🍎Bookings for autumn term school visits are now open! 🔎Our learning sessions bring the real experiences of everyday people to life through object handling, creative activities and sensory exploration. 💡Discover our schools offer: merl.reading.ac.uk/learn/schools-…

Reading Sports Awards in partnership with Sport in Mind are showcasing Reading’s sporting stars and inviting everyone to nominate their heroes! Submit your nomination by 20 September 2024 at rdguk.info/sMn0C #rdguk

Hey Halfords We purchased a second hand bike for our son on your Winnersh store website only to be told an hour after ordering the bike doesn’t exist. Ten days on and still no refund and have tried your customer service several times who’ve failed to help. Can you assist?

News | Engagement in English museums and galleries rises 10 percentage points – latest Department for Culture, Media and Sport figures show museums saw biggest increase of all cultural sectors last year Read: ow.ly/EsUn50SNmAv

Creativity and culture is for everyone 👐 Watch All In's new video to find out how the upcoming UK access scheme could help you improve access and remove barriers for D/deaf, disabled and neurodivergent people. 👇

Solidarity, love and strength to everyone affected by this weekend's appalling violence. Thank you to the tens of thousands of people, many in Cities of Sanctuary, who have stood up for their neighbours & cleaned up after these mobs. There are far more of us than of them.

My letter to Nigel Farage MP. Hope the font doesn’t hurt his eyes and brings on a migrant.

POC who write, do the deep antiracism wk~what toll have recent events taken-on their MH & WB? How are they healing, recovering, processing again? TY Forestry England for org a day of healing~nature art, walking, meditation & outdoor cooking The Museum of English Rural Life

BBC Radio 4's Woman’s Hour is airing a special programme all about SEND (Special Educational Needs and Disabilities) in September. If you have experience of navigating SEND or have questions about the SEND system

We've always known that The Museum of English Rural Life go above and beyond to welcome people from every corner of our community... So we are delighted that alongside @ReadingMuseum, the Museum of English Rural Life has been awarded Museum of Sanctuary status. Congratulations rdg.ac/3TEcoY1

This recognises the work of Museums Partnership Reading with asylum seekers, local charities and theatre companies to engage with, and share the stories of refugees, helping to build a more welcoming town for people forced to flee their homes. See 🔗 readingmuseum.org.uk/museums-partne…

The BBC sound effects library is now completely free to access. This is news. sound-effects.bbcrewind.co.uk/search?cat=Mac…

A massive congratulations to our Visitor Services Officer Darren, who was tonight crowned Pride of Stowmarket at the Stowmarket Town Council awards. A very well deserved award for someone who is a highlight of many a visit to the museum!

This new report shows yet again that Gypsy, Roma and Traveller children are the most disproportionately excluded groups, with "an underestimation of racism experienced outside and within school". Read 👇

*JOB KLAXON* The V&A is currently recruiting for a Curator of Theatre to join the Theatre & Performance Curatorial Team. Deadline: 3 Nov 2024. Full details: vam.current-vacancies.com/Jobs/Advert/36…

WONDERFUL!

Six London universities have PhD funding available for honours/Master’s degree graduates & are urging Gypsy, Roma & Traveller students to apply To apply, there's an online Q&A session THIS THURSDAY 10am. Find out more below 👇 travellerstimes.org.uk/news/2024/10/f…

A joyous task on my to do list this week was collecting this beautiful duo!

For the past 30 years, The National Lottery Heritage Fund has changed the game for arts in the UK, making projects possible that otherwise could never have been dreamed of.

George Monbiot on #PoliticsLive absolutly tearing Suella Bravermans claim the world is safer under Trump "To me Braverman is a fake patriot, who the moment a demagogue arrives prostrates herself" From Putin to nuclear threats, It's well worth 60 seconds of your day