Groups
Coronavirus Precautions (also see CV19Activity)
As meeting in person is restricted many group activities continue via electronic communication. To find out what is happening in a specific group you can contact the coordinator via the link on each group's page below.
Specific guidance on restarting and continuing with group activities has been provided by U3A National Office. Guidance for group activities was updated by U3A National Office on 12th December.
If you wish to start a new Virtual group on any topic send a message to our Groups Coordination team.
Information about our Groups
Chester U3A has approximately 90 Study & Interest groups. They are shown in categories below to help find one that might suit you. Each group has a description of their activities on their own group page which can be found by clicking on the group name in the list below. You can also contact a group coordinator through their group's page.
To join a group click on the group name (Information about the group is given at the top of the page). Then contact the group coordinator by clicking on their name and send a message saying you wish to join. Some groups charge a membership fee e.g. to pay for their meeting room.
We welcome ideas for new groups and you can see some Possible New Groups via this link.
Any queries send a message to Groups Coordination.
Group Coordinators are the people that make our groups & U3A work. Help in fulfilling this important role can be found on the Group Coordinators Information page or contact Groups Coordination.
Group Categories
Art and Craft - Art Appreciation, Crafts, Film Appreciation, Flower Arranging, Knitting, Painting
Health and Leisure - Crown Green Bowling, Cycling, Gardening, Golf, Holistic Therapies, Line Dancing, New Experiences, Pickleball, Racketball, Railway Children, Social psychology, Table Tennis, Walking (numerous groups)
History - Family History, History, Industrial Heritage, Local History
Languages - French, German, Italian, Spanish (numerous groups)
Literacy - Literary Appreciation, Philosophy, Play Reading, Poetry Appreciation, Reading, Story Telling, Writing
Mind Games - Bridge, Cryptic Crosswords, Current Affairs, Mahjong, Old Grumpies, Scrabble, Social Justice, Whist
Music - Jazz Appreciation, Music, Opera Appreciation, Performing, Singing, Ukulele
Science and Nature - Bird Watching, Computing, Digital Photography, Environmental Issues, Geology, Maths, Meditation, Metaphysics, Photography, Psychology, Popular Science Lectures, Science
Group List | |||
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A Life Less Plastic Done. See what it found. | Done. See what it found. | Ambling Friday 2nd and 4th Friday | Friday 2nd and 4th Friday |
Art Appreciation 1 Tuesday p.m. 3rd Tuesday each month | Tuesday p.m. 3rd Tuesday each month | Art Appreciation 2 Wednesday a.m. 3rd Wednesday | Wednesday a.m. 3rd Wednesday |
Bird Watching 1 Monday 1st Monday and 3rd Friday | Monday 1st Monday and 3rd Friday | Bird Watching 3 Wednesday All day once a month | Wednesday All day once a month |
Bridge Wednesday p.m. weekly | Wednesday p.m. weekly | Bridge for Beginners Wednesday a.m. | Wednesday a.m. |
Bridge Improvers Monday p.m. weekly | Monday p.m. weekly | Computer Users Group Tuesday p.m. 2 - 4pm 2nd Tuesday | Tuesday p.m. 2 - 4pm 2nd Tuesday |
Crafts Tuesday a.m. 2nd and 4th Tuesday | Tuesday a.m. 2nd and 4th Tuesday | Crown Green Bowling Wednesday a.m. April - Sept | Wednesday a.m. April - Sept |
Cryptic Crossword Puzzlers Friday p.m. 4th Friday | Friday p.m. 4th Friday | Current Affairs 1 Monday a.m. 2nd Monday | Monday a.m. 2nd Monday |
