🧑‍🎄 Really enjoyed WEMA’s Christmas Celebration at St Michael’s Centre, Stoke Gifford tonight! The choir was wonderful as were the Senior Strings. Thank you to the schools - Abbotswood, St Andrew’s & Crossways 👏 Great to meet WEMA CEO Simon Lock with Parish Cllr Sue Bandcroft

✍🏼 𝐂𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐟𝐚𝐢𝐫 𝐟𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐡 𝐆𝐥𝐨𝐬 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐥 Our council missed out under Tories, causing public services pressure. I’m glad Labour’s changing how councils are funded. My letter to Local Gov Minister urging consideration:

🏫 Such a useful day yesterday, with Schools Minister Georgia Gould visiting Blackhorse Primary School. We saw best practice delivered by the team to support children with SEND needs, to help inform reforms. Thank you to the team at Blackhorse Primary School and The Leaf Trust for welcoming us.

✨🎄 We’re very lucky to have generous & creative residents like Ricky & Chrissie Fenning. ‘Winterbourne Wonderland’ is always a special community display - and they’ve exceeded themselves! Glad to be able to see and thank Ricky when I visited. They raise thousands for charity.

☕️ RSVP for my last community event of 2025 - Christmas with Claire!🎄 Join me & fellow residents for a special edition of ‘Coffee with Claire’ - my informal events bringing us together. No pre-planned agenda. Just stop by for a mince pie, coffee & chat clairehazelgrove.co.uk/christmas-with-claire

📣 This week has been #UKParliamentWeek On Friday, I joined Callicroft Primary Academy in Patchway for an assembly with KS2 to talk about Parliament & answer their questions. So many hands shot up, I was so impressed! Thank you to Headteacher Jonathan Keohane & the whole team.

🎄Always love the Christmas tree lights switch on by the Horseshoe in Downend - lovely event with a Salvation Army band, mulled wine from the pub & great crowd. Thank you to Matt Pitts (who scaled the tree & more to make it happen!), the Parish Council, band, pub & all involved!

🏫 Great to be back at SGS College Filton to meet new Principal David Withey & local learners. With great facilities for learning trades & a focus on English & Maths, SGS has lots to offer. Good to discuss Labour’s goal to see 2/3 young people in uni, FE or apprenticeships.

☕️ Thanks all who joined ‘Coffee with Claire’ at Stoke Gifford Retirement Village today! Useful conversations about what residents love about Stoke Park & Cheswick Village, from green spaces to bus links. Top issues chosen included a lack of community spaces & issues with some HMOs.

🎅 Loved the Chrismas lights switch on tonight at the Willow Brook Centre in Bradley Stoke! Thanks to the team at the centre for putting this on, and Bradley Stoke Radio for the festive tunes. Great to be here with Mayor of Bradley Stoke Natalie Field and to see lots of others here!

Labour’s Budget delivers for people across our Filton and Bradley Stoke constituency: 💷 Average £150 off energy bills 👛 Higher minimum wage & state pension 👩‍🔧 Free apprentice training for SMEs 🚆 Frozen train fares saving some £892 Bristol-London 👶 Lifting 2-child cap could help 1,640 local kids

🚆 𝐋𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐳𝐞𝐬 𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐥 𝐟𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐬 - 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝟑𝟎𝐲𝐫𝐬 - 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐩 𝐜𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 All regulated fares frozen next year - inc season tickets, peak returns for commuters & off-peak returns between major English cities. Commuters on most expensive routes will save £100s. This is the difference with Labour.

🚧 Yesterday, I met with Vistry in Charlton Hayes to follow up on residents’ concerns about unfinished areas of work. They have confirmed to me that they are working through these final 3 areas and expect to complete these by late spring. I will continue to stay close to this.

📰 𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐣𝐨𝐛𝐬 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐅𝐢𝐥𝐭𝐨𝐧 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐚 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐀𝐈 𝐥𝐚𝐛! Labour have announced over £20bn secured in AI investment. Locally, this includes: ✅ a new AI lab in Filton ✅ funding boost for the Isambard-AI supercomputer ✅ Jobs, growth and opportunity on our doorstep. 📰 www.gov.uk/government/n...

Really proud that our Labour Government has published the first-ever Men’s Health Strategy. A landmark moment this International Men’s Day. Find out more 👇 www.gov.uk/government/n...

I know we’ll all be relieved these arrests have now been made & our thoughts will be with the 17-year-old boy following this awful incident in Filton. Knife crime & violence will not be tolerated on our streets. Grateful to the police for their action. www.avonandsomerset.police.uk/news/2025/11...

