Events
This page will help to keep you informed of our upcoming meetings and other Ashtead U3A organised events. For information on interest group activities, please refer to the group pages as these will often give more specific details of their meetings and activities.
Members meet on the first Thursday of each month at 2.30 p.m. in Ashtead Peace Memorial Hall. We request that members do not arrive for the meetings before 2.00 p.m. Social committee members need to use the time to organise their paperwork and tickets and are not always able to attend to members’ requests or record attendance before this time. The Hall is booked out to us from 2.00 p.m. and not before. Thank you for your cooperation.
Admission for visitors to the Monthly Meeting is by prior arrangement only.
U3A Surrey Network Events can be accessed by clicking the link on the RHS of this page.
Other local U3A's and Ashtead Village events are covered in the Monthly News Update emailed to all members.
Please note that as there is no longer a tea interval mid-meeting, tickets for Events can only be bought between 2 and 2.30, before the formal meeting commences. Tickets for all outings/events only go on sale at the meeting stated.
Autumn 2021. APMH meetings were resumed in September 2021 after the lifting of COVID restrictions.
Secretary Ashtead U3A
| Dates for your Diary | ||
|---|---|---|
| September 2022 | ||
| Thu Sep 1st | Meeting | NB The usual 'first Thursday of the month' meeting at APMH has had to be moved to 8th September! |
| Thu Sep 8th | Meeting | 40th Anniversary Party with 30 mins of well known songs from Green Street Blues - a ladies 'a cappella' chorus who rehearse in Sevenoaks, Kent. Their 30 members, from Kent, Surrey, Essex, and Sussex sing without any musical accompaniment in gorgeous 4-part harmony. IF YOU CAN COME AND ENJOY OUR SPECIAL AFTERNOON TEA AND ENTERTAINMENT, PLEASE LET ANNE LETHEREN KNOW BY EMAIL at treasurer@ashteadu3a.org.uk |
| Tue Sep 13th | Outing | A visit to Breamore House. Cost £50 includes Guided Tour of the House, entry to Countryside Museum, St Mary's Church, Buffet Lunch and and all gratuities. Leaving Ashtead Pond 9.25 APMH 9.30. Tickets on sale by email from Jennie Pilfold and at u3a meetings. THERE ARE STILL A FEW TICKETS AVAILABLE. Breamore House, near Fordingbridge on the edge of the New Forest, is an Elizabethan mansion completed in 1583. The first owner William Dodington built the house from 1580 - 1583. In 1748 it was purchased by Edward Hulse and is still the Hulse family home for more than two and a half centuries later. The Countryside Museum depicts traditional village life and is situated near the Tea Rooms. In the grounds is St Mary's Church, built in 980 AD and is an almost complete example of an Anglo Saxon Church. |
| Fri Sep 16th | Study Day | Voices from Ancient Mesopotamia Presented by Dr Irving Finkel, British Museum at Menuhin Hall at Stoke d’Abernon Places will be available in the hall or for on-line viewing and booking is open. |
| October 2022 | ||
| Thu Oct 6th | Meeting | Caring for The River Mole Sue & Nigel Bond |
| Sat Oct 15th | Outing | October outing, probably not 15th, actual date to be released later. Winchester with an optional tour of the Cathedral further details to be announced later. |
| Fri Oct 21st | Study Day | Eureka - A Brief History of Maths from 3000 BC to 2000 AD Presented by Roger Luther at Menuhin Hall at Stoke d’Abernon Places are available in the hall or for on-line viewing and booking is open |
| November 2022 | ||
| Thu Nov 3rd | Meeting | Kirtles, Corsets and Curtains Sarah Slater |
| Wed Nov 16th | Outing | The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel at the New Vicotoria Theatre, Woking, 2.30 performance, with Hayley Mills, Paul Nicolas, Paula Wilcox, Andy de la Tour, Marlene Sidaway, Rekha John-Cheriyan. Excellent Royal Circle tickets £45 inclusive of Coach Travel. Available at September meeting from Beryl McLaughlin. |
| Fri Nov 18th | Study Day | Industrial Archaeology at Fifty Presented by Professor David Perrett & Professor Martin Adams at Menuhin Hall at Stoke d’Abernon Places are available in the hall or for on-line viewing and booking is open |
| Wed Nov 23rd | Outing | Leatherhead U3A have organised a coach day trip to see ‘Blenheim Palace at Christmas and The Illuminated Trail’ on Wednesday, November 23rd. Tickets are £70 each including the coach fare and £50 Palace entry fee. The ticket agency is wanting Leatherhead U3A to commit to numbers in early August. If you are interested please contact Muriel Roberts |
| Wed Nov 23rd | Outing | Guilford u3a are organising a trip to a lecture titled 'REVISING PEVSNER: a new look at Surrey's Churches', which coincides with publication of the new Pevsner Architectural Guide to Surrey. BOOK ONLINE now at https://thelittleboxoffice.com/scpt Wednesday 23 November 2022, 7pm-8.15pm at St John's Centre, St John the Evangelist Church, 222 Epsom Road, Merrow, Guildford GU4 7AA Tickets £12 per person £6 for SCPT members £6 for UNIVERSITY OF THE THIRD AGE MEMBERS Group discounts available on request - please email Richard Morris LIVE in person and on Zoom The Zoom link will be shared with the online audience before the meeting. Charles O'Brien is series editor of the world famous Pevsner Architectural Guides at Yale University Press. He will talk about Surrey church architecture, as documented by Sir Nikolaus Pevsner and Ian Nairn in the original volume for the county, published in 1962. This is the first revision of the guide in fifty years and Charles will review the scholarship of Surrey's churches since then and changing opinions on the merits of recent changes. |
| December 2022 | ||
| Thu Dec 1st | Meeting | Christmas Miscellany Ian Bevan |
| January 2023 | ||
| Thu Jan 12th | Meeting | A Medieval National Gallery Stephen Chater |
| February 2023 | ||
| Thu Feb 2nd | Meeting | A View From The Wings Brien Freeland |
| March 2023 | ||
| Thu Mar 2nd | Meeting | A talk on Weather Helen Young |
| April 2023 | ||
| Thu Apr 6th | Meeting | The Stock Exchange Tim Collett |
| May 2023 | ||
| Thu May 4th | Meeting | NB 3pm The Hidden History of Women Writers Ana Sampson |
| June 2023 | ||
| Thu Jun 1st | Meeting | Modern Slavery/Honor-Based Crime Clive Driscoll |
| July 2023 | ||
| Thu Jul 6th | Meeting | Me and Mrs Thatcher Tim Flesher |
| September 2023 | ||
| Thu Sep 7th | Meeting | TBC |
| October 2023 | ||
| Thu Oct 5th | Meeting | TBC |
| November 2023 | ||
| Thu Nov 2nd | Meeting | Lewes and Bonfire Night Andy Thomas |
| December 2023 | ||
| Thu Dec 7th | Meeting | Cribs, Cards and Christingles Mark Lewis |