NATIONAL ONLINE FORUMS AND MESSAGE BOARDS

Try out the following five interactive forums
Click on below www.u3a.org.uk
register or sign in and go to U3A Message Board and Forums there is a host of things to look at including.

Newsletter Editors
Committee Members
Research
Computer Help
General

Please email:
webdesigner and tell us how you found the experience - hard or easy to do.

Our secretary has received some helpful risk assessment check sheets which may be of interest to group leaders. They range from risk assessment of venues as well as electrical equipment and walks.

Please contact Gordon Lindsay secretary.10@louthu3a.org.uk
for these or to enquire further.

The 16 - 19 August 2010
'First' Summer school

Architecture - The evolution of the English House

Drama - Experiments in Theatre

France - La Belle France

History - Glimpses of 19th century London

Mah Jong for Beginners

Mahler - The Bridge to the 20th Century

Philosophy - Justification of the State

Art History - "Look upon this picture and on this"

Cinema History - A brief history of Film since the Second World War

Computing Workshop

Geology - the hisotry of building stones

Latin Amercian Spanish - language and culture

Literature - Three Untypical Novels

Information from U3A HQ for all group leaders.

"It is important that membership records are kept, even at group level, to check that all participants are members of that U3A or members of another U3A, attending with prior committee approval.  Such a list may also be required to meet fire regulations if you are in outside accommodation.  Clearly a non-member can attend a taster session but repeated visits by the same non-member would automatically disqualify that individual from U3A insurance cover.  Thus any incident causing damage/injury involving that person would not be covered under our liability insurance policy."

Address for the National U3A Office is:
The Third Age Trust,
The Old Municipal Buildings
19 East Street
BROMLEY,
BR1 1QE

 Chairman
Ian Searle

Vice Chairman
Barbara Lewis

Photographs for the National U3A website

If you have any photographs of U3A activities and Groups,
the National U3A (Third Age Trust) would like you to send them into national.office@u3a.org.uk and put " FAO Lin Jonas" in the Subject.
They would like a new selection of photographs for the home page of their website. www.u3a.org.uk
They also want to start a library of photographs which will be very useful to them for pubicity purposes.

The email is national.office@u3a.org.uk
The phone number is 020 8466 6139

Open Mon & Fri 9.30 am - 1.30 pm
Tues and Thur 9.30 am - 5 pm

Resource Centre phone line
0208 315 0199
There is someone in the office usually on Tuesdays and Thursdays
9.30 am - 4 pm

U3A Tutor Led online courses (Australia) www.u3aonline.org.au

All tutor-led courses are completed online. Enrol as an individual but have the benefit of contact with others doing the same course via the Discussion Forum. Help and support is available from the course tutor. Many of these courses are also available as untutored courses which means you have a year or so to complete them with only a small enrolement fee to pay.

U3A Tutor Led online courses (UK) on www.u3a.org.uk

Derek Harding newsletter1.10@louthu3a.org.uk