Residents may have heard reports of a stabbing outside McDonald’s in Filton yesterday. I’ve been in contact with the police. Thankfully, the injuries of the person who went to hospital are not thought to be life-threatening. This incident is unacceptable. Please call 101 with any information.

Today, we said farewell to Mum. After days of torrential rain and grey, Mum’s favourite song - ELO’s ‘Mr. Blue Sky’ - felt apt. We’ll always miss Mum, but she lives on in us, and will remain such an important part of our lives. Death doesn’t change that, it clarifies it 🤍

An honour to take part in Patchway’s Remembrance Parade and Service today. Patchway’s poignant event falls this weekend so more people can attend, not least RBL Patchway, Stoke Gifford & District Branch. We paused to remember those who lost their lives fighting for our country, peace and freedoms.

💼 Great to meet the Horfield JobCentre Plus team. Their tailored approach supports significantly more people into work than the national average. Good to hear youth support expansion plans, following Labour investing: 📍£25m to double Youth Hubs 🤝 £90m in Youth Guarantee pilots inc our region

💬 Today, I held my advice surgery in Charlton Hayes, at Aerospace Bristol. Local people raised a range of issues they’ve experienced, many of which happened to centre around equality and fairness. If you need support, please email: [email protected]

🤝 Welcome to Parliament, Patchway Community School! Super to help this brilliant group to take a tour and meet up to hear their questions and ideas. Glad to hear them say that they now feel more like they could see themselves here in future. Thanks to them, the teachers and parents.

A privilege to be invited to join the remembrance service at MOD Abbey Wood in Filton, led by Chaplain Padre Matthew Stevens. Honoured to lay a wreath alongside DE&S Interim CEO Lt Gen Simon Hamilton, representatives of our forces and support organisations. We will remember them. 📸: DE&S

As the MP for Bristol Parkway, it was an honour to present a wreath today on our community’s behalf for #PoppiesToPaddington. This powerful initiative sees wreaths from communities on GWR’s lines sent to the war memorial in Paddington. Thanks, John, for taking care of ours.

Glad to host GW4’s Innovation Showcase in Parliament highlighting how research from Bath, Bristol, Cardiff & Exeter unis is having real-world impact. Great to hear from Chi Onwurah, Science Committee Chair, Uni of Bristol VC Evelyn Welch, Uni of Bath VC Phil Taylor & GW4’s Dr Rebecca Leithall 📸GW4

An honour to lay a wreath at the Cenotaph at the village green in Stoke Gifford. We gathered to remember those who gave their tomorrows for our todays. We think of those injured, those serving today & families. Thank you to residents who took part, inc. youth groups who made some of the wreaths.

🎇 Wonderful evening at St Michael's PTFA’s Fireworks Display! Thank you to the whole team, and to Little Stoke Community Café for sponsoring the event. Magnificent display and lovely to see so many people here. Great to chat with many of you, Head Pete Barnard, Cllr Sue Bandcroft & PTFA members!

A personally tough month for me with the loss of my Mum, but I’ve still been working hard to serve you and our community. Thank you for your support and kind messages. Here’s some of my activity in October.

Tackling inequality. Protecting the planet. Creating the public services of tomorrow. The Labour Party is the progressive party facing the future, delivering modern Britain. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

My next ‘Coffee with Claire’ is Sat 29th Nov, covering Stoke Park and Cheswick ☕️ I believe in doing politics differently and bringing people together. If you live here, join me and others to share ideas on making ours an even better place to live. RSVP👇 clairehazelgrove.co.uk/coffee-with-...

An honour to plant a tribute on our community’s behalf in the Speaker’s ‘Garden of Remembrance’ in Parliament. Here, I recognised all those from the Filton and Bradley Stoke constituency who sacrificed their lives for our freedoms, those who serve, and their families. Thank you.

💼 I’m recruiting a proactive and detail-oriented Constituency Support Officer to join my brilliant local team. Daily activities may include: 📝 Supporting with residents’ enquires 📆 Leading on my visits & events 📰 Drafting local press releases More 👉 www.w4mpjobs.org/JobDetails.a...

Thank you to brilliant local volunteers selling poppies and raising funds for the Royal British Legion. A real community effort, with such heart put into displays and creations, like this knitted soldier. Glad to support Tricia at Co-op Downend and Anne-Marie and Caroline at Tesco Bradley Stoke.

