CoronaCast

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

In this edition, we’ll be hearing from a single mum in Newbury about how she’s been trying to take care of her child while holding down a full-time job during lockdown. A local youth training organisation is struggling financially due to Coronavirus; we speak to the centre manage ...  Show more

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

In this edition, we hear from the leader of Newbury Town Council about how the Council has had to adapt to help the community. The landlord of the Newbury Inn talks about how he turned his gin distillery into a hand sanitiser factory. Laura Farris MP tells us what she thinks abou ...  Show more

Stephen speaks with the head of a top West Berkshire school to find out how the staff and pupils are coping with the coronavirus pandemic, meanwhile, Paula finds out from the pupils in their own words how the closure of schools is affecting them. We hear from the Mayor of Thatcha ...  Show more