Volunteers are always welcome - call Sue Rider on 01454 857754. For more information, please call in at the Age Concern Office, 34 St Mary Street, Thornbury, email us using the link below or phone 01454 858750.
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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.
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.
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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.
Function facilities include screens for seminars and conferences, a full catering service for private functions and changing rooms for stage and sporting events.
Please contact Jo on 01454 273050 to discuss your needs.
The Centre, Shire Way, Yate, BS37 8YS
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Anyone is welcome: young and old, with temporary or permanent disabilities or injuries. You do not need to be registered disabled to use Shopmobility.
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We encourage visits by individuals and groups to and from linked towns and the development of personal contacts. By doing so we aim to broaden mutual understanding of the cultural, recreational, educational and commercial activities of the linked towns.
For more information, please click below or call Jeff Flynn, Treasurer on 01454 322639.
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.
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Elton Room, The Chantry, 52 Castle Street, Thornbury BS35 1HB
Tel: 01454 865134
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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.
A range of activities during the week for all ages. Something for everyone including Bread Making, Coffee Drop In, Information Point, Toddlers, Over 50's Group.
Signpost Community Drop In and Information Point is open on a Tuesday and Wednesday 10am-1pm at the Candle. We offer access to information, support and encouragement. If we can't help you we will find someone who can.
88 Station Road, Yate BS37 4PH
Tel: 01454 273560
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We meet every week at 8pm at Stanshawes Court, with business meetings on the 1st and 3rd Thursdays of the month, and an informal dinner, with a guest speaker, on the 2nd and 4th Thursdays.
Our partners are very important to us, and on any 5th Thursday in the month we enjoy a social event with them.
Our main fundraising activity of each year is the annual South Cotswold Beer Festival, and we support local and international projects.
We welcome new members. Please visit our website to find out more about us and contact us if you have any questions.
For more information, please contact Ruth Boulton, Chairman, on 01454 314776 or Alan Spiller, Secretary, by e-mail below.
Our service is free and friendly: visit our website below to find out more, or phone 01454 324102. We are based in Yate Library and are open Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays between 10am and 3pm.
We also host the South Gloucestershire Vinvolved scheme, which works with volunteers aged 16-24. If you are a young person interested in volunteering, call 01454 317289 or email southglos@youngbristol.com
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Established in 1988 it is now a registered charity and is responsible for a number of self-sustaining projects.
For more information, contact the secretary at Yate Town Council, Poole Court, Yate BS37 4PP, on 01454 880541 or by email below.
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10th August–18th September (Tue-Thu and Sat), 10.30am-4.30pm, Yate and District Heritage Centre, Church Road, Yate, BS37 5BG
Local historians have come together to produce a fascinating history of Station road and the people who have lived here from the early Victorians to the shopkeepers and residents of today. Station Road will be full of information about Yate people you could never have imagined.
There have been immense changes to Station Road over the years especially the stretch around the Shopping Centre.
You'll also find interesting objects on display including the Swan Inn pub sign, a potato chip maker used at the workhouse and a 1915 Cow Mills calendar. Sprint Print has part funded the display.
For more information please contact Yate and District Heritage Centre on 01454 862200 or click below.
www.myyate.co.uk/yate/history/yat...
7.30pm, Culverhill School, Kelston Close, Yate BS37 8SZ
A light hearted evening of general knowledge questions. £12 per team of 4 (individual tickets £3), including a glass of wine. Booking essential. Tel: 01454 880541
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7.30pm, Yate and District Heritage Centre, Church Road, Yate, BS37 5BG
Enjoyable, general knowledge quiz for teams of 4-5. £6 per team. Booking essential.
www.myyate.co.uk/yate/history/yat...
7.30pm-12.30am, Chipping Sodbury Town Hall
Live band: "Tundra", raffle, tombola, fun stalls. Dress code: party/evening wear - DJs optional. Tickets £15 (all for Cancer Research UK), includes nibbles on tables. Tickets available from 07711 115391, 01454 882328 or 07833 366333. Admission by ticket only - there is a limit on numbers.
10th August–18th September (Tue-Thu and Sat), 10.30am-4.30pm, Yate and District Heritage Centre, Church Road, Yate, BS37 5BG
The Yate & District Oral history Project present a history of the fallen soldiers which so greatly affected the families and communities of the Yate & Sodbury areas. As well as numerous stories the display will cover the impact of the Great War on our remaining communities
For more information please contact Yate and District Heritage Centre on 01454 862200 or click below.
www.myyate.co.uk/yate/history/yat...
9.30am–4pm, Yate
A free one day course is open to anyone who is living or working with members of the public within South Gloucestershire.
Contents will include:
A definition and background statistics in relation to hate crime and hate incidents.
Identifying hate crime/incidents.
Responding to people experiencing hate crime/hate incidents.
Information on current hate crime/incidents initiatives in South Gloucestershire. Lunch and refreshments will be provided.
Training will be delivered by members of the South Gloucestershire Partnership Against Hate Crime (PAHC).
Please email below or call 01454 868751 to secure a place.
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