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🎶🌞 It's fantastic to see another Ham Farm Festival taking place this summer. The festival is a brilliant community event for Emersons Green, and it's great to see Youth Music Day as part of it! 🎸🎤

A huge thank you to the volunteers who work so hard to put the festival together, as well as the Emersons Green Town Council staff and Youth Team, who have put a huge amount of work into organising and supporting events like this. The goal is simple, to give young people across our town, from Emersons Green and Lyde Green to parts of Mangotsfield, Bromley Heath and Downend, plenty of opportunities to get out, make friends, learn new skills and enjoy their summer in a safe and welcoming environment. 💚

📅 Youth Music Day

📍 Ham Farm Cottage, Emersons Green Lane, BS16 7AT

🗓️ Thursday 23rd July

🕑 2:00pm to 8:30pm

👥 Ages 13 to 18

🍕 Free to attend, with free pizza!

There will be beatboxing with The Hobbit, fingerpicking guitar with Declan Zapala, songwriting with Lady Nade, group jamming sessions, a classical corner and plenty more. 🎵🎸🎤

✨ Ham Farm Festival is just one of a number of activities being supported by Emersons Green Town Council this summer, and it's fantastic to see such a strong commitment to creating opportunities for local young people.

📣 If you know a young person aged 13 to 18 who loves music, or simply wants to try something new, please encourage them to sign up in advance using the QR code on the poster. We'd love to see as many local young people getting involved as possible! 🎶☀️🙌

Please go help yourselves to free bread and pastries, just delivered to Lyde Green Community Centre.

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It's my largest delivery yet. All surplus food collected from local supermarkets last night.

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Please do cover the pastries back up once you have taken to keep them fresh for others!

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Warning: may contain nuts!

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Big things are happening this summer in Emersons Green! ☀️

Sign up by scanning the QR code, but walk-ins on the day are also welcome!

A huge shoutout to Emersons Green Youth, Emersons Green Village Hall and everyone involved for putting together an amazing programme for local teenagers.

There’s genuinely something for everyone:

🌱 Gardening projects and creating a new community space

🍳 Hands-on cooking workshops with Cook Stars Bristol North

🎮 Gaming, music, chill sessions and activities on CHOW

🤝 A safe, welcoming place to meet people, relax and get involved

It’s brilliant to see organisations in Emersons Green working together to give young people opportunities, skills, support and somewhere to belong over the holidays.

Dates:

📅 Thursday 28th May

📅 Thursday 30th July

📅 Thursday 6th August

📅 Thursday 13th August

📅 Thursday 20th August

📅 Thursday 27th August

📅 Thursday 29th October

Massive credit to all the volunteers and organisers and to Emersons Green Town Council for making this happen for our community 👏

A brilliant evening at the Annual Meeting of Electors and Community Champion Awards, celebrating the people and organisations who make our community such a fantastic place to live. Congratulations again to all of this year’s winners and nominees, every one of you represents the very best of our town. 👏

As Chair of the Youth Committee, I was also proud to give an update on the incredible progress being made by Emersons Green Youth since the committee's launch last year, alongside the fantastic support of Emersons Green Town Council. 💚

Although the council is called Emersons Green Town Council, the town covers far more than just Emersons Green itself. The work being done is for residents across Emersons Green, Lyde Green, the top parts of Mangotsfield, the communities just passed Blackhorse Road towards Downend, and the south and south-east side of Badminton Road towards Bromley Heath. Wherever you are within the town, this youth team is for you and your community too.

Some of the major milestones from the youth team so far include:

Hiring our dedicated Youth Officer, Shea, alongside two youth workers, Josh and Troy, to help expand support for young people across the town.

🚐🚐 Launching the CHOW (Community Hub On Wheels) 🚐🚐 in January, now delivering 6 youth sessions every week across 5 locations:

• Lyde Green

• Emersons Green Skate Park

• Village Hall

• Rodway Common

• Pomphrey Hill

Growing attendance to around 55 young people every week across sessions. 📈

Securing £20,040 from SNG Housing Association to deliver a two-year Lyde Green Social Action Project, bringing 44 youth sessions plus reward trips to an area that previously had no youth provision at all.

This is only the beginning, and it’s fantastic to see the momentum building around youth provision and wider community work across the whole town. Huge thanks to everyone involved, councillors, volunteers, youth staff, partners, parents, and most importantly the young people themselves for helping shape what this programme is becoming.❤️

Just dropped a load of FREE bread off at Lyde Green Community Centre, please go an help yourselves.

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