Celebrating another successful Reading Pride!

On Saturday 30 August, we were proud to return to Reading Pride, joining our local LGBTQIA+ community for another year of celebration. Together with colleagues from the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust, our volunteers hosted PrideInU, a pop-up health space offering advice, signposting and health checks and testing.

Tuesday 2 September 2025

Promoting our health and wellbeing services from Talking Therapies to Op Courage, the event gave us an opportunity to celebrate the value of being an inclusive organisation brings, connect with the local community with whom our Trust serves, and celebrate the LGBTQIA+ members within our local area. Our Sexual Health team was there on the Health Bus offering advice and testing, and our volunteers carried out activities such as community engagement, fundraising and promoting the Trust as an inclusive employer.

Here at Berkshire Healthcare, we are committed to treating all within our community with the respect and dignity that they deserve, and we were grateful to spread awareness of the services we offer individuals within Berkshire at this year’s Pride.

As a Trust we understand the importance of allowing staff to be themselves. We are committed to making sure all within our Trust feel that they can be who they truly are at work without fear of discrimination. Our internal Pride network provides support to staff and helps us identify and eliminate differentials in experience.

A huge amount of work went into the day, so we wanted to say a big thank you to all that helped organise and take part to make Reading Pride 2025 such a success.

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