Young people in Bristol have come up with a list of 80 things to do before you’re 18.

Suggestions include taking part in the Great Easton Pancake Day Race, sliding down the slidy rocks by the Suspension Bridge, visiting legendary World War Two gun Purdown Percy and discovering the creatures living on Troopers Hill.

The project is coordinated by the University of Bristol in collaboration with UWE, M Shed, Windmill Hill City Farm, Ablaze, Lighting Up Learning, My FutureMy Choice and ASDAN.

The ideas are planned to now be reviewed annually for the next two years.

Here are the 80 suggestions:

  • Picnic in the city
  • Hear the dawn chorus
  • See the law in action
  • Discover the truth about Bristol’s slave trade past
  • Make someone smile
  • Make something by hand
  • Make something new from something old
  • Taste something really different
  • Work out why the harbour’s floating
  • Get mobile without your mobile
  • Learn a circus trick
  • Paddle in the fountains
  • Organise your own street party
  • Build your own Concorde
  • Do one of Bristol’s long bike rides
  • Take part in the Great Easton Pancake Day Race
  • Find a giants footprint
  • Ready, Set, Go!
  • Get out of the house and play outside
  • Visit a (different) place of worship
  • Create your own energy
  • Discover the rare creatures living on Troopers Hill
  • Find out where science is going
  • Cook on an open fire
  • Discover a new sort of cinema
  • Make and fly a kite
  • Put on an exhibition
  • Source a full meal for as little money as possible
  • Sort out your streets
  • Meet an extinct animal
  • Set up a youth market
  • Meet an artist
  • Busk for an hour
  • Run a Campaign
  • Follow that bus!
  • Create the next Wallace and Gromit
  • Do the zombie walk
  • See Bristol from above
  • Slide down the slidey rock
  • Have a conversation using only your hands
  • Rediscover the lost resort of Severn Beach
  • Swim outdoors
  • Grow a Bristolian frog
  • Grow something to eat
  • See street art in action
  • Create or fix a bike from recycled parts
  • Raise money for charity
  • Prepare to save a life
  • See the Bristol Peregrines
  • Become a Bristolian wordsmith
  • Spend a day on Bristol time
  • See the Severn bore
  • Your rights, your vote
  • Set up a social enterprise
  • Make your own radio show
  • Share your ideas with the Mayor
  • See the inside of somewhere strange
  • Rock climbing
  • Visit a real farm
  • Hear new live music
  • See the stars over the city
  • Revisit Bristol’s rebellions
  • Hunt down the source of the Brislington Brook
  • Visit Purdown Percy
  • Watch the tide go out
  • Festival!
  • Climb a tree
  • See the bluebells
  • Build a den
  • Go underground
  • Make your own hot air balloon
  • Take over Bristol on a bike
  • Make a film
  • Get to all the different skate parks in Bristol
  • Make a local meal
  • Graffiti Hunt
  • Bio-blitz your backyard
  • Volunteer for a day

www.bristol80by18.org.uk

One Response so far.

  1. Ben Walls says:

    A truly inspirational list. I can honestly say I’ve still to do some of these and it’s worth printing out!

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