If you have an event planned, please send details to whatson@cavershambridge.org. We need to receive these no later than the 10th of the month before the event for inclusion in the printed paper. Later submissions can be included on our online What’s On, which is updated regularly. To see what has been added check: cavershambridge.org/archives/category/around-caversham
Please note, a listing of baby and toddler groups can be found here.
Caversham Library – 09:00-17:00 Tuesday and Friday, 13:00-19:00 Thursday and 10:00-15:00 Saturday. Regular events include:
Rhymetimes for the little ones – popular, so please book first! Every Tuesday at 10:15 and 11:15.
Games Club, Friday mornings 10:30-12:00. All adults welcome – refreshments!
Sit and Stitch 17:30-19:45, on 2nd and 4th Thursdays every month. Refreshments – come and be inspired.
Tel: 0118 9375103 or see Caversham Library – Reading Borough Council
Geo Café – Artists Against Homelessness, an ongoing and changing exhibition of art by local artists at Geo Café, Prospect Street. For each sale the artist makes a donation to Launchpad Reading. Open every day.
Mondays – Caversham Park Bridge Club – at the Milestone Centre,19:15 for 19:30 start. Phone Lin 0118 3348195 for further information. Caversham Park Bridge Club
Tuesdays – Rivarate Choir – Caversham Heights Methodist Church, Highmoor Road. 19:30 in term time. Enjoy singing together. For details see rivarate.com
Wednesdays – Caversham Writers – Welcoming enthusiastic hobbyists and aspiring authors alike. Meeting weekly in person or via Zoom. Free to all. For details: meetup.com/CavershamWriters or @CavershamWriter on Twitter (X)
Wednesdays – Light on the Hill Café – 19:30-21:30 at Grace Church, 119 Peppard Road, RG4 8TR. A wellbeing café for adults 18+. Come as you are for tea and a chat. Please see: www.gracechurchcaversham.org.uk
Wednesdays – The Waltham St Lawrence Silver Band-Neville Hall in Waltham St Lawrence RG10 0JJ. 20:00 – 22:00. Free and friendly club for brass instrumentalists. Email: waltham.band@gmail.com
Thursdays – Friendly Over-60s Social Club – 10:00-13:00 at Milestone Centre, Caversham Park Village. Hot lunch, quizzes and the chance to chat. Contact Cheryl at 07964750182 or Trina at 07477570541
Thursdays – Weller Centre Craft Group – 13:00-15:00. Be creative with friends. For details contact Pam Chatfield at pamch32@gmail.com Mobile 07986 905784 or Weller Centre 0118 947 5828
Thursdays – New Caversham Heights Bridge Club – 14:00 at the Caversham Heights Methodist Church, Highmoor Road. For details contact Duncan Knight on 0118 9475544 or email duncan.knight@googlemail.com
Fridays – Warm Welcome Space – 10:00-13:30 at Caversham Baptist Church, South Street, RG4 8HY. All welcome, just drop in for free refreshments, including hot soup from 12:00. Tel: 0118 954 5353 www.cavershambaptistchurch.org.uk
Saturdays – Keep Caversham Tidy – A local charity dedicated to eliminating litter and improving public spaces in Caversham. Free to join and no ongoing commitment. Families welcome! Email Keepcavershamtidy@gmail.com, FB Keep Caversham Tidy
Sundays – Caversham Artisan & Farmers Market – Caversham Precinct, 10:00-15:00. See www.facebook.com/CAFMarket
Sundays – Nordic Walk (or just walking). Free to all. Tel: 07931754096 or email Pat at Wirralbird@hotmail.com
Sundays – Readifolk Song and Music Club – 20:00-22:30 in the Community Hall, Watlington House, RG1 4RA. £8 admission for performances, £3 on singing nights. See www.readifolk.org.uk
Until Saturday 28 June – Exhibition of paintings on wood panels by Nick Syfret – Caversham Picture Framer, Church Road – for details see cavershampictureframer.co.uk/events
Tuesday 3 June – Caversham Women’s Institute – 19:30 at Church House, Caversham. www.thewi.org.uk or Tel: 01189 475176
