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People power supports community through pandemic By Julia Williams Bristol City Council Community Development Practitioner
The past eight months have put a magnifying glass up to our communities - especially how they have used their strengths to navigate through the tsunami that is COVID-19. At a time when chaos, uncertainty and unpredictability crept in to every corner of our lives, communities have wrapped around their citizens and proved their resilience in the face of adversity. Local people have used their skills and passions to volunteer their time - dog walking, gardening, helping people move house, delivering food and prescriptions - and sometimes making and sharing things: face masks, bread and growing and sharing plants. People have been connecting with each other through online groups (a virtual gardening group has been set up in Knowle West) and Whats App (one street in Knowle now organises a fish and chip run once a week for everyone). Organisations have worked together to provide vital support, delivering frozen food cooked locally through the Knowle West Health Association and Square Food Foundation at The Park. There’s also a new food bank in Filwood thanks to Severn Vineyards. Continued on p2
n 2018, a group of residents and five local organisations - Filwood Community Centre, The Park, re:work, Knowle West Health Park and Knowle West Media Centre came together and developed the idea of Knowle West Alliance. The aim was to create a partnership of active and connected local residents, businesses and organisations to build and support positive action in Knowle West. We want to help facilitate changes big and small that make
a difference to people’s lives. Officially launched in spring 2019, the Alliance is growing and partnering with more and more local organisations. By working together, we can achieve more. The Alliance has two ongoing employees who manage the day-to-day work, Lucy Holburn, Alliance Coordinator, and Frances Coates, Community Development Worker. Lucy has worked in Knowle West for a long time and is responsible for all the organisational work and making sure we’re funded.
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Frances, who has also worked previously in Knowle West, does a lot of the community engagement work on the ground and has been coordinating the volunteers for the Covid Support Hub during the pandemic. Frances’ predecessor, Emily Smith, is also re-joining us temporarily as Community Planning Facilitator to support our work around resident involvement in regeneration and planning. The Alliance has a Working Group, made up of active and involved local residents who meet monthly to direct the Alliance work. Representatives of the founding organisations also meet quarterly.
Knowle West Alliance aims to be as flexible as possible so we can change our work according to need. This ranges from making sure the community has a voice in local housing developments and running a Small Grants programme to·securing funding for improvements to the area and managing the COVID Support Hub (see p3). To find out more visit our popular Facebook page where we share local information, updates about the current situation and community stories or visit: www.knowlewestalliance.co.uk
People power By Julia Williams (continued from front page)
Knowle West Health Park and St Martin’s Church in Knowle have provided experienced befrienders to talk to residents on a weekly basis, supporting them through often tricky and ongoing situations and signposting to other services when needed.
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Councillors have made regular calls to residents and helped with deliveries. Knowle West Media Centre and Knowle West Alliance have shared and celebrated stories of residents’ experiences and the amazing collective effort through podcasts, videos and their website and social media. And so to the future… As communities begin to reemerge how are Filwood and Knowle looking forward?
Power comes from people and people are the answer. People came together, helped each other, grew stronger and built bridges. People reached out their hands and pulled one another up and through. There are already pockets of creativity beginning to grow from the Filwood Fantastic grants awarded to local people, so it won’t be long before communities sparkle once more.
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nowle West Alliance partnered with Bristol City Council - using their We Are Bristol coronavirus hotline to take local referrals and volunteers who’d signed up through their Can Do volunteering platform.
Heather Williams, CEO of Knowle West Health Park, writes: On 23 March the country went into Lockdown. By 2 April, Knowle West Alliance began taking their first referrals for residents who wanted support. The Health Park led the setting up of the Hub, but it was important that it was a Knowle West Alliance Hub, bringing
By Alliance Co-ordinator Lucy Holburn
At the start of lockdown one - not knowing what lay ahead - we worked with partners from across the city to set up an emergency food parcel provision. This was to make sure anyone that needed food, for whatever reason, didn't go without. The team at Severn Vineyards kindly stepped forward, under the umbrella of East Bristol Foodbank, and have been delivering good quality emergency food parcels into Knowle West since then. We are grateful for their hard work and commitment. I-HOPE at Ilminster Avenue Nursery School By Lisa Banger
I-HOPE has supplied families and the local community with approximately 500 food parcels since July 2020.
