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Landlord information evening 2025

Invitation to Free Landlord Information Evening

  • Landlord Information Evening will take place on Wednesday 29 October
  • Property landlords are invited to sign up for the free event
  • Attendees will be able to find lots of important information, and about the Rent Guarantee Scheme
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Reading Children’s Services Moves Back In-House

  • Move to bring Reading Children's Services back in-house completed today
  • 600 staff members move back to the Council 
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Residents and Businesses Encouraged to Attend Upcoming Safer Neighbourhood Forums

  • Six Safer Neighbourhood Forums open to the public in the next three weeks
  • Meetings provide an opportunity for residents to come and have their say on their local community
  • Come along to provide ideas and feedback to Thames Valley Police and Reading Borough Council officers
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Reading Reveals Programme For Black History Month 2025

  • Black History Month 2025 in Reading offers music, dance, and theatre events throughout October.
  • Many events low-cost or free of charge at venues across the Borough.
Wellbeing Walk leaflet

New guides for exploring Reading on foot

  • Four Wellbeing Walk route maps highlight interesting features and fascinating facts about places around the borough
  • Updated walking maps and leaflets are also available on the refreshed Walking webpage
Recycle Week 2025

Recycle Week: Reading joins the 2025 ‘Rescue Me! Recycle’ campaign

  • Residents reminded of key items still being thrown away that should be recycled in kerbside collections
  • Those items include shampoo bottles, toilet roll tubes, yoghurt pots and aerosol cans
  • Glass perfume and aftershave bottles should be recycled at bottle banks 
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Small Grants to Create Big Opportunities

  • The application window for the new round of the Council's popular Small Grants Fund initiative opened today
  • Bids for grants of up to £5,000 are invited from voluntary and community groups
Creative Grants

New Micro Grants Programme to Boost Arts, Culture and Heritage Grassroots Creativity in South Reading

  • Small grants of £250 or £500 to help local creative groups
  • Funded by the UK government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund
Four of the new environmental enforcement partnership officers who will patrol Reading's streets

Major Crackdown Begins on Littering and Fly-tipping in Reading

  • Five new environmental enforcement officers will patrol Reading's streets to counter littering and fly-tipping
  • New partnership a response to resident feedback that litter is one of their top issues
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Come and join us on Older Persons' Day

  • Useful information all in one place
  • Join in with exercise, music and dance
  • Hosted by Broad Street Mall
  • Wednesday 1 October between 9.30am and 2pm