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News Archive 2015

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2015
In this section:
  • Nottinghamshire U3As Interest Groups
  • Forest Town U3A (Mansfield) Inaugural Meeting 1st October 2015 (posted 11th September 2015)
  • East Midlands U3As Summer School to be held August 2016 (posted 20th August 2015)
  • Workshop 'Keeping Your Monthly Meeting Vibrant' September 2015 (posted 15th August 2015)
  • Report on the North Notts Neighbourhood Group Picnic in the Park (posted 5th August 2015)
  • Dates for your Diary (posted 6th July 2015)
  • Report on Soar Valley Driver Awareness Workshop March 2015 (posted 23rd June 2015)
  • Treasurer for the Network (posted 29th April 2015)
  • North Notts Neighbourhood Group Picnic in the Park Wednesday1st July 2015 (posted 18th April 2015)
  • Stapleford U3A launch Wednesday 8th April 2015 (posted 09 March 2015)
  • Mansfield U3A - Art Appreciation Event (updated 22 April 2015)
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Nottinhamshire U3As Interest Groups 
​Most U3As in the Network maintain a website listing the interest groups available in that U3A so there is the facility to investigate the variety of interest groups available across the U3As in the Nottinghamshire Network.  The latest survey shows 29 U3As offering 159 different subjects through 873 interest groups.  More detailed information under About Us - Interest Groups.

Forest Town U3A (Mansfield) Inaugural Meeting 1st October 2015
Forest Town U3A has launched.  Come to the Inaugural Meeting on Thursday 1st October at 2 o’clock in St Alban’s Church, Old Mill Lane, Forest Town, NG19 0EP for an informal meeting with tea, coffee and biscuits. Come and join us and see what U3A has to offer, join the new U3A and sign up for interest groups!  Put the date in your diary.  See the Inaugural Meeting Poster.

East Midlands U3As Summer School to be held August 2016
The First East Midlands U3As Summer School will be held in August 2016 at Nottingham Trent University, Brackenhurst Campus, Southwell, from Tuesday evening16th August to Friday 19th August 2016.  Please register an interest by the end of October 2015.  There is more information on the East Midlands U3As website.

Workshop 'Keeping Your Monthly Meeting Vibrant' 21st September 2015
The Nottinghamshire Network of U3As is organising a workshop on ‘Keeping Your Monthly Meeting Vibrant’ for U3A Chairmen and their nominees to share the experience of holding effective monthly meetings.  It is on Monday 21st September at 9:30 for 10:00 till 12:15.  The event will be held at the Burnt Stump Inn, Papplewick. NG5 8PQ.  More information on this poster.

Picnic In The Park
The North Notts Neighbourhood Group Picnic In The Park was held in Rufford Park on1st July.  For the 2015 summer celebration the nine neighbouring U3As, Ashfield, the Dukeries, Hucknall, Mansfield, Rainworth, Retford, Sherwood, Sutton in Ashfield and Sherwood, got together once again in Rufford Park.   This was the eighth successful annual event.  Read Rita Turner's report on the event in Events Reports.

Dates for your Diary
Wed 29th Jul
 - 
2015 Regional Conference and AGM - Bishop Grosseteste University, Lincoln, 
details on the East Midlands U3As website
Wed 26th Aug/Thu 27th Aug - Annual Conference and AGM of the Third Age Trust to be held at The East Midlands Conference Centre the AGM is on the Thursday commencing at 11.15 am., details on the Third Age Trust website
Tue 13th Oct -  Regional Workshop for Treasurers and Groups' Co-ordinators, details on the East Midlands U3As website

Soar Valley U3A Driver Awareness Workshop March 2015
Tuesday 10th March was a landmark day in Nottinghamshire as Soar Valley U3A opened its first members’ workshop entitled ‘Driver Awareness for People in their Third Age’. The workshop was enlightening, informative, thought provoking and above all enjoyable.  Read all about it in Events Reports.

Treasurer for the Network

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North Notts Neighbourhood Group Picnic in the Park - Wednesday 1st July 2015

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Stapleford U3A Launch
The U3A is coming to Stapleford on Wednesday 8th April at 2.00pm in Stapleford Methodist Church, Eatons Road, Stapleford, NG9 7EB, more information here.

Mansfield U3A Art Appreciation Event
Sadly, we have to postpone the event as our guest speaker, Olwyn Hughes, has to have a course of hospital treatment over the next few weeks. She is however hopeful that after treatment she will be able to come to Mansfield and she has asked that we consider re-scheduling the event for a date later in the Summer when she is fully recovered.
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  (Mansfield U3A’s Art Appreciation group is planning to host an event on Friday 22 May 2015.   The speaker will be Olwyn             (Hughes who is the Third Age Trust’s national Art Appreciation Co-ordinator and is an experienced speaker.  More information   (in the flyer below:
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