FLAMINGOS A GO-GO IN BROADMEAD OVER EASTER

Shoppers and visitors to Broadmead and Cabot Circus in Bristol over the school Easter holidays should prepare to be wowed by a flock of flamboyant flamingos, each beautifully and individually decorated by local youngsters and displayed in shop windows throughout the area. Bristol’s annual Easter Trail – organised for the

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DEBUT CONCERT FOR NEW ROOM COMMUNITY CHOIR

The recently launched New Room Community Choir is holding its first concert Wednesday 21 March in John Wesley’s Chapel on Bristol’s Broadmead, with a rousing selection of songs largely selected by the choir members themselves. A new initiative on the part of the community team at the New Room, the

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MUSEUM AT NEW ROOM BRISTOL GIVEN IMPORTANT NEW ARTEFACTS

The New Room in Bristol – also known as John Wesley’s Chapel – has been chosen as one of the new homes for an historically important collection of artefacts that have been in storage since the closure of their previous site, the Wesley College, in 2010. The College – based

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MARCH FOLK AT THE NEW ROOM

Local folk-music fans have the chance to melt away the winter blues at a toe-tapping gig in the New Room – otherwise known as John Wesley’s Chapel, on Bristol’s Broadmead – with inspiring pipe and accordion duo, Jon Swayne and Becky Price on Thursday 8 March. Jon and Becky promise

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FIND OUT MORE ABOUT FAIRTRADE AT THE NEW ROOM

NB DUE TO SEVERE WEATHER, THIS EVENT HAS NOW BEEN CANCELLED.   This Saturday (3 March) sees a pop-up market and exhibition at the New Room on Bristol’s Broadmead giving local people the chance to find out how Fairtrade can change the lives of coffee and cocoa farmers in the

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