May 2021 News
The meeting on 20th April went very well. There were 3 talks. One on the latest COVID situation. This proved both fascinating and interesting. So much so that Mike Trevithick will repeat but with an updated version in August. The talk on Chocolate was mouth-watering but sadly no tastings were possible!
During 2020 many science and technology groups have held their monthly meetings virtually which is great news. So the organising team thought it would hold three short virtual meetings in 2021 on Tuesday 20 April, Wednesday 11 August, and Thursday 14 October instead of trying to replicate our usual annual physical meeting as people may not yet be ready for this.
There will be 3 presentations of 45 minutes followed by questions at each meeting, with a break for refreshments and for lunch.
If you’d like to attend one or all of these meetings, please register your interest by clicking the following link www.tinyurl.com/2021-premeet or copying and pasting it into their browser. We can then get in touch with you.
Virtual meetings can’t be the same as physical meetings but they do provide an opportunity for members to get together and to chat during the breaks.
The High Street Project
The Steering group has now processed over 20,000 lines of survey data provided by members who walked their high streets across the UK in September and is assembling them for initial analysis. The results will be presented to the Trust board at their December meeting with proposals for local projects by U3As in 2021 and plans to create an interactive searchable database with map and photo front ends. The final report will be published to coincide with our 40th anniversary in 2022 but you’ll be able to read more about the project findings and proposals in the February issue of Sources.
