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Happy New Year!


We're wishing residents and businesses a happy and healthy start to 2025!


Read on to view the latest updates from our services, including changes to waste collection dates, staying healthy this winter and how we're making the borough safer for everyone.

Amber Cold Health Alert. Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead

Cold Health Alert issued for South East


The UK Health Security Agency has issued an Amber Cold Health Alert in response to low temperatures expected to last until midday on Wednesday 8 January.


Until then, anyone with existing health conditions, people aged 65+ and children are more at risk. Aim to keep your home at 18°C or more and check on vulnerable loved ones and neighbours. Health services may also be busier, and it is possible that roads and train services may be disrupted. Be careful out there.


See NHS advice on keeping healthy during cold weather or view more details about the alert on the UKHSA website
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Recycle your real Christmas Tree


If you had a real Christmas tree this year, you can recycle it by taking it to one our Christmas tree collection points around the borough, including a new collection point at Clewer Memorial Recreation Ground, from Monday 6 January.


Please make sure you remove all decorations, lights, pots and stands before disposing of your tree. The last date for collection is Friday 24 January.


If you have a garden waste subscription service, you can also chop up your tree and place it in your green bin for collection after Monday 13 January. If your tree does not fit into the bin, or you do not have a subscription, you can take it to your nearest household recycling centre.


Please do not leave your tree next to your bin as our crews will not be able to collect it.

Festive red graphic with details of Christmas and New Year bin collection dates in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead. Visit https://www.rbwm.gov.uk/environment-and-waste/recycling-and-rubbish/holiday-collection-dates

Changes to waste collection dates


We’re reminding residents to check bin and waste collection day changes over the festive period, until 12 January 2025 - via our holiday collection dates webpage


Please put your bin or sack on the kerbside before 7am on collection day and no earlier than the night before.


Garden waste collections will be paused from Friday 27 December and resume on Monday 13 January.
Yellow UK Government and NHS graphic. Get vaccinated, get winter strong. Cut out style images of different people hitting away germs

Flu and Covid vaccines extended this January

 

Frimley Health and Care has extended its vaccination programme for flu and Covid during January with local clinics and community pharmacies taking part.

 

With flu cases in hospitals up by 350% nationally from last year at this time, we are urging everyone eligible for the flu and Covid vaccines to protect themselves and their loved ones before the flu season peaks in late January.

 

Find a vaccination clinic or pharmacy near you
Computer generated image of the new Holyport roundabout seen from the approach including single lane approach and new bike and walking paths

Holyport roundabout upgrades start on Monday



Work to deliver an upgraded roundabout at the junction of Holyport Road and the A308 Windsor Road will start this Monday 6 January, as part of our commitment to a cleaner, greener and safer borough.


The design of the larger roundabout, based on your feedback, will improve capacity along the key route between Windsor and Maidenhead and make it safer for all road users to use the junction.


Funded by a combination of Local Enterprise Partnership and Community Infrastructure Levy funding, it will also include cycle and walking lanes and informal crossing points.


To make the road improvements as quickly and safely as possible, three-way lights will be in place until the end of July. Motorists are advised to expect delays and plan their travel accordingly.


Information on planned roadworks and live traffic issues can be found at one.network/


Visit our project page to learn more and read the answers to key questions about the project.

Our consultations - have your say


We regularly hold consultations and surveys to seek your views on proposals within the Royal Borough: 


 

Community Spotlight


Here are some of the upcoming community events and volunteering opportunities in the Royal Borough: 

 


  • Book your Christmas tree collection in aid of Thames Valley Hospice this winter. Riverside Tree Care are offering collections from Friday 3 to Tuesday 7 January from Maidenhead, Bray, Fifield, Holyport, Marlow, Windsor, Cookham and Bourne End. For more information, email Nicholas or visit their website


  • Windsor Horse Rangers in Fifield are looking new adult volunteers to help supervise children on their weekend sessions. See more information


  • Age UK Berkshire are hosting a new Pub & Patries Seniors Social event at the Fox & Castle Pub, Old Windsor from 11am to 12 noon on Tuesday 7 January. Join them for a friendly and relaxed social meeting for all seniors, their friends and carers


  • Ellington Morris are offering introductory Morris sessions from 8 January. No experience is needed and the sessions are an opportunity to learn a new hobby and make friends. Both dancers and musicians are welcome at the Scout Hall in Pinkneys Green on Wednesday evenings from 8.30pm. Visit their website or call Chris on 01628 623023


  • Maidenhead Women’s Group for European Friendship invite you to a lecture-recital on the Spanish Guitar, that will be presented by local musician Gary Jordan at 11am on Wednesday 8 January at Maidenhead United Reformed Church (£5 at the door)


  • The Quince Players present Goldilocks and The Three Bears, their circus-based extravaganza featuring songs, dances and gags, to raise funds for the Youthline charity. Book your tickets for performances between 9-12 and 16-18 January at Cordes Hall, Sunninghill


  • Maidenhead Mencap's new Chill Out Club will be starting from Thursday 9 January at the Highview Centre. The club is for young people aged 5 - 24 years old with learning disabilities or neurodiversity, with games and activities between 7-9pm every Thursday during term time (£5 including refreshments). Email Linda or call 07783 626357


  • The Arts Society Englemere (Ascot’s evening Arts Society) will be holding their monthly lecture at Royal Ascot Golf Club in Ascot on Tuesday 14 January from 7.30pm, 'A Picture a Day - Peggy Guggenheim and the birth of mid-century modernism' by Jacky Klein. Visit their website


  • Mountbatten Grange care home, Windsor will be hosting a talk by Barbara Stephens, CEO of Dementia Pathfinders on adjusting to a diagnosis of dementia from 2-4pm on Wednesday 22 January. To attend or for more information, please call 01753 336350, email or visit their website


Do you have an upcoming not-for-profit community event or appeal for volunteers you’d like us to share? Send a short summary including key dates and a link to communications@rbwm.gov.uk and it could be shared with more than 21,000 local residents.

 

To see further volunteering opportunities in the borough, please visit RBWM Together

Local travel updates


For details of further council works on highways, visit our website. For full local roadwork details, including work by utility firms, please visit the One Network website



  • Work to upgrade the roundabout at the junction of Holyport road/A308 Windsor Road will start on Monday 6 January with three way traffic lights in place until the end of July. The project follows your feedback on road safety and is funded by Local Enterprise Partnership and the Community Infrastructure Levy


  • The footpath from Adkinson Alley to Cherwell Close Maidenhead will be closed from 8am Tuesday 7 January to 6pm Friday 10 January for fibre-optics works


  • A road closure will be in place on North Dean and West Dean in Maidenhead from 9am on Monday 6 to 3pm on Wednesday 8 January to carry out sink hole investigation work


  • Road improvement works will take place between 25-27 Manor Road Maidenhead from 7.30am to 6pm every day except Sundays from Monday 13 to Friday 31 January


  • Cycleway improvements will continue on Holmanleaze, Maidenhead until 14 March 2025 as part of our work to improve walking and cycling routes in the town centre

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