BetterPoints

Funds Research into greater understanding of new techniques and treatments of all prostate disease. Provides free leaflets, DVDs, Videos and Website. Trains specialist and non-specialist professionals in the latest advances in treatment. Offers advice, help and above all, hope to those affected by prostate problems.

ReadiFood currently deliver over 110 Emergency Food Parcels per week to families and individuals in real need across the Reading area. Referrals - Food parcels are only given to clients referred to us by local agencies such as Social Services, Reading Borough Council Housing and Children's Services, Launchpad (aka Reading Single Homeless Project), DAIS, Home-Start, Reading Refugee Group, Hamble Court, YMCA Among others to whom we provide parcels are CIRDIC (Churches in Reading Drop in Centre), Communicare and CCA (Christian Community Action) see "What people say?" ReadiFood is the brand name of the longstanding Emergency Food Parcel Service provided by FAITH Christian Group, which has been giving out food for over 20 years.

A bicycle kitchen is a community bike project that provides a space where cyclists can get access to workstands and good quality tools, along with experienced mechanics to help them do everything on their bike from simple maintenance to a complete rebuild. If you have a bike that needs attention and don't stock a range of tools at home (who does?!) then come and see us and we can help you to do a variety of work. If you know what you're doing then we will leave you to it, but if you need our help then just ask and one of our volunteers will show you what to do and get you going.

Library and information services to the whole community.

Reading Film Theatre is a cinema open to the public, and operates a membership scheme entitling members to reduced seat prices and the opportunity to reserve seats in advance. It offers a programme balanced between quality 'commercial' films and art-house English and foreign language films shown on two evenings per week during the University's term time.

Reading Mencap provides a support and advisory service to families where there is a member with a learning disability. We have a welfare team who visit families. We have clubs for all age groups which provide respite for the family. We have a siblings club which provides support and social activities, and also hold monthly discos for adults. During the Easter and summer holidays we hold clubs for children aged between 4 and 15. The mother and baby group meets once a week.

Reading Pride was founded in 2003. We are a registered charity run solely by volunteers, aiming to promote equality and diversity. We want to advance education and work towards eliminating discrimination in relation to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) people in Reading and across the Thames Valley. Reading Pride is best known for the annual festival we stage. Our free-to-enter event celebrates our local community and has made significant progress in encouraging the promotion of LGBT equality. Throughout the year we work to raise public awareness, and support, of our friends and colleagues at other charitable and voluntary organisations in the Thames Valley area which provide information, advice and support on a breadth of LGBT issues. Over the last seven years we have worked tirelessly to raise funds for the community and for our annual festival where we showcase diversity and encourage acceptance throughout Berkshire.

Street Pastors, in full cooperation and partnership with Police and Local Authorities, are trained volunteers who patrol the streets at peak weekend hours (10pm-3.30am). Their presence itself has a moderating and calming effect on some behaviour. Street Pastors interact with members of the public and build rapport, listen and spend time with those in a distressed state, help those who are vulnerable, offer first-aid assistance, reunite lone girls with their friends, help people find transport home, and even provide flip-flops for some who have lost their shoes, or are walking home barefooted. (Amazingly these have become prized items!) We try to educate people to the many different support agencies within the town by sign-posting people to essential services. For example: services that support rough sleepers, youth and adult counselling, drug and alcohol advice, crisis pregnancy and post abortion counselling, as well as sign-posting people to local transport services within the town centre: bus/ rail stations, taxi ranks for those not familiar with Reading Town Centre. etc.

The provision of legal advice and representation for asylum seekers and refugees