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Community Links
Throughout Bristol Water’s 160 years of service we have always been actively involved in the community we serve. On this page, which is a new feature to the web site, we will show a selection of the groups, clubs, schools and societies we support, particularly where a link from our web site might be of benefit to them.
If you want more information on our community links programme, email
Paul Kelson on paul.kelson@bristolwater.co.uk |
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Granny Trek June – July 2005
 Bristol Water is pleased to be supporting ‘Granny Trek’, June – July 2005, raising money to help build a hospice at Charlton farm Bristol, for Children’s Hospice SW. Click here to go to the site to find out more. Below is an outline of what the event is about.
Walking across the country for two months, with a couple of dogs for company isn’t everyone’s choice to celebrate a 65th birthday, but Granny Beryl has something to prove. When husband Tony became 65 ten years ago, they backpacked from John 'o' Groats to Land's End and raised over £30,000 for Children's Hospice SW, who were building Little Bridge House in North Devon. Now a sister Hospice is to be built at Charlton Farm near Bristol. Tony has always bragged: "Ah, but I was ten years older when I did it!" Beryl will silence him by walking from Lowestoft in Suffolk to St David's Head in Pembrokeshire, incorporating circular walks en route, some 500 to 600 miles, covering about ten miles a day. Their two dogs, Rudi and Fritz, will go with her.
Granny Beryl knows the pressures of rearing a healthy brood. The strain of the everyday lives of families with terminally ill children is harrowing to contemplate. Children's Hospice South West provides a safe haven of loving and highly professional care, the support never wavering through precious respite breaks and crisis points, continuing indefinitely when the inevitable grieving begins.
So the nation’s grannies are to be mobilised to raise as much sponsorship as possible - and more! Either join one of the circular walks or arrange a Granny Trek in your area. If walking really isn’t your thing, organise a fundraiser at whichever club you belong to and winkle out those grannies to help. We want grannies, wannabe grannies, if-only grannies (and even non-grannies of either sex as long as they’re sponsored and do as granny says!). |
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Education programme - Hugh Sexey School science project
 Bristol Water’s education programme offers a variety of resources for schools. These include talks given by an education officer at the school or a tour of our Blagdon Pumping station and visitor centre. Here we can explain all about the water cycle and the role of the company in collecting, treating and distributing water to our 1 million customers. Added to this is range of educational literature, Cds and videos.
Last year Bristol Water and Hugh Sexey Middle School, in Blackford, Somerset embarked on a 3 month joint-venture programme for the school’s entire year 6 – around 120 children. Linked to their science studies, it was designed specifically to look at the science behind the water treatment process. This involved talks to each class, the loaning of scientific equipment - used in our lab or out in the field - to allow them to have a go at carrying out the sort of tests we do, like checking turbidity levels. It ended with a day of guided tours at a treatment works for them to see the process in action.
This project proved so successful that it won an award from the Somerset Education Business Partnership.
www.hughsexeymiddle.ik.org |
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Bristol Civic Society
 For a company with Bristol Water’s heritage it was a natural link to be associated with the Society. Last year we help them to produce their newsletter and sponsored their environment awards.
(Some background on the Society from their Website)
Bristol is a unique city. Located in an outstanding natural setting of hills and waterways, it contains a wealth of buildings - many not yet fully appreciated - of every period and style. It is a prominent academic and cultural centre and its outstanding environment attracts major employers and investors.
Bristol Civic Society's main concern is that a healthy balance is maintained. Its members are people who care about their city and who are motivated by the difficult task of combining the past, the present and the future in a way that satisfies all the people who use the city - residents, workers, visitors.
www.digitalbristol.org/members/civsoc/ |
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Bristol Water supporting
HEDGEROWS FORTNIGHT
12th – 27th Feb 2005
www.avon-biodiversity.org.uk
 Get involved in a fortnight of practical events, walks, talks and workshops around the Avon area.
Hedges are all around us; we see them on the way to shops or to work, they add colour to cities, criss-cross the countryside and they even creep into our language.
Our local hedgerows around Avon are often many hundreds of years old. They provide food shelter and home to a vast array of plants, insects and animals, from hedgehogs and sparrows to our rare Bath Asparagus and endangered dormice.
It is important that we don't take them for granted. Although hedges seem common place, over 4000 miles are lost in Britain each year. This fortnight of events highlights the fascinating wildlife and history within them and gives you the opportunity to learn new skills and help protect hedges for the future.
Bristol Water is playing its part on Wednesday 16th of February in an event titled: Hedgerow investigation at Herons Green, by the Lake. The event runs from 10:30 to 12:30. Anyone can come along and learn about this important old hedge. Some parts of it have recently been relaid and expert hedge-layers will be at work during the two hours to show visitors how it is done and to answer questions...if you go to this one make sure you wear boots as it is likely to be wet and muddy.
WORKING PARTNERSHIPS
Hedgerow Fortnight has been set up and run by the Avon Biodiversity Partnership and the Field Boundaries Project. The Biodiversity Partnership co-ordinates wildlife action across the former county of Avon and the field Boundaries Project is a Lottery funded survey of hedgerows and dry stone walls throughout South Gloucestershire and Bath & North East Somerset.
CONTACTS
If you would like to take part in an event or want more information on a specific event please get in touch with the contacts on the sheet attached.
If you would like more general information about Hedgerow Fortnight or have a general enquiry feel free to call Jenny Hayward -Avon Biodiversity Partnership Officer Email: jennyhayward@avonwildlifetrust.org.uk
32 Jacob's Wells Road,
Bristol .
BS8 1DR
Telephone: 01179177270
Or
Sally Pattison -Field Boundaries Project Email: sally.pattison@southglos.gov.uk or
Sally.pattison@bathnes.gov.uk
Trimbridge House, Trim Street, Bath
BA12DP
Telephone: 01225477505
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Cheddar Tennis Club Mini Tennis
 Bristol Water, together with Sportsmatch, (the government funding body) is sponsoring the Cheddar Tennis Club’s Mini Tennis Red coaching programme in the Cheddar Valley First Schools. The programme is enabling club coaches to go into the schools to introduce tennis to all children from reception class to year 4.
Over the course of the current academic year around 800 children will have had the opportunity to try tennis and, if they like it, they can continue with the sport at Cheddar Tennis Club by joining one of the many coaching classes run throughout the year.
 Head coach Paula Stitch said "Mini tennis is proving very popular right across the country and we are expecting many of the children given the chance to have a go in school to come along to the club afterwards so they can carry on with it."
www.cheddar.totaltennis.net |
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