Wokingham

Residents across the Wokingham borough will soon find it even easier to keep in touch with Wokingham Borough Council thanks to a new email and text messaging service being launched early next year.

Currently, Wokingham residents can receive a selection of email updates but as of the New Year the borough council will be developing a new service to allow residents to receive up-to-the minute targeted information about a range of council services from road works to recycling and arts to street cleaning.

Simply by registering online at www.wokingham.gov.uk, via the online TV service at any of the public information kiosks across the borough or by calling Wokingham Direct on (0118) 974 6000, residents will then be added to a central database used to send out emails and text messages specific to each resident.

Wokingham Borough Council website manager Nicholas Spencer said: “Residents are invited to sign up to this new service as we are not only offering residents some of the latest news and events from across the borough, we will also be able to contact them via text message in case of an emergency such as flooding or a road closure relating to them.”

Anyone who registers before Sunday January 31, 2010 will be entered into a draw to win £50-worth of Carluccio’s Restaurant vouchers provided by Wokingham borough council’s partners New Voice Media.

Nicholas Spencer added: “This new email and text message service is a great way for residents across the borough to stay informed about all the latest news and services the council has to offer.

“Email and text messaging are some of the most popular way for people to keep in contact with each other so to have Wokingham Borough Council taking part in this is a great way to stay in touch with our residents.”

Once registered, Wokingham residents can also manage their own email and text message updates via an online account so if they wish to add or remove updates they can do it simply by a click of a few buttons.

Wokingham Borough Council