News

• 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

• 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.

• 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

• 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 

• 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

• Small grants of £250 or £500 to help local creative groups
• Funded by the UK government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund

• 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

• 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

A BRAND new athletics track has been laid and opened at Palmer Park Leisure Centre & Stadium thanks to a half-a-million investment by the Council and its leisure partner GLL.

• Clean Air Living Matters (CALM) project delivered sessions to almost 30 different schools over 18 months
• The team also spoke to almost 900 parents, carers and community members about air quality at the school gates
• An estimated 26,000 – 33,000 people engaged in the programme in total

• Closing the gap on inequalities over three years
• Reading's 'third sector' helps the Council reach residents and communities through a range of projects