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1,000 Members Commemorative Bench Seat

The Woodworking Group have completed work on our commemorative bench to celebrate our organisation reaching 1000 members.

Bench in position at KGV Gerry cutting dowels for the joints Dave assembling back of seat
Back of seat Finishing touches

EVENTBRITE

  • Now that we have 1,000 members, booking events has become a huge task to undertake manually using sheets of paper & pen, and handling cash & cheques and credit card payments, etc, especially as most people now want to pay by credit/debit card. Having researched various options for an on-line booking system, we have chosen to use Eventbrite, which is used extensively by many organisations for events e.g. St James Concert Hall, Guernsey Chamber of Commerce, La Société Guernesiaise. Whilst the booking process through Eventbrite is relatively simple, we have prepared a simple step by step guide to assist members with the process, which you can download from here - Eventbrite Booking Guide
  • u3aGuernsey supported the 2022 Torteval Scarecrow Festival with a display organised by Molly and Bob Thompson, our u3a Choir and u3a Walking Group Convenors. They made some "lifelike u3a member" scarecrows in various learning, laughing and living modes and invited other interest groups to make something for the display. Our u3a Metalwork Group joined in the fun by making a "seated person learning to play the ukulele". The Ukes Group being the oldest and one of the most popular interest groups in u3a Guernsey. We hope that the result will make you smile, along with all the other scarecrows that were on display at the Festival!
u3a Metalwork Torteval Scarecrow
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Publication deadlines

Due to various reasons, not least the availability of news items and to avoid clashing with the Interest Groups' Update which normally goes our in the last couple of days of the month, the publishing date of our monthly newsletter has moved from the end of the month to the middle of the month.

So, if you would like to get news items or photos into our Newsletter, we recommend that you send them to us (u3aguernsey.news@gmail.com) by the 10th of the month.

And for updates on your group activities to the Interest Groups Team (u3aguernsey.groups@gmail.com) please send them in by the 24th of the month.