Holidays organiser Jim Docking has released details of two holidays proposed for next year – subject to approval by the committee. In April there is a six-day trip to see the castles, historic houses and gardens of North Wales from a hotel base in Llandudno; and in September there’s a seven-day visit to the Austrian Lake […]
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Celebrate 1,000 U3As
Join members to celebrate the opening of the UK’s 1,000th U3A. Since the first one was formed back in the 1970s the organisation has steadily grown and now has nearly 400,000 participants throughout the country. To mark the opening of the 1,000th U3A there will be a special event on Tuesday 22 November at Friends House in […]
Welcome to the world of robots
U3A conference news Nick Hawes spends his days working out how robots can be designed to help humans. He is a Reader in Autonomous Intelligence (AI) at the university of Birmingham and he will be telling delegates at the U3A conference why he welcomes our new robot overlords. The second conference speaker is Dr Victoria […]
Conference news
The U3A conference is taking place this week in Nottingham. Our chairman Phyllis Hughes is among the delegates and will be bringing you the news from the East Midlands Conference Centre.
Advance booking for days out
Places for the upcoming days out to Bletchley Park (21 September) and the Queen’s wardrobe exhibition at Windsor (14 October) are fast filling up, and in both cases the venues require admission payments well in advance. If you wish to join either outing, please make sure Jean Williams has your payment by the end of August. The […]