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The Ding is a guide to anything to do with Reading generally: arts, culture, community, business, services, history, sports, recreation, education, politics etc...
It's a Wiki (like Wikipedia): anyone can create and update pages (though you need to register as an editor first). (We have some RULES regarding discrimination, exploitation, advertising etc.)
We don't want to replace any existing sites and groups covering Reading or areas or groups within Reading: where these exist we'll link to them. For example there are:
- Reading Forum bulletin board
- Facebook groups
We also have our own The Ding Facebook group for day-to-day discussions and events.
We currently have created only a few pages (here's the list) but have ideas for other topics this site could cover:
Contents
Recreation: arts, culture, entertainment, sports etc
Reading Arts and Venues Hexagon, South St, Progress Theatre etc
Art
- Jelly
- Pictures At Our Exhibition with Aldworth Philharmonic Orchestra
- OHOS
- Artists' studio trails - Whiteknights, Caversham
- Rising Sun Arts Centre
Cafes & Restaurants
Cinema
Climbing
Climbing wall
Dance
Karting
Woodley
Music
Museums
- Reading Museum at Town Hall
- Museum of English Rural Life
- URE museum @ UoR
- Medical museum @ hospital
- Blake's Lock?
- Woodley Air Museum
Parks & Gardens
- Parks
- University grounds
- Harris Gardens
- RISC roof garden
- Caversham Court
- Clayfield Copse
- Dinton Pastures
- Beale Park
- NGS gardens scheme
Pubs & Bars
Shit and Not Shit Pubs in Reading
Sports
doing/watching
- running - park runs, half marathon, fun runs
- football, rugby, tennis, rowing
Swimming
- Rivermead
- Central pools
- cemetery junction?
- King's Meadow lido?
- Northumberland Ave leisure centre
- woodley/Southcote/Calcot/Caversham?
Talks & Meetings
- Cafe Scientifique
- Skeptics in the Pub
- University public lectures
- Library talks
- Green Drinks
- Sunday Assembly
Theatre
- Hexagon
- South St
- Progress
- Shinfield
Resources
Government
Local: Reading, Wokingham, West Berks, South Oxon Westminster Europe
Housing
- Co-housing
Transport
- Trains
- Buses
- Coaches
- Cycling
- Parking
Services
- Rubbish
- Tip
- Hospital
- Doctors
- Dentists
- Vets
- noise & nuisance
- University students - Report to Sarah Gardner, Community Relations Manager [1] 0118 378 6764
- The uni security can be contacted on 0118 378 7799.
- Video / audio / photographs / addresses help.
- University students - Report to Sarah Gardner, Community Relations Manager [1] 0118 378 6764
Tradespeople
Maps
- council boundaries
- parliamentary boundaries
- postcode areas
- parking restrictions
- cycle routes
- walks
- historical
media
- BBC Radio Berkshire
- 2-ten fm
- BBC South TV
- Get Reading
- Reading Chronicle
- University - Spark?
- Alt Reading - online magazine focusing on arts, entertainment and culture in Reading.
other
- Libraries
- Bicycle Kitchen
- Repair cafe
- Freegle
- Room hire (RISC, Wycliffe baptist church on the kings road)
- Catering (Gyorgi & Rina?)
Trade
FREE STUFF in Reading big, closed group
Buy and sell in Reading Secondhand, crafts, services
Items for Sale in Tilehurst and West Reading & Surrounding Area
Readings NO1 buy and sell anything!!!!!!! big, closed group
History
Others
Cemetery Junction film
Reading festival
University
Whiteknights Park
WWII hospital
Douglas Bader
Woodley airfield
black history centre mural