East Reading Festival

Various events around East Reading with a Family Fun Day at Palmer Park with Castles and bouncy clowns and lots more. Look! Here's a poster

Full details will be available early May and will also be shown at the RBC East Reading webpage.

Safer Reading Campaign

Over the next 3 months the Safer Reading Team will be visiting community events around Reading. The team is keen to talk about your concerns. See the poster for more details

2008 Street Games

Cricket coaching for girls and boys aged 8 to 15 years. details...

Islamic Lessons

Neighbourhood Policing - Newtown NAG

A Public Meeting took place at the Sun Street Community Centre on Thursday 28th February

The purpose of the meeting was to find out if householders want to change their priorities for Neighbourhood Policing in Newtown.

James Rosewell, vice-chair, of the (NAG), reminded us of the achievements of the NAG over the past year. Inspector Kevin Sinfield and Sergeant Dai Davies of Tames Valley Police and Rob White, a NAG member, explained some of the on-going processes. The meeting was then asked to highlight perceived problems that the NAG would consider at the next meeting.

'Neighbourhood Policing is a way of providing a tailor-made service in your area to tackle crime and other issues that stop you from feeling safe.' (Thames Valley Police 'Your guide to Neighbourhood Policing')

Read some further NAG news on the TVP site

GLOBE events - April 2008

What is the Newtown GLOBE group doing? Sun Street Community Garden is our top priority. The youth group at Sun St have designed the community garden and we are helping them get started. The planting season is upon us and we are keen to see the new garden take shape.
The Kennetmouth greenspace always needs some care and attention but we haven't scheduled any group events there yet. The Sun St Garden and East Reading Festival (in May) are claiming most of our group-time.

If you are interested in a better environment for Newtown click here for the revised schedule

Social Network warning

The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) is warning Young People to be careful about the information they put on social network websites like Facebook.

Before you create a profile, post a picture or tell the online world what you've been doing, find out how to make sure you're safe online.
Find out how to keep your details safe when you're using social networking sites.
If you think your information has been used in a way you didn't expect or want, ICO may be able to help.
Visit www.ico.gov.uk/youngpeople for more information.

Park United Reformed Church

Park United Reformed Church, which for those who live north of the river Thames, is on the corner of Palmer Park Avenue and Wokingham Road,
and opposite the College Arms for those who navigate by pubs, this Autumn commences a year of celebrations to mark the centenary of its foundation.  more details...

If you have Acrobat Reader you can download the leaflet here... (see below to get Acrobat Reader)

If anyone has any memories or mementoes from the past we would be most interested to know about it / them. Contact details are on the Park United Reformed Church website.

Food Safety Star Rating Scheme

Reading Borough Council, and others, are publicising information relating to hygiene inspections of businesses that serve, prepare or sell food. There are caveats including a disclaimer that states that the scores "should not be relied on as a guide to food safety."

Further details of the scheme together with the inspection policy and a searchable database are here...

There is also a link to the databases of other local authorities at 'scores on the doors'

Reading Town Forum

"The Reading Town Forum is a local community website for exchanging your views on anything connected with Reading. History, old school and work mates, news items, events calendar and more.

   "To find us, visit www.reading-forum.co.uk"

Buy With Confidence

The Buy With Confidence scheme aims to put customers in touch with approved traders who have agreed to provide high standards of customer service, including dealing promptly with any complaints.

Current members of the scheme are:

Bath and North East Somerset Council
Bracknell Forest Borough Council
Brighton and Hove City Council
Devon County Council
East Sussex County Council
Hampshire County Council
Isle Of Wight Council
Kent County Council
Milton Keynes Council
Nottingham City and Nottinghamshire County Councils
Slough Borough Council
Southampton City Council
Surrey County Council
West Sussex County Council

The scheme will soon be open to businesses in the Borough of Reading.

Reading Trading Standards have not yet completed their list of approved traders.

for further details see

Buy with Confidence

or Phone

Pam Gregory on 0118 939 0503

If you have any non-urgent questions for the police or just want to meet one of the team then this is the place.

For non-urgent things you can also contact them, day or night, on 0845 8 505 505

If you need them urgently then phone 999.

Our Local Police Team are

PCSO Sue Roff

PCSO Gary Johnson

PC Pete O'Brien

PC Tristan Khezrzadeh

Sgt Dai Davies

Insp Kevin Sinfield