Shortly afterwards we set up a partnership with local cookery schools, Knowle West Health Association and Square Food Foundation. Here staff and volunteers have been making delicious ready meals that our volunteers have been able to take to residents that were isolating - or for whom a home cooked meal and a friendly face helped. This is a lovely bit of pulling together, with the logistics supported by re:work - a great team effort. Again, these organisations stepped up, worked their socks off and continue to do so. Massive thanks go to the staff and volunteers that have made that happen. We collect donations from Tesco, Marks & Spencer and Warburton’s. This service is important for vulnerable families, who are finding it hard to manage financially. They can also donate back to the food bank if they wish.
It has worked closely with many other groups outside of this community. The Health Park supports people one-to-one to enable them to grow confidence that leads to improved health outcomes. The Health Park staff have done a brilliant job, sharing skills, knowledge and support for new call befrienders. Barny Haughton of Square Food Foundation with meals prepared for residents.
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together lots of different organisations, residents, volunteers and resources to grow community resilience. The Hub isn't about any one organisation, it's about the community. The Hub has been able to bring together new partners to provide emergency food parcels, meals, grants, mental health support and health care.
One of our volunteer meal deliverers, Jason, says: “Some people prefer to donate money, but I'd rather give my time. It's important to play a part in supporting your local community if you're able to. I know it's only a small thing I'm doing, but I hope it helps.”
The service is available Wednesdays and Thursdays for parents. Contact us through our Facebook page https://m.facebook.com/ I-Hope-246605116529152/ or call 0117 903255.
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Local voices Community rallies to help elderly care home residents When Bamfield Lodge Care Home approached the local community to help with activities for their elderly residents – they were overwhelmed at the response. From loving messages sent by local children and a virtual farm trip - to a Zoom chair exercise class and pledge from Ilminster E-Act Academy to sing carols in the carpark – offers poured in. Message from Theatre Box drama group
Dedication to Ivor Grimsted By James Smith
Ivor Grimsted who died recently at the age of 80 was Chair and founder of Filwood Chase History Society. His love of history inspired him to amass a collection, for over 30 years,
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Stacey Gardiner at Bamfield Lodge, who put the message out on the Alliance Facebook, said they had been “overwhelmed with the support they had received.” She said: “It has been so nice to see the community come together and think of ways they can help. Although we do have a full itinerary of activities happening within the home - our residents have really missed the outside world and knowing that so many care has been a great support.” On World Kindness Day in November, pupils from Ilminster Nursery School also sang a song for the residents – who were so grateful to everyone in the community they shared a poem to say thank you.
Shirley (85) who picked the kindness poem said: “… I feel the community is helping each other and supporting at this troubled time which helps keep the mood up.”
of maps, prints, photographs and books as well as pottery, fossils and coin ‘finds’. His ‘Heritage Centre’, based at The Park Centre in Daventry Road, is unique in the area. He asked one member to make models of local buildings (mostly gone!) as a record. He was asked for, and gave, historical advice on local projects and activities and contributed towards the
Pipe Walk booklet – the annual walk to St Mary Redcliffe Church. People were invited by him to peruse this collection of memorabilia and could then ask questions about the subject that was of interest to them. Ivor and other members would assist in this enquiry using the collection. To remember him and keep his love of history alive, we hope people will visit and view his collection at The Park which is now under our guardianship.
the newspaper to report “hyper-local news from their home turf”. Charlie can be contacted for Knowle West stories on Facebook or email him at charlie@filwoodcentre.org.uk
The pair, both 54, have been raising awareness of the condition for a number of years at local diabetes events.
Congratulations to… Vincent White and Mark Butterfield who have received awards for their services to Diabetes UK in Knowle West.
L to r: Vincent, his mum Frances and Mark.
Local voices Walk of Hearts & Stars By Community Reporter Charlie Watts
Photo: Ibolya Feher
These can be seen in the re:store shop window on Filwood Broadway, and were ‘knitted with love’ by local resident Julie Heal. The Walk was launched during a ‘stay at home’ lantern parade in Knowle West just before the second lockdown. A digital booklet has been put together to show all the people
Julie’s story Interview and picture of Julie by Frances Coates
Local resident Julie Heal (55) created the hearts and knitted picnic scene display in re:store shop window - after being given funding from the Knit and Natter group and wool from KWHA the Factory. She says: “I taught myself how to knit. I was knitting by the age of 13 I guess, so I’ve been knitting for over 40 years.
