News
In this section:
- Have You Forgotten Something? - Memory Workshop Wed 7th March 2012 (posted 31st Jan 2012)
- Article for U3A News about the Network by the retiring chair Jean Hogg (posted 16th Dec 2011)
_ Have
you forgotten something?
The U3A in the East Midlands is organising a workshop on the subject of “MEMORY LOSS” - an introduction to the subject and how we can take steps to ameliorate the problem.
It will be held on Wednesday 7th March 2012 at Notts County Football Club, Meadow Lane, Nottingham NG2 3HJ, in the Masson Suite. There is ample free car parking available, plus public transport.
Full joining instructions and descriptions of the content of the day will be sent to U3A members who apply, some 8 days before the event. I hope the following details will be helpful in encouraging you to apply.
The day will begin with Registration and coffee at 10.15am and end at about 3.30pm with an hour for lunch. The cost of the workshop is free, with optional charges of £6.00 for lunch and £1.20 per cup of coffee - to be paid direct to the football club.
Aughton & Ormskirk U3A (Lancashire) have pioneered this remarkable Memory Course and have kindly offered to present this workshop for us. There are five presenters including specialists in the field of neuroscience. The Memory Course rationale enables complex neuropsychological information about memory processes to be understood by older people who can then act on this information and make changes to help prevent or reduce the risk of dementia.
We anticipate that many U3As will wish to attend and so we intend to limit the numbers attending to two per U3A. However if you have members who have experience in the fields of neuroscience, psychiatry, psychology or (say) occupational therapy, then they can be in addition.
Applications should be made by email to Joe White at this email address joejean.white@ntlworld.com by 25th February 2012 at the latest.
Joe White 01476 401959
The U3A in the East Midlands is organising a workshop on the subject of “MEMORY LOSS” - an introduction to the subject and how we can take steps to ameliorate the problem.
It will be held on Wednesday 7th March 2012 at Notts County Football Club, Meadow Lane, Nottingham NG2 3HJ, in the Masson Suite. There is ample free car parking available, plus public transport.
Full joining instructions and descriptions of the content of the day will be sent to U3A members who apply, some 8 days before the event. I hope the following details will be helpful in encouraging you to apply.
The day will begin with Registration and coffee at 10.15am and end at about 3.30pm with an hour for lunch. The cost of the workshop is free, with optional charges of £6.00 for lunch and £1.20 per cup of coffee - to be paid direct to the football club.
Aughton & Ormskirk U3A (Lancashire) have pioneered this remarkable Memory Course and have kindly offered to present this workshop for us. There are five presenters including specialists in the field of neuroscience. The Memory Course rationale enables complex neuropsychological information about memory processes to be understood by older people who can then act on this information and make changes to help prevent or reduce the risk of dementia.
We anticipate that many U3As will wish to attend and so we intend to limit the numbers attending to two per U3A. However if you have members who have experience in the fields of neuroscience, psychiatry, psychology or (say) occupational therapy, then they can be in addition.
Applications should be made by email to Joe White at this email address joejean.white@ntlworld.com by 25th February 2012 at the latest.
Joe White 01476 401959
Nottinghamshire Network
_ Having
reached the end of my 2 years as Chair of the Nottinghamshire Network of U3As
provides a good opportunity to summarise what has been achieved in less than 3
years.
The Network held its first meeting at the beginning of 2009. Alan Morris, who was then the Trustee for the East Midlands, was very keen to develop a new structure that would enable U3As in the region to work more closely together for the benefit of all. By the end of September the Network had a constitution, a bank account, officers, a website in development and a clear statement of purpose. Two representatives from each U3A were invited to attend meetings, which they did, and right from the start there was a consensus that the Network meeting should be a place where decisions were made and action agreed; to do things, not just talk!
Our main aims were to provide support for U3As and their officers and group leaders and to create new U3As. In many ways the County was under represented in the number of U3As and it was felt that many communities would welcome the chance to form one.
The Network has held a series of workshops over the last 2 years, which have all been very well attended. A group of committee members from several established U3As agreed to become mentors, particularly for officers in new U3As but also for anyone who felt in need of some support. A workshop produced a code of practice for mentors and a list of those happy to take on this role. Since then there have been meetings for officers, website masters, computer group leaders and over a 100 interest group leaders have met to exchange information, experience and advice. In response to several requests guidance has been written and made available to help those U3As applying for grants from ‘Awards for All’. Feedback from the participants has shown that these workshops have been greatly appreciated.
In addition six new U3As have been established in Nottinghamshire and a seventh is planned. By coordinating the launches and agreeing on the best locations these have been extremely successful with 250 people attending the most recent launch. There are plans for at least six more.
All this has been organised in three years and in 11 meetings of the Network, each lasting 2 hours, together with a few separate planning meetings. This has all required a high level of enthusiasm, hard work and focus, and been achieved through cooperation and agreement!
Plans for the future are for more of the same, but also to find ways of best supporting those U3As that are not proving as successful as they might wish to be or once were. This level of success shows that we were right at the outset to emphasise the need to be active and not just a talking shop or extra layer of bureaucracy.
Jean Hogg
The Network held its first meeting at the beginning of 2009. Alan Morris, who was then the Trustee for the East Midlands, was very keen to develop a new structure that would enable U3As in the region to work more closely together for the benefit of all. By the end of September the Network had a constitution, a bank account, officers, a website in development and a clear statement of purpose. Two representatives from each U3A were invited to attend meetings, which they did, and right from the start there was a consensus that the Network meeting should be a place where decisions were made and action agreed; to do things, not just talk!
Our main aims were to provide support for U3As and their officers and group leaders and to create new U3As. In many ways the County was under represented in the number of U3As and it was felt that many communities would welcome the chance to form one.
The Network has held a series of workshops over the last 2 years, which have all been very well attended. A group of committee members from several established U3As agreed to become mentors, particularly for officers in new U3As but also for anyone who felt in need of some support. A workshop produced a code of practice for mentors and a list of those happy to take on this role. Since then there have been meetings for officers, website masters, computer group leaders and over a 100 interest group leaders have met to exchange information, experience and advice. In response to several requests guidance has been written and made available to help those U3As applying for grants from ‘Awards for All’. Feedback from the participants has shown that these workshops have been greatly appreciated.
In addition six new U3As have been established in Nottinghamshire and a seventh is planned. By coordinating the launches and agreeing on the best locations these have been extremely successful with 250 people attending the most recent launch. There are plans for at least six more.
All this has been organised in three years and in 11 meetings of the Network, each lasting 2 hours, together with a few separate planning meetings. This has all required a high level of enthusiasm, hard work and focus, and been achieved through cooperation and agreement!
Plans for the future are for more of the same, but also to find ways of best supporting those U3As that are not proving as successful as they might wish to be or once were. This level of success shows that we were right at the outset to emphasise the need to be active and not just a talking shop or extra layer of bureaucracy.
Jean Hogg
