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The Beauty Academy Reading Training Centre

Our beauty diploma and VTCT / City & Guilds qualification courses are run from the beautiful grounds and facilities at Shinfield Grange. Easily accessible, from Reading and the M4 via the Shinfield Eastern Relief Road; the centre offers a wide range of beauty therapy training courses.

Our Reading beauty school provides students a great environment to learn the latest techniques with training courses in beauty therapy, make up, nails, lash & brow, skincare and waxing and massage therapy.

How to find us

We highly recommend use of the free app – What3words which can be downloaded to your mobile device ahead of the day, to assist with locating the centre entrance on the day much more precisely than Google Maps or using SatNavs alone. What3words works alongside Waze to help avoid traffic delays also. What3words is available as a free app for iOS and Android or view online without download using the direct what3words links to the centre location below.

To locate the centre on what3words search: corner.dots.rewarding or visit https://what3words.com/slurs.goals.spout – this will bring you up the stone entrance driveway to Shinfield Grange which we are located within. See The Beauty Academy placque outside our entrance by walking around the side of the building.

Ample free parking is available on-site within the venue car park.

By car: (please note due to very recent introduction of the Shinfield Eastern Relief Road as of October 2017, some map services such as Google maps are out of date in regards to the access route for Cutbush Lane East. Please see an updated map view of this area at: https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=15/51.4104/-0.9441)

From the city:
From the signposts for University of Reading; heading southeast on Shinfield Road/A327. At Black Boy roundabout, take the 2^nd exit continuing on the A327 (signposted Aldershot). As you travel over the University Bridge, take an immediate left at the traffic lights. This will take you onto the Shinfield Eastern Relief Road. Follow this road round until you arrive at a roundabout. Take the 2^nd exit (straightover) the roundabout and continue on Shinfield Eastern Relief Road taking a left onto Cutbush Lane East. Travel along Cutbush Lane East taking the 2^nd right hand turn onto the stone driveway type entrance road marked with a sign for Shinfield Grange.

From the M4 East:
At Junction 11, branch left and keep in the middle land, then bear left onto Whitley Wood Lane (B3270) (signposted Earley). Continue until you arrive at Black Boy roundabout. Take the 3^rd exit onto the A327 (signposted Aldershot). As you travel over the University Bridge, take an immediate left at the traffic lights. This will take you onto the Shinfield Eastern Relief Road. Follow this road round until you arrive at a roundabout. Take the 2^nd exit (straightover) the roundabout and continue on Shinfield Eastern Relief Road taking a left onto Cutbush Lane East. Travel along Cutbush Lane East taking the 2^nd right hand turn onto the stone driveway type entrance road marked with a sign for Shinfield Grange.
From the M4 West;
At Junction 11, branch right and keep in middle lane, pass through 2 sets of traffic lights keeping to the middle lane around the junction. After the 3^rd set of traffic lights, bear left onto Whitley Wood Lane – B3270 (signposted Earley). Continue until you arrive at Black Boy roundabout. Take the 3^rd exit onto the A327 (signposted Aldershot). As you travel over the University Bridge, take an immediate left at the traffic lights. This will take you onto the Shinfield Eastern Relief Road. Follow this road round until you arrive at a roundabout. Take the 2^nd exit (straightover) the roundabout and continue on Shinfield Eastern Relief Road taking a left onto Cutbush Lane East. Travel along Cutbush Lane East taking the 2^nd right hand turn onto the stone driveway type entrance road marked with a sign for Shinfield Grange.

By public transport:
From the Reading Train Station:
From the main entrance of Reading Station head towards the town centre. Take the no. 3 Leopard bus to Wokingham from Stop SA. Get off the bus opposite at the stop opposite School Green, Shinfield (the driver will be able to notify you). Bus route takes approximately 35 minutes. From here, walk up School Green a short distance to the Arborfield roundabout. Take the left off Arborfield Road and walk up Oatlands Road (through a housing estate) until you reach the T junction with Cutbush Lane West. Turn right and walk up Cutbush Lane West, cutting through and continuing until this becomes Cutbush Lane East. Shinfield Grange will be on the right hand side. It is approximately a 15-20 minute walk and services are hourly so we highly recommend taking a taxi from the station instead, wherever possible to ensure you arrive promptly.

Venue Facilities

Our diploma and VTCT beauty, holistic, nail and make-up courses in Reading are run at our well-equipped and beautifully-presented beauty school located in Shinfield, set in a quiet, beautiful location with ample parking and reception area, making it easily located and accessible by car or via public transport from the main city.

Our popular training centre in Reading is found in Shinfield Grange, a beautiful and scenic area often used as a wedding venue, providing the idyllic location to complete your training with us, whether it be in massage, make-up or nails. The picturesque location boasts bright and spacious training rooms, well-lit with large windows overlooking the grounds, well-equipped with modern equipment for our students to use.

There is parking available at the training centre; we recommend travelling there via car however public transport/taxi options are available.