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Use of donor sperm is now the usual route for female couples who have their hearts set on having a baby together, and for those wanting to explore this option during Bristol Pride a free information evening, tailored specifically to their needs, will take place at Bristol Centre for Reproductive Medicine on Wednesday 5 July.
Litter Free Dorset have partnered with Weymouth Town Council and Weymouth and Portland Marine Litter Project to expand their beach toy library, with two additional locations on the busy Weymouth Seafront just in time for the start of summer holidays. The toy library allows visitors to borrow and reuse toys for free, meaning visitors save money, help reduce waste and stop plastic entering our oceans.
Organisers of Cornwall’s surf and music festival, Boardmasters, will donate £50,000 to Newquay’s Concrete Waves Skatepark between now and 2025.
Children aged 4-11 have an opportunity to get involved in this year’s Summer Reading Challenge!
Hoteliers in Bristol have served up a treat for college catering students in the form of a top-of-the-range Thermomix and fine dining plates.
Early Years practitioner Joanne Pear, the new manager of The Exchange day nursery in Bridgwater, wasn’t the only recent arrival: two colleagues from her previous setting decided to come with her to work for Mama Bear’s too.
In 2022, to celebrate the modern Matthew’s 25th anniversary and the 525th anniversary of John Cabot’s voyage across the Atlantic on the original Matthew in 1497, The Matthew of Bristol Trust embarked on a year-long project to further advance the educational aims of the ship and the Trust.
International law firm Osborne Clarke has advised the University of Bristol as work begins on its new Temple Quarter Campus at a total investment of around £500 million. Work will commence this month after the University signed contracts with construction company Sir Robert McAlpine.
Two leading independent schools are going into partnership to open Bristol’s first international school later this year – the first to offer the International Baccalaureate (IB) Middle Years Programme.
A series of short films featuring Cornish speakers is now available on BBC iPlayer.
Bristol-based loneliness charity Marmalade Trust has invited some of the youngest members of society to make their own creative contributions to hampers that the charity is currently putting together for people who would otherwise be on their own at Christmas.
Pre-schoolers at Mama Bear’s day nursery in Crews Hole, Bristol, have been learning to make Rangoli good-luck decorations for Diwali, the annual festival of light.
