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Welcome to
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Plymouth U3A celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2008 and has gone from strength to strength, with now over 600 members. In 2007 the U3A celebrated 25 years since its inception in 1982. Although the U3A Trust is a national organisation with over 231,000 members and with 759 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 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 12th. July General Open Meeting at the Roland Levinsky Building Monday 9th. August "The Three Hares" - Devon's Medieval Link with China Speaker - Tom Greeves
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 - Tina Wilson.
Look at the Theatre page for the latest bookings.
See 'Group News'. for new programmes of all groups.SHORT WALKS GROUP - Latest programme - link to page
CLASSIC FILMS - latest programme - see Group News
24/06/2010
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