Bradley Stoke Town Council Community Festival 2025

The main event day for the festival was Saturday 7th June 2025 with the Sole Sisters 10K Run and the Skatepark Jam taking place on Sunday 8th June 2025.

Saturday 7th June 2025 – Main Festival day at the Jubilee Centre.

The main festival day was a combination of music, dance, community stalls, food and drink, rides, displays and demonstrations, youth football festival and a street art project. Unfortunately, the weather was not in our favour, but the predicted thunderstorms and accompanying gusty winds did not materialise and by the afternoon, the sky cleared, and the sun even came out for a short while. A number of rides, attractions and a few community stalls were not able to attend due to the predicted inclement weather and the dance displays had to be moved inside, but the planned full programme of music and dance took place.

This year, the music was provided by a mix of local bands; Longshots, Limited Edition, Sonic Sunrise, The Layers, V-Dubz, Barrelhouse Strangers and the Saturday Night Bee Gees tribute band. Local dance groups performing in between the bands were: Stoke Gifford School of Dance, Baby Ballet, 5678 Dance, Danceworks, Street Cred and Emma Kate Dance Academy.

Once again, the Town Council provided a large Climbing Wall operated by qualified staff with volunteer support from the local 1st Bradley Stoke Scout Group which encouraged children to climb the wall in full safety harnessing and ropes as well as offering the opportunity for locals to find out about the world of scouting. The scout group also offered the safe opportunity to have a go at axe and tomahawk throwing.

Within the Community Zone there were inflatable rides which were free-to-use for local residents and children. Parents had the opportunity to donate to the Bradley Stoke Mayor's chosen charities when using the Community Zone rides, but there was no obligation to do so. Spread across the Jubilee Centre site were large number of community group stalls, local companies and food stalls alongside sideshows and a range of fun rides for the children include a giant slide, bouncy castle and the ever-popular, children's Go-Karts.

Bradley Stoke Town Council's Youth Work team once again provided the very popular combination of free 'have a go' graffiti workshops (with professional artists) and a large portable skatepark half-pipe; provided by King Ramps. There were regular pro rider demos interspersed with 'have a go' sessions and music and a display of Town Council Youth Work project information. As always, the supervised graffiti workshops proved very popular with many families queueing for the opportunity to spray paint their names on a take-home graffiti board. Those involved in this were provided with all-encompassing PPE to protect themselves and their clothes.

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Bradley Stoke Youth Football Club event

On the top football pitch, Bradley Stoke Youth Football Club once again ran their Football Festival which involved 145 children from Reception up to U13 girls age groups. All the participants enjoyed playing matches on proper pitches with correct goals in a fun and friendly environment where results did not matter. The children played with a smile on their faces while the parents watched and appreciated all the good play from all the teams. Everyone received a medal and each team got a cup. The rain came down, but the children still enjoyed every minute of the day. The penalty shoot out against the Minion was also very much enjoyed again this year. The Mayor and Deputy Mayor presented the medals to all the participants and trophies to the different age groups.

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Sunday 8th June 2025 - Jubilee Centre and Bradley Stoke Skatepark

The Jubilee Centre hosted the 10K Run and the ever-popular Skatepark Jam took place at Bradley Stoke Skatepark.

10K Run

The ever-popular Sole Sisters 10K run started and finished at the Jubilee Centre. Infrastructure for the run was provided by the Town Council (toilets and fencing). Approximately 550 competitors ran (including the Town Mayor) in ideal weather conditions with a very quick time of just under 32 minutes being achieved by the winner.

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Skatepark Event

Once again, this year, Bradley Stoke Town Council's Youth Workers and local young people hosted their popular package of Skatepark and Art activities. A mix of skate park skills and creative arts ran alongside the annual Festival Skatepark competition. The competition was interspersed with rider demonstrations and 'have-a-go' opportunities, with the support of Kings Ramps, along with music and an MC. The Skate Park Competition featured a mix of competitions in all skate park disciplines, interspersed with more pro rider demos with the additional half-pipe being relocated from the Jubilee Green to alongside the skate park to provide extra capacity and there will be competitions for Scooter, BMX, Skateboards, and Inline Skates.

The Art activities gave young people the opportunity to participate in workshops run by Olas Arts and those attending produced their own piece of artwork to take home. The artist has worked with the Town Council in the past, running popular workshops and, this year, once again used old vinyl records as a canvas for street art style creativity.

Young people's involvement in planning and organising the festival is supported by Bradley Stoke Town Council's youth workers. If you are a young person living in the Bradley Stoke area and aged 11 to 19 who would like to find out about our other youth work sessions and projects, or would like to get involved as a young person or volunteer, come along for a chat or contact the youth development & participation worker on 07900 253826 or email Graham Baker

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