It is reported that the parent company of Reading's Riverview Care Home, Life Style Care(2011) Plc, has been placed in administration. The home will continue as usual and residents and carers should not be needlessly alarmed. The administrators aim is to realise the value of the assets and the purpose-built facliities could hardly be put to any other use. Riverview Care Home has had an eventful history.

Reading Borough Council in partnership with Solutions 4 Health offers its residents the FREE Eat 4 Health (E4H) weight management programme to support people to lose weight and more importantly keep it off, helping them to achieve their goals. The E4H courses are delivered in group settings and are open to anyone 16 years and above who has a Body mass index (BMI) over 25. E4H offers 10 FREE weekly sessions at a variety of local community venues. Each session lasts one and a half hours and contains an interactive nutrition workshop and exercise session.

The popular, high-tech competition to encourage Reading residents to walk and cycle more is back in 2015 - from 29th April to 24th June. - that's 56 days to get more active. Reading Borough Council through its Public Health division and the NHS Commissioing Groups for South Reading (the bulk of the town south of the Thames) and North and West Reading are jointly funding the return of this popular public campaign.

Out Winter get-together for members and their guests has been moved to Tuesday, 10th February and will now take place at the RISC Cafe on London Street from 6.15pm. Food is available from Tutu's Ethiopian Table and there are drinks of the most varied kinds at the Cafe. A chance to meet in a quite different setting and get to know each other further. Bring your holiday snaps if you must!

We will be meeting between 6.15pm and 7:45pm on Wednesday, 25th February 2015 in the Reading Community Learning Centre, 94, London Street, RG1 4SJ (see Agenda for directions) . There will be a talk and discussion led by Karen Grannum, South Reading NHS CCG Manager on the planning for healthcare for South Reading for 2015/16. as well as further news and discussion about health care locally.