across a huge range of funding sources.
The charity funds research to prevent meningitis and septicaemia, and to improve survival rates and outcomes. The Foundation promotes education and awareness to reduce death and disability, and gives support to people affected.
For more information, click below or call 01454 281811.
Email:
The LINk will be a network of local people, organisations and groups that want to make health and social care services better.
The LINk’s membership is small at the moment and urgently needs people from the local community who feel strongly about local health and social care services.
For more information, please click below.
Email:
Elton Room, The Chantry, 52 Castle Street, Thornbury BS35 1HB
Tel: 01454 865134
Email:
It is affiliated to the National Pensioners' Convention, and liaises with Help the Aged and Age Concern. Membership is free.
It will meet regularly to share information about key issues that concern us all and work together to develop a constructive response.
It will strengthen the links between voluntary sector representatives and the groups they represent, provide a focus for consultations with statutory bodies, facilitate the two-way flow of information between the voluntary sector and the statutory sector, and provide an opportunity for voluntary sector organisations to meet, discuss, share expertise and decide on how to progress on key issues.
For more information, contact Gillian Graham on 01454 865205.
Arranging a function? The Chantry is the perfect venue for any function, with two large halls, smaller rooms, kitchen and a wonderful walled garden with a built in barbecue. We have links with outside caterers and use of the bar outside regular hours can be arranged.
Fancy a Drink? The Chantry has its own Social Club, with a friendly atmosphere and beautiful, secluded garden to sit in on sunny days. The bar is open from 8 to 11pm Monday to Friday and other times upon request.
Do you need Meeting Space? We have various size rooms available, seven days a week, at reasonable rates. Kitchen facilities, car parking and OHP/flipcharts etc are all available to use.
For more information, please call us on 01454 414268 or check out our website.
Email:
Come to visit our exhibition rooms, chat to our volunteers, visit our shop, enjoy your local museum.
The museum is next to the Armstrong Hall, and opening times are Tuesday to Friday 1-4pm, and Saturday 10-4pm. We have a small shop with books, leaflets, pamphlets, postcards, all of local interest.
Postal address: Thornbury Museum, The Town Hall, 35 High Street, Thornbury, BS35 2AR
Tel: 01454 857774
Email:
Thomas Dagg gave the field to Thornbury in 1546, so we tend what must be some of the oldest allotments in the country.
There are 120 allotments, and the Association has over 100 members. It organises social events such as the Summer BBQ, the Autumn Talk, the Christmas Meal as well as distributing monthly newsletters, running the Allotment Shop and offering discounts to some local retailers.
Gillingstool Primary School has a large plot which offers all pupils the opportunity to grow and eat their own produce.
Membership costs just a couple of pounds a year, and brings many benefits. You don't need to be a plot holder to become a member. We have discounted seeds, competitive prices on gardening items, guest speakers and visits.
If you would like to become a member, or be added to the waiting list for a plot, click the website link below.
Email:
We meet in the Cossham Hall on the second Wednesday in the month for a short business meeting followed by a speaker or entertainment.
For more information, please click below.
It supports a small band of volunteers who give their time in all winds and weathers to maintain, repair, erect and take down the lights display that Thornbury has enjoyed for countless years!
We believe this to be of the order of 700 man hours of effort. The electricity for those fittings, is provided and hence ‘donated’ by the individual businesses. When not in use the fittings are stored at a local premises free of charge. In the true sense, this is a community led and funded display.
The lights display is renowned both locally and further afield. It draws numerous visitors to the town over the festive period. Many Councils have to pay a commercial rate for the provision of their lights display. Thornbury’s comes for free!
For more information, please contact the Secretary Gill Dunkley on O1454 281801 or by email below.
Email:
Inspired by the Occupy Movement, several people who live in Thornbury and the surrounding villages decided to approach the Thornbury Methodist Church in search of such a space. Reverend Peter Hatton and his church council were very enthusiastic about offering their hall to the Thornbury community.
The idea is that people can drop by during Forum opening times, bring their lunch (if it's a lunchtime session), and meet others. Coffee and tea is freely available.
This is an exciting opportunity to bring together many issues and people to used joined-up thinking to work on solutions together.
Email:
The League is very involved in plans for the future of the hospital and totally committed to the continued provision of 20 in-patient beds.
For more information, contact Shirley Holloway on 885161.
We meet every Wednesday (excluding Bank Holiday weeks) at the Park Hotel, Falfield. On first and third Wednesdays of each month a 45-minute meeting starts at 6.30pm. On other Wednesdays there is a dinner meeting, usually with guest speaker, at 7.30pm.
Email:
Whilst we are a men's organisation, many Table events include partner and family activities. To find out more, click the link below.
The groups meet every Tuesday of the South Glos school terms in The Buckingham Room at The Chantry, and new members are always very welcome.
Badgers (5-10 years) meet 6.15-7.15pm
Cadets (10-18 years) meet 7.15-8.45pm
For more information, click below to email Sarah Bryant, Divisional Superintendent and Badger Sett Leader, write to Thornbury Cadet Division/Thornbury Badger Sett, c/o The Chantry, 52 Castle Street, Thornbury, South Gloucestershire, BS35 1HB or call 07717 289858. Email below or to thornbury-badgers@avon.sja.org.uk
Email:
Anyone interested in joining the WI can contact the following members for more information:
Di Wood 07817 533368 diana_wood@tiscali.co.uk
Jan Densley 07704 858662 densleprice@btinternet.com
Alida Wagstaff 07884 498773 alidawagstaff@hotmail.co.uk
Volunteering is the ideal way to gain work experience and make new friends. It allows you to try different things and improves self-confidence. In some cases it can lead to paid employment. Mostly though, it should be enjoyable and enriching, helping you to feel worthwhile whilst helping others lead a better quality of life.
