Activities & projects

Drawing of Jane Austen c. 1810 by Cassandra Austen. Credit: National Portrait Gallery London

Jane Austen 250 – Commemorative Plaque

The Reading Civic Society is working with Reading Borough Council and Reading Museum to actively source funding for a commemorative plaque that is to be located on the east side of the Abbey Gateway. It will replace the incorrectly sited, inaccessible and almost illegible brass plaque which is in a locked garden behind the west ... Read more

Children building models

LOOK DRAW BUILD @ Reading Station

This is a creative learning programme that uses the transport terminal of Reading Station to inform, and inspire, some 600 Primary Schools students every year.