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Many thanks for participating at the Reading Urban Room in March this year. We collated all information from the CCQOL Reading website, notes and observations during the Urban Room, and collected some post Urban Room data to write a local report of findings. Please find below the link to download the report.

The CCQOL team has successfully tested Urban Rooms in Cardiff, Edinburgh, and Belfast in the last 6 months. In the next phase of the project, we will do a data analysis of all four cities and write a larger publication of learnings. We will have an update on this mid next year.

You can also find updates on the CCQOL website at https://ccqol.org/

Best wishes

Ruchit

On behalf of the CCQOL Reading Team

Reading CCQOL Report updated 20221017.pdf

Hello, Reading Community!

We would like to thank you for your participation in our pilot urban room, Your Place Our Place, in Broad Street Mall, as well as on our online community consultation at https://ccqolreading.commonplace.is/

We successfully held nearly 60 events in the course of 5 weeks over March 2022 with an average of 200 visitors/week in the urban room.

Our digital map, hosted by Commonplace, has more than 1200 visitors since launched on 23 February, nearly 300 contributors and more than 170 respondents.

We are currently still encouraging the Reading community to participate in our research project until the end of April.

We would appreciate your help to spread the word and share the links below to the community that you are a part of and to continue your support to encourage the participation. The feedback from the local communities both as an individual and as an organization on how to make community consultations better and more effective is extremely important to us at Community Consultation for Quality of Life project .

Easy link to the digital map for mobile devices: bit.ly/ccqol

Easy link to participation survey: https://ccqolreading.commonplace.is/proposals/participationsurvey/step1

The last few weeks have been so positive for us and we hope to continue supporting community consultation in Reading in the future and we will keep you updated as we develop future community initiatives.

Thank you all and all the members of your community groups and organizations for your support over the last few months.

We have only been able to create the community space with the support of all of you and we have enjoyed getting to know you all.

Reading CCQoL Team

Thank you for visiting the Reading Urban Room “Your Place Our Place” and doing the mapping survey!

Please find the link below to enter the participation survey .

https://ccqolreading.commonplace.is/proposals/participationsurvey/step1

Your answers will help make community consultations more effective!

For further information, please contact Ruchit Purohit at r.p.purohit@reading.ac.uk

Thank you

Ruchit

Hi, Reading Community!

If you are interested in opening a business, or improving your business and get advice on how to make your business flourish, We have a FREE BUSINESS ADVICE with Canny Insights Business in our event Your Place Our Place Tuesday 29 March from 5 pm to 6 pm.

If you require more information, please check here: https://media.reading.gov.uk/news/high-street-expert-to-share-top-tips-with-reading-businesses

Come and join us today! Further details, please contact Nisa at u.k.nisa@reading.ac.uk

Commando Jugendstil are a solar punk creative collective.

Their projects conjugate technology, art, narrative and bottom-up speculative design practices to transform the city in its sustainable version, to help communities achieve social cohesion, and eventually to stimulate a Just Transition that can spark from the ground up.

The Town That Could Be - A Time-travel Journal from Reading 2045, is a Transition Bounce Forward project aimed at getting the people from Reading thinking and imagining together what they want the future of their town to look like and mapping out the steps to get there.

Come and have a conversation with them at Your Place Our Place, Thursday 24 March between 6 pm to 7 pm.

Location: Broad Street Mall, ground floor, right across from Poundland shop, next to Covid Vaccination Centre, Oxford Road, RG1 7QE, Reading.

Please remember that on Thursdays, the entrance to the mall from 6 pm onwards is from OXFORD RD 2nd ENTRANCE, which is right next to Poundland entrance.

See you at Your Place Our Place!

Hello, Reading Community!

Our workshop on Science Fiction and Architecture with Amy Butt, a lecturer at the School of Architecture, University of Reading has been moved from Thursday 24 March 6 pm - 7 pm, to Wednesday 30 March 4:30 pm to 5:30 pm.

To those who are interested to use science fiction to explore architectural design through creative activities such as model making, mapping and drawing, then this workshop is for you!

This workshop will support future architects, and designers - in - training and anyone interested in developing their own design skills through imagined worlds, to reflect on the worlds we currently inhabit, and shape the futures currently under construction!

There will be short talks alongside design and making workshop.

Further information, contact Nisa at u.k.nisa@reading.ac.uk

Hi, Reading Community :)

We regret to inform you that the Wednesday 23 March 11 am to 12 pm talk on Food and Climate Change with Dave Richards from Reading International Solidarity Centre has been cancelled due to an unexpected circumstance.

We still have Reading Climate Change Network drop in session from 11 am to 2 pm for those interested to have a conversation about climate change, what actions we can take RIGHT NOW to help reduce the impacts of climate change.

We also have Royal Berkshire Hospital at 1 pm to 2 pm to have a public engagement on NHS Net Zero plan!

Come and join us at Your Place Our Place event at Broad Street Mall, Oxford Road, RG1 7QE on the ground floor right across from Poundland shop.

See you there soon!

