What's On and Things To Do Around Peppard Common

Explore the gardens and house this June in a new way as returning to Greys Court will be the Oxford Sculptors Group with whole new artworks to showcase to our visitors.

Enjoy early summer garden blooms in the evening sun, with drinks and canaps. Every Tuesday and Thursday in June pre-booked guests can enjoy touring the garden at exactly the time of year and time of day when the garden is at its most magical.

As part of the National Trust’s 50 things to do before you’re 11 and 3/4’s campaign we bring you The Great Big Tree Climbing Company. Two highly skilled and friendly instructors can help all ages reach new heights in a fantastic tree in Greys Court.

Experience Greys Court in a new way throughout July, with art classes happening every Wednesday. Book on now to avoid missing out. Artist Paul Robbens will take a group of 10 around Greys Court, to various locations, helping them to capture the beauty of Greys Court in a more creative way.

1 acre garden and open traditional farmstead. Herbaceous borders, herb garden, shrubs, old fashioned roses, trees incl medlar, quince and mulberries, walled ornamental kitchen garden. New cherry orchard.

By popular request The Simon Lasky Quartet, featuring world renowned vocalist Nina Ferro, will return to St Andrews for our Summer Concert. The same star line-up as October - Simon Lasky (piano), Simon Bates (saxophone), Robert Rickenberg (double bass).

The 2018 Woodcote Rally marks our 55th year and is a festival of steam, vintage & veteran transport (steam engines, steam models, stationary engines, cars, bikes, tractors, military & commercial vehicles) & entertainment for all the family.

Henley Festival, the UK’s most glamorous boutique festival, and winner of Headline Performance of the Year in 2016 returns to its spectacular setting on he riverbank in Henley-on-Thames from 11th-15th July 2018.

Hemdean House School warmly invite you to their Summer Fair on Saturday 23rd June, 2 - 5pm. Highlights include: - Forest School crafts - luxury raffle - professional Punch & Judy show and magician - bouncy castle - Vocalese choir - traditional games - a wide variety of hot and cold food &...

We’ve assembled a diverse and entertaining summer programme of shorter pieces - in triplicate! Our golden triangles include: Stanford’s Three Motets (Justorum animae, Coelos ascendit and Beati quorum via) Vaughan Williams’ Three Shakespeare Songs Dyson’s Three Songs of Courage...

The South Chiltern Choral Society has great pleasure in inviting you to ’An Evening on Broadway’ on Saturday 8th July at Queen Anne’s School, Henley Road, Caversham, RG4 6DX.

Lord Nuffield’s history with motor cars attracts a variety of car clubs to Nuffield Place. Motor cars from visiting car clubs are parked outside the front of the house for visitors to enjoy seeing. Cars will usually arrive at Nuffield Place in the morning and generally stay for a couple of hours.

Agatha Christie’s The Unexpected Guest. Directed by Brian Blessed. All tickets include a two-course meal in the restaurant before the show. Having known and worked with Agatha Christie, who better to direct her plays than the remarkable Brian Blessed?

A friendly twice monthly market, showcasing fantastic local food and drink, directly from the producers. You’ll find fresh seasonal fruit and vegetables, high welfare meat, fish and eggs, delicious baked goods, cheese, fudge and more.

Public Image Ltd - The Public Image Is Rotten Tour. Artists performing: Public Image Ltd.: Tickets avaiable.

The Award Winning Gordon Southern and Adam Rowe bring their latest shows to the most atmospheric bar in Reading in preparation for the Edinburgh Festival! Gordon Southern is the international word clown. A stand up favourite across Europe and Australasia, he’s performed in over 30 countries.

We are delighted to be joined once again by clarinet virtuoso Nicholas Shipman for Magnus Lindberg’s clarinet concerto. Written in 2002 and described by BBC Music Magazine as “indubitably contemporary…yet sensuously easy (tuneful even) on the ear”, you will be dazzled by what a clarinet can do!

Bach to Baby is the critically acclaimed classical concert series for babies, toddlers and their carers. Tots dance, roam about and revel in the wonder of live music, while you take a moment out of your busy day to hear top notch performances by outstanding musicians, with your young babes in tow.

Come and join us for a fabulous evening. A wonderful variety of serious and popular pieces, a welsh hymn, religious pieces, opera choruses, classics, a spiritual and songs from the classics.

Joan Dils is currently President of the History of Reading Society, a Vice-President of the Berkshire Local History Association and an Honorary Visiting Fellow in History at the University of Reading.

Cancer Research UK take over the Art Cafe The Reading Group for Cancer Research UK group are delighted to have been given the chance to run the Art Café in Whitchurch on Saturday 30th June 10:00am – 12.30pm. Please do pop in to enjoy a cup of tea/coffee with a delicious slice of homemade cake.