Wednesday 4 June – River Kennet and Sulhamstead Bannister (SU633703) 6.75 miles – 10:30 Pang Valley Ramblers. A circular walk south of Theale along the lakes of the Lower Kennet Water Park to farmland and meadows around Sulhamstead. One of a programme of regular walks in the area – see https://pvramblers.org.uk/walks-programme
Friday 6 June – Chazey Women’s Institute – 14:30 at St Andrew’s Church Hall. Tel: 01189 470964, or e-mail rowena@primology.com
Friday 6 June – Bereavement Café – 14:00-15:30 at St. Barnabas, Emmer Green. A safe place to find others who have had their own loss and can appreciate something of your experience. For further info Tel. Gill at 0118 9478772
Wednesday 11 June – Rosehill Ladies – 14:00 at St Barnabas Hall, Emmer Green. Tel: Sue 01189477570 or email suegreen@hotmail.com
Wednesday 11 June – ‘Bird, Bins and a Brew’ (bird watching in the garden), a talk by Alisa Clybourn – 19:30 Caversham Horticultural Society. Caversham Baptist Church (opposite Waitrose). £3 for non-members. Light refreshments post talk. For details, see www.caversham-horticultural.org.uk
Saturday 14 June – Artists & Makers Fair – 10:00-16:00 at Caversham Methodist Hall, Gosbrook Road. Local artists and craftspeople display their work for sale. Free entry. Lobby café. For further information phone Jean at 07808 966928 or visit www.cavershamcrafts.co.uk
Saturday 14 June- Sunday 15 June – Reading Amateur Regatta and Vintage Fayre – Caversham Court Gardens. To learn more about the Regatta, visit their website at www.reading-amateur-regatta.org For information about the Vintage Fayre, visit www.angelbar.co.uk/events
Friday 20 June – Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius –19:30, University Great Hall, Reading, RG1 5AG A joint concert with Reading Festival Chorus and Johanneskantorei Dusseldorf. Tickets on the door. Details www.readingfestivalchorus.org.uk
Saturday 21 June – Indian Food and Arts Festival – 12:30-17:00 The Milestone Centre, Northbrook Road, Caversham Park Village, RG4 6PF. For details and to book, www.trybooking.com/uk/events/landing/78385
Saturday 21 June – My Spirit Sang All Day – 19:00. Caversham Baptist Church, South Street, RG4 8HY The Themesis Chamber Choir present a programme packed with beauty – from Finzi and Whitacre to Mr Blue Sky and Bridge Over Troubled Water. Details https://tamesischamberchoir.com/eventer/my-spirit-sang-all-day
Monday 23 June – The Work of the South Central Ambulance Service – 14:00 at Abbey Baptist Church, Abbey Square, Reading, talk to Reading u3a by former Mayor of Reading Tony Jones. Non-members welcome, free entry. See www.readingu3a.org.uk
Saturday 28 June – South Chiltern Choral Society Summer concert – 18:00 (time to be confirmed) Highdown School, Emmer Green, RG4 8LX. Join them and experience nostalgic melodies and timeless tunes. For more information and tickets see www.southchilternchoralsociety.org.uk
Saturday 28 June – Mostly Mozart – the CinC Ensemble – 19:30, St Andrew’s Church, Albert Road RG4 7PL Concerts in Caversham present the Flute Quartet in A major, the Piano Quartet in Eb major and the Clarinet Quintet in A major by Mozart and Ravel’s Introduction and Allegro for string quartet, flute, harp and viola. Details and booking https://concertsincaversham.littleboxoffice.com
Coming Up in July
Saturday 5 July – Reading Haydn Choir summer concert – 19:30, St Andrew’s Church, Albert Road RG4 7PL. The repertoire will be a mix of European sacred music, opera choruses and settings by Finzi of poems by Robert Bridges – something for everyone. Further details www.haydnchoir.org.uk
Saturday 12 July – Bach Christ lag in Todesbanden, Caroline Shaw To the Hands and Entr’acte and the Telemann Viola Concerto – 19:30 Reading Bach Choir with instrumentalists from Concerts in Caversham at Douai Abbey. Tickets £18 / Under 18’s £5, via the website www.readingbachchoir.org.uk or on the door.
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