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Digital Advantage Cards now available

We're making it quicker and easier for Royal Borough residents to access Advantage benefits with the launch of free digital Advantage Cards - giving you access via your phone or digital wallet.

You can access the digital Advantage Card through the Windsor & Maidenhead Libraries app.

Find out more via the button to left. 

Christmas lights switch on events around the borough

Residents are cordially invited to Christmas light switch-on events in the borough! Twinkly lights, festive food, and Christmas stalls will be available for everyone to enjoy, with bonus activities at each event.

The lights will switch on in Windsor tomorrow (Saturday 15 November). From 11.30am to 5.30pm, residents will be able to enjoy festive performances by community groups, along with children's rides and hot food stalls.

Maidenhead will switch on the lights on Saturday 22 November with a full day of activities including music and entertainment (in collaboration with Maidenhead Festival), minigolf by Charlie's Mini Golf and, weather permitting, fireworks to finish!

Come along to our Environment and Climate Change Strategy drop in sessions next week

As work continues on the Environment and Climate Change Strategy 2026-2035, we want your feedback on the draft strategy and action plan at our drop-in sessions.

Hosted by the council and The Climate Partnership, the sessions will focus on how we can turn the priorities of the strategy, including energy, sustainable transport, natural environment and reducing waste, into deliverable actions.

They will be hosted at:

• Monday 17 November - Maidenhead Library from 11am to 1pm.
• Wednesday 19 November - Ascot Durning Library from 12.30pm to 1.30pm.
• Wednesday 19 November - Sunninghill Library from 2.30pm to 3.30pm.
• Thursday 20 November - Cookham Library from 10am to 11am.
• Monday 24 November - Kerith Church, Dedworth 10am to 12pm.

Join the Mayor at their Charity Christmas Dinner

The Mayor, Councillor Mandy Brar, is hosting a Christmas charity dinner on Friday 5 December at the stunning Windsor Guildhall to raise funds for charity. Proceeds will go towards the Mayor’s Benevolent Fund which directly supports residents in need.

The evening will include a drinks reception, traditional meal (or vegetarian alternative), seasonal entertainment and raffle.

Tickets are available until midday on Thursday 27 November.

Free women's health webinar

Focusing on physical, mental and emotional changes and how social and personal factors can also influence your wellbeing. Discover how to maintain your physical and mental health plus debunk common myths about women's health and ageing.

You can also ask the panel questions during the session and any not answered on the night will be posted the NHS Frimley website

What does a healthier borough mean to you? 

Share your thoughts in the consultation for our draft Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy, a road map setting out how we can help make everyone healthier in the Royal Borough and support local communities needing extra help. 

Your feedback on the direction and main themes of our plans will help us finalise our strategy before it comes into force early next year.

The online consultation on RBWM Together, which runs until 7 December, has easy read and large print versions of the questions and draft strategy. Plus our borough libraries also have draft strategy copies.

Our consultations - have your say

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

• Feedback on the Maidenhead Shopfront Supplementary Planning Document by Sunday 30 November.

• Give us your views on our draft Parking Supplementary Planning Document by Sunday 30 November.

• Share your views in our Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy consultation by Sunday 7 December.

• Respond to the State of the Voluntary Sector survey by Friday 19 December.

Community Spotlight

To see details on community events and volunteering opportunities in the borough visit: RBWM Together - Community Spotlight

Do you have an upcoming not-for-profit community event or appeal for volunteers you’d like us to add to the page? Send a short summary including key dates and a link to communications@rbwm.gov.uk

Local travel updates

• There will be temporary road closures to facilitate the annual Windsor Lantern Procession and preparations for the Christmas Light Switch-On on Saturday 15 November at various times between 12pm to 7pm on Castle Hill, High Street (for its entire length), Thames Street (full closure from its junction with Castle Hill to its junction with River Street) and Sheet Street (full closure from its junction with High Street to its junction with Victoria Street).

• There will be temporary road closure on B3020 High Street, Sunninghill between 10am and 6pm on Sunday 16 November to facilitate Sunninghill Street Fayre.

• There will be a temporary road closure on King Street in Maidenhead from 8am Monday 10 November until 6pm Friday 21 November to facilitate gas diversion works.

• There will be temporary road closures for the Maidenhead Christmas Lights Switch On Event on Saturday 22 November at various times from 9am to 9pm. St Ives Road for its entire length, Bridge Avenue, Bridge Street, High Street and Queen Street.

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

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• Royal Borough official tourism web page  
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• Royal Borough Registrars on Facebook and Instagram
• Windsor & Royal Borough Museum web page
• MyRoyalBorough on X, Facebook and Instagram
• Make Maidenhead on Facebook and Instagram