Spreading sunshine across Knowle West By Frances Coates
Mike, an elderly Knowle West resident, came through the Support Hub in April needing some shopping – but he also had another request – to grow sunflowers for some neighbours’ children. Some of our kind volunteers donated sunflower seeds, pots and compost and delivered them to him, but rather more than he was expecting! The result was an excess of seedlings and Mike asked us if we could find homes for them all. After putting a callout on our
Photo: Ibolya Feher
The Walk of Hearts & Stars is part of Filwood Fantastic – a collaboration between Filwood Community Centre, Knowle West Media Centre and KWMC: The Factory, funded by Creative Civic Change and Bristol City Council‘s Imagination fund.
View the exhibition at Filwood here
Knowle West now has a Walk of Hearts & Stars – paying tribute to local people both past and present. The stars recognise those in Knowle West who have gone above and beyond to help out in the community over the coronavirus crisis. They are in Filwood Community Centre’s courtyard, were painted by local people and even glow in the dark. While the hearts remember Knowle Westers who have lost their lives over the last few months.
who were nominated for a heart or star. Email fiona@kwmc.org. uk if you would like one. There is also a ‘Walk of Hearts & Stars 2020’ Facebook group – showing how the project developed.
Find out more: filwoodcentre. org.uk/walk-of-hearts-and-stars/ for others and make them happy. tWhen you make stuff and give it away, the pleasure you have when you see people’s faces is priceless. "All I want is to let people know that there are people out there who care."
"I use it as therapy… so my mind doesn’t get overcrowded and it helps with the pain, because I have to give it 100 per cent focus. “It’s just good to do something Facebook page – Hannah, the volunteer who has been helping him with shopping, delivered the seedlings to ten people on the estate. These included Claire from Ilminster Avenue school for their ‘thrive’ garden area and Paul Coyne from Youth Moves. Paul said: “I was given some sunflowers going into lockdown with the idea of planting them at Christ the King school. Unfortunately, lockdown’s grip tightened, so I thought this was a waste. “As I work at Youth Moves and we could still do one-to-one working, we planted them at our Roundhouse site at Springfield
Allotment. “Here they flourished and brought joy to people’s faces as lockdown eased during the summer.”
Knowle West Alliance would like to send good wishes to Mike who is currently ill in hospital. Get well soon.
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local organisations In March 2020 - at the start of the lockdown - we closed the office and stopped all working with participants as our groups are some of the most vulnerable. We were all still working from home to see how we could best help the community during the crisis. The maintenance of the allotment was possible with one person there at any one time - with the produce going to our Friendship group of around 35 people, all elderly residents. The counselling service reverted
to telephone and Zoom. We also recruited five new counsellors for six months spanning JulyDecember - we were able to provide free counselling to 56 people per week during the toughest months. Over the spring and summer we have been able to help further - with our kitchen tutor, Sarah Scott, making 40 plus meals per week to be delivered to local residents. When restrictions were lifted, the kitchen was able to start 1:1 work with some residents and planning start back with very small school classes. Since November lockdown we have been back to delivering
We are still operating as an essential service for shopping, doctors, prescriptions etc. We are operating extremely safely and are even ringing people when we don't hear from them.
We are still taking on new members all the time, wanting to reach anyone that doesn't know about us. Call Lisa Gilbert - Sprint & Centre Administrator (0117 904 8215) Facebook: The Inns Court Community & Family Centre. www.theinnscourtcommunity andfamilycentre.com
has changed over the years but this club is still standing and trying to push forward by changing with the times. Recently we have had the Sixty years ago the first foundations lockdowns and restrictions to of this club were laid and it took two work with – but we are still here. years to build. The building is getting a The club started life as a community facelift throughout and now it centre for the local people of Knowle needs the community to and was built by the community itself. support this great club so we Over the years a social club was don’t lose another venue for added and it provided a place for good. people to meet, socialise and drink, it It is a membership club but the was the hub of the community. Much good news is, it is very cheap
EAGLE HOUSE Following the first lock-down - the club introduced all the COVID safety requirements to be able to open and operate safely.
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These included screens, a sanitising station, personal protective equipment (PPE), social distancing signage etc plus introducing a one-way system and opening on reduced hours.
meals and suspending further classes. Again, the allotment remains functional and counselling continues remotely. This may remain the case until spring - and like everyone are hoping for some good news so we can get back to some form of normality. www.kwha1.wordpress.com
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See our Facebook: www.facebook.com/ groups/216613338929002
Please come and visit when we re-open and find out what else we do and what we can offer. All our clubs are suspended at the moment including bingo, women’s groups and skittles. Check out our Facebook Page: https://www.facebook. com/eagle.house.71 for regular updates.
