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Event: How to Make Sports More Accessible

Event: How to Make Sports More Accessible

Published: 27 August 2020

Join us for a talk with Richard Hill MBE, a pioneer for the development of adapted cricket across the UK. The talk will take place on 4 September at 2pm and Richard will discuss how sport in gener…

U3A Civic Award

U3A Civic Award

Published: 24 August 2020

Jack Berkovi, the Chair and founder of Hampstead Garden Suburb U3A (HSG U3A), has been given a Civic Award from Barnet Council for his work in the suburb. Jack founded Hampstead Garden Subu…

Walking Cricket; Bowled over to be back

Walking Cricket; Bowled over to be back

Published: 20 August 2020

Barnsley U3A’s Walking Cricket team has met for the first time since lockdown. Following all the social distancing guidelines, Walking Cricket Subject Advisor Mac Mckechnie organized this first ma…

Love to sing? Why not join our virtual Choir?

Love to sing? Why not join our virtual Choir?

Published: 12 August 2020

We’re inviting U3A members from across the UK to take part in a national virtual choir project. This project is being helped by Plymouth U3A member Richard Keoghoe. In a series of Zoom sessions span…

U3A Maths Challenge - Week 18

U3A Maths Challenge - Week 18

Published: 12 August 2020

Welcome to Week 18 of our weekly maths challenge, which is being hosted on our learning pages. On the learning pages you can find the a new set of questions for Week 18 and the answers to the Week 17…

U3A Quiz - Week 17

U3A Quiz - Week 17

Published: 12 August 2020

It's Week 17 of our Quiz with a new set of questions - Film Anagrams and the answers to last week's questions - Cryptic Books. You can see these and all the quizzes on the Learning Pages. Chris Wri…

Developing U3A Learning - can you help?

Developing U3A Learning - can you help?

Published: 10 August 2020

We are developing our U3A platforms and want to hear from you about what you want to see from our online learning. The learning department has created a survey to help them develop the new Online Le…

Another Interactive Creative Writing Session

Another Interactive Creative Writing Session

Published: 10 August 2020

Due to popular demand, we are excited to offer a second interactive session on Zoom with publishing expert, Alysoun Owen, who will be talking about how to get your work published. The last tal…

Ideas to Keep Learning - 16

Ideas to Keep Learning - 16

Published: 05 August 2020

Continuing our series which shares great ideas and the latest ideas and suggestions to help you keep active, keep connected and keep learning. Phil Joiner from Wanstead and Woodford U3A produce a fa…

Maths Challenge - Week 17

Maths Challenge - Week 17

Published: 02 August 2020

Welcome to Week 17 of our weekly maths challenge, which is being hosted on our learning pages. On the learning pages you can find the a new set of questions for Week 17 and the answers to the Week 16…

Bird Watch - an update 6

Bird Watch - an update 6

Published: 02 August 2020

We were interested to read recently that Artificial Intelligence models have been developed to identify individual birds without tagging which will help to identify the many different species of bird…

Keeping U3A Members Updated

Keeping U3A Members Updated

Published: 31 July 2020

We are working very hard to keep our members reglarly updated on the latest Government and NHS guidance on Covid-19 pandemic as it relates to U3A. We recently (31 July) issued the revised guidance i…

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