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What we’re about
Friendly Multi-Activity Social Club
We are a friendly multi-activity club that organises a range of social, cultural, leisure and sporting activities. Most of our members are graduates, professionals and like minded people living the Reading, Berkshire, and surrounding areas.
Wide Range of Activities
As well as pub evenings & meals out, there are BBQs & parties, theatre & cinema trips, skittles & ten pin bowling, walks & cycle rides. We have also organised music evenings & play readings, museum & country house visits, glow worm hunts, a balloon flight, and visit to Go Ape (a high wire adventure course).
Run by our Members
We are run by our members for our members, who are encouraged to take part in organising events. If you join you can organise the type of events that you would like to take part in, either something you enjoy already or perhaps something new that you would like to try for the first time.
Part of a Nationwide Association of IVCs
Thames Valley IVC is part of the Association of Inter-Varsity Clubs (aIVC), a nationwide association of about 40 similar clubs with around 4000 members across the UK. If you join our club you can go away on national events organised by other IVCs, such as holidays abroad, weekends away, or just day events. We also organise joint events with some of our neighbouring IVCs and share events with each other.
Welcoming New Members
Anyone over 18 who would like to meet new people and make new friends in a relaxed social club atmosphere is welcome to join. If you are wondering if you would fit in then the easiest way to find out is to join up and come along to an event to see what the club is like.
Joining the club
Thames Valley IVC is a well established social club, and we created this Meetup group to make it easier for people to find us and join the club. At most events we ask non-members to make a small contribution to the running of the club (e.g. £2). However after they been to a few events, and got to know us, people can apply to become full members of the club and pay an annual fee of £12 instead of paying for individual events.
To find out more about Thames Valley IVC go to our main website http://www.tvivc.org.uk .
Upcoming events (3)
See all- Chilterns walk from Stoke RowNewlands Lane, Stoke Row
Join us for an afternoon walk in the Chilterns, to the south of Stoke Row. Some of it will be along farm tracks, quiet country lanes and across fields, but much of it will be through woodlands. There is a very short stretch (a few metres) that might still be muddy, but the rest of it should be dry under foot. It's just over 5 miles long and mostly flat.
We shall be starting from Newlands Lane in Stoke Row (RG9 5PS), which is off the north side of the main road that runs through the village, on the Highmoor side of the Cherry Tree Inn.
The Inn has some good reviews and can be very busy at times, so I suggest you book online or phone them first (01491 680 430) if you want to have Sunday lunch there before the walk. Also post a comment below in case others are also thinking of doing the same.
Those who aren't FULL MEMBERS OF THE CLUB (filled in a form and paid the annual fee) will be asked to make a small contribution to the running of the group (e.g. £2).
Directions from Reading:
Head north on the B481 to Sonning Common. After going through the centre of the village, and past Shiplake Bottom on your left, the road starts to go rise as you enter what becomes Rotherfield Peppard. Immediately after passing a road coming in from your right turn left off the main road to head towards Kingwood Common and Stoke Row. After about 2.5 miles you will reach the main road in Stoke Row, Newlands Lane is straight ahead, with a chapel on the left and the village green on the right.
- Short evening walk from PlayhatchThe Shoulder of Mutton, Reading. RG4 9QU
Whether or not you are coming to the meal afterwards you are welcome to join us on a short easy walk from the Shoulder Of Mutton.
It goes up a quiet country lane, stopping to see the view over Reading and the lakes, and down through the fields (on the way feeding a very lonely Shetland pony), passing through the village back to the pub.
If you would like to come please book here on Meetup, but also email me at janetekent@ntlworld.com.
Those who aren't full members of the club (filled in a form and paid the annual fee) will be asked to make a small contribution to the running of the group (e.g. £2), but that will cover the walk and the meal.
Directions from Reading:
Head towards Henley on the A4155. About 0.4 mile after leaving the 30 limits turn left at the Dunsden Green / Sonning roundabout. The pub is on your left after about 90 yards. - Meal at the Shoulder of MuttonThe Shoulder of Mutton, Reading. RG4 9QU
Whether or not you are coming on the walk first you are welcome to join us for a meal at the Shoulder of Mutton, just outside Reading. If the weather is suitable we should be able to eat outside, otherwise in their conservatory.
If you would like to come please book here on Meetup, but also email me at janetekent@ntlworld.com by 8pm Thursday evening.
Directions from Reading:
Head towards Henley on the A4155. About 0.4 mile after leaving the 30 limits turn left at the Dunsden Green / Sonning roundabout. The pub is on your left after about 90 yards.