Putting on a Show – Reading’s Meetings and Social Venues Wow Local Businesses
19th September 2025
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Reading’s business community and event bookers turned out in force for last night’s Reading Venue Showcase. Organised by REDA and held at the Penta Hotel in Reading, this was the first event held in Reading focused on showcasing the amazing meetings, conference and social venues located in and around Reading.
The showcase is part of REDA’s work to promote Reading as a venue for business tourism. The event showcased 20 venues in Reading that offer a mix of high-quality meeting and conference spaces for events from 2 up to 700 delegates, as well as venues offering a social experience as part of attending a business event, such as bars, restaurants and experiential venues.
REDA’s Meet Reading campaign brings together a range of event venues in Reading to promote Reading as an excellent value, brilliantly connected location with high-quality venues and a brilliant social programme offer. The campaign includes the Meet Reading website and a printed Meet Reading guide featuring Reading’s top meeting venues such as Reading Town Hall, Hilton Reading and Penta Hotel, as well as a wide selection of social programme venues such as Boom Battle Bar, Vino.Vita and Dinton Pastures Activity Centre.
The new Meet Reading guide featuring over 25 venues in Reading was launched at last night’s Showcase event. The brochure can be downloaded online here.
Alex Brannen of REDA, said: “Reading has a great range of venues for business events, which makes it an extremely attractive location for businesses looking to hold conferences, away days, board meetings and incentive trips. Businesses choose Reading for its first-class connectivity, excellent value, the existing business eco-system and the social activities available to delegates.
“While REDA often concentrates on attracting events from the business communities in London, the South-East and the Midlands, we realised that our own local business community didn’t necessarily know about all the amazing venues on their doorstep. Feedback from last night’s event certainly showed the value of showcasing our venues to the Reading local business audience.”
More information on all of the venues in Reading can be found here.