Privilege to speak at the unveiling of a new Aerospace Bristol memorial to 42 pilots & engineers who died in test flights with the Bristol Aeroplane Company. Poignant on 68th anniversary of the Britannia crash in Downend. A lasting tribute to those who gave their lives for future aviation safety.

Powerful morning in Downend remembering our Commonwealth War Heroes. Thanks to Revd Dan Watts, Revd Paul Peterson & Christ Church team, veteran Norman Low, Staple Hill & District RBL & congregation. Lovely to meet Ruth, celebrating her 90th thus week. Grateful to hear her & Norman’s WWII memories

A pleasure to be joined by Tom El-Shawk of Future Space for a reception with the Chancellor celebrating SMEs (via No10!) Future Space at UWE is home to 70+ businesses and helps them connect and thrive. I’m proud to champion local SMEs and bring your voices to the heart of government.

✈️ 📣 I welcomed our Türkiye Typhoon deal, the role the great team at Rolls-Royce Filton will play & asked the Chancellor how integral she sees defence as an engine for growth. She’s already boosting defence spend - 2.6% of GDP by April 2027 - good for jobs & national security.

🏡 🐈 𝐑𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐑𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬 𝐀𝐜𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐑𝐨𝐲𝐚𝐥 𝐀𝐬𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭! ❌ no-fault evictions ✅ private rented sector database ✅ right to request a pet & more I sat on the Bill Committee, scrutinising the draft legislation, a year ago. Reform and Tories voted against better renters’ rights. Labour fought and won.

✈️ Great news that our community will benefit from Labour Govt’s Türkiye deal to provide 20 Typhoon fighter jets worth up to £8bn. Rolls-Royce Filton will be the main engine maintenance hub and critical engine element producer. ✅ Local jobs and growth. 📸 Meeting @lukepollard.bsky.social on this.

✈️ Proud to welcome Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander to Airbus in Filton today. 🤝 Heidi’s visit comes as Airbus welcomes an order of 100 A321neo aircraft from VietJet, which can operate with up to 50% Sustainable Aviation Fuels and a goal of up to 100% by 2030. ✅ Jobs. Growth. Clean energy.

🍻 Great to welcome all to Pub Politics at The Beaufort Arms in Stoke Gifford. Doing politics differently, my events bring people together in a welcoming environment - and support local pubs. While some divide, I believe in coming together, listening (agreeing or not!) and focusing on what unites.

Happy Diwali to everyone celebrating across the Filton and Bradley Stoke constituency and beyond 🪔

I’m very sad to say that my Mum, Ruth Hazelgrove, passed away last weekend, aged 61. I will always miss her. Family was the centre of her world. She also championed others, with a strong sense of social justice. I will always be so proud of her and in awe of her strength. ❤️💔

☕️ Thanks all who joined ‘Coffee with Claire’ in Charlton Hayes today. Doing politics differently, one of my favourite things about these events is seeing people meeting for the first time. We discussed what people already love about the area and how we can make it an even better place to live.

💬 Today, I held my advice surgery in Downend, at the lovely Lincombe Barn. Local people raised a range of issues, from addiction and mental health support to SEND provision. If you need support, please email: [email protected]

💼 Recruiting a brand new role in my super team: Communications Officer. Key aspects: ✍🏼 Respond to issue-based campaigns promoted by residents 📰 📱Create and lead proactive comms content 📣 Shape and lead issue-based campaigns for change Apply by 23rd October 👉 www.w4mpjobs.org/JobDetails.a...

An important moment today with the release of some of the Israeli hostages, and seeing aid trucks entering Gaza, with more steps needed ahead.

🤝 Last week at Labour Party Conference, I met with several brilliant charities, inc: Cancer Research UK, Dementia UK, Guide Dogs UK, Shelter, Prostate Cancer UK, Scouts & the Animals Matter coalition. Thanks to everyone locally who got in touch asking me to meet with them - I was very glad to.

RSVP for my next Pub Politics! Doing politics differently, alongside ‘Coffee with Claire’, these informal events aim to bring people together. No pre-planned agenda. Join me and fellow residents for a chat and drink on Thurs 23rd Oct in Stoke Gifford! RSVP👇 clairehazelgrove.co.uk/pub-politics...

Important news. After so much suffering, the relief on the ground shows the difference this deal could make. It is vital that this - including the return of the hostages - is implemented in full, that aid can enter Gaza unrestricted, and helps forge a path for a long-term peace.