Newbury College has announced the replacement for outgoing Principal, Anne Murdoch, who is retiring in February 2018 after 17 years in post. Currently the Deputy Principal at Farnborough College of Technology, Iain Wolloff will join the College on 1st February and take over as Principal on 10th February when Anne officially retires. Commenting on the […]
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Ladbrokes Winter Carnival 2017 Review
The inaugural Ladbrokes Winter Carnival featuring the Ladbrokes Trophy, formerly the Hennessy Gold Cup, takes place at Newbury on Friday and Saturday, December 1st and 2nd 2017. The new sponsorship from Ladbrokes brings with it a larger prize pot for this year’s contenders with two days now worth a total of £700,000 in prize money. […]
Thames Valley Kings have picked up second win on the road at Harriers
Kings picked up a second win of the 2017/18 Season on the road against Hampshire Harriers 2 on Sunday with a great all-around team performance. Kings were first on the scoreboard after winning the tip and setting out strong in the first ten minutes of the game. The team played well in defense and were able […]
Thames Valley Kings founder and head coach is Highly Commended in the Hero of the Year category of European Diversity Awards
Kings founder and head coach Jacqueline Scoins-Cass was Highly Commended in the Hero of the Year category of last week’s 2017 European Diversity Awards held in the Hintze Hall of the National History Museum in London. Although missing out on the grand prize which went to David Lammy MP for his support for the victims of the Grenfell tower disaster. Jacqueline […]
Greenham Trust and West Berkshire Council launch new Community Solutions Fund
Newbury, UK, 20 November 2017. West Berkshire Council and Greenham Trust have both allocated £200,000 of funding to establish a new £400,000 Community Solutions Fund which is now available to Parish and Town Councils and local community groups. The primary objective of the Fund is to provide start-up funding to help community based projects become […]
New sponsors for Newbury’s flagship 10km running race have been announced for 2018.
The 10km event, formerly sponsored by Bayer, is now to be supported by Newbury-based IT services provider Roc Technologies, in association with not-for-profit, on-line charity matching platform The Good Exchange, and will be known as the Roc Newbury 10k supported by The Good Exchange. The race will take place on Sunday, May 27, and will […]
Green light given to A4 cycle improvements
The first stage of a project to improve cycle and pedestrian routes between Newbury and Reading has been given the go-ahead today (Wednesday 15 November). The £1.1m scheme aims to make it safer and more enjoyable for cyclists to travel between the two towns. The first phase will see £350,000 spent on improving the stretch […]
15 hours more funded childcare for parents of 3 and 4 year olds
Childcare can be a costly but essential component to enabling parents to work. Working parents of 3 and 4 year olds can now receive up to 30 hours of Government funded childcare for 38 weeks a year or 1140 hours to be used flexibly across the year. This means that parents already benefitting from the […]
Kings pick up their first win of 2017/18 Season against West Coast Warriors
Kings pick up their first win of the season this past Saturday in British Wheelchair Basketball National League Division 3 South West against a gutsy West Coast Warriors team 49-30. Starting strong and winning tip-off Reece Barker was straight to the basket scoring the opening 2 points for Kings. A solid performance continued from the […]
Pitch to the Panel shortlist face the dragons and have won a share of a £100,000 prize fund.
Six local charitable organisations from across West Berkshire entered Greenham Trust’s ‘Pitch to the Panel’ event in a bid to win a share of the grant funding. After rigorous shortlisting, the six finalists took to the stage to pitch for a share of the £100,000 prize fund at the Corn Exchange finale on Thursday 9 […]