Dorking U3A member and local author Geoff Saunders decided he needed a website to promote his book Reports from Coastal Stations. Prompted by his daughter, he looked at various free web hosting sites, of which there are many. Different sites have different options to build your site, some easier to manage than others, but none is […]
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Walking in winter
The Walking group has published details of its planned outings for the first quarter of 2017. The walks, which take place twice a month on Friday mornings, will be in the areas around Green Dene, Brockham, Friday Street, Westcott, Banstead Heath and Polesden Lacey and are usually between four and five miles long. New members are always welcome – and the group […]
Study philosophy online
Given the demand for another Philosophy group, and in view of a wish to experiment with using online courses within our U3A, we are going to start 2017 with an experiment for which we need philosophically-minded guinea pigs! The first course we plan to use is Philosophy and Critical Thinking (META101x, offered by the University […]
Pilates group offers new session
Due to growing demand, starting from 3 January there will be an extra U3A Pilates session to be held at the Christian Centre on Tuesdays from 1.20-2.20pm. The new sessions will run initially for 11 weeks under the direction of the Pilates group’s regular tutor Tina Westwood. If you are interested in taking part, please contact Pilates […]
New Newsletter arrangements
It’s all change again! To respond to your suggestions and meet criticisms of the Handbook-plus-Newsletter arrangements introduced last spring, the committee has agreed the following, to take immediate effect: There will now be four Newsletters a year – in March, June, September and December. Each Newsletter will include a What’s On? supplement, as previously, listing forthcoming […]