We've recently received our one millionth online booking! Huge well done to our Digital Services Team. We launched our online booking system back in 2019, for tickets to events at Shaw House, West Berkshire Museum, our Family Hubs and one-off events like our Climate Change Conference. In 2020, we started taking online appointment bookings for our Household Waste Recycling Centres to help cut queues, waiting times, and more. We're always looking to improve our online booking processes, and will be expanding to more services over the next 12 months to make booking services even easier for our residents. Find out more here: https://lnkd.in/em7uvg9E
West Berkshire Council
Government Administration
Newbury, West Berkshire 6,187 followers
Helping to make West Berkshire a great place to live, work and learn.
About us
West Berkshire Council provides important local services for around 155,000 people across the district. We provide education, housing and social services; we're responsible for roads in the area and we provide rubbish, recycling and other waste services. As well as these critical services we also make sure there are other local amenities and attractions such as Libraries, leisure centres, a museum and our Grade II listed Shaw House. We employ around 1,500 staff, not including those based in schools, and currently have three main offices in Newbury as well as smaller satellite offices across the district. Our vision is to make West Berkshire an even greater place to live, work and learn. West Berkshire welcomes business, enterprise and industry into a productive, growing and dynamic local economy. We are dedicated to supporting new and existing businesses as well as businesses looking to relocate to West Berkshire. For more information visit https://businesswestberks.co.uk/ West Berkshire is an area which offers beautiful countryside, thriving market towns and good transport links to London and southern England. Covering 272 square miles, around 60% of our area is designated as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and our countryside is as varied as it is plentiful. Around 40% of residents live in rural areas although there are plenty of opportunities for urban living as well. Newbury is the largest town in West Berkshire, although Hungerford, Pangbourne, Thatcham, Theale and Tilehurst are also significant communities along with suburbs bordering Reading in the east. The district is widely recognised as an area with a high concentration of high-tech firms and is home to companies such as Norsk Data, Quantel, Vodafone and the Atomic Weapons Establishment. West Berkshire has a thriving economy with one of the lowest unemployment rates in Europe, and is at the hub of what is often called 'Silicon Valley'.
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http://www.westberks.gov.uk
External link for West Berkshire Council
- Industry
- Government Administration
- Company size
- 1,001-5,000 employees
- Headquarters
- Newbury, West Berkshire
- Type
- Government Agency
- Founded
- 1998
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Primary
Market Street
Newbury, West Berkshire RG14 5LD, GB
Employees at West Berkshire Council
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Our Shared Lives team is proud to have received a recognition award at The Castle School World of Work celebration 2024 through offering a work experience placement to a pupil called Oliver. During Oliver’s placement in the office, he proved to be a brilliant addition to the team bringing lots of positivity to work! The Shared Lives scheme allows you to share your home and life with someone who needs care and wants to be part of a family. If that sounds like you, then you could be a Shared Lives Carer. The scheme matches people by interests, experiences and lifestyles, giving adults in need of support a chance to gain skills to live a more independent life. You can find out more about the scheme here: https://lnkd.in/evzD6GQs
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Good luck to the England football team tonight in the final of the Euros, West Berkshire Council is behind you! #England #englandfootball #euros2024 #euros2024
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Our Residents Bulletin this week was put together by our fabulous work experience students, Tomi and Verity! They did this very professionally and independently, whilst also being confident to ask questions and collaborate with the wider Communications Team. It has been a pleasure to have them with us this week! This week's newsletter includes election results, South East Foster Hub, things to do this summer and many more updates. You can read and subscribe here: https://lnkd.in/dXSvF7Hm #workexperience #westberkshire #localgovernment #communications #westberkshirecouncil #newsletter
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🚨 #JOBALERT 🚨 Service Director – Community Services 👉 Where: West Berkshire Council 👉 Salary: £97,571 – £104,088 👉 Role: You will need to be confident working with Members and a wide range of stakeholders. We are looking for someone who has a strong understanding of community protection... Please follow the link 👇 for more information and to Apply Now. https://lnkd.in/eB3CAWE5
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With just one week to go until #GeneralElection2024 are you ready? As we count down until polling day, here are eight things you might not know about the elections in West Berkshire: https://lnkd.in/efWXRrgP
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The first Berkshire Prosperity Board took place took place last week at Wokingham Borough Council offices. The new joint committee made up of the six Berkshire unitary authorities aims to help drive forward and deliver future economic success across the county. The six councils have committed to working together to drive and deliver economic prosperity across the county with the aim of securing more funding, creating more jobs and enabling more affordable housing for residents. The first meeting provided a background to the creation of the Board, set out the six workstreams (health and inequalities, skills and education, affordable housing, sector development, strategic infrastructure and net zero. Alison Webster, Chief Executive Officer, at the Berkshire Local Enterprise Partnership, also provided an update on the development of the Berkshire Economic Development Strategy. The agenda is here Committee details - Berkshire Prosperity Board | Bracknell Forest Council (bracknell-forest.gov.uk) The next meeting of the Board will be held at 12 noon on 16 September 2024.
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Members of West Berkshire Ramblers group have been volunteering with our Public Rights of Way team since 2004. Over those 20 years, the volunteers have changed 330 stiles to gates allowing greater access to the wonderful countryside we have here in West Berkshire! Eugene, of the West Berkshire Ramblers said: "The work can be physically demanding, hot and tiring, but ultimately rewarding when the team has completed the task, and a pristine gate stands securely where an old wooden stile used to be, or a right of way is cleared of obstructions and is fit for public use again." We are very grateful for the dedicated service provided by the West Berkshire Ramblers and congratulate them on their 20-year anniversary and great achievements. Visit our website to see all our volunteering opportunities: https://lnkd.in/eQnGb_hT #VolunteersWeek #publicrightsofway #westberkshire #countryside #localgovernment
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We’d like to say a massive thank you to all the volunteers we have working with us across the Council! Would you like to get involved? Email [email protected] to find out more about volunteering with our Culture and Libraries team. #volunteersweek #volunteering #localgovernment #culture #libraries
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We want to make sure that people who have been in care are treated equally and fairly. We’ve made ‘care experienced’ a Protected Characteristic to help put a stop to the barriers and discrimination care leavers can face throughout their life. Hear from Cllr Heather Codling who championed the Protected Characteristic motion and from a care leaver about what being treated fairly will mean to her.