Welcome to MyThornbury - your online guide to events and organisations in Thornbury.
Wish Ronnie's a Happy 1st Birthday by entering our draw to let Hutchinson (Legal) & Associates buy you dinner there, and downloading your Ronnie's discount voucher.
Find out what the new manager has in store at La Bruschetta.
Find out what it's like to have a Personal Trainer help you complete the Oldbury Fun Run, and the latest on rare birds and aliens at Oldbury Power Station.
Didn't quite manage a Spring clean? The new cleaning services page could be your answer.
The School Holidays are fast approaching, and Thornbury Leisure Centre is ready to entertain your family this Summer, starting with new style Holiday Programmes.
Activities vary from all-day camps and swim schools,
to 1-hour sessions of trampolining, cheerleading and roller-skating. Click below to download your programme, and book in early.
Bradley Stoke Leisure Centre 01454 867050
Kingswood Leisure Centre 01454 865701
Longwell Green Leisure Centre 01179 616895
Thornbury Leisure Centre 01454 865777
Yate Leisure Centre 01454 865800
Thornbury Rotary Club has a new President for 2008/2009. Ray Carney was handed the chain of office by outgoing President Adrian Dennis at a recent dinner at the Park Hotel.
Mike Sugden from Thornbury has completed his 100km ride for the charity DEMAND (previously featured here), but fundraising continues to 28 Sep 08. Please click below to donate online.
Thornbury Bookshop is taking part in the first Independent Booksellers Week from 1st-8th July, so pop along to the new High Street shop to enjoy 5% off all prices except revision guides.
Marlwood Rejoices over Redesignation
Marlwood School's status as a Specialist Science College is to be extended for three years. The school has been congratulated on meeting performance criteria and redesignation standards.
The school can now access funding for projects involving Primary schools, local community groups, and local industries as well as initiatives that promote Science and Maths within the school.
Mike Sugden from Thornbury is cycling from London to Paris (244 miles over 3 days, July 24 -27) to raise money for the Big Issue Foundation.
If you would like to sponsor Mike, click the link below or see the forms around Thornbury. The target is £1500, but more is welcome. The deadline for fundraising is 27 October 2008.
Sustainable Thornbury is launching the EAT! Campaign: Extra Allotments for Thornbury. To support Thornbury Town Council’s work on meeting the demand for allotments in Thornbury, we need to gather evidence of demand. So, whether or not your name is on the Dagg’s Allotments waiting list, we want to hear from you. We will then report the figures to the Council. We can also keep you up-to-date on allotment provision progress and let you know how to get involved in the campaign.
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Can you supply mannequins?
Can you help the organiser of a charity Open Garden event find mannequins to display Victorian clothes?
The event on July 20th will benefit Jonathon House, a residential home for adults with learning difficulties run by the Freeways Trust Charity.
If you can help, please call Rosemarie Roper on 01454 632936.
Thornbury Choral Society welcomes you
Would you like to sing with Thornbury Choral Society? The Choir is very eager to welcome new singers. So, if you sing at school or you used to sing at school or college and would like to take it up again or if you have just always had a yen to sing, why not come and have a go for a few rehearsals? You do not need to audition!
Click below for more information.
Crowds gathered from 7am on the morning that Aldi opened its new store in Thornbury. Click below to see the pictures and read more about the celebrations.
Ronnies Restaurant in Thornbury has been awarded a Gold Award 2008 by Toptable, the UK’s leading online reservations website.
Toptable rates restaurants from diners' feedback, and Ronnies has been the highest rating restaurant in the Bristol area (and one of the highest of all their 3000 restaurants).
Thornbury's floral displays will be judged on Tuesday July 15th. All work is underway and everything will be done in time [fingers crossed].
However, Thornbury in Bloom will need help with weeding and litter-picking just before judging so, if you have a few hours free, please contact Sue.
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Cancer coffee morning raises £500
A fundraising coffee morning in aid of ClicSargent and Bristol Childrens Hospital Oncology Department has raised £500.
The Luscombe family who organised the morning would like to thank everyone for their support and raffle prizes.
For more information visit Jack’s webpage.
The Thornbury Swing Band is going from strength to strength. We now have twelve musicians - 5 saxes, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, bass and keyboard and will be making our first public appearance in September. We need a drummer and a rhythm guitarist to complete the line up. Ability to read music an advantage but not essential. This could be a great opportunity for someone. Please call Richard Gulliver 416979 for more information.
Bearded Tit Visits Oldbury
One of the rarest birds in Britain has been sighted at Oldbury Power Station.
The Bearded Tit was last seen in South Gloucestershire in 1981, but a group of keen eyed bird watchers spotted a male at one of Oldbury’s lagoons recently.
Bearded Tits live only in reedbeds and are normally exclusive to eastern and southern Britain.
New fish supplier in Thornbury area
Powells of Olveston has just relaunched as a combined butcher and fishmonger. The new owners have spent their first year working closely with local farmers and Cornish fishermen to ensure their meat and fish is ethically sourced, local whenever possible, and always traceable.
All meat is hung for maximum maturity and taste, and fish is line-caught from sustainable stocks using small day boats, which means it's in the shop within 24 hours of being caught.
For more information, click the link below.
Myhome offers customers a fantastic and special cleaning service. What makes us different is we want our customers to feel safe and secure when choosing Myhome, and so all
our staff are full-time, police checked and fully trained in the unique tried and tested tri-colour cleaning system.
We provide the most cost effective cleaning in the shortest time by using two staff and provide an outstanding service at very competitive rates. If the customer is not completely satisfied, our staff will return and clean free of charge until the customer is totally happy.
So whether it's a weekly, fortnightly or spring clean Myhome could be just what you need. Contact Susan at Myhome on 01453 542770 or using the links below.
