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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 these pages:
- ALRSM Reading Show
- A Different World Festival
- All About Dogs
- Amber & the Professors
- Apollo Big Band
- Are You Listening? Festival
- Bastille Day Festival
- Berkshire Motor Show and Reading Pageant
- Black History Month
- Blue Sky Big Band
- Broad St circa 1933
- Bunkfest
- Burghfest
- Café Zazous
- Caversham Arts Trail
- Choirs & Choral Societies
- Cinema
- Cornerstone's Annual Beer & Music Festival
- Craft Theory Festival
- Creating and Editing Articles
- Dance
- Earth Living Festival
- East Reading Festival
- Example article
- Explore Reading
- Fairtrade Fortnight
- Forbury Band Concert Season
- Forbury Gardens
- Global Cafe
- Goring and Streatley Regatta and River Festival
- Heather Jayne and the Red Shoes
- Help Improve This Site
- Henley Arts Trail
- Henley Festival
- Here Comes The Sun Festival
- History
- Innovations Jazz Orchestra
- Ma Bessie Band
- Main Page
- Make and mend
- Mapledurham Food Festival
- Marvellous Festival
- Music
- Newbury Radio Rally
- Newbury Showground
- Newbury Spring Festival
- Open For Art
- Open Studios
- Oxford Classic Jazz
- Oxford Lindy Exchange
- Oxjam Reading Takeover
- Pages in The Ding
- Pages wanted in The Ding
- Palmer Park
- Parks, Play Areas & Open Spaces
- Pint of Science
- Places of Worship & Faith Groups
- Progress Theatre
- Prospect Park
- Pubs & Bars
- Quaffable Reading
- RISC
- RSAC
- RULES
- Reading Beer & Cider Festival
- Reading Borough Council
- Reading Brick Show
- Reading Carnival
- Reading Children's Festival
- Reading Comic-Con
- Reading Fake Festival
- Reading Festival
- Reading Fringe Festival
- Reading Literature Festival
- Reading Pride Festival
- Reading Swing Exchange
- Reading Town Meal
- Reading Vegan Festival
- Reading Vintage Toy Fair
- Reading Water Fest
- Reading on Thames Festival
- Readipop Festival
- Red Sky Festival
- Retrofestival
- Rising Sun Arts Centre
- Royal Windsor Horse Show
- Shit & Not Shit Pubs in Reading
- Signature Sounds
- South Oxfordshire District Council
- Southern Counties Canine Association General Championship Show
- Springstock
- Stoke Row Steam Rally
- Sunny Saturdays
- Talks & Meetings
- Thames Valley Balboa Festival
- The Ding Dong Daddios
- The Purple Turtle
- The Retreat
- The Royal County of Berkshire Show
- The Silver Heels
- The Sportfish Show
- The Village Festival
- The Whiskey Affair
- Tilehurst Festival
- Tradespeople
- Twyford Beer Festival
- University of Reading Big Band
- Vaisakhi
- Watlington House
- West Berkshire Council
- WhatPub
- Whiteknights Studio Trail
- Wokingham Borough Council
- Woodcote Rally
Here are some 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
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
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 give/request groups
- Freegle
- FREE STUFF in Reading Facebook group
Buy/sell groups
- Gumtree
- Buy and sell in Reading Facebook
- Readings NO1 buy and sell anything!!!!!!! Facebook
- Southcote Buy And Sell ! Facebook
- Items for Sale in Tilehurst and West Reading & Surrounding Area Facebook
- buy and sell anything in woodley, earley and lower earley Facebook
Non-cash trading
- LETS
History
Others
Cemetery Junction film
Reading festival
University
Whiteknights Park
WWII hospital
Douglas Bader
Woodley airfield
black history centre mural