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Wokingham residents are being encouraged to walk 10,000 steps each day this month, to raise money for Marie Curie. The charity – which celebrates its 35th anniversary this month –...

THE BOROUGH mayor has launched an amateur photography competition alongside Home-Start Wokingham District. To mark the charity’s 25th anniversary, Cllr Malcolm Richards is calling for young people and adults to...

A CHARITY is using gardening to help people stay fit in lockdown – but it’s all taking place online. Thrive supports people with disabilities, or are  isolated, disadvantaged or vulnerable....

RESIDENTS at Shinfield View care home raised more than £1,000 for the NHS in memory of Sir Captain Tom Moore. Jointly, the residents completed 100 laps of the care home...

A WOKINGHAM mum has launched a website to help families find activities to do together. Hannah Stewart, who has two children, created Wokingham Rocks to help families find parks, walks...

AN EIGHT-YEAR-OLD from Woodley has tackled his second fundraiser for The Royal Berkshire Hospital. Dexter Rosier raised £700 to support the staff at the hospital, by running another marathon –...

Wokingham Writers' Group runs regular fiction writing contests for its members. Here is LINDA FAWKE’S winning entry It was an odd match. I never thought I’d be best man to...

A charity has started 2021 on the right foot, and is helping more families than ever before. This is because Dingley’s Promise, which has a setting in Wokingham, has grown...

Our Chinese friends have gone awayAnd have shut their well-used take-away.It’s not for long- just a few daysTo celebrate New Year in Chinese ways. They work so hard in their...

Sometimes you feel downhearted now you cannot do a lot.In a busy world around you, you’re the one that time forgot. Then the ‘phone’s sharp ring awakens youTo a world...