Welcome to New Members
We have no new members to welcome this month.
Tony Munday, Membership Secretary
01980 671069 or ajmunday@btinternet.com
1 Downs View Close, Haxton, Salisbury SP3 9PS
From the Chairman
Dear Friends
Our head office, the Third Age Trust, has a section on Shared Learning on its website, as follows:
“Shared Learning Projects are research projects which focus on a topic proposed by an institution (such as a museum, art gallery, stately home or library) or proposed by U3A members themselves on a theme (such as a river, a town, a person or a philosophy). One of the main objectives is to undertake some stimulating work that will be of benefit to both the participants and to the institution in which the project is carried out.
“Over the last eight years, U3A has worked on Shared Learning Projects with some fifty museums in London and across the country – for example, The British Museum, Brighton Museum, the Foundling Museum, the Guildhall Library, Lytes Cary Manor House, Somerset, the Museum of London and Perth Museum, Scotland.”
At a local level there could be endless opportunities for Sarum U3A to work with the wider community, such as Salisbury Museum, the Civic Society, Wiltshire College, Age UK, to name but a few. If you have an idea for a project, please get in touch with me or another member of the committee and we can explore the possibilities!
With best wishes
Gordon Pardy
Coffee Mornings
Please note that coffee is served from 10.00 am
Wednesday 18 May at 10.30 am
Exhibition of craft groups and leaders’ reports.
Wednesday 15 June at 10.30 am
Canine Partners – a moving and interesting talk by Alison Bailey
Groups
Striders
2 June 2011
Please meet in the car park at The Royal Oak, Wishford, for a 10.00 am start for a 5-mile walk through Grovely Woods (GR: SU 080 353).
Please ring Marilyn Howard on 01722 743486 by Tuesday 31 May if you would like to join us and if you will be staying for lunch at The Royal Oak.
Walking Group
Thursday 26 May
Meet at Turf Hill car park (OL22 SU 212 177) at 10.30 am. This is a relaxing walk through the forest with a coffee break and lunch at Woodfalls Inn. If you would like to join us, please ring Marilyn Hunter on 07786 302008 not later than Tuesday 24 May, leaving your name and telephone number.
Strollers
Thursday 26 May
(2-3 mile gentle walks with a pub at the end)
Members take turns to organise the walks and book the pub. I will do the first one. Meet in the car park of the Hampton Inn, near St Thomas’s Bridge on the London Road, at 10.00 am. If you are coming, please let me know on the Monday 23 or Tuesday 24 May. New members are welcome.
Aileen Manchee (01722 742368)
Science & Technology
Monday 23 May 2011
Waste Recycling – Sarah Cundy
Meetings take place in the Harnham Memorial Hall at 10.00 am. Any U3A member is welcome to attend. Cost £1.
The Group is organising two outings:
27 June 10.00-12.30
A guided tour of the River Bourne Community Farm at Laverstock Nursery, Cow Lane, Salisbury SP1 2SR. Coffee and cakes £2.50.
29 July
A Butterfly Walk (3 miles) in the downland near Charlton All Saints.
Please contact Peter Read (01722 501218) for details.
Using Your Digital Camera – New Course
3 June, 1 July, 29 July, 19 August at 10.00 am
We are starting a new course on 3 June. Members should bring their cameras with the Instruction book and fully charged batteries. If the weather is fine, we intend to take members out and about locally to practise what we have taught them. We expect to have fun.
Please contact Peter and Sheila Read
(01722 501218)
From the Groups Organiser
Programmes of Groups for 2011-12
Your new programme and application form for next year’s groups will be waiting for you at the May coffee morning. Please pick it up. If you are not at the coffee morning, you will receive it through the post.
Please read all the notes carefully so that you only apply for groups which you can attend reasonably regularly. Make sure you put your choices in priority order. Please get your application forms to me by the June coffee morning or you will miss the initial sort. You will receive your allocation to groups at the July coffee morning (or by post).
The vacancies list for all three U3As will be published as soon as I receive the information from Salisbury and Spire, but probably with the September Newsletter.
Many thanks
Linda
Local History Group – Missing File
Our file “The Chequers” was loaned to someone. It contains a lot of interesting and new information, the hard research work done by our members.
Please could you rack your brains and help us find it and archive it, so that others may benefit from it.
Contact Jenny Mawer (Registry)
Summer Schools – Summer 2011
The Third Age Trust have asked me to make members aware that there are still a few places available on the various courses at the Agricultural College, Cirencester and Harper Adams, Telford.
Details of this year’s courses are displayed on the Notice Board.
Diaries for 2012
At the June and July Coffee Mornings, there will be a list on the Notice Board for you to sign if you would like to order a diary. The cost this year is £2 per diary, payable with your order please.
Gill Hinton (01722 325353)
The Book Table
This facility has proved very popular for members to pick up a good read and relies on donations of good paperbacks for its success. There is limited storage space so ideally a steady supply is needed to balance redistribution. No more than 2 books at a time in any one month.
Paperback novels by recent authors are most popular. Please do not bring large batches of ancient hardbacks, textbooks or magazines that I have to take home for disposal.
Loucie Smithson
Newsletter by Post?
Those of you who receive your Newsletter by post, please send stamped addressed envelopes (size 9” x 4.5” or 8.25” x 6”) to Peter Tee, 19 Elm Close, Laverstock, Salisbury SP1 1SA.
Thank you.
Sarum U3A Visits
Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre: For those who were unable to join us for this first Visit arranged for Sarum members, a fascinating day was missed. The History Centre staff made us very welcome and the tour of the various conservation and archive departments was made doubly enjoyable by the expertise and knowledge of the managers allocated to our visit.
Peter Read has very kindly made a photographic record of our visit; click HERE
‘Constable and Salisbury’ Exhibition – a Joint Event between our three U3As on Thursday 30 June:
Please ensure that you have paid for your reserved places on or before the May Coffee Morning, and be sure to collect your tickets from me.
If you are unable to attend that meeting, please call/email me and I will post ticket(s) to you.
Contact: Chris Perry, Sarum Visits Organiser,
Telephone: 01722 781224 (after 10am please!) E-mail: christineperry@lineone.net
Thanks
One of the group that visited the History Centre would like, on behalf of them all, to pass on congratulations and thanks to Christine for the interesting and lovely day out.
Salisbury U3A Outings
Full details are posted on the notice board at the monthly coffee mornings or check on the web site HERE
Friday 15 July 2011
Visit Cardiff Castle – BOOKING NOW!
Wednesday 31 August 2011.
Visit Greys Court, Henley on Thames (NT) followed by river cruise to Marlow. Wait List only.
Thursday 13 October 2011
Half day visit to Longleat House.
Tuesday 29 November 2011
To Mayflower Theatre for Mozart’s Don Giovanni.
Tuesday 27 March 2012
To Mayflower Theatre for Verdi’s La Traviata. Booking date to be advised.
Cruise Suggestions for 2012
Option 1: Fred Olsen BLACK WATCH from Dover 7-22 July 2012 (15 nights)
Option 2: Fred Olsen BALMORAL from Southampton 13-27 October 2012 (14 nights)
Full details of Options on notice board at coffee morning or please register your interest in writing as soon as possible to John Ewington.
If you are interested in any outings/visits, please contact John Ewington, Flat 5 Arlington House, Bourne Avenue, Salisbury SP1 1LS. Tel: 01722 500699.
Contributions
Please send all contributions by mid-day on 2nd Tuesday in the month (7 June) to the Editor: Wendy Guest, 17 Wilman Way, Salisbury SP2 8QS. Phone 01722 413037 or by email to: wmg@weaversandhatters.co.uk