Covid-19 Hub

The rapid global spread of the coronavirus presents our community with unprecedented challenges.  Twyford Parish Council is committed to supporting our community through the challenges that the pandemic presents.  

Please find below some key information specifically tailored for our village.  We intend to keep this information up to date as things change.

Announcement: Open letter to Twyford Berks Covid-19 Community Support Group

Twyford Covid 19 Community Support Group are a team of Twyford Residents helping in our Community to support those in need during the Covid 19 Crisis
They can reasonably assist with shopping, dog walking and a phone chat if you want some company.
Volunteers are also either working full time, looking after their own families and children and at times some of them may get sick with the virus.
Email: Twyford_Covid_Help@Outlook.com
Phone: 07377226835

To find out up to date information regarding coronavirus in the Borough, please find below two helpful websites: 

• https://news.wokingham.gov.uk/coronavirus/
• https://www.wokingham.gov.uk/health/public-health-campaigns/coronavirus/

Managing the Covid-19 pandemic is a team effort. 

Wokingham Borough Council, Town and Parish Councils, Voluntary Groups, Community Organisations and Charities, neighbourhoods and individual people are all pulling together to support those who need extra help at this time.

The Wokingham Borough Community Response is our borough-wide one-stop-shop for helping those in need during this difficult time. The volunteers around the borough complete essential shopping, drop off food parcels or deliver prescriptions.  Also, they are answering the phones to worried residents in need of help, telephoning people who are isolated to check if they’re ok and offering some friendship at an especially lonely time.

 All the money raised will go to fund food parcels for vulnerable people across the Borough, and any funds left over once the food hub closes will be distributed to the voluntary sector organisations involved in this combined response. 

Visit the Wokingham Borough Community Response Just giving page, link below: 

• https://www.justgiving.com/campaign/WokinghamBoroughCV19?utm_term=w4zpx4zrJ&fbclid=IwAR1jLeZVFxoW_3RIOLMwC9h3MeClr3P8_1HIgpLiT1IfOfwRxOwVpZlvS78

The Wokingham Borough Community Hub provides food, toiletries and essentials to people who need it, in our Borough.  

Wokingham Borough Council is working with charities in the Borough to provide a community wide response to help vulnerable people during the Covid-19 crisis.

You can volunteer – just sign up via Wokingham Volunteer Centre and they’ll be in touch. 

You can donate essential supplies.  

Visit the Facebook page for more information, link below: 

• https://www.facebook.com/wokinghamcommunityhub/

For people needing advice or practical support please contact our Citizens Advice Bureau by: 

• Telephone on: 0300 330 1189 
• Email on: admin@citizensadvicewokingham.org.uk 
• Visiting the website on: http://citizensadvicewokingham.org.uk/

We are actively promoting the One Front Door Service.  If you cannot leave home due to the coronavirus and need help because there is no-one locally who can give you support, please use the form on the Citizens Advice Bureau website.  They will triage your request and link you with appropriate support across Wokingham Borough which have signed up to this scheme and, if they can, they will find a volunteer who can help get you shopping or pick up prescriptions, or just call for a friendly chat.

Please find key websites below:

• Please see the updated Government advice here: https://www.gov.uk/coronavirus

• Advice about coronavirus (including, what the symptoms are and how to stop it spreading).  Click: here

• Information about the overall situation (including, the number of cases, where they are and what countries are affected).  Click: here

• A good FAQ has been compiled by the NHS and is available here

Thank you to Shirley Pearce for these three blogs:
Explaining Covid-19 to people with dementia
How to keep in touch with them in care homes
Dealing with their stress during lockdown.

We are compiling a list of shops and restaurants in the village and surrounding areas that have adapted their processes in light of the current crisis. Please find below a list of restaurants / shops, their contact details and the changes that they have implemented.