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January / February 2021 and will explore topics including business finance and environmental impact. To apply visit kwmc.org.uk/madeinsouth bristol
During term time we run FREE after-school sessions for young people aged 10-16 – online or in small socially distanced groups. • coding and creative technologies: Control Alt Delete (Mondays) • digital design and making: Maker City (Tuesdays) • music and podcasting: Soundwave Presents… (Wednesdays)
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Ever considered turning your creative hobby into a business or designing your own products? Do you have a business and need help or advice? MADE in South Bristol supports residents of South Bristol to explore digital making and ideas for new businesses and products. Places on the programme are fully funded through the South Bristol Enterprise Support project so there’s no cost to you to take part! The Exploring strand covers the basics of business and an introduction to making technologies, and will run in 2021. The Growing strand is designed for registered businesses or freelancers currently trading; it kicks off in
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Are you looking for a new home in Knowle West? We’re working with residents and architects to design new homes that meet people’s needs. This summer we applied for planning permission to build the first two homes and we have funding to support more local people in housing need, such as elders needing to downsize and families with adult children who need more space. Contact wecanmake@kwmc.org.uk to see if We Can Make could help you. • creative arts activities: Creative Hub (Wednesdays) Contact jumpstudios@kwmc.org.uk or follow @JumpKWMC for details.
www.filwoodcentre.org.uk For more information call: 0117 914 9216 email: info@filwoodcentre.org.uk Filwood Community Centre, Barnstaple Road, Knowle West, BS4 1JP
Community comes together to make-over Filwood
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At Filwood we’re grateful for all the support we’ve seen from funders and residents recently - we’ve had some muchneeded work done on the building and seen residents’ creative ideas become reality. Local groups and visitors will now be kept warmer and drier, with new canopies up in our courtyard, a heating system upgrade, and new windows underway. We’ve been able to hire local traders to do this thanks to Asda Foundation, Ibstock Enovert Trust, and Enovert Community Trust. Our Filwood Fantastic project (with KWMC) had fun with residents through online co-design workshops and we made these together: - Crazy Golf will be ready in the new year (build led by re:work, funded by CIL) - Our Walk of Hearts & Stars is now up (see page 5 for more info and collaborators) - Our Light Up Filwood lantern parade (led by Alan May of Arts Enlarge, working with Christ The King and Greenfield E-Act primary schools), which hit the streets just before November lockdown and brought joy, light and music to the streets and inspiring some impromptu break dancing and doorstep boogying!
Look out for more ways to get involved in 2021 including a music video, carnival, dance, music, circus and more. Please check our website and social media for updates www.filwoodcentre.org.uk T: @FilwoodCentre F: Filwood Community Centre
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For more information call: 0117 377 2255 email: info@knowlewesthealthpark.co.uk Knowle West Health Park, Downton Road, Bristol, BS4 1WH
Here to help maintain Good Health and Wellbeing this Winter Tai Chi Movements for Wellbeing Tues 10 - 11am. Email Andrea: andrea@tmwtraining.com Seated Exercise Class Wed 10:30 - 11.30am Email Amy: agarrahy@yahoo.co.uk The above sessions are online for the winter and FREE of charge. They’re a great opportunity to get fit without leaving your home. If you have access to the internet our tutors will be able to help you link up to these sessions. Please email the tutors directly to join these groups. Walking for Health Groups – One Heart Walk
Walking is good for you, particularly this year when everything else has been so difficult to do. It’s a great form of exercise and a way to make new friends or meet up with old ones. The health benefits of walking include reducing the risk of heart disease, high blood pressure, depression and anxiety. Our One Heart Walk is the gentlest of walks up to 25 minutes on flat paths around the health park. We meet on Monday mornings and walk in small, socially distanced groups.
