CoronaCast - Edition 5

CoronaCast - Edition 5

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CoronaCast - Edition 6

Our final edition comes from the Nature Discovery Centre in Thatcham which is where we started. In this edition, we’ll be hearing from the manager of a local charity for disabled children and young people about how it has had to adapt to the Coronavirus lockdown. We’ll be catchin ...  Show more

CoronaCast - Edition 4

Following Mental Health Awareness Week, we look at 3 voluntary organisations that support Mental Health in West Berkshire. Also, we meet the pub landlord who when forced to close due to the lockdown, turned his pub into a pop-up grocery shop to support the local community. The Fo ...  Show more

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