Lifestyle

Here are some opportunities to be a volunteer in Wokingham borough right now, giving you a chance to help others. Volunteer with Epilepsy Berkshire Epilepsy Berkshire exists to give support...

“Around 110,000 people in the UK are living with Cerebral Palsy,” Emma Darlington told Easthampstead Rotarians at their recent Zoom meeting. Emma, who fundraises for the National Bobath Cerebral Palsy...

TO MARK National Dementia Action Week, the Understanding Dementia charity is offering a taster of its training course.  Twyford-based Understanding Dementia is making a video available on YouTube until Sunday,...

ON FRIDAY, May 7, WADE held the latest draw in its 150 Club lottery. The centre, on Reading Road, provides daycare facilities for the borough’s older residents, including hot lunches,...

A CHARITY that supports former addicts with post-rehab care is looking for more premises in Woodley. Hope and Vision Communities provides move-on accommodation to people that have completed a residential...

We are now just hours away from the next phase in the lockdown lifting roadmap. I am thrilled yet tentative. The last few weeks have felt like another life. I’ve...

WOKINGHAM TOWN has its own chaplain to provide a listening ear to the community. The Revd Judi Hattaway, of Churches Together Wokingham and part of the ministry team of St...

PUT YOUR hiking boots on because there’s still time to register for the Wokingham Walk. Now in its sixth year, the annual event sees residents walk five-, 10- and 15-mile...

READING BUSES says it is ready to welcome customers as covid restrictions change on Monday.  The company, which runs services in Woodley, Wokingham, Shinfield and outlying areas, will allow all...

Tasting Notes: dried fruit/caramel/walnut With any luck, that archaic notion of a glass of sickly Cream Sherry wrenched from the back of your grandmother’s dusty liquor cabinet once a year...