 Improving our website
We'd like to hear your views as we prepare to redesign our website to offer a faster, improved service to our residents.
Our current site has all the information you need about us but we'd like to make it easier to understand, search and navigate, especially for those who might find this hard because of a disability.
The new website will launch next summer and would use the latest design standards to look as clear and tidy as possible on different devices, particularly smartphones.
 Next phase of electoral register update begins
Our next phase of contact for the annual canvass is underway and it is important you make sure your details are correct.
The process helps us to keep the electoral register up to date and ensures you can vote on decisions that affect you.
We will contact you by post if we haven’t yet had a response to previous correspondence. You don’t necessarily need to respond if there are no changes in your household, but it is important to read the form carefully and remember that 16 and 17-year-olds can register to vote too. Any new electors must register by 20 November.
During the canvass period, you can respond on the Household Response website, but you will need to use the security codes provided on the form sent by post to do so.
If you have questions about your registration status, contact our electoral services team at electoralservices@wokingham.gov.uk or call 0118 974 6000.
 Concerts to open Carnival Hub cultural space
Our flagship new community space, the Carnival Hub in Wokingham, is set to show its cultural credentials as it hosts two fantastic concerts in aid of the new Wade Dementia Day Care fund on Saturday 19 November.
Music fans will be spoilt for choice with an afternoon of big band music from The Official Glenn Miller Orchestra UK and celebrated director Ray McVay.
This will be followed by an outstanding evening of entertainment from ‘Ultimate Elton and the Rocket Band’ and ‘The Police Academy’.
Profits from the events will go to new Dementia Day Care fund at Wade Day Care Centre, Wokingham, which helps offer daytime dementia respite care facilities to support the local community.
 Public art at the Carnival Hub
A landmark new piece of public art for Wokingham town came a step closer last week as our executive approved entering into an agreement to install the sculpture at the Carnival Hub.
The Arc, which has been designed by award winning British sculptor Nicola Anthony, is being proposed, delivered and paid for by Arts4Wokingham, a local cultural charity dedicated to promoting arts and culture in the area.
You can find out more about this ambitious project and how to get involved on the Arts4Wokingham website.
 Domestic abuse prevention convention
Kaleidoscopic UK, a local charity for survivors of domestic abuse, is running its annual Domestic Abuse Prevention Convention event on Thursday 13 October.
The event takes place during Domestic Violence Awareness Month at the FBC Centre in Finchampstead.
The convention features a full day of topics and talks delivered by inspirational domestic abuse survivors and professionals who work on the topic.
The aim of the convention is to inspire, educate and empower all delegates by advancing knowledge and providing useful tools for all to use with resources available.
The convention topics include:
- Stalking
- Coercive control
- Economic abuse
- LGBTQIA+
- Childhood sexual abuse and childhood sexual exploitation
- Children
- Family law
- Domestic Abuse Act
- Valerie’s Law
- Best practice responses
- How being trauma informed is essential
Tickets for the convention cost £76.05 and are available to purchase on the Eventbrite booking website.
What you might have missed
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Take the cost of living survey, to help our partners Citizens Advice Wokingham understand how its impacting local people. This information will shape support for those in need through the winter
- The borough's dedicated Covid-19 vaccination clinic will move from the old Wokingham Library site in Denmark Street to our Shute End offices in Wokingham
- Rail strikes are planned for this week with services at the borough’s stations impacted on Wednesday (5 October) and Saturday (8 October), services are also starting later on Thursday (6 October) and Sunday (9 October). Check the National Rail website for the latest
- National Highways is carrying out work on the M4 and associated slip roads this coming weekend. It will be closed eastbound between junctions 11 (Reading) and 10 (Wokingham) from 10pm on 7 October to 6am on 10 October, more on the National Highways M4 webpages
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