University of the Third Age
Thameside (Wallingford) U3A
A member of the Third Age Trust
and the U3A Thames Valley Network
© Thameside (Wallingford) U3A
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THAMESIDE (WALLINGFORD) U3A is one of the UK's branches of the Third Age Trust (U3A) and is located in Wallingford, Oxfordshire. It is an active and enthusiastic organisation that was formed in 1997 and currently has some 350 members. As with other local U3As, the members are residents of the area who wish to remain active and continue to learn during their retirement years. Social events include:
Monthly Meetings at which an outside speaker addresses an audience of U3A members
at the Baptist Church, Wallingford, at 2.00pm on the third Wednesday each month.
Coffee
Mornings held on the first Friday in each month, at Centre 70, Goldsmiths Lane,
Wallingford, to allow members to socialise and exchange ideas.
ABOUT THAMESIDE (WALLINGFORD) U3A
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Thameside (Wallingford) U3A
What’s On?
U3A Coffee Mornings: The March coffee morning will take place on Friday 2 March 2012, 10.30 to 12 noon, Centre 70, Goldsmiths Lane, Wallingford.
March Speaker’s meeting takes place on Wednesday 21 March when Julie Summers will talk on The Shackleton Voyages
Thames Valley Network: A Study Day on English Social History: Post Roman, Anglo Saxon and Norman, takes place on Friday 9 March 2012 in High Wycombe. Visit the TVN Website
U3A Explores Science at the Royal Institution. Tuesday 27 March 2012 Details from Audrey Maple.
Special Interest Study Groups are an integral part of U3A activities and Thameside (Wallingford) U3A has over 25 such Groups. Members organise their own interest groups and pursue whatever studies or activities they choose. Studying without exams! The study groups (arts, sciences, languages, books etc.) meet in private homes and organise their own activities, outings or talks, whilst other groups meet to walk, study nature or practise creative arts. (Visit the Interest Group pages and look at the Diary).
Outings that are open to the whole Thameside (Wallingford) U3A membership are arranged on an monthly basis. These may be to famous country houses, estates and gardens, to places of special interest, to the theatre or to a concert. There are also occasional visits abroad. (See the Outings Page).
U3A Annual Garden Party
Visit the gallery of photographs from the Annual Garden Party, held on 17 August 2011
Other information resources related to our U3A’s activities:
Why 'Thameside'?
There is a separate, but closely related, 'Wallingford U3A' that
is centred in Crowmarsh, Wallingford, and was established in 1983. This quickly reached
capacity, and so a large waiting list built up. As a result a second U3A branch was
formed taking the name Thameside (Wallingford) U3A. The two groups work closely together
and sometimes share outings and activities. See Outings Page
NEW in the website photo gallery:
The Digital Photography Interest Group has posted four photographs from its February meeting, when the subject was ‘A Touch of Red’.
Other U3A photographs are also in the Photo Gallery