This programme is part of the government’s Health Infrastructure Plan which saw the Royal Berkshire selected as one of a small number of NHS Trusts to receive funding to develop and modernise their hospital facilities. Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust is beginning a major modernisation of its services and its buildings. Our dual objective is to develop and deliver outstanding NHS services that are fit for the future, and to play a greater part in the growth and development of our local economy. This long-term, modernisation programme will see the investment of hundreds of millions of pounds over the course of the next ten years and will involve every one of our public and private sector partners. If you have any thoughts which you have not yet shared, please do visit the site, and complete a survey, or leave a comment on our open forum: Click here to read more. |
Get Berkshire Active Awards – nominations open until 15 December 2020
Get Berkshire Active
Nominate your Berkshire physical activity lockdown heroes
This year Get Berkshire Active are awarding those who have had a positive impact in Berkshire during the Covid-19 pandemic. It could be an individual, or a club, organisation or school which is based in or benefits the residents of Berkshire.
The criteria for this award are broad due to the wide range of ways they anticipate that people will have had an effect upon the physical activity of others this year. The nomination can be for any sized organisation, charity, club, community group, school or an individual that has impacted any number of people in a positive manner.
The 9th GBA Awards covers the period from March 2020 (start of lockdown) to end of November 2020. They are looking for Berkshire heroes (individuals aged 11+, clubs, projects, schools or other organisations) who have gone above and beyond to support people to be physically active during part or all of this period.
Successful delivery of training to help support families at risk of fuel poverty in West Berkshire
This week (24th November) CCB ran a training webinar on ‘Energy Advice & Awareness’ for practitioners and volunteers that support families in West Berkshire. The training was supported by funding from West Berkshire Council Adult Community Learning and was very well received by the 20+ learners that joined us online. All of the learners rated the content of the course as ‘excellent’ and despite it not being held face-to-face the tutor Helen Dean, Project Co-ordinator at CCB, made sure it was interactive with videos, polls and chat panels being encouraged.
If you are interested in seeing other training opportunities available to adults in West Berks please visit the website that CCB runs with Volunteer Centre West Berkshire: https://voluntarysectortrainingalliance.org.uk/
A learner fedback; “The questions we had to answer were really interesting. There were so many ideas about how to help families. I can also use these tips in my own life. Very informative and I can see how much the presenter cares about helping others.”
If you’d like to know more about CCB’s Family Home Energy Education and Advice Project please watch the below which introduces the lovely Helen and gives more idea of how we can offer help in the current climate to families in Berkshire that need it.
Help support our Charity when doing your online Christmas Shopping (It doesn’t involve you spending anymore!)
In the run up to Christmas and with a lot of us having to shop online due to lockdown and restrictions we thought it might be worth sending out a quick reminder regarding ways you can support CCB, or another charity, to raise some additional core funding without spending any additional money.
AMAZON SMILE
If you shop on Amazon, please use the Amazon Smile platform instead, to register your support for CCB please click on this link; https://smile.amazon.co.uk/ch/1056367-0
Marketing details: If you shop Amazon Black Friday Week deals 20th – 30th November, you can do more than discover great deals: Simply shop at Amazon Smile or with AmazonSmile ON in the Amazon Shopping app, and AmazonSmile donates to Connecting Communities In Berkshire at no extra cost.
We also registered with Easy Fundraising which gives commission from a variety of online shops, you just need to add it to your browser and it will remind you to enter through the Easy Fundraising platform to earn commission for the charity on any purchases, again there is no extra cost to you. Details can be found below.
EASYFUNDRAISING
Please remember to use easyfundraising when you do your online Christmas shopping this year: https://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/causes/ccberks/
Over 4,300 shops and sites will donate to Connecting Communities in Berkshire for FREE when you use easyfundraising to shop with them. This means you can raise donations for us when you buy anything from decorations and festive food shopping to gifts like toys, jewellery, tech, experiences and more!
These donations really help us and all you have to do is use easyfundraising when you’re ordering the things you’ll be buying anyway.
THANK YOU – A nod of thanks to the wonderful people that have already completed our 2 second community survey and a reminder that there’s still a chance to respond!
A BIG thank you to the 200 people that have responded to our social media campaign to engage with communities throughout Berkshire and ask them one important question ‘What’s important to your community?’ This simple, two second survey is really important to help us shape our project delivery in 2021 so if you haven’t already please answer our question by clicking here: https://ccberks.wufoo.com/forms/m10yg88q0ekex9y/
So far the top five issues as important to communities in Berkshire have been identified as Health & Wellbeing, Planning & Land Use, Access to Community Facilities, Affordable Housing and Climate Change. Already this is helping us to shape the community training opportunites that we are able to organise and provide this winter so thank you once again and please share this survey as far and county-wide as possible!
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