- READING
is a much maligned town. Too many people see it only from the railway and dismiss it as a modern place…no town in the South of England hides its attractions more successfully from the visitor. - We agree with John Betjeman!
We are a small local charity aiming to work with other organisations to help enhance some of Reading’s cultural & heritage spaces (both real & virtual) and everyone’s understanding & enjoyment of them.
Current activities
- thumbnail-divpost_titleexcerptWe are supporting a project led by Professor Yota Demitriades of Reading University’s Institute of Education on Reading Old Cemetery. Our trustee, Jenny Halstead, is illustrating a book on the cemetery edited by Yota and to be published by Reading’s very own publisher, Two Rivers Press, in 2024. RG Spaces is providing a grant towards …
- thumbnail-divpost_titleexcerptWe are supporting Art in the Community’s project to cover Whitchurch bridge with butterflies representing promises made to support sustainability in the face of climate change and other environmental factors. Everyone is invited to make a promise, however small, to change their behaviour in a way that will help. https://rgspaces.org.uk/whitchurch/ Whitchurch Bridge is a GradeII …