Venue for Presentations

The group meets on the first Friday of each month starting at 18:30 and finishing by about 20:00 to 20:30. The venue is the meeting hall in St. Andrew’s United Reform Church, which is next to the Royal Berkshire Hospital at the junction of London Road and Craven Road. Tea and coffee can be purchased in the meeting hall. We welcome new members. A committee member will greet you on arrival at the hall, explain that will be happening during the evening and introduce you to other members. New members, if they prefer, may contact one of the people on the Contacts page.

When travelling by car, drive along the one-way London Road and turn left into Craven Road; set your SatNav to postcode RG1 5BD. The car parks are shown below. When parking in the St Andrew’s URC car park at busy times it may be difficult to make a right turn into the car park, if so continue to the roundabout and come back along Craven Road, turning left into the car park.

Important: For your safety and to comply with the hall Fire Regulation, please park only in the bays as marked.

The parking bays are small, so when parking a wide car, e.g. an SUV, the passengers will need to alight before you park. If there are no car parking spaces available, please park briefly and ask inside the hall, as we have some overflow car parking organised.

(A link to a Google map is further down this page.)

The approach by car is along the one-way London Road, and turn left into Craven Road; set your SatNav to RG1 5BD. The map below shows parking locations. At busy times for parking in St. Andrews URC, drivers may find it difficult to make a right turn into the car park, if so you can continue to the roundabout and then come back along Craven Road, turning left into the car park.

See below a copy of the satellite map for detail of car parking. The bold yellow arrow indicates the entrance door to the meeting hall.
A road map - thanks to Google - is included further down this page.

Parking - St Andrews URC (Free)

From either London Road (one-way street) turn left at the traffic lights into Craven Road or straight across London Road from Eldon Road and turn into the first opening on the right. During any busy period it is usually safer to go up Craven Road about 100 yards and around the mini-roundabout and then turn left into this Car Park.

Parking - RBH Multi-storey Car Park (Paying - ANPR monitored)

From London Road (one-way street) turn left into Craven Road then bear right at the roundabout. Take the first road on the right, which will take you into the hospital multi-storey car park. This car park is monitored by ANPR cameras.
Please pay on exit or using the APCOA website.

Parking - RBH North Car Park (Paying - ANPR monitored)

Approaching along London Road, continue past Craven Road and turn next left into the driveway in front of the hospital, and park in the public parking area. This car park is also monitored by ANPR cameras. See details above of how to pay above.

Below is the Google Map of roads of the area where we meet - the map pin points to St Andrew's Church. We use the entrance at the rear of the church.

View St Andrew's URC, Reading in a larger map.

For venues used for other events - visit Monthly Meetings and Events pages.

Reviewed: 30/05/2025