News

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  • School Streets have started

    14 November 2021School Streets have started

    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.

  • £30K grant announced for further Oxford Road projects

    11 November 2021£30K grant announced for further Oxford Road projects

    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.

  • Council pledges purge on graffiti

    10 November 2021Council pledges purge on graffiti

    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.

  • Carbon Monoxide Awareness Week – free online workshops

    4 November 2021Carbon Monoxide Awareness Week - free online workshops

    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 2021Take part in Reading Borough Council’s Community Safety Survey 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 2021Free mental health workshops from Compass Recovery College

    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 2021Get Online is back at Reading Central Library

    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 2021

    Invitation 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 2021Black Lives Matter – a virtual gallery

    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 2021

    Berkshire 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.