Social Prescribing is about improving your social, physical and emotional wellbeing. We offer a free confidential 1-1 service, currently by phone. We can help you to access a wide range of support for things like housing problems, debt and welfare support, and employment support. Community Access Support Service This service works with community, equality and faith groups to improve awareness of mental health and provide better links to support services in Bristol. There are lots of helpful resources on their website: www.cassbristol.org
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APPLY NOW FOR OUR SEPTEMBER COURSES The Park is open to our young adult learners and for people needing access to essential services. We look forward to welcoming back The Park has been offering education programmes for nearly 20 everyone in the community soon. years. We run a range of post 16 vocational courses, alternative education for 14-16 year olds, education support for learning difficulties and disabilities skills training for all ages. Thinking about nextand steps? We are currently enrolling for courses beginning this September: The Park is a great place to gain qualifications and learn in small groups in a supportive environment. We run a range of post-16 vocational Caring for Children NCFE CACHE Level 1 Diploma courses, alternative education for 14-16 year olds and education support for students Health and Social Care CACHE Level 1 & 2with learning difficulties and disabilities. Animal Care BTEC Level 1 Land-based studies about next steps, now is a good time to get in touch If you are thinking
to findBTEC out about Personal and Social Development Levelour 1 & 2courses and how we can support you to move into further training, apprenticeships or to get a job. Learning Skills. Becoming more independent for 16-24 year olds with a learning difficulty or disability. For information or to discuss any educational and training opportunities The Park, email and training For an information pack or toatdiscuss any please other education opportunities at The Park please email louise.hunt@theparkcentre.org.uk louise.Hunt@theparkcentre.org.uk call Louise on 0117 9770. or callor Louise on 0117 903 903 9770.
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Bristol City Council Community Development Practitioner for Knowle West, Julia Williams, writes… During a weekend in April 2020 - amidst the pandemic - volunteers used their digital skills to improve and create a localised volunteer support system in Knowle West. Knowle West Alliance, supported by Knowle West Media Centre (KWMC), along with volunteers and myself shaped a more tailored response to the emergency support being delivered in the community - the volunteer web app To/Fro. This is a local vision - directed by the needs of residents and contributions of local organisations - harnessing offers of help, resources and
time for local people in need of a hand. We now have a team of volunteer coordinators trained on To/Fro, so the volunteer system once delivered by Bristol City Council and their Can Do Bristol platform is now connected and organised by the community for the community. Volunteer and To/Fro coordinator, Gordon, says, “…I can see what’s available and agree to help at a touch of a button… it’s so much easier to create a request and assign opportunities. “I like the idea of this becoming a place where local people can ask for help, not just in an emergency, rather if someone is struggling they can ask, like you would a neighbour or a friend.”
Knowle West Alliance Community Development Worker, Frances Coates, says: “We have 63 volunteers on the system currently and numbers are gradually growing… I’m proud to have played a small part in this amazing innovation for the community of Knowle West.” Although it was started to help during the pandemic, KWMC wants to make To/Fro a longer-term resource for Knowle West – and next year hopes to share the tool with support hubs across the city. To volunteer with the COVID response in Knowle West, you can sign up here: https://candobristol. co.uk/activity/c19-winter For more info visit www.knowlewestalliance.co.uk
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thank you At the end of a challenging year, we would like to thank the amazing young people and families that make up the community we work with around Knowle West. The way everyone has pulled together and supported one another during 2020 has been amazing. The true spirit of the area has shone through. We look forward to delivering more great youth work in 2021.
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BUILDING A FRIENDLY AND HEALTHY PLACE TO LIVE A BoKlok neighbourhood is about more than the buildings of which it’s comprised. A BoKlok community aims be a friendly and healthy place to live. It’s a vital element of any BoKlok project that the spaces between buildings promote life and activity, and that the community is well connected. The Brislington Brook will be retained and renovated and is envisaged as the green heart and lungs of the new community here. The Brook itself and the scattered trees are of local value and therefore will be retained and enhanced where possible. A new community hub in addition to landscaped, public spaces will also be incorporated as part of the wider scheme being delivered here, providing a safe and children friendly neighbourhood.
To get in contact with SBCC, you can call our general enquiry line on 07920 416161 Mon-Fri 9am to 3pm Or Visit our website at www.southbristolcc.org.uk
Winter Fun and Frolics 2020, from South Bristol Children’s Centre’s Please follow our Facebook page from December 1st – 4th January @SouthBristolChildrenCentreHub Here we are pleased to share with you our daily advent opening. We will have lots of fun ideas, including Crafts, Singalongs, Cooking, Sensory Ideas, Storytime and much more.
