2025 at West Berkshire Council

As 2025 draws to a close, we've been looking back to reflect on what has been achieved over the past year. Throughout 2025, our teams have worked hard to support residents, businesses, and visitors to deliver a wide range of services and projects that make a real difference to everyday life across the district.

We can't wait to see what we get up to in 2026!

Here are some of our favourite memories from this year - how many do you recognise?

Here's all we could squeeze into just over two minutes.

• Shared Lives
• Pop up libraries
• Holocaust Memorial Day
• Keevil Unit expansion at Speenhamland School
• Walnut Close opening
• Kennet Leisure Centre upgrades
• Soil conditioner giveaway at Padworth HWRC
• Linkways cycle signs
• First meeting of the Employee Engagement Forum
• Peace Garden at The Wharf
•  Shaw House Tudor Garden
•  Community Champion Awards
•  Armed Forces Week
•  Foster Care Fortnight staff walk
•  Northcroft Leisure Centre refurbishment and official reopening with Harry Aikines-Aryeetey
•  North-East Thatcham by-election
•  Paddington returns to Newbury
•  Rural Business Forum
•  Newbury Pride
•  World Mental Health Day at Thatcham Train Station
•  Boxford Mesolithic timber arrives at West Berkshire Museum
•  Pianos in libraries with Berkshire Music Trust
•  Newbury Town Centre pedestrianisation trial
•  Dementia Action Day in Pangbourne
•  Ready for Ridgeway campaign
•  Three-weekly black bin collections
•  Highways improvement programme (A4 resurfacing in Hungerford)
•  New 3G pitch at Cotswold Sports Centre
•  Summer Reading Challenge
•  Solar panels on schools - Winchcombe Primary School
•  New lay-by for police to check speeding in Shaw
•  Hermitage Eling Way footpath
•  Rhymetime at Newbury Library
•  Reading with Ruby the PAT dog
•  Adult Social Care report
•  Henwick Worthy Sports Ground refurbishment
•  Chief Social Worker visit
•  Kennet School courts upgrade
•  West Berkshire Children's Services rated good by OFSTED
•  Talking to eastern town and parish councils about Ridgeway Council proposal
•  Memorandum of Understanding signing - working with Newbury Community Resource Centre
•  Your West Berkshire magazine
•  Learner Achievement Awards
•  Poppy train in Hungerford
•  Carols crossing in Midgham
•  Carers Rights Day
•  Cllr Tony Vickers, Chairman of West Berkshire Council, recording Christmas message for Berkshire hospital radio
•  Thatcham Park Primary School development
•  Young people join Children and Young People scrutiny
•  New Italian Poplars planted at Stroud Green
•  Christmas lights in Newbury
•  Shaw House Christmas Fair
•  Giving Tree
•  Christmas Jumper Day
•  Free festive bus travel
•  Cllr Billy Drummond dressed as Santa for Greenham Community Centre Youth Clubs Christmas Party
•  Meals on wheels with Fair Close
•  Cllr Jeff Brooks, Leader of West Berkshire Council, Christmas message
•  Christmas at Shaw House
•  Joseph Holmes, CEO of West Berkshire Council, Christmas message
•  Executive Leadership Team dress up for a festive staff walk around