Celebrating women
BRISTOL will become the first UK city to stage a truly city-wide festival celebrating women.
What Women Want Bristol 2027 will take place across the city from March 1-12, encompassing International Women’s Day.
The ambitious new festival brings together Bristol Women’s Voice, the city’s leading organisation for women’s equality and representation, and Lynne Franks OBE, creator of the original What Women Want festival at London’s South Bank in 1995, a driving force behind London Fashion Week and a lifelong campaigner for women’s empowerment.
What Women Want Bristol is about bringing the whole city together – women, organisations and communities – to celebrate how far we have come, confront where inequality still exists and, most importantly, create practical ideas for what comes next.
To get involved, visit www.bristolwomensvoice.org.uk.
Nathalie Sherring
Bristol Women’s Voice
Sharing a love of bowls
DOWNEND Short Mat Bowls Club recently hosted a group from Kingswood Court care home.
Residents there play a form of carpet bowls in their lounge, and were keen to see how short mat bowls is played.
The club put on a demonstration match for the visitors then everyone, including carers, was able to have a go themselves.
It was clear to most that the game is a lot harder than it looks. However one of the residents, Trish Nunn, needed little coaching as she is a past member of Ardagh Bowling Club, had also played lawn bowls for Gloucestershire and was a past president of the Gloucester Bowling Association!
In the best bowls tradition, it was then time to share stories over cups of tea and plates of home made cakes.
It was a great opportunity for the two groups to meet over a shared love of bowls.
Mike Parsons
Downend Short Mat Bowls Club
Turn blue for hospice
ST PETER’S Hospice is calling on people across Bristol to turn the city blue this October in a brand new fundraising campaign.
We are inviting schools, businesses, community groups, families and individuals to take part in ‘Wear It Blue’ during Hospice Care Week, on October 5-11.
People can get involved by dressing in blue, hosting a fundraising event and helping raise awareness of the vital care St Peter’s Hospice provides to local adults living with life-limiting illness and their families.
Whether it’s a workplace dress-down day, a blue-themed bake sale, a school non-uniform day, afternoon tea, colour run or something completely unique, supporters are encouraged to get creative while raising money for vital local hospice care.
Our network of charity shops will have affordable blue clothing, accessories and hidden treasures ready.
To find out more, visit www.stpetershospice.org/wearitblue
Hayley Ali,
St Peter’s Hospice
Do your bit for trees
REGARDING the watering of young trees struggling because of drought (Voice, September), I have been doing this for a number of years, and my hydrating efforts seem to have contributed to the survival of the trees involved.
I choose trees that have been planted as part of the landscaping of new developments but which are outside the individual house plots.
It seems that stupid new house owners are only concerned about trees in their own gardens but an equally vulnerable new tree ten yards away has to fend for itself.
Christopher Richardson