WHAT'S ON
More information on the following
webpages: Other Opportunities Recent News u3a Nationally Past Monthly Meetings |
This page shows the next main current events
happening in iU3A. But if you would like to find out more
about what's on across the London Region or at the National
level of The Third Age Trust or you would like to see
information about past meetings please use the links in the
box on the right.
iU3A Monthly Meetings: for the talk
each month see the details below.
Quiz night, Thursday 27 April, 7.00pm: we have booked a room at the Canonbury Tavern. Due to new rules the maximum number they can accommodate is 40. Please register with Mary at iu3a.treasurer@gmail.com. If you haven’t been before do come along as it’s a good opportunity to meet new people. Entrance fee £3 payable in advance. See WOW for more details.
Summer Party, Tuesday 20 June 2023, 6.00 to 8.00pm: we shall celebrate our 10th Anniversary on the eve of the Summer Solstice! Don’t miss out, put the date in your diary now. This ever-popular event is an occasion to meet up with other members in a lovely garden and enjoy wine, soft drinks and canapes. Live music. You will need to be a member to attend. More information will be released in WOW.
iU3A IT Support Meetings: once a month, see the group page for details here: IT Support Group
And remember their guides — you can see their latest one here: Minimise the stress of a stolen phone
Monthly Meetings, Speakers Programme
All future meetings will be in-person only. There will be only one talk per month, from 10.30am to 11.30am, and it's suggested you come for coffee, cakes and a chat beforehand. We'll be open from 9.45. We'd ask that your latest arrival time is at least 10 minutes before the scheduled start time: this will enable you to find a seat and allow us to start promptly, thanks.
Quiz night, Thursday 27 April, 7.00pm: we have booked a room at the Canonbury Tavern. Due to new rules the maximum number they can accommodate is 40. Please register with Mary at iu3a.treasurer@gmail.com. If you haven’t been before do come along as it’s a good opportunity to meet new people. Entrance fee £3 payable in advance. See WOW for more details.
Summer Party, Tuesday 20 June 2023, 6.00 to 8.00pm: we shall celebrate our 10th Anniversary on the eve of the Summer Solstice! Don’t miss out, put the date in your diary now. This ever-popular event is an occasion to meet up with other members in a lovely garden and enjoy wine, soft drinks and canapes. Live music. You will need to be a member to attend. More information will be released in WOW.
iU3A IT Support Meetings: once a month, see the group page for details here: IT Support Group
And remember their guides — you can see their latest one here: Minimise the stress of a stolen phone
Monthly Meetings, Speakers Programme
All future meetings will be in-person only. There will be only one talk per month, from 10.30am to 11.30am, and it's suggested you come for coffee, cakes and a chat beforehand. We'll be open from 9.45. We'd ask that your latest arrival time is at least 10 minutes before the scheduled start time: this will enable you to find a seat and allow us to start promptly, thanks.
DATE |
MONTHLY MEETING PROGRAMME: |
27 April |
Fiona Chesterton:![]() In a story described as compellingly told, there’s a five-year quest, a mystery inheritance, domestic servants exported to Canada as ‘surplus’ women before the First World War, and the unravelling of a century and a half of family secrets. Fact, not fiction. Finally, there’s the author’s strange 1960s childhood, a time spent in social isolation in a Midlands city, obsessed with a world seen through TV — and with the Beatles. Fiona Chesterton enjoyed a long career as a journalist, TV producer and commissioning editor at the BBC and Channel 4. She was awarded the Fellowship of the Royal Television Society for services to broadcasting in 2008. |
25
May |
Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell: The
D![]() She has subsequently worked in many roles in many branches of astronomy, working part-time while raising a family and is now a Visiting Academic in Oxford and the Chancellor of the University of Dundee, Scotland. She has been President of the UK’s Royal Astronomical Society, in 2008 became the first female President of the Institute of Physics for the UK and Ireland, and in 2014 the first female President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. She was one of the small group of women scientists that set up the Athena SWAN scheme. She has received many honours, including a $3M Breakthrough Prize in 2018. The public appreciation and understanding of science have always been important to her, and she is much in demand as a speaker and broadcaster. In her spare time, she gardens, listens to choral music and is active in the Quakers. She has co-edited an anthology of poetry with an astronomical theme — ‘Dark Matter; Poems of Space’. |
The later dates for 2023 are:
- 22 June, 27 July, 24 August, 28 September, 26 October,
23 November (MM & AGM). December: No Monthly
Meeting.
Outings are organised from time to time by members to places of interest in London and the Home Counties. Destinations are varied and can always be reached by public transport, usually within the Freedom Pass Zone, but occasionally a bit further afield. Forthcoming Outings are advertised in WOW.
They are open to all members. Reports on previous outings can be found on our Recent News webpage. If you want to arrange a visit or have a suggestion to make for Outings Coordinator, Judith Altshul, to research and plan, please contact her at outingscoord.iu3a@gmail.com.
Coffee Mornings


Pub Lunches
iU3A's pub lunches provide an opportunity
for members to meet each other in a social atmosphere. They
take place monthly, around Islington. If you are buying a
lunch the cost is around £10 to £12 with drinks being extra.
If you'd like to come along to one of these please email
Andy Watson here
for more information or to reserve your place.

Details of the Pub Lunch Groups schedule can be found in Beacon or in the Bulletins.