Reading University Caving Club 
Below are details of trips that RUCC are running, along with an outline of what you need to bring.
Upcoming Caving Trips and Events
See our calendar below containing details of our trips and other upcoming club events:
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Mon 12th Oct 8:00pm 11:30pm | e-Pub Night - Meet & Greet While COVID-19 prevents us from meeting up as much as normal, we are still having fun! Every Monday, we hold weekly online 'e-Pub' nights, starting at around 8pm. This week, we are running a special "meet & greet" e-Pub night for all new and potential club members. Anyone is welcome to join this - you can learn more about our club and our activities, ask any questions you may have, as well as start getting to know our existing members. We normally use Facebook Rooms for our e-Pub nights - to take part, simply join our Facebook group (www.facebook.com/groups/rucavers/) now, and we'll post a link on there when the e-Pub night is due to start. |
Mon 19th Oct 8:00pm 11:30pm | e-Pub Night - Meet & Greet While COVID-19 prevents us from meeting up as much as normal, we are still having fun! Every Monday, we hold weekly online 'e-Pub' nights, starting at around 8pm. This week, we are running a special "meet & greet" e-Pub night for all new and potential club members. Anyone is welcome to join this - you can learn more about our club and our activities, ask any questions you may have, as well as start getting to know our existing members. We normally use Facebook Rooms for our e-Pub nights - to take part, simply join our Facebook group (www.facebook.com/groups/rucavers/) now, and we'll post a link on there when the e-Pub night is due to start. |
Mon 20th Sep 8:00pm 12:00am | RUCC Pub night @ Monks Retreat |
Thu 23rd Sep 11:00am 5:00pm | RUSU Sports freshers fayre To any and all Freshers (and anyone else who's keen); come meet the RUCC squad at the Sports Fayre on Thursday 23rd. We'll have a booth set up where you can come talk to us, find out just what caving is, and ask any questions. |
Sat 25th Sep 8:00am 8:00pm | Caving Day Trip - Surrey Mines Our first trip for the academic year, we're going to Surrey Mines. This trip is aimed at our new members, but anyone can join! Members and non members are welcome at this trip. We have a limited capacity of 12 and are operating on a first come first serve basis so please express interest and ask any questions you have. As a change from our usual naturally formed cave, we will be popping to some manmade quarries and mines. We shall be exploring some subterranean delights close to home - a mere 1 hour away from Reading, near Reigate. Our guides will take us through 4 different mines throught the day. Bedlams Bank and Godstone Mine are abandoned heathstone (a type of building stone) mines, and we will also be visiting Barons and Tunnel Rd Mines. We will meed at the tackle store at 8.00am, pack kit etc, then jump on the minibus and or cars and meet with our guides about 10am. None of the mines present any particular technical challenge - I am told they've even had 4 year olds visit the site! 😛 There will likely be some crawling and one of the mines is known for its 4ft head-height, which can get a little tiring after a while. We will likely not be getting wet. This trip will cost £10 per person to cover the minibus rental & fuel costs What the club will provide: * Helmet & Light * Wellies What you'll need: * Jeans * A change of clothes * A packed lunch For further info, see our Facebook event: fb.me/e/EUYuoyuH You can purchase tickets for this trip on our RUSU page: www.rusu.co.uk/student.....ving/ Please also mark yourself as 'going' on our Facebook event, or send an email to [email protected], so we can confirm your place. |
Mon 27th Sep 8:00pm 11:59pm | RUCC Pub night @ BoBs (Back Of Beyond) Join us for our usual Monday pub night! This is a great chance to meet us if you haven't done so already, socialise, and learn more about caving. We're a friendly bunch, and anyone is welcome to attend, whether or not you are a club member. This week, we're meeting at the Back of Beyond pub in town, from around 8pm. For more info, see our Facebook event: fb.me/e/1HnfWFywF  The Back Of Beyond - JD Wetherspoon, 104-108 King's Rd, Reading RG1 3BY, UK |
About Our Trips
If you want to go on any of the trips, please let our secretary or president know. We may charge a deposit or ask you to make a full upfront payment to confirm your place prior to our trips, as they can be very popular.
For day trips, we usually leave Reading in a minibus at approximately 8am and return in the evening at about 9pm. For evening trips, we usually leave at around 6:30pm and return at around 9:30pm. The day trip or evening trip fee covers all transport, equipment, and any cave entrance fees.
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.
Trips will normally 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 for students and £20 for non students) 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 you are really keen, there are even opportunities to join the Dachstein Caving Expedition and/or the CUCC Expo in Austria – and explore some of the deepest, most exciting, and least visited caves in the world!
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…