• Business
  • Community
  • Education
  • Environment
  • Health and wellbeing
  • Blog
  • Subscribe
  • Contact
Search
  • Listen or translate
Sign in
Welcome! Log into your account
Forgot your password? Get help
Password recovery
Recover your password
A password will be e-mailed to you.
  • Business
  • Community
  • Education
  • Environment
  • Health and wellbeing
  • Blog
  • Subscribe
  • Contact
Home Health and wellbeing Time Capsule buried to mark the way community came together to support...
  • Health and wellbeing
  • Newsroom Email

Time Capsule buried to mark the way community came together to support each other during the pandemic

By
jw47
-
1st April 2022
0
1005
Share on Facebook
Tweet on Twitter

Local school children have helped to bury a time capsule remembering the Covid-19 pandemic in South Gloucestershire.

Pupils from Raysfield Primary School, in Chipping Sodbury and Little Stars nursery at St Barnabas Primary School, in North Common, joined the council’s Covid response team at a special ceremony on Thursday (31 March).

The children had contributed to the time capsule with items including pictures, photographs and their own memories of lockdowns, home schooling and the kind acts they did during the pandemic. Many other schools also sent in items to be included and items were submitted from local businesses, care homes, community groups, town councils and churches. They included awards brochures, photo albums taken during lockdown, badges, painted pebbles, a handmade rainbow and poems.

Other items included in the capsule, which has been buried outside the council’s offices at Badminton Road, are materials produced by the council during Covid such as posters, flyers, postcards, bags, pens and social media campaign images. A timeline, detailing national restrictions and our local response, was also produced.

Leader of South Gloucestershire Council, Cllr Toby Savage, said: “The time capsule gives us a chance to reflect and remember and provide social history for future generations.
“It is two years since we first went into lockdown. In that time, in South Gloucestershire, we have double vaccinated over 83 per cent of everyone aged over 12, PCR tested a quarter of a million people and handed out nearly 75,000 lateral flow testing kits.

“We have come together during this pandemic and supported one another. It has been the hardest of times, but also made us stronger. Now is a time to look forward and recognise what we can achieve as a community, to build upon the relationships formed between partners and organisations, to deliver and support each other for the benefit of all our residents.”

Director of Public Health for South Gloucestershire, Sara Blackmore, said: “We have been part of the national journey, but we have also experienced our own unique moments in South Gloucestershire, including two rounds of surge testing with a fantastic response from the community, and an incredible uptake of the vaccine.

“We are still living with Covid and need to continue to focus on living safely and on prevention, but this is a chance for us to reflect on that journey and think about how we move forward, building on that resilience and the kindness we have shown so much of during the last two years.”

“That means still giving people space, wearing a mask in a crowded place, taking time off work and school if you have symptoms and getting vaccinated when invited. Let’s build on all of the helpful practices we’ve put in place over the last two years to help contain the spread.”

The capsule is marked by a plaque and is due to be opened in 30 years.

The council has also created an online book of memories to provide a space for everyone to share their stories of the pandemic and help us all reflect on the last two years. You can contribute by visiting the website at https://beta.southglos.gov.uk/south-gloucestershire-remembers-covid-19

  • TAGS
  • COVID-19
  • public health
SHARE
Facebook
Twitter
  • tweet
Previous articleApply for an Area Wide Grant to help your community
Next articleNew Changing Places Toilets planned in South Gloucestershire
jw47

RELATED ARTICLESMORE FROM AUTHOR

People sat at a social event smiling.

South Gloucestershire Council commits an additional £500k cost of living support to the voluntary sector

CYN Youth Work Manager, Jack Fitzsimmons, CYN Lead Youth Worker at The Batch, Gill Johnson alongside young people attending the newly reopened Youth Club.

The Batch Community Centre to partially reopen for youth services while a new long-term operator is identified

A photograph of South Gloucestershire Council's Badminton Road office

South Gloucestershire Council approves budget, spending and savings plan for 2023/24

Recent Posts
  • South Gloucestershire’s impressive recycling rate continues to rise
  • Emersons Green Library to be extended with additional space for children
  • South Wales and Western England leaders join forces to plan for the area’s future transport
  • Flood risk on South Gloucestershire roads reduced after three years of resilience work
  • Council secures more than £700,000 to provide new sports facilities for Patchway
Categories
  • Budget
  • Business and economy
  • Chair
  • Children and Young People
  • Climate and nature emergency
  • Community
  • Digital inclusion
  • Education
  • Environment
  • Featured
  • Featured
  • Health and wellbeing
  • Housing
  • Leader's blog
  • Newsroom Email
  • Newsroom Email Featured
  • Transport

EDITOR PICKS

South Gloucestershire Council 2021/2022 Budget

Recover and Rise Budget will take forward council priorities and provide...

11th February 2021
Vehicles queuing for community surge testing for Covid-19 variant in Emersons Green

An update on surge testing in Bristol and South Gloucestershire

10th February 2021
Covid-19 Get Tested - community surge testing available - A mutation of the Covid-19 UK variant is present in parts of Bristol and South Gloucestershire. Everyone aged 16 or over without symptoms in eligible postcodes should get tested to help suppress this variant, and help protect their loved ones.

Two additional testing sites to open for community surge testing

9th February 2021

POPULAR POSTS

Vehicles queuing for community surge testing for Covid-19 variant in Emersons Green

Additional Community Testing for South Gloucestershire and Bristol

6th February 2021
Covid-19 Community surge testing

Further surge testing announced in South Gloucestershire

28th February 2021

First Covid-19 Community Testing Unit to open in South Gloucestershire at...

30th September 2020

POPULAR CATEGORY

  • Newsroom Email679
  • Community365
  • Environment222
  • Health and wellbeing188
  • Transport154
  • Business and economy133
  • Education133
  • Newsroom Email Featured47
  • Climate and nature emergency25
ABOUT US
FOLLOW US
©