| 1974 | Listed in CAMRA’s first ever Good Beer Guide. |
| 1998 | The Retreat was runner up in CAMRA Pub of the Year Awards. Reading CAMRA issued its first Certificate of Excellence to The Retreat. |
| 1999 | CAMRA Highly Commended Pub. |
| 2007 | Won CAMRA’s Regional Cider Pub of the Year award. |
| 2007 | The Retreat was nominated in Reading Pubwatch Bar Awards in The Best Traditional Pub category. |
| 2007 | Reading Wednesday Pool League Division 4 Runners-Up 2006/07 Retreat ‘A’. |
| 2008 | Won CAMRA’s Regional Cider Pub of the Year award. |
| 2012 | The Society for the Preservation of Beers from the Wood, Common & Aldbrickham Branch, selected The Retreat in Reading as its Pub of the Year. |
| 2016 | Winner of the CAMRA Community Collaboration Award for Reading and mid-Berkshire. |
| 2018 | Finalist in the Reading Pub of the Year awards. |
| 2019 | St John’s Street nominated in the Reading Pride Awards for Best Community Street |
| 2020 | The Retreat has been added to the heritage pub guide published by the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA). The Retreat is the only pub in Reading to be included. |
| 2020 | Included in Good Beer Guide 2020. |
| 2022 | CAMRA Reading & Mid Berks Pub of the Year runner up. |
| 2022 | Listed in The Good Beer Guide by 2023 CAMRA |
