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Every year the Royal Berkshire Hospital (RBH) collects gifts for patients who will be in hospital over Christmas. Receiving a gift makes a big difference. If you would like to support RBH, you can buy and deliver your gift to one of RBH’s collection points. Presents need to be unwrapped. The hospital will check, wrap and distribute them. Please delivery your gifts to RBH by Tuesday 14 December 2021. Continue reading Royal Berkshire Hospital Christmas Gift Tree Appeal→

Do you want to be a Secret Santa? Buy a gift or donate so local charities can make Christmas special for those they support. Last year, thanks to your incredible generosity over 1,500 gifts were given through 16 local charities. This year, we’re going even bigger and we have 20 local charities who are receiving gifts! Continue reading The Giving Tree 2021→

School Streets give children the chance to walk, cycle or scoot to school safely in the street of the school without danger from traffic. This allows school children to get to know other children on their way to school, keep active and also help with social distancing during the pandemic. An organised School Street closes the road outside the school from traffic for up to 45 minutes, twice a day, during school term time only. Continue reading School Streets have started→

Reading Council is offering funding to individuals, groups, organisations and communities from the Oxford Road to discover creative opportunities and develop exciting new cultural projects in the area. The Council is welcoming applications for grant funding from community groups, artists or creative individuals, with links to the Oxford Road area and experience of delivering high quality, co-created projects to local communities, as well as reaching residents who do not normally have access to creative opportunities. Continue reading £30K grant announced for further Oxford Road projects→

The Council intends to embark on a purge of graffiti across Reading by doubling the size of graffiti it will remove for free from private property. A proposed change in policy would see the Council remove graffiti up to 2m² from non-Council owned buildings or property for free. The change is expected to allow for the removal of up to 500 additional pieces of graffiti in Reading, on top of 37 sites already proposed to have graffiti removed from them. Continue reading Council pledges purge on graffiti→

The Gas Safe Charity is offering free carbon monoxide Zoom workshops in November and December to help launch Carbon Monoxide Awareness Week on 22 November. The workshops last about an hour and are a mix of practical information and interaction. They are aimed at staff and volunteers from any organisation that delivers a service in the home of a vulnerable person. Continue reading Carbon Monoxide Awareness Week – free online workshops→

The purpose of this survey is to ask residents their views about crime and disorder and other local issues, to help identify priorities across Reading. The Safer Neighbourhood Forums are required to consult on priorities with a community safety focus every 2 years. This community safety survey is being carried out across Reading to inform our neighbourhood working and local safer neighbourhood forums to find out what issues residents consider to be their highest priority at present. Continue reading Take part in Reading Borough Council’s Community Safety Survey 2021→

Compass Recovery College offers free mental health and wellbeing workshops for everyone. Whether you’re looking to develop your understanding and skills in self-care and wellbeing, you are supporting someone with mental health-related challenges, or you work in mental health services, Compass would love to welcome you. We offer a wide range of workshops that are both positive and inspiring in the hope of helping you on your journey to recovery and to help increase positive wellbeing. Continue reading Free mental health workshops from Compass Recovery College→

Like many other activities, Get Online drop-in sessions had to stop during the Covid-19 pandemic, and we have been steadily working over the summer to reintroduce them in the autumn. The good news is that our popular sessions at Reading Central Library are back! As before, all our sessions are free for anyone needing help with computers and technology to drop in, on a first come first served basis. You can bring your own device or use the library computers. Continue reading Get Online is back at Reading Central Library→