# Connect Reading

## Details

- **Country:** England & Wales
- **Charity number:** 1113150
- **Other names:** RBCP, READING BUSINESS COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP LIMITED, CONNECT READING
- **Status:** Registered
- **Legal form:** Charitable company
- **Registered:** March 3, 2006
- **Register:** https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/?p_p_id=uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet&p_p_lifecycle=0&p_p_state=maximized&p_p_mode=view&_uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet_regId=1113150


## Contact

- **Address:** Connect Reading, Co-Space, Quadrant House, 20 Broad Street Mall, READING
- **Postcode:** Berkshir
- **Phone:** 01189952960
- **Email:** info@connectreading.org.uk
- **Website:** www.connectreading.org.uk



## Activities

**Objects:** FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE RESIDENTS OF THE GREATER READING AND ADJOINING AREAS ("THE AREA OF BENEFIT"),  ARE: TO RELIEVE  POVERTY AND UNEMPLOYMENT, ADVANCE EDUCATION, PROTECT HEALTH, PRESERVE THE ENVIRONMENT AND TO FURTHER SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOS0ES WHICH ARE BENEFICIAL TO THE PUBLIC BY PROMOTING THE PRACTICAL INTEREST AND INVOLVEMENT OF COMPANIES, FIRMS, VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS, LOCAL ORGANISATIONS, LOCAL AUTHORITIES AND INDIVIDUALS IN SUCH PURPOSES.

**Activities:** Connect Reading connects organisations across communities & sectors to benefit Greater Reading. Members share resources & expertise toreduce poverty, inequality & unemploymentadvance educationimprove health & wellbeingpreserve the environment &reduce the impacts of climate change.How? By engaging companies, charities, education & public sector to catalyse collaboration & innovation.

**Area of benefit:** GREATER READING AND ADJOINING AREAS.




## Classification

- **How:** Provides Human Resources, Provides Services, Provides Advocacy/advice/information, Acts As An Umbrella Or Resource Body, Other Charitable Activities
- **What:** General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Environment/conservation/heritage, Economic/community Development/employment, Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity, Recreation, Other Charitable Purposes
- **Who:** Children/young People, Elderly/old People, People With Disabilities, People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin, Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies, Other Defined Groups, The General Public/mankind



## Areas of operation

- Bracknell Forest
- Reading
- West Berkshire
- Wokingham



## Finances

| Period end | Income | Expenditure | Assets | Employees |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 31, 2025 | £108848 | £82977 | — | — |
| March 31, 2024 | £89394 | £100919 | — | — |
| March 31, 2023 | £113656 | £123189 | — | — |
| March 31, 2022 | £76729 | £90089 | — | — |
| March 31, 2021 | £47031 | £61448 | — | — |



## Trustees

- **Danielle Hinds** (Chair) — appointed Jan. 31, 2025
- Cecilia Maclaren — appointed Jan. 31, 2025
- Graham Lunt — appointed Jan. 31, 2025
- Jaclyn Nicole Le Grand — appointed Jan. 31, 2025
- John Charles Pickford — appointed Feb. 5, 2021
- Raimonda Richardson — appointed Feb. 6, 2026
- Rodrigo Perez Vega — appointed July 18, 2022