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Make a Big Difference to Your Community – Bid for a Small Grant
- This year's Small Grants Fund application process is now live
- Voluntary and community sector organisations have two different ways to bid this year
- Funds aim to help tackle inequalities in Reading
New Live Well Service to Make Health and Wellbeing Support Easier to Access Across Reading and West Berkshire
- New Live Well service brings together support for residents to stop smoking, manage their weight and take part in physical activity
- Residents using the service would have a dedicated wellbeing coach to provide personalised support through a single joined-up offer
Reading Signs its Armed Forces Covenant
- The Council and 7 Rifles regiment sign Armed Forces Covenant this week
- Covenant a promise of fair treatment and access to essential public services for past and present members of the armed forces and their families
- 25 Veterans helped into housing via the Council's housing register since 2011
Council Condemns Vandalism at New Community Garden
- Community garden vandalised only one day after the first phase of work was completed
- Council volunteers have started work on the creation of the new garden next to the Civic Centre thanks to a successful £13,000 bid for Lottery funding
Celebrate World Tourism Day in Beautiful Berkshire
- With World Tourism Day on Sunday, people are encouraged to explore everything Berkshire has to offer
- Visitors to Berkshire spend an estimated £1.4 billion a year, with nearly 18,000 people employed in the tourism industry across the county
Residents invited to attend Older Persons' Day on 1 October
- Everyone is invited to Older Persons' Day on Thursday 1 October
- Event takes place in Broad Street Mall from 9.30am to 2pm
- Access useful advice, helpful services, entertainment and classes to take part in
Three new Council children’s homes ready to open in Reading
- More Reading children in care will be able to stay close to school, friends, family and community
- Opening of new Council homes will reduce the use of expensive private provision outside of Reading
Invitation to help create underpass mural
- Residents are being asked to share memories and positive messages about their local community
- An event at Granville underpass in October will give residents the opportunity help create a colourful mural
Residents Urged to Think of Household Waste Bin as ‘Last Resort’
- Residents encouraged to think recycling first
- New figures show a 16% increase in food waste collected between December 2025 and July this year, amounting to 721 extra tonnes of recycled food waste in Reading
- Both CO2 and disposal cost savings for the town as a result
Council and Reading’s Community and Voluntary Sector to Sign New Three-Year Partnership Agreement
- New three-year agreement between the Council and the town's voluntary and community sector
- Partnership agreement sets out shared expectations, values and ways of working
Consultation on Simpler and Faster Council Tax Support Scheme Set to Launch
- A simpler, faster and easier to understand council tax support scheme is being proposed for next year
- Residents on universal credit would no longer need to fill in forms to claim support as reductions would be automatically awarded
- Public consultation on the change set to begin later this month