Current Affairs 2 Thursday a.m. 1st Thursday | Thursday a.m. 1st Thursday | Cycling Easyriders Tuesday 2nd Tuesday 4th Thursday | Tuesday 2nd Tuesday 4th Thursday |
Digital Photography Monday p.m. 4th Monday | Monday p.m. 4th Monday | Environmental Issues Thursday p.m. 4th Thursday | Thursday p.m. 4th Thursday |
Family History Thursday a.m. 3rd Thursday | Thursday a.m. 3rd Thursday | Film Appreciation 1 Monday p.m. Alternate Monday | Monday p.m. Alternate Monday |
Film Appreciation 2 Monday p.m. Alternate Monday | Monday p.m. Alternate Monday | Flower Arranging Thursday a.m. 4th Thursday | Thursday a.m. 4th Thursday |
Forensic Linguistics Monday a.m. First & Third Mondays | Monday a.m. First & Third Mondays | French Conversation Thursday a.m. alternate Thursdays | Thursday a.m. alternate Thursdays |
French Conversation 2 Thursday a.m. 1st and 3rd Thursday | Thursday a.m. 1st and 3rd Thursday | French Film Group Thursday 4 or 5 times a year 7.30pm | Thursday 4 or 5 times a year 7.30pm |
French Improvers Wednesday p.m. 2 - 4pm weekly | Wednesday p.m. 2 - 4pm weekly | French Intermediate Monday a.m. weekly | Monday a.m. weekly |
Friday Walking Friday 1st Friday | Friday 1st Friday | Friday Writers Friday a.m. 2nd Friday | Friday a.m. 2nd Friday |
Further French Tuesday a.m. 2nd and 4th Tuesday | Tuesday a.m. 2nd and 4th Tuesday | Gardening Monday a.m. 1st Monday | Monday a.m. 1st Monday |
Geology Tuesday a.m. 4th Tuesday | Tuesday a.m. 4th Tuesday | German Beginners Friday a.m. 1st & 3rd Fridays | Friday a.m. 1st & 3rd Fridays |
German Conversation Wednesday a.m. weekly | Wednesday a.m. weekly | German Improvers Wednesday a.m. 1st and 3rd Wednesday | Wednesday a.m. 1st and 3rd Wednesday |
Golf-Social Thursday a.m. every 2 weeks | Thursday a.m. every 2 weeks | History Thursday a.m. 4th Thursday | Thursday a.m. 4th Thursday |
Holistic Therapies Monday a.m. alternate Mondays | Monday a.m. alternate Mondays | Industrial Heritage 1 Friday 3rd Friday | Friday 3rd Friday |
Industrial Heritage 3 Wednesday 1st Wednesday | Wednesday 1st Wednesday | Italian Beginners Thursday p.m. weekly | Thursday p.m. weekly |
Italian Beginners 2 Monday p.m. | Monday p.m. | Italian Improvers Monday p.m. Fortnightly | Monday p.m. Fortnightly |
Jazz Appreciation Tuesday a.m. 2nd Tuesday | Tuesday a.m. 2nd Tuesday | Jazz Appreciation 2 Friday a.m. Third Friday | Friday a.m. Third Friday |
Jigsaw Monday On Zoom | Monday On Zoom | Knitting Tuesday p.m. 2nd Tuesday | Tuesday p.m. 2nd Tuesday |
Line Dancing Thursday p.m. 1st and 3rd Thursday | Thursday p.m. 1st and 3rd Thursday | Literary Appreciation 1 Friday p.m. 2nd Friday | Friday p.m. 2nd Friday |
Local History Thursday p.m. 1st Thursday | Thursday p.m. 1st Thursday | Mahjong Friday a.m. 1st and 3rd Friday | Friday a.m. 1st and 3rd Friday |
Maths For Fun Wednesday 2nd and 4th Wednesday | Wednesday 2nd and 4th Wednesday | Metaphysics for Dummies Friday a.m. | Friday a.m. |
Mindfulness Meditation Monday a.m. Alternate Mondays | Monday a.m. Alternate Mondays | Music 1 Wednesday a.m. Alternate Wednesdays | Wednesday a.m. Alternate Wednesdays |
Music 2 Monday a.m. 2nd Monday | Monday a.m. 2nd Monday | Music 4 Friday p.m. Alternate Fridays | Friday p.m. Alternate Fridays |
Music Performing Bimonthly | Bimonthly | Needlecraft 1 Tuesday a.m. 2nd and 4th Tuesday | Tuesday a.m. 2nd and 4th Tuesday |
New Experiences Thursday Group meets monthly | Thursday Group meets monthly | Opera Appreciation Thursday a.m. 1st Thursday | Thursday a.m. 1st Thursday |
