Armchair Travel To find out more about this Group, Email
What we do:
The Armchair Travel group currently has 85 members and we have capacity for new members who are always welcome. The meetings are chosen and run by the members, and are interactive. We socialise before and after the meeting and normally have tea/coffee between presentations. Meeting Area: Sketty Meeting Day: Fridays PM |
Connecting with Nature To find out more about this Group, Email What we do: The purpose of this group is to strengthen our connection to nature as we expand our senses, connect to our surroundings, ground and calm the body and let our minds rest. Strengthening the senses by paying mindful attention to them enlivens the world and we notice the incredible beauty around us – the sound of a bird, the sight of a fungi, the smell of soil, the touch of a leaf. Area: Clyne Gardens Meeting Day: Thursday PM |
Film Studies What we do: The format of the group will be as follows:
There is no waiting list for the Film Studies group at the moment, everyone is welcome. Meeting: Swansea Marina Area. Meeting Day: Monthly on a Thursday PM |
Foreign Fare What we do: As we are now hopefully out of future lockdowns and no longer have to do things online we have updated our Foreign Fare group. We will be meeting for a bring a regional dish get together quarterly when the recipe region is Eastern Europe. In between members will continue to share foreign recipes with others. Meeting: On-line Group. Meeting Day: Quarterly. |
Gardening To find out more about this Group, Email We are a very friendly group of people who enjoy their gardens, whatever the size, even if it is only a couple of pots. We have a variety of speakers covering a range of subjects from plants for the herbaceous garden, to pollination,to dahlias and a followed by a cup of tea or coffee. There is a charge of £2.50 per meeting to cover the cost of room rental, speakers and refreshments. If you would like to join our group please contact the Convenor using the "Email" link above. Meeting Area: Singleton Meeting Day: Thursdays PM |
Gourmet's Guide to History
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With the subject as “Gourmet”
A one-year series of meetings to be repeated annually, for gourmets with an interest in history. The sessions will cover food from the time of early man to the Second World War. Learn about the food of the period then enjoy a meal from that period. Recipes will be handed out monthly for you to bring the following month.
Historic Away Days To find out more about this Group, Email Historic Awaydays is a chance for members to enjoy guided tours of local historic places. Previous trips have included Stouthall, Neath Abbey, Newport Medieval Ship and Stradey Castle amongst many others. Members are asked to make their own travel arrangements to get to the venue. Meeting Area: Various. Meeting Day: As arranged |
Lectures
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With the subject as “Lectures”
What we do:
We are so fortunate in Swansea to be able to hold lectures weekly in term time for members in a large lecture theatre in the Swansea University for which we are very grateful.
Click here for more details and an example list of our lecture topics. We publish our full programme of lectures every year.
Meditation To find out more about this Group, Email With the subject as “Meditation” What we do: Our new meditation group, which only ladies have attended recently. It is all about concentration and the form we follow is termed “flowing”. This is achieved, firstly by a breathing exercise, then a full body relaxation, then a guided visualisation followed by member’s own Meditation time out. We then have a refreshment break and finally a shorter specific visualisation to complete the session. The cost for the two hour meeting is £6. Meeting Area: Dunvant Meeting Day: Fridays PM |
Quiz
With the subject as “Quiz”
What we do:
What better way to spend a cold, wet, windy & miserable Monday afternoon than go to a U3A Quiz.
We have easy warm- up questions to start us off, maths questions-liked by some but not by others, picture questions and a wide range of other rounds.
Our interval was spent getting to know each other and enjoying a cup of tea/coffee & home-made cakes brought in by different members.
If you want to test your knowledge and get the old grey matter working in a relaxed, fun atmosphere with good company then the Quiz Group is for you. We are Looking forward to seeing you there!
We are currently using Zoom for our Quiz meetings &will continue to do this until the New Year.
Meeting Area: Zoom Meeting Day: Mondays PM
RUG (Really Useful Group)
What we do:
Our U3A runs on self help principles and we know there are many of you helping to keep the show on the road - as committee members, convenors and other group support such as collecting names, room hire, making bookings, meeting and greeting at lectures, setting out furniture, making and clearing away after tea breaks.
We are setting up a group to capture this effort in the Really Useful Group: members will be contacted when help is needed for an event or project. We think this will be a more effective way of locating helpers across all our activity. It will also work to encourage more help, especially amongst new members.
How will it work? We will collect names and contact details of all those we know about and keep a central list. When help is needed, all RUG members will be contacted but only those who are able to help need reply.
For example, our annual quiz is approaching and we will be looking for help with setting up, catering, ticket takers, marking, and runners for the answer sheets.
Feel free to ask your U3A friends if they want to join this group too.
Please send your name, telephone numbers, address and email address to Carol Lilly, Events Co-ordinator using the Email link above.