Monday 30 November 2009

South East Forum Summer School

Click on the link below to see some details of this summer school.
There will be Painting, Modern Novels, Vienna, Drama, Psychology and visits to three local places involving walking up to 5 miles. And many other interesting topics.
South East Forum Summer School – Tuesday 6th to 9th July in Chichester.

Great Opportunity for all U3As with a Family History Study Group

We are taking a stand at ‘Who Do You Think You Are? LIVE 2010’ event which is taking place at Olympia between 26-28th February. It is the country’s biggest and most comprehensive family history event and it would be great to have input from U3A family history groups. So, if there have been interesting discoveries made in your family history groups it would be marvellous to receive a short report from you, ideally as an email attachment and if there happens to be a relevant photograph, that would be great. We will then try to incorporate as many of these as possible into our exhibition.
We also need volunteers for the stand and would appreciate hearing from anybody who could offer some time.

Thursday 26 November 2009

SARUM Group Course Information

Linda has now updated this page. So if you wish to know what groups or courses are available click on Groups from the main Sarum page. Or more easily click HERE

Saturday 3 October 2009

U3A Survey

A survey of U3A Members was carried out in 2009. There is a great deal of fascinating information that was gathered. These include the distribution of gender viz. 74% female to 26% male - much as one would expect until you see the number who live alone i.e 40%.
The amount of members who now access the internet is surprisingly high at 73% and 47% access the web most days. Contact by email is also high with only 23% never accessible.
Also in the report are results of the length of time members have belonged. So 50% belonged for 1 to 5 years and 25% for 6 to 10 years. 12% belong to more than one U3A.  30% go to 1 or 2 events per month, 28% go to 3 or 4 per month, 23% go to 5 to 9 events per month.  16% attend 10 or more events per month!  What about you?

Friday 25 September 2009

Wednesday 16 September 2009

Science and Technology Group Programme

The programme for the forthcoming season is now almost complete.   
Everyone is welcome.  There is no need to join the group. Talks are aimed so that eveyone can follow and understand.  We meet on the last Monday of the month in the Harnham Memorial Hall starting at 10am. Cost £1 only.  
To see the programme click HERE.
We look to welcoming you.

Friday 4 September 2009

Computer Hardware

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The Third Age Trust has arranged special deals for U3A members who want to buy computer equipment.

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DELL COMPUTERS offer a better-than-usual deal including increased warranty. Contact  Linda Kavanagh on  0844 444 5254.
When you make contact with any of these companies please say you are a U3A member. Please Contact Us at The National Office to let us know how you get on as this will help us secure even better deals in the future.

Dogs and Children on U3A outings

The U3A has published information on what we should do if we wish to take a child or a dog on a walk or other outing.
To see this click on this link http://www.u3a.org.uk/dmdocuments/dogs_and_children_notice.pdf

Thursday 3 September 2009

News Section

This a new idea to give you easy access to U3A News as we receive it.
This section can also be used by you.
This means that any Group Leader can upload changes to their classes or the Secretary can post information about their U3A.
If you want to sell or give away any item this can be posted as well.

All you have to do is let the Webmaster/ Guru know your email address.  He can then invite you to register. After this you log on and add in a new item. New items can also be posted directly by email.
Just let me know what you want please.