Reading University Caving Club 
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Thu 25th Sep 11:30am 4:00pm | Freshers Fayre Come and talk to us at the Freshers Fayre to find out more about what we get up to! Our stall is inside the marquee on the meadow outside the Reading Students' Union building. |  |
Fri 26th Sep to Sun 28th Sep | Hidden Earth UK national caving conference, this year in North Wales | |
Fri 10th Oct to Sun 12th Oct | Freshers Weekend 1: the Belfry, Mendip | |
Fri 17th Oct to Sun 19th Oct | Freshers Weekend 2: SWCC, South Wales | |
Fri 31st Oct to Sun 2nd Nov | Mendips Weekend 2 (Belfry) | |
Fri 14th Nov to Sun 16th Nov | Big CHECC, South Wales | |
Fri 12th Dec to Sun 14th Dec | Whitewalls Weekend Away | |
About Our Trips
If you want to go on any of the trips, please let our secretary or president know.
For weekend trips, we usually leave Reading in a minibus at approximately 6pm on a Friday evening and return late on a Sunday, so it’s a pretty intensive weekend, but great fun. The weekend trip fee includes accommodation, travel, equipment, breakfast and Saturday dinner. We will usually stop at a service station enroute on Friday.
Trips will start from our tackle store, near Wessex Hall.
If you want to join us or have some questions, then please come to one of our regular pub meet-ups and sign up – please see our Instagram page, our Facebook group or the calendar above for the location of our next pub night. To accompany us you need to have Club membership (£15) and Reading Students’ Union Sports Federation insurance (prices from £18 per year).
What to Bring
Caving Abroad
Our more enthusiastic members sometimes go caving further afield… In recent years, we’ve enjoyed some fantastic caving (along with various other activities such as hiking, rock climbing, via ferrata and swimming) on club trips to Southern France, Ireland, and Austria. If your really keen, there are even opportunities to join expeditions abroad. This year (Summer 2026) we will be visiting Spain.
If you’d be interested in going on one of these trips and/or expeditions abroad, or would like to know more, please get in touch with our committee, and we can provide you with all the details.
In previous years our club has travelled even further afield – travelling as far as Spain, Romania, Slovenia and China to see some truly spectacular caves! To read more about some of these historic expeditions, please see our old site…