The Windsor Directory of Community Groups & Charities has been in circulation for a little over one month and the anecdotal feedback has been very positive but we’d like to get a bit more insight from the community… Please use the questions as a guide but do share your feedback so we can reflect on…
“The Long Walk” initiative was launched in the summer of 2023 to help with men’s mental health is now about the wider Community… We invite those interested in a nice long walk to come and talk about community initiatives. Sharing best practice and new ideas. Meet at 10am Two Brewers, 34 Park St, Windsor SL4…
An election for the Police and Crime Commissioner for the Thames Valley will take place on Thursday 2 May 2024. It would be interesting to see the level of interest in this role from the electorates view point so I have created a Poll on Facebook here. There are 5 candidates and I have emailed…
Reading about the UK Drowning Prevention Week and the “toothless” enforcement of polluters by the Environmental Agency in last week’s Express newspaper you do start to wonder which you should be more scared of! Add to this Thames Water pleading poverty after paying out tens of millions to shareholders and the fact that the best…
Tesco Dedworth Windsor are very involved with the local community.
A post on social media by Jack Rankin, the local Tory candidate, celebrating the opening of the first tranche of what will be 450 Woodland Village units, part of Legoland, next to the world famous theme park, got me looking back at the application. Big shout out for the £35m investment which will go on…
We decided to try somewhere new on Ali’s birthday. Lakeview Cafe is dog friendly but the fishermen arn’t 😉 Don’t try getting on their lake. Ali had a full english and I opted for baked potato with tuna, cheese and salad. Great food and friendly atmosphere. Driven passed the entrance hundreds of time but never…
Another successful objection to an inappropriate 5G installation, near a childrens nursery, in Windsor. The image shows an approximation of the scale of a 5G mast that formed part of another successful refusal up Tinkers Lane. Glad to see the planning team responding within the 56 day legal limit. The proposed works compromise the installation…
Could each of the Thames Valley Police and Crime Commissioner Candidates please indicate how they are going to address this damning report. Thank you. Pay and Morale Survey 2023 – Thames Valley Police March 2024Author: Police Federation of England and Wales EXECUTIVE SUMMARY RESPONDENTS AND RESPONSE RATE • 917 responses were received from Thames Valley…
“Be strong and beware of the ancient serpent” is written above the tapestry in Eton College Chapel that depicts St George slaying the dragon. It’s St George’s Day and I wanted to pull together a blog around St George culminating in trying to understand the muddle we are in but how can anyone work that…
Less than a week ago our new Manager Dinesh at Tesco Dedworth advised me we had hundreds of packets of Mini Easter Eggs that he’d like to give to local schools so they could raise much needed funds. I put a call to action together which included a response form… Response from PTAs was time…
It was time for a much needed rejig of Tesco Dedworth’s community space. Customers like it when our Stronger Starts “Blue Token” collection point is easy to find… so we’ve given it a whole wall to itself 😉 Ask checkouts for a couple of blue tokens or help yourself to a few on Self Service….
Community Champion Forum was hosted at Pug Yard, Windsor Castle and attended by: Name that tune… We started our Community Champion Forum back in January 2023 at Tesco in Dedworth and they have gone from strength to strength with Windsor’s Community Champions meeting up regularly to share what they are getting up to, what they…
Easter is over for another year and most of our Easter eggs went to good homes. For some reason we, Tesco Dedworth, have an abundance of mini eggs, over 500 packets! The boss is happy for local schools to have them for the tuck shop, bake sales, etc… the sell by date is 2025, so…
If you own a pub, cafe, restaurant, cafe, takeaway in Windsor you’ll want to be part of this unique publication, unlike any other available in Windsor. On the back of the success of our Windsor Directory of Community Groups & Charities we are producing the first of our Windsor Loyalty Directories – Eating Out in…
This is a persistent bug bear of many residents and it would be nice to hear from each candidate what plans they have in place to enforce this? I’ll be emailing each candidate and asking them to respond to this blog post. You can see all the candidates on the official Thames Valley Police and…
It was time for a road trip today to distribute copies of the Windsor Directory of Community Groups & Charities. When you have a limited supply then you have to ensure you maximise distribution by ensuring copies get into the right hands 😉 We managed to distribute 70% of the stock over 2 days and…
London arts group The Bloody Poets will transform the Loading Bay Café’s into the stage for a one-off, site specific performance. This immersive theatrical experience will combine music, poetry, dance and visual arts. Journey alongside Anima Sola as she traverses the hidden cogs of power structures, casting a pointed light on the entanglement of love, violence, and politics….
‘A superb songwriter who brings a touch of pure class to proceedings’ BBC Introducing ‘Graham McGregor-Smith has a wonderfully conversational songwriting style’ Sir Robin Millar CBE (Producer – Sade / Everything But The Girl) Local singer-songwriter Graham McGregor-Smith and his band return to The Old Court in Windsor on June 4th to play his superb debut album, ‘Road to…
We currently have six community groups that start with the letter A in our Windsor Directory of Community Groups and Charities. Enjoy… and if you have had experience of any of the groups, do add a few words in the comments section of their specific page… it all helps 😉 View the full online directory…
Thank you to all of those organisations that added their events to our listing… we have published our latest Tesco / I Love Windsor flyer with a centre spread of events. Collect yours from Tesco Dedworth… The Windsor Directory corrections have been made and we are ready to distribute them to where they are most…
On the 17th April we will be hosting our next Community Champion Forum at Pug Yard, Windsor Castle. 10am – 12pm. We’d like representatives of Windsor’s Community Groups & Charities to come and collect a few copies each so they can keep one as a reference document and pass the other copies on to community…
Please share this blog post with other members of your Community Group or Charity that are interested in / finding value in the Windsor Directory. Thank you. Best way to follow us is to sign up for the I Love Windsor blog…https://ilovewindsor.co.uk We’ve created a Windsor Directory LinkedIn Group. Please join…https://www.linkedin.com/groups/14209275 Join our I Love…
13th – 19th May 2024 at Maidenhead Library ARE WE ALL CONNECTED OR WORLDS APART? For the first time The Happy Bunny Project is organising a collaborative art exhibition open to all members of the public. We might not always be Happy Bunnies but participation in arts can uplift the spirits. We invite community groups,…
WINNERS of the Easter Competition at Tesco Dedworth Windsor 2024 were chosen by our colleagues from over 70 entries from local children and around 200 from Homer School which we simply didn’t have time or room to display this time! Colleagues picked the 12 winners, 3 from Homer School and 9 from the general entries,…
Feargal Sharkey OBE has been asking questions of the water companies for years and most recently highlighting the plight of Thames Water desperate grab for more cash from the public who are paying their bills while Thames Water shareholders are seemingly just pouring the cash into their pockets. The fact that this is seemingly legal…
Reflecting on how to get more young people engaged with the Windsor Directory to enable them to bring forward the community groups and ideas they wish to share with others, TikTok is a logical choice. On Youtube it took 10 years for us to get 100,000 views … on TikTok we’ve already had over 1,000…
The Community Matters show on Royal Borough Radio exists to promote community groups, volunteer opportunities, and thank involved individuals. We always want to hear from any groups that want to be interviewed about what they do. How our listeners can help. Events and Charity fundraisers that need a boost will always find a welcome and…
We’re inviting local fitness, healthy eating, weight loss, lifestyle experts to tell us why we should give them a day in Tesco Dedworth’s foyer promoting their services to our customers, during May, while offering some top tips to inspire our colleagues.
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