Painting 1 Tuesday p.m. Sept - April | Tuesday p.m. Sept - April | Painting 2 Thursday p.m. weekly | Thursday p.m. weekly |
Philosophy Wednesday a.m. 3rd Wednesday | Wednesday a.m. 3rd Wednesday | Photography Thursday p.m. 2nd Thursday | Thursday p.m. 2nd Thursday |
Pickleball Monday a.m. | Monday a.m. | Play Reading Thursday p.m. 1st and 3rd Thursday | Thursday p.m. 1st and 3rd Thursday |
Poetry Appreciation Tuesday p.m. 3rd Tuesday | Tuesday p.m. 3rd Tuesday | Popular Science Wednesday Autumn and Spring | Wednesday Autumn and Spring |
Psychology B Thursday a.m. 1st and 3rd Thursday | Thursday a.m. 1st and 3rd Thursday | Racketball Monday p.m. weekly | Monday p.m. weekly |
Reading 1 Wednesday a.m. 4th Wednesday | Wednesday a.m. 4th Wednesday | Reading 2 Friday p.m. 1st Friday monthly | Friday p.m. 1st Friday monthly |
Science Friday a.m. 2nd Friday | Friday a.m. 2nd Friday | Scrabble Thursday p.m. 1st Thursday evening | Thursday p.m. 1st Thursday evening |
Singing For Pleasure Monday p.m. 2nd Monday | Monday p.m. 2nd Monday | Social Justice Tuesday a.m. Last Tuesday | Tuesday a.m. Last Tuesday |
Social Psychology Tuesday a.m. 2nd Tueday | Tuesday a.m. 2nd Tueday | Spanish Thursday a.m. weekly | Thursday a.m. weekly |
Spanish Intermediate Wednesday p.m. weekly | Wednesday p.m. weekly | Story Telling Wednesday a.m. alternate Wednesdays | Wednesday a.m. alternate Wednesdays |
Table Tennis 1 Thursday p.m. 12.45-2pm weekly | Thursday p.m. 12.45-2pm weekly | Table Tennis 2 Monday p.m. 12.30-1pm weekly | Monday p.m. 12.30-1pm weekly |
The Old Grumpies Wednesday p.m. 3rd or 4th Wednesday | Wednesday p.m. 3rd or 4th Wednesday | Thursday Strollers Thursday a.m. 1st and 3rd Thursday | Thursday a.m. 1st and 3rd Thursday |
Train Journeys As needed | As needed | Tuesday Walking Tuesday 3rd Tuesday | Tuesday 3rd Tuesday |
Ukulele 1 (UKES3A) Wednesday p.m. weekly | Wednesday p.m. weekly | Ukulele 2 (UKES3A) Tuesday p.m. weekly | Tuesday p.m. weekly |
Walking Monday a.m. 1st Friday 3rd Monday | Monday a.m. 1st Friday 3rd Monday | Wednesday Walking Wednesday 2nd Wednesday | Wednesday 2nd Wednesday |
Whist for Beginners Wednesday p.m. 2nd Wednesday | Wednesday p.m. 2nd Wednesday | Wine Appreciation Friday p.m. Last Friday | Friday p.m. Last Friday |
Timetable Summary | ||
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Day | Morning | Afternoon |
Monday | Current Affairs 1 Forensic Linguistics French Intermediate Gardening Holistic Therapies Mindfulness Meditation Music 2 Pickleball Walking | Bridge Improvers Digital Photography Film Appreciation 1 Film Appreciation 2 Italian Beginners 2 Italian Improvers Racketball Singing For Pleasure Table Tennis 2 |
Tuesday | Crafts Further French Geology Jazz Appreciation Needlecraft 1 Social Justice Social Psychology | Art Appreciation 1 Computer Users Group Knitting Painting 1 Poetry Appreciation Ukulele 2 (UKES3A) |
Wednesday | Art Appreciation 2 Bridge for Beginners Crown Green Bowling German Conversation German Improvers Music 1 Philosophy Reading 1 Story Telling | Bridge French Improvers Spanish Intermediate The Old Grumpies Ukulele 1 (UKES3A) Whist for Beginners |
Thursday | Current Affairs 2 Family History Flower Arranging French Conversation French Conversation 2 Golf-Social History Opera Appreciation Psychology B Spanish Thursday Strollers | Environmental Issues Italian Beginners Line Dancing Local History Painting 2 Photography Play Reading Scrabble Table Tennis 1 |
Friday | Friday Writers German Beginners Jazz Appreciation 2 Mahjong Metaphysics for Dummies Science | Cryptic Crossword Puzzlers Literary Appreciation 1 Music 4 Reading 2 Wine Appreciation |