Local Job Opportunities

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Help needed for Saturday farmers' market stall.

'Miles Bradley from Box Bush Farm is urgently looking for a friendly  and engaging individual to sell his apple juices on Farmers markets each Saturday in and around North Somerset.

He is looking for someone  enthusiastic about local produce to represent his small orchard and sell his traditionally made apple juices on his Box Bush Farm stall.

Hours are likely to be Saturdays 9-1pm plus an hour to both set up and close down and a longer day at the monthly Wells Market from 9 - 3.30pm. Pay likely to be in the region of £6.00 -£7.00 p/hr and will need to be able to drive.

For more information or to discuss this position please call Miles on 01934 822356'

Community Project Worker, Bristol

Great news! Horfield and District Allotment Association has established a new community growing project, with funding from The Big Lottery’s Local Food Fund and Bristol City Council’s Green Capital Fund. They are looking for a worker to take the project forward. The project is funded until March 2014, and will create a community allotment and forest garden.

The Community Project Worker will work with a wide range of community groups and volunteers to engage and support them in food growing activities. The project aims to increase the skills and confidence of local people in growing food through volunteering and training. There is an emphasis on involving people with physical and/or mental ill-health and people with learning difficulties.

This is an exciting opportunity to help establish and develop a project from its beginnings, and to provide a local resource which will make a difference to local people.

The successful candidate will have experience of working with community groups and managing volunteers, will have an enthusiasm for gardening and a flexible approach.

The job details will be available soon and can be downloaded from the Federation of City Farms & Community Gardens website. We are just putting together the final details, and this information should be up on the web by Monday 27 June.

Closing date: Friday 15 July 2011.

See:  http://www.farmgarden.org.uk/about-us/jobs (after 27 June!)

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Failure of Memorial Stadium May Not be the Best Thing for Local Residents

Local residents around the Memorial Stadium on Filton Avenue are said to be "delighted" by the news that the planned development of the ground has been delayed by the withdrawal of a main contractor.

Spokesman for the Residents Opposed to the Stadium Expansion (ROSE) pressure group, said: "We've said all along that it doesn't make financial sense to shell out millions on a new stadium that is in the wrong place. It seems we have now been proved right. It now seems more likely than ever before that this development will never get off the ground, something we have campaigned long and hard for."

The campaigners may want to pause before breaking open the bubbly and think about the consequences of the failure of the Stadium to redevelop.

I lived through a similar story in Brighton many years ago. Although work has now started on a brand new out-of-town stadium for Brighton and Hove Albion, their former ground (the Goldstone Ground on the Old Shoreham Road in Hove) has already been converted into a soulless retail park, housing such wonderful attractions as Toys R Us, DFS, Homebase and Carpet Right.

The fact is that if the memorial Ground is not redeveloped and the clubs which use it have to move elsewhere, the residents of Horfield will be facing much more difficult battles against infinitely more aggressive opponents that Bristol Rovers.

The lifestyle implications of having a retail park at the bottom of Filton Avenue, not to mention the damage this would do to the independent shops on Gloucester Road, seem to me far more damaging than a larger Memorial Stadium, which was of course there long before any of the present residents moved into the neighbourhood.

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Hope Springs Eternal for North Bristol Churches

The May Bank Holiday weekend sees hundreds of volunteers from north Bristol churches working in partnership with local residents on a range of community projects and outreach events in Southmead, Manor Farm, Lockleaze and Horfield.

Projects include:

• rubbish and litter clearance in public spaces
• free banquets for over 80 senior citizens on Sunday afternoon
  
• free kids' clubs on Saturday and Monday morning
• sports activities for young people every afternoon in numerous locations
• community fun afternoons on Horfield Common (Saturday), Gainsborough Square (Sunday) and Glencoyne Square (Monday).

Monday afternoon sees an end-of-noise celebration at 4.45 at Glencoyne Square Southmead followed by a Bar-B-Q, which , in keeping with the theme of the weekend, is also free.

Participating churches included the new Community Church, which has recently relocated from Westbury on Trym to the Greenway Centre in Southmead, Ebenezer Church Filton Avenue Avenue, Woodlands Church in Clifton and St Stephen's Southmead.

The Noise is a national initiative which has been running in Bristol for 7 consecutive years. Its website describes the aim of the Noise as "showing God's love in practical ways".

The Noise is part of a wider year-long national project - Hope 08 - which aims to focus hundreds of local churches on outreach and community service in their localities.

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