Plymouth U3A celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2008 and has gone from strength to strength, with now around 600 members. Last year the U3A celebrated  25 years  since its inception in 1982.  Although the U3A Trust is a national organisation with over 208,000 members and with 712 local area U3A's., each local U3A is autonomous and is independently run by its Committee and members 

To celebrate our 10th anniversary, Plymouth U3A has produced a small booklet about our history.
This has been made possible by our success in obtaining an  Awards for All Grant which is available
for smaller community projects.  
See their website "Awards for All" for full details.        

What is the U3A?
The U3A is a self-help group of people who are no longer in full-time employment and this gives members time to exchange and share educational, creative and leisure activities during the daytime.  This provides new social contacts when work is no longer the main social environment, as well as giving people the opportunity to take up new interests.  Well over 30 different groups, ranging from Architecture to Walking cater for a wide variety of interests and the groups are run by members, for members.  This means that the costs of running courses are on an 'expenses only' basis. See the link to 'Group News' for further details.

A monthly meeting is held in central Plymouth, with many interesting speakers and the chance to meet friends and find out more about group activities and trips. The venue for most of the General Meetings is the Salvation Army Hall, Armada Way. 

Monday 13th. July.	"Operation Henry" Talk by David Snelling.  The storey of a 2000km. trek from Central France to Northern Spain by one man and a mule named "Henry".
Monday 10th. August.	Children's Hospice South West.    A talk by Judy price.
Monday 14th. September.	The History of the Theatre in Plymouth.  Talk by Jan Horrell.
Monday 12th. October.	"Sweeping Changes".  The Chimney Sweeps of Cornwall.  Talk by Bryan Metters.

Meetings start at 11.00 am with tea/coffee served from 10.30am.

e-mail link for all membership enquiries - Ann Verden, or phone 01752 346863.

e-mail link for all general enquiries - Rosemary Hamley.

Look at the Theatre page for the latest bookings.
N.B.  New groups for Spanish conversation and Yoga have been arranged. 
See 'Group News'. and for new programme for the 'Gardens' group.

SHORT WALKS GROUP - Latest programme - link to page
CLASSIC FILMS - latest programme - see Group News

02/07/2009
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