diff --git a/src/api/GitlabCIApi.ts b/src/api/GitlabCIApi.ts
index 4bda280..fe876df 100644
--- a/src/api/GitlabCIApi.ts
+++ b/src/api/GitlabCIApi.ts
@@ -48,4 +48,5 @@ export type GitlabCIApi = {
 		pipelineID: string,
 	): Promise<Object | undefined>;
 	getProjectDetails(projectSlug: string): Promise<Object | undefined>;
+	getFileContent(projectId: string, filename: string, ref: string): Promise<string | undefined>;
 };
diff --git a/src/api/GitlabCIClient.ts b/src/api/GitlabCIClient.ts
index 965855f..b0844fb 100644
--- a/src/api/GitlabCIClient.ts
+++ b/src/api/GitlabCIClient.ts
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ import {
 	ContributorData,
 	MergeRequest,
 	PipelineObject,
+	RepositoryFileObject,
 } from '../components/types';
 
 export class GitlabCIClient implements GitlabCIApi {
@@ -161,4 +162,27 @@ export class GitlabCIClient implements GitlabCIApi {
 		);
 		return retryBuild;
 	}
+
+	private static encodeFilename(filename: string) {
+		return filename.replace(".", "%2E")
+	}
+
+	async getFileContent(
+		projectId: string,
+		filename: string,
+		ref: string
+	): Promise<string | undefined> {
+		const encodedFilename = GitlabCIClient.encodeFilename(filename)
+		let fileObj: any = await this.callApi<RepositoryFileObject>(
+			`projects/${projectId}/repository/files/${encodedFilename}`,
+			{ref},
+		);
+
+		if (!fileObj?.content) {
+			return undefined;
+		}
+
+		const buff = new Buffer(fileObj?.content, 'base64');
+		return buff.toString('ascii');
+	}
 }
diff --git a/src/components/types.ts b/src/components/types.ts
index a6906e9..4196448 100644
--- a/src/components/types.ts
+++ b/src/components/types.ts
@@ -34,4 +34,17 @@ export type PipelineObject = {
 	updated_at: string;
 };
 
+export type RepositoryFileObject = {
+	file_name: string;
+	file_path: string;
+	size: number,
+	encoding: string;
+	content: string;
+	content_sha256: string;
+	ref: string;
+	blob_id: string;
+	commit_id: string;
+	last_commit_id: string;
+};
+
 export type MergeRequestState = 'opened' | 'closed' | 'all';
diff --git a/src/components/widgets/ReadmeCard/ReadmeCard.tsx b/src/components/widgets/ReadmeCard/ReadmeCard.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a76ca66
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/components/widgets/ReadmeCard/ReadmeCard.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,74 @@
+import React from 'react';
+import Alert from '@material-ui/lab/Alert';
+import { InfoCard, MarkdownContent, Progress } from '@backstage/core-components';
+import { makeStyles } from "@material-ui/core";
+import { Entity } from "@backstage/catalog-model";
+import { useApi } from '@backstage/core-plugin-api';
+import { useAsync } from 'react-use';
+import { GitlabCIApiRef } from '../../../api';
+import { gitlabAppData } from '../../gitlabAppData';
+
+type Props = {
+  entity?: Entity;
+  maxHeight?: number;
+};
+
+const useStyles = makeStyles((theme) => ({
+  readMe: {
+    overflowY: 'auto',
+    paddingRight: theme.spacing(1),
+    '&::-webkit-scrollbar-track': {
+      backgroundColor: '#F5F5F5',
+      borderRadius: '5px',
+    },
+    '&::-webkit-scrollbar': {
+      width: '5px',
+      backgroundColor: '#F5F5F5',
+      borderRadius: '5px',
+    },
+    '&::-webkit-scrollbar-thumb': {
+      border: '1px solid #555555',
+      backgroundColor: '#555',
+      borderRadius: '4px',
+    },
+  },
+}));
+export const ReadmeCard = (props: Props) => {
+  const GitlabCIAPI = useApi(GitlabCIApiRef);
+  const { project_id } = gitlabAppData();
+  // This should probably be moved into annotations
+  const filename = "README.md";
+  const ref = "master";
+
+  const { value, loading, error } = useAsync(async (): Promise<string> => {
+    const content = await GitlabCIAPI.getFileContent(project_id, filename, ref)
+    if (!content) {
+      throw new Error("No content could be found for the specified filename")
+    }
+    return content;
+  });
+
+  const classes = useStyles();
+
+  if (loading) {
+    return <Progress/>;
+  } else if (error) {
+    return <Alert severity="error">
+      {error.message}
+    </Alert>
+  }
+
+  return (
+    <InfoCard title={filename}>
+      <div
+        className={classes.readMe}
+        style={{
+          maxHeight: `${props.maxHeight}px`,
+        }}>
+        <MarkdownContent
+          content={value || "_README.md missing or contents are empty_"}
+        />
+      </div>
+    </InfoCard>
+  );
+};
diff --git a/src/components/widgets/ReadmeCard/index.ts b/src/components/widgets/ReadmeCard/index.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5043359
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/components/widgets/ReadmeCard/index.ts
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+export { ReadmeCard } from './ReadmeCard';
diff --git a/src/components/widgets/index.ts b/src/components/widgets/index.ts
index 0ee5bb1..a477c7f 100644
--- a/src/components/widgets/index.ts
+++ b/src/components/widgets/index.ts
@@ -2,4 +2,5 @@ export { LanguagesCard } from './LanguagesCard';
 export { ContributorsCard } from './ContributorsCard';
 export { MergeRequestStats } from './MergeRequestStats';
 export { MergeRequestsTable } from './MergeRequestsTable';
-export { PipelinesTable } from './PipelinesTable';
\ No newline at end of file
+export { PipelinesTable } from './PipelinesTable';
+export { ReadmeCard } from './ReadmeCard';
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/plugin.ts b/src/plugin.ts
index 779e6eb..2c5f0f9 100644
--- a/src/plugin.ts
+++ b/src/plugin.ts
@@ -86,4 +86,14 @@ export const EntityGitlabPipelinesTable = gitlabPlugin.provide(
         import('./components/widgets/index').then((m) => m.PipelinesTable),
     },
   })
-);
\ No newline at end of file
+);
+
+export const EntityGitlabReadmeCard = gitlabPlugin.provide(
+  createComponentExtension({
+    name: 'EntityGitlabReadmeCard',
+    component: {
+      lazy: () =>
+        import('./components/widgets/index').then((m) => m.ReadmeCard),
+    },
+  })
+);