Newsletter No.52 – Winter 2021 Here’s hoping that this new year of 2021 will mark the start of better things! I hope that once again our excellent newsletter will cheer you up and inform you of all our past and ongoing activities through these difficult times. We are in close contact with our parent and management organisation called the Third Age Trust. They are based in London and have oversight of all u3a groups. (Note: their change in logo style to lower case.) Our local regional officer is Allan Walmsley. He has attended one of our zoom committee meetings and is a good source of advice and help to us. I recommend, if have access, to try u3a general newsletter by email u3a.org.uk/email. Once logged in they will send you a copy every so often. The vaccine and the snow have given us all different views on coping with the year. Hopefully the virus with the cold and snow will be gone by the summer. Our AGM is now going to be on Zoom on 30 th of MARCH (a change of date from previous notifications.) This is to allow all the legal requirements to be met. It will also give us time to support the membership, who needs help with Zoom meetings. We must have 60 members attend this meeting to be quorate. Please consider joining us on that day. Full details will be sent to you in due course. Chris Collins (Chair)
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Newsletter No.52 – Winter 2021
Here’s hoping that this new year of 2021 will mark the start of better things!
I hope that once again our excellent newsletter will cheer you up and inform you of all our past and ongoing activities through these difficult times.
We are in close contact with our parent and management organisation called the Third Age Trust. They are based in London and have oversight of all u3a groups. (Note: their change in logo style to lower case.)
Our local regional officer is Allan Walmsley. He has attended one of our zoom committee meetings and is a good source of advice and help to us. I recommend, if have access, to try u3a general newsletter by email u3a.org.uk/email. Once logged in they will send you a copy every so often.
The vaccine and the snow have given us all different views on coping with the year. Hopefully the virus with the cold and snow will be gone by the summer.
Our AGM is now going to be on Zoom on 30th of MARCH (a change of date from previous notifications.) This is to allow all the legal requirements to be met. It will also give us time to support the membership, who needs help with Zoom meetings. We must have 60 members attend this meeting to be quorate. Please consider joining us on that day. Full details will be sent to you in due course.
Some informative ideas you might like to try to while away an hour or so during lockdown….
1.The Science Museum website www.sciencemuseum.org.uk has virtual visits to their collection and a range of online events and talks you can book on line. 2. Similarly the Natural History Museum www.nhm.ac.uk have virtual tours, talks and events. 2. BBC Sounds on Radio 4 have a range of short talks to tap into including “39 Ways to save the Planet”. 3. Science Focus Magazine has a "Lunch Time Genius” item each weekday about wide ranging areas on science which are a very worthwhile read. Go to www.sciencefocus.com for their daily newsletter. 4. Jodrell Bank in conjunction with Manchester University give a range of 'Lovell Lectures’ on www.jodrellbank.net 5. The University of Manchester have a range of “Lockdown Lectures”, short talks by UK’s foremost scientists e.g. Brian Cox. Access via manchester.ac.uk 6. www.artuk.org issue a free, periodic online magazine on a range of areas if interest of art which you can subscribe to. 7. Visit ‘www.grisham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events' to register for informative lectures in a range of subjects including a series by “Professor Chris Whitty 8. For something a little less taxing, dip into 'BBC Bitesize - online learning for children', which has some interesting programmes. 9. Once the current lockdown is eased we will all be wanting to get out and enjoy interaction with nature again. An option for you would be to visit Kingswood Trust, walk their 9 acres of woodlands and open spaces, have a hot chocolate and a cake and feel the joys of freedom from our restrictions. Kingswood will be opening again, Tuesday and Saturday mornings, hopefully in the next few weeks, and we will inform all u3a members when dates are known.
CENSUS 2021 The next census is planned for Sunday 21 March 2021 and it will be the first digital census. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) is aiming to make it easy for everyone to take part but help will be available online, by phone, webchat, email, social media, text message or at Census Support Centres across England and Wales. The ONS will contact you with an access code and explanatory information nearer the time.
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Editors Margaret Taylor 01902 341528 and Di Tordoff 01952 986104