• A home-testing service is available for anyone with symptoms of COVID-19, who is unable to drive to the regional testing site.
• If you're shielding, you can now spend time outdoors once a day with members of your household or, with one person from another household if you live alone - as long as you stay two metres apart.
• If you are contacted by the NHS Test and Trace service, you need to self-isolate for 14 days, even if you do not display symptoms.
• Get the answers to your COVID-19 Frequently Asked Questions

This volunteers week we want to thank our army of volunteers who continue to help the most vulnerable throughout the pandemic. With their help, 918 food parcels have been delivered across the borough to those who are self-isolating.

Our contractors who are currently improving White Hart junction have donated several tons of wood chippings to a care home and community allotment to help spruce up their gardens.

Here's a few ways to keep active, whether thats outside or indoors.

• StayInWorkOut with Sports England
• Download Swindon cycling and walking maps
• Get outside safely with the Ordnance Survey
• Start running with Couch to 5K

• Join the NHS 10 minute home workouts

There have been no changes to the way parking is being enforced in the borough. As a quick reminder:

• All NHS and social care staff, charities and volunteer groups who applied for a free parking permit can still use them to help make essential journeys.
• If you have a resident permit you can still park in our surface level (non-barrier controlled) car parks.
• If you have a permit you can still park in any shared use bays, resident bays or limited waiting bays in your zone.
• If you have a parking season ticket at either Lydiard Park or Coate Water please email our Parking Services Team for a free extension for the number of days the car parks were closed.

Penalty Charge Notices are only being issued to cars parked dangerously, on yellow lines, in disabled bays, to non-permit holders, or in car parks with no payment or permit. Find out more here

Swindon has been given the exciting opportunity to submit plans to Government next month to secure up to £25m for projects to help drive economic growth in the town. This week, the Board asked the community to submit any costed and well-developed project ideas that meet the investment criteria to make sure ideas which already exist aren’t overlooked.

Help keep your mind healthy by learning something new using The Skills Toolkit. Find easy to access, high quality digital and numeracy courses you can do whilst at home.

• The Harbour Project wins Queens Award for Voluntary Service
• Work continues at the Carriage Works to build the Cultural Heritage Institute
• Planning permission has been granted for a 197 bedroom Premier Inn hotel, with a Bar+Block steakhouse to be built in Regent Street, opposite The Savoy

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