directory Useful contacts: Bristol South MP Karyn Smyth - karin.smyth. mp@parliament.uk 0117 953 3575. Filwood Councillors Cllr Chris Jackson: cllr.christopher.jackson@ bristol.gov.uk Cllr Jeff Lovell: cllr.jeff.lovell@ bristol.gov.uk Support lines: Young Minds Text YM to 85258 for urgent mental health support. Available all day every day. Independent Mental Health Network (IMHN) has a range of support numbers: https:// www.imhn.org/coro navirus/ guide/bristol-home/ Mind (mental health support): 0808 8080330 Bristol Mental Health (emergency number): 0300 5550334 National Domestic Abuse Helpline: 0808 2000247 Age UK local support helpline: 0117 9297537 Citizen’s Advice Helpline can help those in financial crisis: 0808 2082138 (Monday to Friday, 9am-5pm). Carers Support Centre Carers Line 0117 965 2200
www.knowlewest.co.uk WECIL – Weekly check in and chat service for disabled adults: 0797 368 6389. Support Hub – We can offer help with a variety of things from shopping and prescription collection to access to emergency food. Open 8.30am–5pm, Mon-Fri: 0800 694 0184.
Knowle West Children’s Centre: Tues 3-5pm Leinster Avenue, BS4 1NN. Contact: janet.naw rocki@bristol-schools.uk Inns Court Family and Community Centre: Thurs 1-3pm 1 Marshall Walk, BS4 1TR Contact: janet.nawrocki@ bristol-schools.uk
Free counselling There is a wait list but please email: counselling coordinator@knowle westhealthassoc.org.uk or call/text: 07340 079316 to be added to it.
Oasis Connaught Community Hub: Fri 1-3pm Melvin Square, Bristol BS4 1NH. Contact: Sammy.Ball@OasisCon naught.org
Filwood Hope Filwood Hope is open Mon and Tues 9.30-1pm for help and advice. Wed – Fri call 0771 266 1241 or email advice@filwood hope.org
All clubs will be open week beginning 21/12/20, dates and times tbc.
All our usual resources are available; form filling, benefit appeals, use of telephone, benefit and debt advice, referrals to foodbank etc. Food Clubs in Knowle West: Providing families with good-quality food at a low cost, while also reducing food waste. Annual Membership £1. Weekly Food Cost £3.50 for around £15 worth of food.
Courses: Community Learning offers adults aged 19 plus the chance to try something new, learn new skills or get a qualification All courses are free and run face-to-face or online - with help to get online. We have some tablets for loan for some courses. Contact Lucy on 0778 835 3446 or email lucy. fieldhouse@bristol.gov.uk Feel Good Outdoors Winter Six-week course starting in January at Redcatch Community Garden. Call Lucy on 0778 835 3446 or email lucy. fieldhouse@bristol. gov.uk Bristol Libraries: Visit https://www. facebook.com/ BristolLibraries/ for details of online events. For more info and to join visit www. bristol.gov.uk/librar iesarchives Marksbury Road Library has a call and collect service: Mon - Sat,11am to
4pm. Call 0117 903 8574 or email marksburyrd.library@ bristol.gov.uk Groups: Man Alive A group for men in Knowle West and across South Bristol. There’s a Zoom call every Friday at 10am open to new members. Call Jack on 07739 649 841 or visit www.knowlew esthealth park.co.uk/man-alive Gardening Friends of Filwood An online community to share, learn and grow. Join the Facebook group. Online Art for 50 plus Weekly Zoom art classes with Bristol Art For All every Thursday morning from 10-11.30am. Please register to attend no later than 9am the day before, emailing Link Age@ageuk bristol.org.uk Events (Dec – March): Tree planting The Forest of Avon, Bristol Tree Forum and Bristol City Council will be supplying 590 trees across Bristol. Nine will be planted in Filwood Broadway from November - March. To get involved visit: forestof avontrust.org/projects/bristolsgreenstreets Star Trail in December Fillwood Fantastic has placed 12 decorated stars around Knowle West. Each star links to something different online and could take you to a virtual carol concert or stories. Santa visit to Filwood Would you and your neighbours like a FREE doorstep visit from Santa on Tues 22 December? Get a group together (ideally 20+ children) and email claudiatheclown@gmail.com with your road name in the subject line. Places limited to 15 households. Filwood Community Market Filwood Broadway on Sat 6 Feb from 11am – 3pm.
Funding from the Coronavirus Community Support Fund, distributed by The National Lottery Community Fund, has funded this special edition of The Knowledge. Thanks to the Government for making this possible.