Due to unexpected circumstances, we are sorry to announce that we will be closed on Saturday 12 March. We will re-open on Tuesday 15 March 2022 as normal. We send apologies to our partners who were supposed to hold activities in Your Place Our Place on this date. We will come back with further news as soon as we can! If you need further information, please contact: Lorraine Farrelly at l.farrelly@reading.ac.uk

Hi Reading Community!

A few updates about our events in Your Place Our Place urban room at Broad Street Mall, ground floor, Oxford Road, RG1 7QE.

1. Meet and Greet with Tom Holmes , Berkshire Youth Ambassador and Reading Football Club Player on Thursday 10 March 6 pm to 7 pm has been CANCELLED

2. Museum Partnerships Reading / High Street Heritage Action Zone will be P RESENT on Saturday 19 March between 2 pm to 4 pm where there will be interactive workshops.

If you require more information on this update please contact Nisa at u.k.nisa@reading.ac.uk or head to our social media:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100076134155975

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/yourplaceourplace/

We look forward to seeing you at Your Place Our Place event!

Hello, Reading Community! I hope you are all well!

We have additional event for this week 2: Health and Wellbeing, at Your Place Our Place located in Broad Street Mall, Oxford Rd, Reading, RG1 7QE.

On Thursday 10 March, we will have MEET AND GREET with Tom Holmes, who is Berkshire Youth Reading Ambassador and Reading Football Club player! You are welcome to come along and say hello to him and us, CCQoL Reading Team at this event.

Just a reminder for you, week 2: Health and Wellbeing is happening from Tuesday 8 March to Saturday 12 March. We are open from Tuesday to Saturday 10 am to 5 pm, and late opening on Thursday 12 pm to 8 pm.

Our event is FREE and open to ALL. A few activities may require booking which you can find on here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/your-place-our-place-tickets-271080066777

But in case you are not able to book online, you are welcome to just pop in and join in any activities that interest you!

If you have queries, please contact us on our social media:

FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100076134155975

INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/yourplaceourplace/

We hope you will join us this week!

Hello, Reading Community!👋🏽

We have an important details to share with you today❗

1. Your Place Our Place event opening hours on Thursday is between 12 pm to 8 pm.

Due to Broad Street Mall closing at 6 pm, the entrance to the mall AFTER 6 pm will be limited to Oxford Road entrance 2 right by Poundland shop.

2. Climate Change Stripes workshop and talk on Tuesday 22 March

The workshop: 10 to 5 pm has been cancelled 🚫

The talk: 12:30 - 13:30 pm has been cancelled 🚫

We are sorry for the disappointment it may have caused. 🙏🏽

Thank you for your understanding!🙂

CCQoL Reading Team

Hello, Reading Community!

We have launched our Your Place Our Place event on Eventbrite :)

Please check out this link to make booking for certain activities, although most of the activities in the event do not require booking!

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/your-place-our-place-tickets-271080066777

When: 1 March to 31 March.

Location: Broad Street Mall, ground floor, across from Poundland shop, Oxford Road RG1 7QE

Opening Hours: Tuesday to Saturday 10 am to 5 pm; Thursday 12 pm to 8 pm

For further information, contact Nisa at u.k.nisa@reading.ac.uk

What is Your PLace Our Place?

Your Place Our Place is an urban room and one of the first pilots of the CCQoL project. It involves community consultation through activities at an Urban Room and a digital mapping tool.

What is an Urban Room?

Urban rooms are spaces in towns and cities which offer local communities a place to exhibit and discuss issues that affect the community around future development. This Urban Room in Broad Street Mall are providing information to the local community about key issues such as the Reading Town Centre Strategy, offering a place for discussion to encourage awareness and connection between various communities.

The activities in the Urban Room are based on the weekly topic decided from our analysis of the Quality of Life framework and the Reading Town Centre Strategy by the local council. Quality of Life framework is a set of principles established by the Quality of Life Foundation.

Once this pilot is completed at Reading, similar 3 Urban Rooms will be tested in Cardiff, Edinburgh, and Belfast.

The urban room in Reading is from 1 March to 31 March .

Location: Ground floor, Broad Street Mall, Oxford Road, RG7 1QE

Operational hour: Tuesday to Saturday 10 am to 5 pm, Thursday 12 pm to 5pm

There are various talks, workshops, open consultations and drop-ins for Reading community to participate in.

Weekly topic:

Week 1: Tuesday 1 March – Saturday 5 March

Welcome and introduction, and business community

Week 2: Tuesday 8 March – 12 March

Health and wellbeing

Week 3: Tuesday 15 March – 19 March

Culture and heritage

Week 4: Tuesday 22 March – 26 March

Climate change

Week 5: Tuesday 29 March – 31 March

Future of Reading - celebration and close – summary of all the weeks and what we have done, what’s next.

For more information, please visit: http://ccqol.org/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/yourplaceourplace/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100076134155975

Contact Nisa: u.k.nisa@reading.ac.uk

We have launched Your Place Our Place social media channels. Please give us a follow and share the links with everyone you know that will benefit in Reading.

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100076134155975

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/yourplaceourplace/