The Silchester Association has employers' liability insurance for volunteers while helping out at events
you can view the insurance certificate here
you can view the insurance certificate here
Would you like a silchester.org email address?
This service is run for Silchester residents by Silchester Mail Ltd on a ‘not for profit’ basis.
The basic email service is provided free of charge for Silchester residents and can either be used as a full mail box system or as a forwarding address to an existing email account.
A premium service is also available for a small annual charge (currently £15 per year and discounted to £10 for Silchester residents) which offers a larger capacity mailbox and the ability to view your mail across different devices.
Features of the Mail System
You can apply for a silchester.org email address here
The service is free of charge and the only condition is that having an email address confirms you are a signed up member of the association and you agree to receive emails on matters of interest to the village no more than one per month.
The email address will not be shared with any other organisations outside the village.
The association is able to offer to any resident in the village a Silchester.org email address.
This can be set up as a new email account or as a forward from the silchester.org address to an existing email address – full instructions will be provided.
Availability is based on a first come first served based.
Format could be This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
The service is free of charge and the only condition is that having an email address confirms you are a signed up member of the association and you agree to receive emails on matters of interest to the village no more than one per month. The email address will not be shared with any other organisations outside the village.
Request Your @Silchester Email Address here Please contact us by email for further information.
The 2020 AGM in April 2020 has had to be postponed due to the current restrictions due to the corona virus.
The current committee have agreed to remain until the restrictions are lifted when we we call an EGM to approve the Financial report and elect a new committee
In the meantime you can read the Chairperson's report and the Treasurer's report and view the Financial Statement for the year by following the links below
If you have any queries about the finances, you are welcome to contact Simon Brewin, the treasurer at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
We always welcome new people who would like to be involved in the village.
Please fill in your contact details and what you would be interested in helping out with and someone will contact you shortly. Thanks for your interest and we look forward to working with you.
You will be helping with various activities, such as:
Use the form below to get involved:
If you run an organization in the village and would like to add it to the directory please complete the following form and someone will contact you.
If your organization already has its own website we can provide a short synopsis of what you do with a link to your site.
If you do not have a site, let us know what you would like to say and provide us with a photo and we can add a page to this site for you.
Please complete the form below.
If you are part of a Silchester village organization and are organizing an event in the village, we will be happy to publicise it on the web site.
Please fill in the form below describing the event and someone will get back to you.
If you run an organization in the village, add it to our directory.
We always welcome new people who would like to be involved in the village.
It is a non profit organization run for the benefit of the residents. When needed, and if funds allow, the Association will make donations to other organisations in the village to help them achieve their aims.
Today our main focus is on the social side and we have a team who organise a lively programme of events throughout the year.
Everyone who lives in the village and the immediate neighbourhood is automatically a member of the association and is always very welcome at the events.
The Silchester Association has employers' liability insurance for volunteers while helping out at events.
Employers Liability Insurance Certificate
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Here's our list of past events that have taken place in and around Silchester.
Here's our list of upcoming events that are happening in and around Silchester, make sure you're there!
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Contact us by filling in and sending the form below:
The first evidence of settlement in the area dates from the first century BC when the Iron Age town of Calleva was founded by people of the Atrebates tribe from northern Gaul. It grew into a major trading centre for horse and chariot gear, metals, grain, slaves and other commodities. During the Roman occupation of Britain, which lasted for 400 years, the town was taken over by the Romans in the mid 1st century AD and became Calleva Atrebatum. The Roman wall and the amphi-theatre are still standing and extensive archeological work has been done on the site firstly by the Victorians and more recently by Reading University. The town was largely abandoned for unknown reasons during the fifth or sixth century. Little is know about the history after this but an entry in the Domesday Book in 1086 records two manors in Silchester as the town was now known. The only surviving evidence of any Medieval occupation of the site is the 12th century church of St Mary the Virgin. The site appears to have been deserted around 1400 AD perhaps as a consequence of the Black Death.
The present village was founded to the west of the Roman town where the earliest houses date from the 17th and 18th centuries.
A detailed history of the ancient site at Silchester and current archaeological work can be found at the Reading University website