U3A Carol Service
Thursday
8th December 2 pm
We are holding a carol service this year at
St. Thomas' Church High Lane at 2pm on Thursday 8th December 2016
followed by
light refreshments of tea/coffee plus cake or warm mince pies.
Please give it
your support.
Art event at the Lowry
Thursday
17th Nov 2016 L S Lowry - The Art and The Artist
U3A National Office has
organised a workshop and talk on L S Lowry to take place at The Lowry,
Salford Quays, on Thursday 17th November from 10.30 am to 1.15pm. The
cost is £25 including refreshments and light lunch. Capacity is
limited to 20 places. You can download a flyer here.
12 October
Xmas party tickets
There are still some tickets available
for the Xmas party and we will be selling them again at the November
meeting. Tickets cost £5 each and are for Members only.
11 August
Wine tasting
evening
tickets
The Wine tasting evening
is
30 September. For just £6 there will be six wines for you to
taste accompanied by cheese and biscuits. If you missed
getting your ticket at the meeting today, we will be selling them again
at the September meeting or you can contact any Committee
member to reserve a ticket.
1 June
Jess
Quayle, a journalist with the BBC, is putting together a radio feature
on people who learn musical instruments in older age and why they do
so. She is seeking statistics on the extent to which this happens
through the U3A and names of individuals who are willing to be
interviewed or even perform for the programme. Some of you may have
heard her work on You & Yours or if you listen to Farming Today. Please email the webmaster without delay if
you are interested in this as the timeframe is short.
11 May
The Singing group performed
a programme of music at the May general meeting. Songs ranged from
Vivaldi to Abba with something for all tastes. Click
here for photos of the
event.
12 March
The Annual Lunch was a great success
attended by over 80 members. This is our 15th year. We were joined in
our celebrations by Pam Jones, Chair of the Third Age Trust who
presented us with a card from National Office. As well as the delicious
meal we enjoyed a celebration cake. Click here for photos of the
lunch.
2 March
The
Groups list has been updated for 2016.
The March newsletter is now available.
20
February
At
the AGM Group
Leaders presented their reports for the year. You can read these in the
Documents area.
16
February
Tony
Edens runs a Lip Reading group for Woking U3A.
His book
“Lip Reading – a self-help textbook” is
now
available on Amazon. This is available for free download on
the 1st March, 1st April
and 1st May. It is a Kindle book
and can be read on
most computers, tablets and smartphones. The Kindle reading
app is
also available as a free download from the Amazon website. More
information here.
12
February
The minutes of
the AGM are now available on the Documents
page. The Officers and Committee
for 2016 are available here
and the 2016
Group
programme has been updated.
This will go out by email shortly and
a printed version will be available at the March monthly meeting.
28 January - Quiz group
The new Quiz group had
its first meeting
today. The group will be meeting at 10am on the fourth Thursday of the
month. Please contact Diane Saxon if you are interested in this group.
26
January - Edinburgh in June
Come and
join our holiday to Edinburgh from 12-17 June.
Accommodation at Best Western Kings
Manor Hotel.
Highlights include visits to
Holyrood, Scottish Parliament,
Rosslyn Chapel, Edinburgh Castle
etc.
Cost
is £540
sharing. Single
Supplement £125. Deposit £50 to be paid at the
February
meeting. To reserve your place please contact Sue Harlin.
19
January
Membership
- you need to renew your membership in
February. You will be pleased to hear that we are able to
maintain our very low membership cost of £5 for this
year.
You can also subscribe to the U3A Magazine Third Age Matters for an
additional £2.50 which brings you five editions of the
magazine
delivered to your door.
Membership forms will be available at the AGM or you
can access it here.
13
January
Annual Lunch
tickets
The Annual Lunch this year is
our 15th anniversary lunch and we have
Pam Jones, U3A National Chair, coming to talk to us. If you missed
getting your ticket at the meeting today, we will be selling them again
at the February meeting or you can contact me by email to reserve a
place and request your menu choices. Click
here to view
the menu.
The cost is £20 per person which includes a gratuity but not
drinks.
12 January
Free
Legal
Advice
Service for
U3A members
Arc Legal Assistance
in
partnership with Irwin
Mitchell Solicitors.
Telephone number:
0344 770 1040. Quote - U3A Legal Helpline
Victorian
Society Exhibition
Victorian
Society’s photographic exhibition Saving a Century, curated
by
noted architectural historian Gavin Stamp, will be on show
free of
charge at The John Rylands Library, 150 Deansgate, Manchester, M3 3EH
from 8 January – 24 March, daily during Library hours.
Using
archive photographs and material from over fifty years of the Victorian
Society’s fight to save historic buildings, the exhibition
charts
the successes and defeats of the organisation that has done so much to
change public attitudes towards the nineteenth century’s best
architecture. After more than 60 venues around Britain this is the
final showing of the exhibition, which includes local images from
Manchester, Oldham, Ashton-under-Lyne, Middleton, Preston and Nelson. Click
here for more
information.
3 January
Nomination
for
Committee 2016 - Several
Committee members
are retiring this year so we need new Committee members for 2016. These
will be elected at the AGM in February. If you would like to join the
Committee please print off the nomination form from the last page of
the November newsletter, ask fellow members to nominate and second you,
and give the completed form to Margaret McDermott or Sue Harlin before
the AGM.
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