Friends and Partners

Dementia Friendly West Berkshire

We are a group of individuals, volunteers and organisations including local businesses, the local authority, the emergency services, charities and more, who are committed to working together to make West Berkshire more dementia-friendly.

We work together with people living with dementia and their carers to ensure their voices are heard.

Our aim and purpose is to raise awareness of dementia, and increase the range and diversity of services available, reducing loneliness and isolation and increasing inclusivity and support.

Social Enterprise UK

Social Enterprise UK (SEUK) is the UK’s membership body for social enterprises. They lead the world’s largest network of businesses with a social purpose who, together, are helping to create a fairer economy and a more sustainable future for everyone.

Connecting Communities in Berkshire

Connecting Communities in Berkshire (CCB) is an independent charity that inspires action at a community level to improve people’s quality of life and works across Berkshire, with a particular focus on rural areas. They run projects that provide advice, support and training that reduces poverty & rural disadvantage, improves rural health & wellbeing and increases digital inclusion & social connectedness.

Unltd

UnLtd finds, funds and supports social entrepreneurs – enterprising people with solutions that change our society for the better. They were formed in 2002 by seven organisations who believed that social entrepreneurs had a much bigger contribution to make to our economy and society. UnLtd was among the first to back individuals with their own ideas to create social good.

Parkinson’s UK

Parkinson’s UK Newbury & District Branch works to help those in West Berkshire and immediate surroundings who are affected by Parkinson’s. As a Branch they offer information, friendship and support to local people with Parkinson’s, their families and carers. They organise regular events and social activities. Through membership of the Branch, people with Parkinson’s living in West Berkshire can access a range of subsidised activities and therapies, including exercise, physiotherapy, speech therapy and carer respite services.

Get Berkshire Active

Get Berkshire Active believe in the power of physical activity & sport to transform lives and communities and are on a quest to tackle inequalities and create a healthier, happier and more resilient Berkshire.

Freedom Wheelchair Skills

Freedom Wheelchair Skills delivers peer-led teaching of everyday skills and techniques to get the most out of life while using a wheelchair. Set up and run by Stuart Wheeler with the aim of developing the skills and confidence of people who need a wheelchair for their mobility to enable them to lead more independent lives and get out there!