Stronger Together – a Building Better Opportunities project, funded by the European Social Fund and The National Lottery Community Fund – is now finished. It ran from 1 October 2017 until 30 June 2020. The material on this page is retained for reference.
Mapis CIC
Mapis CIC improves creative curriculum, provides accredited qualifications, training, and support to help people back into education and employment
New Directions College
The Learning and Employment Service for Reading, providing part-time Adult Leisure Courses at four centres in Reading – teaching includes literacy, English language and basic maths. Also provides New Directions for Employment – a service which brings together the full range of facilities needed to guide and support you when you are looking for work. Job ...
Reading Borough Council (RBC)
The borough council has a huge range of duties and services that are fully detailed in its publications and on its website. Reading Voluntary Action works with different teams within the council in a range of ways to support or represent the Voluntary and Community Sector. The council leads on a range of community activities that partner ...
Reading Voluntary Action (RVA)
Reading Voluntary Actions exists to promote and support the individuals and groups who make up our diverse voluntary and community sector. We work to: Connect communities in Reading Improve the lives of young people and families Support the voluntary sector to grow and thrive Encourage volunteering and social action Find out more See our current projects. Download our annual publication for 2019. You ...
Reading Welfare Rights
As an outreach service, Reading Welfare Rights is an organisation that provides a specialist advice service to all sectors of the local community in relation to all welfare benefits including mandatory reconsiderations, appeals and preparation for court hearings, advice on your right to challenge benefit decisions, assistance with benefit forms, benefits checks / better off calculations.
REDA, Reading’s Economic and Destination Agency
Reading’s Economy and Destination Agency (REDA) combines our long-standing goals of attracting business and promoting the city, with new priorities which seek to address the current challenges of our changing world. Led by business, we work in partnership with the private, public and education sectors to address the barriers to sustainable and inclusive growth and showcase ...
The Real Business Club
The Real Business Club (TRBC) was set up in 2009 by three business women, Dawn Edwards, Kate Lole and Isabel King, all based in the Thames Valley, to fulfil the need for high quality business advice from real people running real businesses. At TRBC the goal is to provide the appropriate level of advice in ...
West Berkshire Community Learning Centre
The Community Learning Team at West Berkshire Council delivers courses and training to adults across West Berkshire to improve lives, widen opportunities, support families, and develop community.