WeArePlaster 3/17/22 WeArePlaster 3/17/22

Tayyab Khan

Our tour guide for Easton and Lawrence Hill is the law student and positive thinking local entrepreneur Tayyab Khan. Tayyab knows these streets and traders like the back of his hand, having grown up and worked here. As an activist for gender and race equality, he's a great guide for the best Chai in town and an all-round lovely guy!

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Rick Wallis

Rick has been a face around the area for over thirty years and is well known in the running community. For the past 14 years, his shop Up & Running has done a roaring trade in North View. He works with local businesses to support the Henleaze Christmas Festival and organise community projects including the ever popular treasure trail over the summer school holidays, which started in 2012.

WeArePlaster 2/15/22 WeArePlaster 2/15/22

Emma Wreyford

Our local hero for Clifton and Cotham is the bubbly Bristolian Emma! Cotham resident Emma is a huge supporter of independents with her parents having owned Bristols founding wholefoods shop, Grainstore. Emma spent 20 years working as a props and costume maker before founding Chandos Atelier - a creative paradise on Chandos Road. Chandos Atelier doesn’t teach art, they create a fun space for learning and their sessions and parties build children’s confidence through creative play. Offering a table full of materials, a few methods and techniques and a lot of room for exploration, Emma can make almost anything and believe you can too!

WeArePlaster 1/18/22 WeArePlaster 1/18/22

Christine Bamford

Where to start with Christine Bamford? She has a passion for diversity, empowerment and her Stoke Lane community. This passion has led her to become founder and chief executive of Women’s Coin, focussing on cryptocurrency for social good and helped to establish programmes such as ‘Step Up’, a platform that enables access to learning, free of charge for women and their families living in difficult environments. This led to the training of 300 diverse leaders since 2018!

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Sarah McCallum

Sarah is the Flux Gallery owner and manager in the Christmas Steps Quarter. She has been a nature-inspired jeweller for over 20 years using metal folders, recycled silver and fairtrade gold. She loves working closely with a community of makers and artists and her neighbouring businesses to showcase Bristol's independent makers within the Christmas Steps and Bristol.

WeArePlaster 12/8/21 WeArePlaster 12/8/21

Latoya Adlam

Latoya is a Bristolian entrepreneur and creator of the first black-owned concept popup store in Bristol, Kitchen Cosmetics. She offers support and retail opportunities to the community and is a well-known face among the independents in Bristol Shopping Quarter.

WeArePlaster 11/30/21 WeArePlaster 11/30/21

Miles Chambers

Miles is a leading and popular poetic cultural commentator, Slam Champion, playwright and Bristol's first city poet laureate. He has been living in Bristol for the past 20 years, and St Pauls is one of his favourite places to spend his time. His poetry can be seen all over Bristol, including a video performance at the M-Shed, in an exhibition at We The Curious and immortalised on the walls of the Bristol Old Vic. Miles’ favourite things? Poetry slams and Jerk chicken! You can also catch Miles cooking up some traditional Jamaican cuisine on the Agnes Spencer stall – it’s delicious!

Miles is a leading and popular poetic cultural commentator, Slam Champion, playwright and Bristol's first city poet laureate. He has been living in Bristol for the past 20 years and St Pauls is one of his favourite places to spend his time. His poetry can be seen all over Bristol, including a video performance at the M-Shed, in an exhibition at We The Curious and immortalised on the walls of the Bristol Old Vic.

Miles’ favourite things? Poetry slams and Jerk chicken! You can also catch Miles cooking up some traditional Jamaican cuisine on the Agnes Spencer stall – it’s delicious!

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Ella Charles

Ella has been working on Park Street for the last 8 years and works as head of operations for the Folk House. Moving to Bristol to study art, she fell in love with the city and joined the team to help supply adult education; not to mention the amazing classes on offer for arts, crafts, pottery or language. She is constantly looking to develop the Folk House and their courses to better serve the community and needs of their students.

Ella has been working on Park Street for the last 8 years and works as head of operations for the Folk House.

Moving to Bristol to study art, she fell in love with the city and joined the team to help supply adult education; not to mention the amazing classes on offer for arts, crafts, pottery or language. She is constantly looking to develop the Folk House and their courses to better serve the community and needs of their students.

WeArePlaster 11/16/21 WeArePlaster 11/16/21

Tom Marsham

Tom has been a practising artist for over 20 years and has produced over 60 projects across many mediums, including - museum audio-tours, theatre & cabaret. Actively encouraging dialogue with participants through socially engaged processes such as ‘Tea Parties’, allows him to evocative glimpses into everyday life, letting him tell engaging, poetic & unpretentious stories. An overarching theme of his work is that of the outsider & their story, particularly regarding the LGBTQ+ experiences and stories. He is a proud resident of the area and has created a new show, Old Market (REMIXED), which uncovering hidden histories of communities with Old Market, shining a light on the 1990s to the present day. His work has been shown in various venues across the UK, including Bristol’s Old Vic and the Arnolfini.

