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Focus on: Brislington West

Helping to double our tree canopy cover across the city:

Bristol Liberal Democrats were in celebratory mood at City Hall last week as yet another Lib Dem motion received widespread support from across the chamber. Following last month’s winning motion on Bristol’s governance, in which we secured a referendum on the directly elected mayoral system, this time we tabled a motion to deal with the serious issue of tree canopy cover across the city of Bristol. We are proud that the motion received unanimous support. You can read all about it by clicking here

You can also watch the debate

Focus on Brislington West

We are currently delivering our latest newsletter to every household in Brislington West. We believe it is important to keep in touch with local residents on a regular basis. Thank you so much to all our volunteers who help us with this task. If anyone would like to deliver some leaflets in their area every few months, please get in touch. 24

Jubilee-athon!

Can you support Jubilee Pool with their first major fundraising event? The Community Asset Transfer (CAT) is well underway but the process is likely to incur many costs and so fundraising is vital. The event is a 24-hour swimming relay at the pool on 29 and 30 January, where they’ll be attempting to collectively swim the distance between Jubilee Pool and Buckingham Palace! Participants, fundraisers and volunteers are all needed. Click here

For more details, email: savejubileepool@ hotmail.com

Vote for the Friends of

Brislington Brook: We were delighted to nominate the Friends of Brislington Brook (FOBB) for a parks award recently and are even more delighted that they have made it to the shortlist! The awards celebrate the volunteers in Bristol and Bath who go the extra mile for their green spaces and local communities. Please show your appreciation of all the volunteers at FOBB by giving them your vote. You have until 5pm on the 26th January to cast your vote. The winner will be given a cash prize of £200 towards their work: Click here

Warning for walkers Arnos Court Park:

Local residents have been in touch to warn us about the slippery, muddy conditions at the top of Arnos Court Park near the steps which lead to the connecting gate into Arnos vale Cemetery. There have been reports of several people having fallen over in the quagmire. We have written to the council to see if it is possible to put down some bark chippings as a temporary measure in order to make this popular route a little safer for users. Longer term, we are hopeful that a new path joining the steps to the pre-existing path at the bottom of the hill can be constructed this year. We’ll keep you posted.

Repair Café

We believe in keeping residents up-to-date on local issues and publish a quarterly newsletter, ‘Focus on Brislington West’, which is delivered to every household across the ward. Hundreds of local residents have also signed up for our monthly eFocus which we deliver via email.

If you would like to receive it, please register using this link: http://www.bristollibdems. org/efocus. You can see back copies of our newsletters and complete our online surveys on our website: https://www.bristollibdems. org/brislington_west. We write a weekly article for the community magazine, Direct Local, and regularly post updates on the Brislington community Facebook pages. You can follow us on our own social media pages:

Cllr. Jos Clark and Cllr. Andrew Varney cllr. jos.clark@bristol.gov.uk 07584 370429

We are delighted to see this excellent initiative back up and running again in 2022. Their first session will be held at St. Cuthbert’s Church at the junction of Sandy Park Road and Wick Road on Saturday 22 January from 10 to 12 noon. More details on their Facebook page.

cllr.andrew.varney@bristol.gov.uk 07584 183381