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  • Autism Berkshire launches support service for autistic adults
    16 February 2023

    Autism Berkshire is now providing the new Berkshire Adult Autism Support Service, to help autistic adults aged 18+ throughout the county. The aim of the service, which is funded by the Frimley NHS Integrated Care System and the Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West NHS Integrated Care System, is to provide advice and support to autistic adults ...

  • Six local charities secure mental health equalities funding to support communities in Berkshire West
    13 February 2023

    Six local charities across Berkshire West can now do even more vital work to improve the health and wellbeing of local residents after being awarded small grants to support projects with a focus on inclusion for communities within Berkshire West at risk of experiencing health inequalities. With Reading Voluntary Action’s support, the Joint Commissioning Team at ...

  • Webinar: Identifying and Responding to Self-Neglect – 8 Feb 2023
    6 February 2023

    What is self-neglect? And what should you do if you’re concerned about someone? In our activities as voluntary and charitable groups, we interact with people every day and we’re likely to notice things that worry us, for example, a person looking poorly or unkempt, they might have lost weight over the time we have known them, ...

  • Reading VCS Assembly: 2 March 2023 – Challenging Inequality in Reading
    5 February 2023

    Reading VCS Assembly – Challenging Inequality in Reading ‘No One Left Behind’ Reading residents experience some of the most unequal health and economic outcomes in England. Outcomes are worsening for our most disadvantaged communities and the reasons are complex. The increase in health inequalities in England points to social and economic conditions, many of which have shown increased inequalities, ...

  • Smart Energy GB in Communities Fund: Grant funding available to support smart meter projects in 2023 – deadline Feb 10th
    2 February 2023

    The 2023 Smart Energy GB in Communities programme is now live, with grant funding and support being targeted to organisations reaching people in fuel poverty; people lacking basic digital skills; or carers. Grants of up to £25,000 are available for organisations that can deliver support to people in fuel poverty Grants of up to £15,000 are available ...

  • Building Berkshire Together Options Survey – deadline 6 March 2023
    31 January 2023

    The Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust (the Trust) is on the Government’s New Hospital Programme. This means they will receive funding to either redevelop or rebuild the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading. They have called our programme Building Berkshire Together or BBT. By being on the New Hospital Programme it gives the Trust the chance to ...

  • The Power of Music Fund – Dementia Choirs and Singing Groups – deadline 15 February 2023
    31 January 2023

    Are you in a choir or singing group that is a lifeline for someone living with dementia and their carer? The National Academy of Social Prescribing, in partnership with the Utley Foundation, is offering 100 grants of £1,000 each to eligible choirs and singing groups on a first come first served basis (Weighted to ensure grants ...

  • Celebration of Volunteering – Nominations open until 26 February 2023
    24 January 2023

    The University and RUSU are hosting a Celebration of Volunteering event on Thursday 27th April to award, recognise and celebrate staff, students, alumni and supporters who give up their time to volunteer. Any staff, student, alumni, or member of the local community or voluntary organisation can nominate, and this can be for any type of volunteering, ...

  • Join our PACT Community Projects Open Day
    23 January 2023

    PACT’s community projects, Alana House and Bounce Back 4 Kids, will be hosting an open day on Friday 3rd March between 9.30am and 3.30pm in Reading, Berkshire and we would love interested individuals, organisation and businesses to attend. The event will be a celebration of International Women’s Day with the aim of providing more information on ...

  • Berkshire Community Foundation: Vital for Berkshire Fund – deadline on 16 February 2023
    18 January 2023

    The 2023 Spring round of Vital For Berkshire fund aims to support charities, community groups, and projects that work to tackle the most salient and pressing issues within Berkshire’s communities at any given time. Who is eligible to apply: To be eligible to apply for a grant, your charity, community group, or voluntary organisation must be improving the ...

  • Reading’s Public Rights of Way Plan (ROWIP) Consultation – will close 19 February 2023
    17 January 2023

    Have your say on plans to improve Reading’s pathways and get more people walking We are inviting you to have your say on our second Rights of Way Improvement Plan (ROWIP2) which includes the Councils plans to maintain and improve the borough’s rights of way network in a bid to get more people using them. A 12-week ...

  • Community Fund – Deadline on 6 February 2023
    17 January 2023

    The Community Fund (previously known as the Police Property Act Fund) supports voluntary and community groups that help to prevent crime and keep communities safe. The Fund is open for applications twice a year for projects that help to achieve the objectives of the PCC’s Police and Criminal Justice Plan. This Fund is an opportunity for ...

  • Berkshire Digital Inclusion Survey
    12 January 2023

    The Berkshire Digital Infrastructure Group (DIG), comprising all six Berkshire local authorities, are working with market providers and the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport’s Barrier Busting Task Force to minimise barriers to Digital Infrastructure investments, reducing rollout costs and delays and leading to further investment into the county. Last year, they ran their first ...

  • Have your say on the future of your Fire and Rescue Service
    12 January 2023

    We would like to invite you to take part in a public consultation – on our draft Corporate Plan and Community Risk Management Plan (CRMP) for the next four years. Royal Berkshire Fire Authority has set out how it intends to meet its goals to create safer and more resilient communities by preventing incidents, protecting homes ...

  • CYP Mental Health upskilling training opportunities brochure for 2023!
    12 January 2023

    We are pleased to share with you the upskilling training opportunities brochure for 2022/23, which now includes all of the HEE National CYPMH commissioned upskilling courses that are available in 2022/23. Click here to view the Brochure (opens .pdf in a new tab) The brochure includes opportunities for Crisis training, Inpatient training, Eating Disorder training and wider ...

  • ABC to Read receives grant!
    5 January 2023

    Reading Borough Council has awarded local reading charity ABC to Read a grant of £3,000 to recruit, train and support 10 new volunteers to give one-to-one mentoring to local children who are struggling to read! The grant will also be used to deliver workshops in Reading schools as well as training older students to mentor younger ...

  • Community Led Research Project, exciting opportunity in Reading!
    2 January 2023

    Reading Voluntary Action (RVA) is working in partnership with Slough CVS, the University of Reading and the British Science Association in a community led research pilot. Community led research can create change and bring attention to important issues that matter to your community or organisation. Our researchers would like to speak informally to the communities and ...

  • GLL Sports Foundation Applications Open – until 20 February 2023
    24 December 2022

    GLL Sport Foundation support includes access to funding and training facilities. Over the last decade we have provided over 16,000 athlete awards and continue to be supported by ambassadors like Tom Daley and Perri Shakes-Drayton. Athletes are supported through the GLL Sport Foundation, the largest independent athlete support programme in the UK, which in 2022 marks ...

  • PAMH Partnership
    20 December 2022

    What is the PAMH Partnership? The PAMH (Physical Activity for Mental Health) Partnership is a group of organisations working in Reading to deliver physical activity and mental health and wellbeing activities to the communities of Reading. The group came together to build on partnerships established in the Reading Mental Wellbeing Group and was successfully ...

  • GBA Resilience Survey – Deadline on 16 December 2022
    12 December 2022

    Please help Get Berskhire Active to understand what the state of play is in the local physical activity and sport sector so that we can develop ways to help all of you through this challenging time.  We are aware that many organisations are finding the effects of the cost of living increases and post covid environment ...

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