WeArePlaster 11/9/21 WeArePlaster 11/9/21

Jax Tippets

Jax has lived in Brislington for the last 40 years and fell in love with Sandy Park's vibrant community. She is well known within the community for co-founding the group SPLAT, championing locals and traders, as well as organising fundraisers for area improvements and events such as the Christmas lights switch on. She also runs lively Zumba classes for the community, keeping them healthy and jubilant.

WeArePlaster 11/4/21 WeArePlaster 11/4/21

Leila Akhmedova

Local resident Leila Akhmedova is known throughout Bristol for working closely with a range of different businesses from Zaras Chocolate to Toyville. She created the Northstreet BS3 blog that is all about loving South Bristol and North Street.

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Claudia Collins

"Knowle West resident, Claudia, works as a Creative Engagement Facilitator for Filwood Fantastic and is a massive part of the community. You may have seen her with a wheelbarrow, building sandcastles around the beach named streets of Knowle West. Dressed like a bunch of grapes delivering wine, performing as the reading reindeer at Christmas or cycling dressed as a sunflower over the summer.

All of her alter egos are down to Dyslexic thinking skills, something that is celebrated in her social enterprise, Brislexic. Claudia sells gifts to raise funds and awareness promoting the celebration of neurodiversity. What better person to take us through the streets of Filwood.

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WeArePlaster 10/13/21 WeArePlaster 10/13/21

Josh Eggleton

Our local hero for Broadwalk and Totterdown is none other than local chef Josh Eggleton who has lived in the area for the past 10 years and is a born and bred Bristolian! The culinary entrepreneur is an incredibly active member of the city's ever-growing food scene, as owner of the Pony Bistro, Salt & Malt, The Kensington Arms and also the co-founder of Breaking Bread. This tour shows his love of this community including it’s pubs, florists and brilliant food producers.

WeArePlaster 8/18/21 WeArePlaster 8/18/21

Jock Shepherd

New Clifton resident Jock joined the community in August 2020 in the midst of the pandemic and quickly got to know the traders on his doorstep. After a career in the events industry leading international businesses including Imagination, he loves Clifton Village for its diversity, vibrancy and vitality, and believes that its the retailers and hospitality establishments that make the community amazing. Moving to the city from Oxfordshire countryside, Jock appreciates the incredible community spirit and proximity of green spaces to these shopping streets.

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Mark Olver

Stand up comedian and founder of Belly Laughs Mark Olver is one of Bristol's biggest comedy exports! Brislington local and a huge supporter of its traders, he takes comedy shows to restaurants across the city during January and February to support them and raise money for charities including Fareshare South West and the Western Air Ambulance.

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Sherrie Eugene Hart

Sherrie grew up on Mina Road and lived here for over 30 years. You might know her face from her Caribbean cooking show or one of a huge number of community projects. She is also a renowned BSL interpreter. Her memories of playing in the park with her friends and never needing to leave this amazing village come through in her film as she meets all the area's characters.

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Hilary Long

Our local guide Hilary is Chairman of the Westbury-on-Trym society and has lived in the area for over 50 years. A well known face, she has been influential on projects including raising funds to dress the village with flowers for the last 40 years. Her love of the history of the village is clear, as is her pride in her local shopkeepers. The area is blazoned with bright flowers all summer long thanks to the hanging baskets organised by the society to welcome the businesses back to work, and shoppers back to the streets.

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Brian and Janet

This street features not one but two local heroes in Brian and Janet who have been involved in the Two Mile Hill community for the last 50 years. They collectively run the Nylon Shop which sells high-quality fabric to customers all over the UK.

WeArePlaster 7/7/21 WeArePlaster 7/7/21

Giacomo Licata

The legendary North Bristol barber has been serving his community for over 35 years. His clients come from all different backgrounds, from local tradesmen to financial advisors. All in need of one thing, a snappy cut and a good chat!

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Shamil Ahmed

Sham is an Easton resident and was named one of the 24 most influential people under 24 by Rife Magazine. An amazing photographer, he works for Integrate UK with young people tackling issues including grooming, radicalisation and honour-based violence and abuse. You'll also find him vlogging on Youtube, presenting at events and helping the communities of East Bristol with voluntary work. An all round amazing community member, his guided tour of Stapleton Road is a brilliant watch!