Connect Reading

Planning for Your Community and Your Future

2011-12-01

This Connect Reading Breakfast Forum also combined our AGM was kindly sponsored by Green Park We heard an update on the plans for our local economy...

The Giving Tree

2011-11-15

The Giving Tree Appeal offers Christmas gifts to disadvantaged children in and around the Greater Reading area. The children's age ranges are from toddlers up to teenagers. Some children particularly those in refuges tend to ask for gifts that they can give to their mothers. Businesses can host a branch....

Reading's Year to Celebrate - 2012

2011-11-14

There will be an incredible amount of events happening in 2012 from street parties for the Queen's Jubilee to Reading Carnival and the Olympics it will be the year to celebrate! The 2012 Partnership Board in association with Volume have created a fantastic website so that you can list all of your events in one place.

'The Power of Networks' kindly sponsored by Hilton Reading Hotel

2011-12-01

This forum was a reflection on social media as a tool for customer and employee engagement; Learning how communities develop and increasing personal responsibility with cross-sector speakers and a panel discussion

Yell of a donation

2011-11-07

Reading based print and digital services company Yell has donated a whopping GBP20,000 worth of Human Resources materials to local charities. The massive haul included team building games, training manuals, stress balls, a handheld camcorder and a DVD player which were all brokered by Connect Reading to the local voluntary sector.

Engaging the Disengaged

2011-12-01

A round table discussion investigating how the SME community and general public can be encouraged to promote sustainability

Connect Reading support Solar Schools in Reading

2011-06-29

10:10, one of the UKs leading carbon cutting organisations, is launching a new project - Solar Schools. To kick off this ground breaking initiative they will be piloting the project with 10 schools in Reading. The idea is to save energy, help schools, build communities and engage people positively with renewable energy for the first time.

The Development and The Divide

2011-03-03

Reading is a place of two halves; boasting our successful local economy but in its shadow remains areas of deprivation. This forum provided updates on the physical developments that are planned and under way for Reading as well as an insight into the work of a charity that befriends and supports those in need.

Will the governments CSR change the way we do CSR?

2010-12-21

'Will the government's Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR) change the way that we do local Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)?'

Green Forum 2010

2011-01-14

Connect Reading, in conjunction with C8 Consulting and Kyocera Mita hosted a special meeting in November 2010 offering members the chance to get answers to the burning 'green questions' affecting their businesses.

Local corporate community involvement: How to make it work for you and your employees

2010-08-05

Delegates heard from Yell's Corporate Responsibility Manager about how to keep directors happy and involved, champions charged, volunteers motivated, and charities engaged. The different types of leadership strategies that are used to create the energy in your organisation to keep your vision and objectives on track.

Skills and Enterprise - Readings Future Success

2010-03-12

Enterprise and Skills - Reading's Future Success' was sponsored by Novotel Reading Centre and held on Monday 8 February

How the recession affected Reading

2010-03-12

'Preparing for the upturn - How the recession affected Reading' Sponsored by Hilton Reading (Followed by Connect Reading's AGM) was held on Friday 13 November 2009 Hilton Reading

Reading4u takes to the airwaves again

2011-01-14

Six months after launching its 24/7 broadcasting on the internet, Reading4u is embarking on its seventh short term fm radio broadcast. The 5-day broadcast is being sponsored jointly by Southern Housing Group and Ability Housing Association, and will be the third broadcast to be sponsored by Housing Associations with a local interest.

Life chances through technology

2009-06-03

In partnership with Reading Borough Council and the Digital Inclusion Team of Central Government over 60 organisations from the private, public and voluntary sectors came together to discuss how technology could play a role in assisting and preventing NEET (Not in Education, Employment and Training) young people in Reading.

Creating Profit Through Community Involvement

2009-03-20

This first full day conference from Connect Reading focused on enhancing business performance, profitability and reputation by working in your local community and featured workshops including Strategy with Measuring and Reporting, Employees and Customers.

Environmental Forum in association with Kyocera

2008-12-16

The Green Card Conference discussed the Energy Debate and speakers included Tris Denton of the Nuclear Industry Association, who talked about the place of nuclear in a low-carbon energy policy. Daniel Curtis of Oxford University talked about implementing Power Management at Oxford University.

Celebrating 5 years of Connect Reading and GBP500,000 of Community Investment

2008-11-11

Over the past 5 years Connect Reading members have donated in excess of 8,200 hours equivalent to 4 years full time work for local community initiatives, this and much more was talked about at Connect Reading's 5th Birthday and AGM which was kindly hosted by Regus at Davidson House and catered by The White Hart at Henley courtesy of Charlton House Catering.

Babcock at the MAPP Centre

2008-08-18

Employees from Babcock Infrastructure Services spent a day volunteering at the MAPP Community Centre clearing up their garden and making it safe for the adults and children that use the centre including cutting back overgrown brambles and weeding.

Microsoft at Amersham Road Youth and Community Centre

2008-07-22

Amersham Road Youth and Community Centre benefitted from the painting and decorating skills of a team of Microsoft employees for a day as part of Microsoft's volunteering in the community programme. The new colour scheme at the centre was chosen by the young people that use the Reading Borough Council-run Youth and Community centre.