Youth football

Southside Youth Centre at Kelston View is organising an 11-a-side football league for 14 to 17 year-olds. From the last week of June until the end of August, it will be held every Saturday morning and Wednesday evening - moving to Wednesday afternoon when the school holidays begin.

If you are interested get in touch with the youth centre, with your team name and the main contact person. Telephone 01225 423218 or contact via facebook here.

Family event

This will be at Bath Recreation Ground on Saturday 5th June from 10am to 2pm and it's all free. Activities include the VerticalXtreme climbing wall, a football skills workshop, fitness challenges, beat the goalkeeper and speed gun challenge. Come and try frisbee, fencing, extreme golf, tennis or petanque. There will also be sports stars, face painting, circus skills, a cycle skills challenge, goodie bags, a bouncy castle, bungee run and spin-a-thon. For more information see here.

Friends of Roundhill

In the past year the Friends of Roundhill group has organised a series of activities on Roundhill, Southdown. In July there will be a community picnic on the hill. The group is also holding an open meeting on 17th June at 7pm in the YMCA at Roundhill. Come and see how you could get involved.

Joe, 30/05/10

This year's Healthy Living Week began at Twerton Market on Thursday, with a cluster of stalls giving out advice on health related topics. You could try a selection of healthy foods like raw carrot and cucumber which were very nice, as well as rice cakes which were flavourless.

There was a stall about how to recycle organic waste in compost bins and another one where you could get your blood pressure tested. The above right-hand photo shows a lady named Gladys doing the blood pressure test.

Have a look at the programme for the rest of the Healthy Living Week activities here. On 3rd June there will be a big Healthy Living Week celebration at Bath City Farm.

Joe, 27/05/10

On Monday the community room at Bath City Football Club was full of all kinds off colourful and interesting odds and ends. The Scrapstore comes to Twerton once a year bringing lots of low cost creative materials for use in crafts.

The scrap materials are manufacturers' left-overs which are delivered to the Bristol Scrapstore or collected for free. The Scrapstore attracts parents, childminders, school groups and children's centres etc who use the materials to do craftwork with children.

In the above left-hand photo, from left to right, is Play Ranger Samantha Rowlands, Scrapstore worker Lucy Ward and Play Development Officer Claire Sands. In the right-hand photo is Scrapstore worker Alice doing a craft workshop with parents and children, using objects that were once going to be plastic bubble gum containers.

If you missed the Scrapstore at Twerton, there is another one coming to Timsbury on 12th July. For more information call 0117 90822090.

Joe, 24/05/10

Urban extension

The change in government has meant that plans to build 21,300 houses across the county have been reviewed. The plans had involved building thousands of homes to the south of Bath, with land near Twerton earmarked as a likely spot for development - see here. Our Council is now saying that a far lower number of homes will be built. But where?

First Steps

First Steps groups that will be open in Twerton over the June half-term holiday are:

Holiday Play at First Steps Annexe, Dominion Road, on Tuesday from 10am to 12 noon.
Young Parents at First Steps Annexe, Dominion Road, on Wednesday from 1pm to 3pm.

Groups will be closed on Wednesday 16th June for an inset day. For more information, please contact a member of Family Services team on 01225 314111.

Fete

Southdown Infant and Junior Schools are organising a fete for 11th June from 2pm to 4pm.

Joe, 24/05/10

Four large posters mounted on board arrived and were fixed to the hoarding around the empty houses at Pennyquick View on Wednesday 19th May. This is an art project with local youth and the posters are interesting photo montages showing images of the Twerton area.

Photo by Mr John Rawlings. More photos by John here: 2  3  4

The buildings at Pennyquick View are all about to be demolished and construction work on new housing is beginning in the area. There will be an information day to show nearby residents the plans. Thanks to Mr John Rawlings for taking the pictures of the posters.

Joe, 19/05/10