LIFE IS FOR LEARNING

The University of the Third Age (U3A) movement is a unique and existing organisation which provides, through its U3As, life-enhancing and life-changing opportunities.  Retired and semi-retired people come together and learn together, not for qualifications, but for it sown reward: the sheer joy of discovery!

Members share their skills and life experiences, the learners teach and the teachers learn, and there is no distinction between them.

The U3A movement is supported by its national organisation, the Third Age Trust.  See: http://www.u3a.org.uk/


I have recently joined the Derby branch of this organisation.

There are several active groups here in Derby: from Art Appreciation to Walks; from Internet and Email for Beginners to Everyday Science.  And each month more groups are starting: this month it's Gardening and also Crafts.

We had our inaugural Crafts meeting today when several people came.  We've now planned what we're going to get up to in the months before Christmas.  It's very much a group run by the members, for the members, with everyone having a say.  We have all learnt different crafts, so it's going to be fun sharing our expertise and getting encouragement to finish our UFOs (unfinished objects)!

On the last Thursday of each month there's a branch Monthly Meeting with notices and a talk.  This month the talk's "Quaker Peg", an unusual life, with George Drury.

Last week we went on a coach trip to the Birmingham Botanical Garden (http://www.birminghambotanicalgardens.org.uk/), somewhere we'd never have got round to visiting on our own and Soho House Museum (http://www.bmag.org.uk/soho-house).  I believe that next month's trip is to Bletchley Park.

So if you've nothing to do, come along to the U3A here in Derby and from now on there'll never be a dull moment!


Derby U3A: http://u3asites.org.uk/code/u3asite.php?site=158