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Carbon Monoxide Awareness Week – free online workshops
4 November 2021
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.
Take part in Reading Borough Council’s Community Safety Survey 2021
29 October 2021
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.
Free mental health workshops from Compass Recovery College
28 October 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.
Get Online is back at Reading Central Library
21 October 2021
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.
Have your say on the new RBH development
20 October 2021Invitation to get involved in the redevelopment of the Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading. It’s important that our new hospital meets the needs of our staff, patients, visitors and local communities and the best way of making sure that happens is by working alongside everyone to get their ideas. We’re setting up a network of people keen to have their say, make suggestions, challenge our ideas and question what we’re doing.
Black Lives Matter – a virtual gallery
14 October 2021
To celebrate this year’s Black History Month, Black Lives Matter UK has launched its Virtual Exhibition 2021 which includes pieces from 20 Black artists. Take a tour round the exhibition – as well as being able to look at the art you can hear from the artist by clicking on each artwork.
BCF launches voluntary sector survey
14 October 2021Berkshire Community Foundation has just launched a new survey to help find out what’s in store for Berkshire’s voluntary sector and what it needs to focus on. Have your say about what your charity or community group needs and how BCF can best support you. You can also use the survey to identify what needs are emerging in your local community right now.
A Warm Welcome Toolkit
13 October 2021We are delighted to share with you the Warm Welcome toolkit: A free guide to running activities with older people. Throughout the past six years, older people have continually told us that being offered a Warm Welcome is essential when encouraging them to take part in activities and remain connected in their communities. This sort of ‘pull’ is even more important if an older person has faced loneliness or social isolation.
Volunteer School Street Marshals required
7 October 2021We are looking for volunteer School Street Marshals for a new School Street opening in east Reading in November. The new School Street is due to open on Crescent Road, benefiting Maiden Erlegh School, UTC and Alfred Sutton Primary School. Crescent Road School Street will run from 08:15 to 09:00 and 14:45 to 15:30, Monday to Friday in term time only. We also currently have three School Streets at Park Lane Junior School, Wilson Primary and Thameside Primary.
The Parent Employment Wellbeing project
5 October 2021
Reading Voluntary Action is excited to share that the Parent Employment Wellbeing project started on Monday 4 October, and will be delivered until September 2022 by Anna Chapman, RVA’s Schools and Parent Engagement Officer. The focus of the project is to support parents towards and into training, courses, voluntary work and paid employment while considering improving their wellbeing.