Summer concert - Saturday June 30 2018 - Music Across the 20th Century A programme of lighter choral music suited to a summer’s evening. The 20th Century has witnessed amazing changes in popular music.

PACT information events are informal opportunities to find out about PACT (an outstanding voluntary adoption agency) and the adoption process. You will also hear from one of our adopters about their experience and you will be able to speak with one of our senior social workers and ask any questions you may have.

Willing whistle blowers are wanted in Reading as a community football league looks to recruit men and women in black. Leisure Leagues – Europe’s biggest and most successful providers of 5 and 6-a-side football – are running courses for budding referees.

A Family day out, and FREE ENTRY FOR PEDESTRIANS Have a walk with a T-Rex Dinosaur!!!!! Truck Demo,s, come and meet the character Display Truck TNT Academy demo’s throughout the day. Static display of Raptors. Hovercraft Rides.

Pretty Muddy® is a muddy obstacle course that women of any ability can climb over, crawl under, and charge through. Pretty Muddy® isn’t like any other fundraising event. It’s a muddy obstacle course that women of any ability can climb over, crawl under, and charge through. However dirty you get.

Race for Life Pretty Muddy is our brilliant 5k muddy obstacle course. Scramble over the A-frame. Crawl through the mud pit. Have fun with your friends. And raise valuable funds for BEATING CANCER. This year we are thrilled to be opening this exciting event up to the children too!

A 5k suitable for all abilities - or up the challenge and take part in a Race for Life 10k! HOW TO ENTER: Online via the Race For Life Website -see below. Women of any age welcome. Girls up to age 15 and boys up to age 12 when accompanied by an adult. This is thousands of women uniting with one purpose.

This is a 5k suitable for all abilities. This is thousands of women uniting with one purpose. Walk, jog or run. Raise valuable funds for research. THIS IS BEATING CANCER. 10k is a great step up from our 5k events. Up the challenge and take part in a Race for Life 10k event. Walk, jog or run.

Reading Festival Chorus presents Handel’s Dixit Dominus, Schubert’s Mass in G and Telemann’s Laudate Jehovam, accompanied by the professional ensemble Musica Poetica and soloists. This will be the chorus’s first concert under the baton of its new Music Director, Greg Hallam.

Special offer - 2 for 1 on any seat any day! Simply call the box office – 07904428555 and quote ’Juggler’ to receive the deal. Circus Vegas arrives in the UK for its first full British tour.

Fun singing afternoon for female voices led by local music teacher & choir director Suzanne Newman. We will be singing a medley of songs from movies including Shrek, Enchanted, Twilight, Slumdog Millionaire and Sister Act arranged for 2-part choir.Open to anyone who loves singing!

Club Meeting ,All Welcome. Talk,refreshments,raffle,club sales table

Pick up a trail from Visitor Reception to discover what bugs can be found throughout the house. Follow a trail map through the house to learn more about the big bugs the conservation team works daily to fight. Booking Not Needed. Suitable for children of all ages. Assistance Dogs only are welcome.

A new exhibition of inspiring artworks in the South Pavilion. Booking Not Needed.

Experience the house in the evening light with the House Manager, with champagne and canaps being served in the garden room. We’re opening the doors to guests every Thursday evening in June and July.

Find out more about the parkland that surrounds Basildon Park mansion from our knowledgaeable team of volunteers and rangers a they take you on a guided walk of the park. Join our volunteers and rangers for a walk around Basildon Park.

A new exhibition of inspiring artworks in the South Pavilion. Booking Not Needed.

Find out more about the parkland that surrounds Basildon Park mansion from our knowledgaeable team of volunteers and rangers a they take you on a guided walk of the park. Join our volunteers and rangers for a walk around Basildon Park.

Join Trinity Concert Band in Reading for their "Midsummer Music" concert, celebrating the summer solstice! As well as containing major works by Nigel Hess (The Lochnagar Suite) and Frank Ticheli (An American Elegy), Trinity Concert Band’s summer concert highlights its talented players.

Small urban gardeners’ garden with mature tree fern walkway and many unusual hostas. Overflowing herbaceous borders. The vertical garden is now mature. There is a new stumpery with many interesting ferns. A lavender bed surrounds a new pergola.

Described as ’a real gem’, the Harris Garden, in the Whiteknights campus of Reading University, is a 12 acre haven of peace and tranquillity. Planting provides yr-round interest, including notable trees, stream, pond, herbaceous borders and walled physic garden.

Burrow Farm and the adjacent cottages (not open) are part Tudor and part Elizabethan, set in the Chilterns above Hambleden Valley where it meets the Thames. Views of pasture and woodlands across the ha-ha greatly enhance the setting.