Whatever your experience, interests or time available we will do our best to find you a satisfying, worthwhile and enjoyable volunteering opportunity. We look forward to hearing from you!
Email:
• Arts groups
• Business groups
• Local history groups
• Music groups
• Religious organisations
• Sport, fitness and leisure groups
• Support groups
Thornbury and District Museum, Chapel Street, Thornbury
This exhibition runs from 5 November 2011 to April 2012, and the Museum is open 1pm-4pm Tuesday to Friday, and 10am-4pm on Saturdays.
In November 2011, the museum celebrated its 25th birthday and we are having a special Silver Jubilee Exhibition to mark the occasion. We have been busy choosing 25 objects (or groups of objects) which aren't normally on show and which we think give a taste of the museum's collection. It's been hard whittling it down to 25! The chosen objects will be on display throughout the museum, encouraging you to explore each room.
We don't want to give too much away but here are some hints of what you can expect to see....
... parts of the Littleton Whale of 1885.
... the link between Mary Bruton (whose collection of local historical objects formed the core of our museum collection) and Donald Campbell, land and water speed record breaker.
...the Little and Large of the bible world.
... and the device which prevented crashes on the Yate to Thornbury railway line.
www.thornburymuseum.org.uk
7.30pm, Thornbury Methodist Church Hall
With Andrew Mearman, Senior Lecturer in Economics at UWE and Phil Kingston, Retired Lecturer in Social Work, University of Bristol. All welcome.
www.mythornbury.co.uk/orgs.php#th...
7.15-11pm, meet at The Wheatsheaf Inn, Chapel Street, Thornbury BS35 2BJ
For more information, click below to visit our website.
www.thornbury.roundtable.co.uk
7.30pm, Cossham Hall, Thornbury
Sue Aitken - Thornbury in Bloom
Competition: Single Spring Flower
www.mythornbury.co.uk/thornbury/l...
7.30-11pm, meet at BLOODHOUND Education Centre, Bedminster, Bristol BS3 4AG
We have a wonderful opportunity with BLOODHOUND: an opportunity to create the ultimate Land Speed Record car.
For more information, click below to visit our website.
www.thornbury.roundtable.co.uk
10am-12noon, The Chantry, 52 Castle Street, Thornbury BS35 1HB
In working towards a stronger community voluntary sector across South Gloucestershire, it is important that community voluntary organisations have a chance to engage in the development of policy and strategy. During 2012 a series of Locality network meetings will run offering information on topics relevant to your groups and organisations, such as Localism; Personalisation and Commissioning; Volunteer management; Sustainable Funding to name a few.
The first meeting of the 2012 series will introduce Localism and Sustainable Funding. If you would like to stay after the meeting, please bring your food to eat with us!
It would be good to know you are able to attend, please either email below or phone 01454 868570 to make your booking. Apart from your time, the meetings are free. Look out for additional meeting arrangements soon!
www.sbcommunitypartnership.org.uk
Email:
7.30-9.30pm, Thornbury Methodist Hall, High Street, Thornbury BS35 2AQ
Bag making: Develop new sewing techniques - we provide the bags, you provide the embellishments
Click below to find out more.
www.mythornbury.co.uk/thornbury/l...
7-9pm, Alveston Methodist Church
Open meeting.
The group provides help and support to sufferers of Fibromyalgia and their families in South Gloucestershire. Group meetings are on the fourth Tuesday of every month. For more details, contact Elaine on 01454 415374.
www.southglosfibro.btik.com
Email:
7.30pm, The Ship Inn, Alveston
The Forum is a non profit-making organisation seeking to achieve a better quality of life for residents in the Parish. We meet on the first Wednesday of each month. Click below to find out more.
www.alveston.org/alveston/communi...
Evenings of Friday, Saturday and Sunday 9th, 10th and 11th March, Thornbury Leisure Centre
Proceeds this year will be shared by Cancer Research UK, Meningitis UK and local charities, and other good causes.
Last year some £15000 was raised from swimming teams and industrial sponsors, of which £4000 went to each of SSAFA and the National Autistic Society, our main charities then.
As is our custom we run up to 12 lanes of swimmers swimming in relay for as many lengths as they can, in 55 minutes. The swimmers seek sponsorship from relatives, friends and colleagues, which they then collect for the benefit of the organisations identified above.
We organise several sessions each evening as required, 3 on Friday starting at 6.15, 7.15, and 8.15 pm. and 2 each on Saturday and Sunday at 7.15 and 8.15pm.
Get up a team (normally up to 6), join us at one of the sessions above and have a great time. The atmosphere is terrific, reinforced by the rhythm of the Castle School Steel Band.
Detail information and application forms etc from our website below or from Brian Lowrie, 10 Chestermaster Close, Almondsbury BS32 4EH, tel 01454 613361 or email below.
www.thornburyrotary.org/swimarathon
Email:
7.30pm, Cossham Hall, Thornbury
AGM Sue and Sue - Butterflies of the Cotswolds
Competition: Butterfly Brooch
www.mythornbury.co.uk/thornbury/l...
7pm, Armstrong Hall Complex, Chapel Street, Thornbury
The working group on the development of a Thornbury Community plan are planning a public meeting. The hope is that local people will wish to take on the task of developing a plan. All welcome.
