Just One Thing, kickstart a positive 2025 in Reading

Reading Council today launched its New Year Just One Thing, campaign encouraging residents to embrace new experiences, uncover and remember the town’s hidden gems, enhance wellbeing and make a positive contribution. Shifting the focus from traditional New Year's resolutions to forming lasting habits that positively impact residents and the community.

Just One Thing 25 tips for 2025, encourages residents to try simple and achievable ideas, spanning health and wellbeing to exploring the town's culture and green spaces.

Tips include;

• hop on a bus and go to a part of Reading you haven't been to before maybe Arthur Newbery Park Tilehurst, Reading Old Cemetery or Fobney Island Nature Reserve South Reading
• visit Reading Museum to see the Picasso
• take a seat on the Ricky Gervais After Life Netflix bench at Henley Road Cemetery
• stroll and reminisce past where the Huntley and Palmers factory used to be and where Bugsy Malone was filmed in 1975, take in the town’s Banksy at the same time
• donate plasma, Reading has one of only three plasma donation centres in the UK
• learn how to say hello in the three most popular languages spoken after English; Polish, Nepalese and Romanian
• make a commitment to spend time with a child in foster care just once a month
• wander along the Oxford Road, the market stalls by the Broad Street Mall and West Street and browse the beautiful fruit and vegetable displays– why not buy a fruit or vegetable you haven’t tried before and try something new?

Just One Thing also promotes the town’s new and improved leisure facilities, encouraging physical activity, and provides information on food waste, and tips for checking what can be recycled.

It’s not about giving up this New Year it’s about trying Just One Thing.