Wiltshire Council’s Bikeability programme has reached a significant milestone, with more than 40,000 children successfully trained to cycle safely. An additional 3,000-4,000 children are expected to benefit from the training programme this year, as Bikeability continues to make a positive impact on the safety of young people in Wiltshire. Bikeability is designed to provide children...
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Review – Steve Backshall Ocean at The Forum, Bath
Ian Waller enjoys an awesome and educational evening of environmental awareness We weren’t sure what to expect from a live show from adventurer, explorer, naturalist and environmental campaigner, Steve Backshall. After all, our last few visits to The Forum in Bath were for music and comedy events. Still, since our children where little ones, we’d...
Share and Repair Bath receives The King’s Award for Voluntary Service
Share and Repair in Bath has been awarded The King’s Award for Voluntary Service. This is the highest award a local voluntary group can receive in the UK and is equivalent to an MBE. Share and Repair is a charity which aims are to help local people save money and the planet through reduce, repair...
Gift a Book campaign relaunches for Christmas
Residents who have unwanted new or as-new books are being encouraged to donate them to people in their community who might not otherwise receive a Christmas present. The Gift a Book campaign has been launched by Bath & North East Somerset Council’s libraries service for the third year running, which last year saw 850 books...
Toddler Thursday free drop-in sessions at the Victoria Gallery in Bath
The Victoria Art Gallery is launching Toddler Thursdays to coincide with the forthcoming exhibition The Wonderful World of the Ladybird Book Artists. Toddler Thursdays are free, drop-in sessions which which invite parents and carers to come to the Gallery with your toddler to enjoy story time among the lovely Ladybird Books. Let your little ones enjoy...
Wansbroughs solicitors supports new Women and Girls Fund
Wiltshire Community Foundation (WCF) has launched a new, designated Women and Girls Fund to aid the advancement, empowerment and support of women and girls across Wiltshire. The fund, which went live at the beginning of October, has received its first corporate sponsorship from law firm Wansbroughs, which has pledged an initial £10,000 to accelerate the...
Wiltshire drive to raise awareness of support available for private fostering
Wiltshire Council is asking people to get in touch if they are privately fostering so they can receive help and support. The call is also going out to local communities to get in touch if they think a child in their community is being cared for by someone not related. People who are looking after...
Sunny Days Nursery in Lyneham awarded £68,000 funding
Sunny Days Children’s Nursery Lyneham is delighted to have been awarded £68,000 in funding from the Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust’s AF3 EYP programme for 2022/23. This money will be put towards a total garden transformation at the Lyneham nursery and preschool. Fiona Webb, Director of Sunny Days Children’s Nursery, said, “We are delighted with...
Bath teenager wins national Young Volunteer of the Year Award
Dorothy House Hospice Care is delighted to announce that its Young People’s Ambassador, Jess Sheridan, has won the Young Volunteer of the Year category at the Hospice UK Awards, 2023. Jess (above with her dad John) has also won the B&NES Young Volunteer of the Year in the B&NES Community Awards. Jess’s amazing work for...
Marvellous offers membership with Norland-approved help and advice
Marvellous, which offers an app for parents and carers across the Bath and Bristol region to book Norland Nanny graduates and students for short-term, flexible childcare and babysitting, has launched Marvellous Membership. Marvellous founder and Norland graduate, Ella Trigwell, explained, “Starting in November, we are introducing Marvellous Membership to allow families to continue to access...
The Nov/Dec 2023 issue of The Bath & Wiltshire Parent is out now!
A preview of packed issue of Bath’s Biggest Magazine… The Nov/Dec 2023 issue of The Bath & Wiltshire Parent – Bath’s biggest magazine – is out from today! Distributed to 22,000 families across the Bath, Wiltshire and Somerset region, it is the only magazine to be distributed through every school in Bath, as well as...
Ten young people from Youth Action Wiltshire enjoy a Tall Ships adventure
A group of 10 young people from Youth Action Wiltshire (YAW) have been given the opportunity to work together to develop their skills on a Voyage of Exploration with Tall Ships Youth Trust (TSYT). The 10 young people, all selected from Wiltshire Young Carers and Splash Targeted Youth Support Services, a unique opportunity to develop...
Royal High School Bath welcomes Fitzmaurice Primary for a day of DT activities
Royal High School Bath welcomed a group of Year 4 students from Fitzmaurice Primary school in Bradford on Avon to enjoy a special day of Design Technology activities. With limited Design Technology on the curriculum in most primary schools, it was an exciting day for the students. The day was filled with fun practical activities...
Wiltshire Council supports maths skills with Number Confidence Week
Wiltshire Council will be supporting Number Confidence Week, the UK’s national week dedicated to reframing the way that people think about and use numbers. Taking place between 6-10 November, alongside the charity National Numeracy, the idea is to raise awareness of the importance of numbers in everyday life and to help children and adults feel...
Review – Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse the Live Concert at The Forum in Bath
Susy Douch and her family enjoy an opportunity to visit The Forum for a truly unique experience. We had visited the Art Deco former cinema that is The Forum Bath on previous occasions to see or listen to one of its huge variety of events hosted each year. The Forum was opened in May 1934...
Families who have lost a baby invited to Winter Baby Remembrance Service
Families who have lost a baby are being invited to a special Winter Baby Remembrance Service, organised by the Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust and the charity Sands. This service takes place on Saturday 2 December at 1pm at The Weston Hub, Penn Hill Road, Weston, Bath. The Reverend Prebendary Narinder Tegally, RUH...
Winners of the annual fireworks safety poster competition 2023 announced
Children from 40 schools in Bath entered this year’s Fireworks Safety Poster competition sponsored by Bath Building Society and supported by The Rotary Club of Bath. The winners of the five categories were given a money voucher to open a Bath Building Society Account, an art set and a Bath Building Society goody bag. They...
Bath Young Musician of the Year 2023 takes place at the Pump Room
Five talented musicians recently competed for the title of Bath Young Musician of the Year in the magnificent Pump Room, home to centuries of classical concerts. This is one of the Mid-Somerset Festival’s most celebrated events as all the participants gained outstanding marks in the March festival. Based on the BBC’s competition of the same...
Don’t leave your future to chance: it’s time to make your Will and LPA
Kathryn Smith Cowap, Partner in Wansbroughs’ Private Client team, explains why now is a great time to arrange your will and Lasting Powers of Attorney While Benjamin Franklin may well have had the right idea when he said, “Don’t put off until tomorrow what you can do today,” many of us are still guilty of...
Review – a family visit to The Shallows escape room at House of Frankenstein
Ian Waller and his family pay a half term visit to Bath’s newest escape room This is really important! The world could be about to end and – as fate would demand it – it was up to my family and me to save humanity. And if that wasn’t enough, we only had 45 minutes...
Ralph Allen pupil chosen to perform organ recital at Bath Abbey
Gavin Phelps, a student at Ralph Allen school in Bath, has taken to the stage at the prestigious Bath Abbey to wow the audience with his engaging organ recital. Year 10 pupil Gavin, aged 14, is heavily involved in all areas of the school’s music offering and was invited to perform an organ recital at...