Bristol City Council and British Cycling are bringing back the popular mass cycling event where hundreds of people in the city will get on their bikes next month. HSBC UK Let’s Ride Bristol returns on Sunday, 16 June, the free family event for all abilities and experience seeing city centre roads closed to motor traffic [...]
Local people represent competing nations as Mayor and Lord Mayor host flag-raising ceremony Mayor of Bristol, Marvin Rees, and the new Lord Mayor, Cllr Jos Clark, joined citizens to celebrate Bristol’s Global City status and welcome international visitors this morning ahead of the hosting of three ICC men’s Cricket World Cup matches at the County [...]
On Saturday 18 May, a local Bristol team of female-only ocean rowers, The Bristol Gulls, will join forces with the City of Bristol Rowing Club to begin an epic 1,500km ergathon challenge. ● The marathon row is part of an effort to raise £150,000 to complete an ocean crossing for both the RNLI and Clean [...]
Public can paint Millennium Square artwork The people of Bristol will have the opportunity to get up close to the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup action as the city gets set to host the iconic tournament. Official ‘City Celebrations’ will be held in the city centre in the lead up to Bristol’s first match – [...]
The ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup trophy will be on display in Bristol on Saturday 4 May! The ICC Cricket World Cup Trophy Tour, is currently on a 100-day tour of England and Wales ahead of this summer’s tournament. The people of Bristol will get a chance to see the trophy up close and personal [...]
Gloucestershire FA Female Football Innovation Fund With just a couple of months before the Women's World Cup Kicks Off in France, Gloucestershire FA has a unique opportunity for organisations to apply for a brand new Female Football Innovation Fund. The funding will be used to ‘Engage and Inspire females from under-represented communities’ and [...]
Sport England in an article in the guardian newspaper have highlighted the importance of open data and technology at the heart of increasing sports participation. In Bristol we have been developing the open data tool which is on this website, under OPENACTIVE BRISTOL. the full article can be read at: https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/mar/04/sport-englands-fitness-campaigns-to-target-disadvantaged-groups?CMP=share_btn_tw
Want to win free #CWC19 tickets? Get down to Broadmead in Bristol and share a picture of our mural using #CWC19Bristol for a chance to win a pair of tickets to Pakistan v Sri Lanka at this summer's World Cup!
Are you free on Friday? Would you like to help us celebrate the launch of Fit Got Real: Bristol mums get active, stay active photographic exhibition, at the Sanctuary Gallery, Brunel Building, Southmead Hospital on Friday 8 March 11am -12pm. Please note we will be there with the Bristol Girls Can photo booth until 2pm. [...]
What a score – 180! Despite their best efforts the St George Strollers could not find a pub on their Bristol City Walls walk with a dart board to celebrate their 180th walk. A darts fan had pointed out that 180 is the highest achievable darts score of three triple twenties. As this great photo [...]