Supporter of the month

Phantom Brewing Co is a craft beer brewery based in Reading, Berkshire. With the main goal of producing the freshest beer, made with the highest quality ingredients, they have worked hard to provide a welcoming community hub in their taproom in Reading that welcomes any person from any background.

Maxine lives in Milford on Sea in Hampshire. Until 2016 she was a school principal adviser in West Berkshire District Council and as part of her role, she was the Virtual School Head where she led the team responsible for promoting education for children in care, and previously looked after children.

One year ago, John Pierce passed away unexpectedly from Sudden Arrhythmic Death Syndrome. His death was shocking and devastating for the many people who knew and loved him.

Boardman Hawkins & Osborne LLP is a niche family practice established in 2018 by Emily Boardman, Ruth Hawkins and Irena Osborne. BH&O have taken part in various forms of fundraising for PACT, including sponsored runs, cake sales, Christmas Jumper Day fundraisers and PACT’s annual carol concert, and continue to provide legal and financial support to the charity...

Lesley and her husband adopted through PACT in 2020. Since her children were placed with her and her husband, Lesley has championed adoption and supported PACT by attending information events, talking to prospective adopters about her own experiences and sharing her adoption journey...

Javairia is a baker who runs her own local business in Reading, Sweetie Bakes. She has been volunteering for Alana House for three years to support the women who use our services. Each week, Javairia runs a baking group with the women to teach them about baking skills and offer useful advice on making and decorating cakes and sweet treats...

Sally has been volunteering at Alana House for three years, supporting the team with all sorts of behind-the-scenes tasks. Her help has been invaluable both to the team and the women Alana House supports...

Elaine, a service user and long-standing attendee of Alana House, sadly passed away a few months ago. She requested that her daughter sell some of her possessions to raise money for Alana House...

Students Cristèle Sarić and Robin Smith volunteered their time to work on our Alana House recipe book. Their designs brought the recipes to life and perfectly captured the heart of this inspirational book...

Besides being a space of reflection and providing a place and a time for prayer for all, Reading Minster seeks to both engage in social issues that are relevant to the local community and support the work of the local authority, organisations and institutions...

Harry decided to run both the London Marathon and the Oxford Half Marathon within the space of two weeks to raise money for PACT. He chose to set himself this extraordinary challenge as a way to support PACT’s work creating families through adoption and supporting families for life...

Berkshire Community Foundation has been an amazing supporter of PACT for many years. They are dedicated to supporting community-based organisations focused on helping disadvantaged Berkshire. The

Jason and Jen became involved in supporting PACT in 2018 when Jen ran a series of fitness classes for our Alana House women?s community project. Jen works as a fitness instructor and volunteered

Lily began volunteering for PACT in March 2020. She chose to work at PACT for her placement year as part of her psychology course at the University of Reading...

Paula adopted her son through PACT in 2016. She previously worked at Heathrow Airport but has recently returned to work for the Royal Air Force as a full time reserve officer...

Chelsea worked at PACT during her university student placement year from October 2020 until May 2021. She is training to become a qualified social worker and chose to volunteer in PACT’s London adoption team...