Milford On Sea

Events

The Milford on Sea u3a monthly meetings are held in the Community Centre Hall (renamed ‘The Bridge’) , Sea Road, on the first Tuesday of each month at 2pm.

Our monthly meetings are only for members of Milford on Sea u3a, but if you are thinking of joining, and would like to come along, please contact the Secretary through the contact page and we will arrange it for you.

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Dates for your Diary
Meetings
Tue Mar 26th 1:00-2:00 pm at the Community Centre in the Main Hall.
The Groups Support Team will be providing a one hour session for anyone interested in joining one of the new groups to come and sign up and discuss next steps.
The new groups are:

Backgammon
Badminton (racquet sports)
Board Games
Canasta 3
German
Historical Topics 2
Italian for fun
Psychology
Rummikub
Sewing & Craft
Strollers
Theatre Trips
Wine Appreciation 3

We look forward to seeing you on the day but if you have any questions before then, please do get in touch with the Groups Support Team from the Contact page.

Lynn, Hilary & Liz
Tue Apr 2nd 2pm ‘Muppets Magic Musical Moments’ Speaker: Chris Walker

“MUPPET’S MAGICAL MUSICAL MOMENTS”. Chris Walker presents some of the great musical moments from the five series of The Muppet Show. The musical contributions were played by some of Britain’s top musicians. Who were they? Relive some extremely funny clips with Archive footage from Chris’ own collection.
Chris was a professional musician (clarinet) with The London City Stompers and later with the Mike Daniels Big Band and Colin Kingwell’s Jazz Bandits. Chris moved to Hampshire in 1969 and since then he has worked with most local jazz personalities, was a member of The Real Ale and Thunder Band for 18 years, and has run his own highly successful 5-piece ‘Swingtet’ for the last 30 years. Whilst with the Real Ale & Thunder Band, Chris was, in 1987, the musical director for an historic BBC “Songs of Praise” from The Maltings in Farnham and, between 1980 and 2007, he has produced a series of music and information-based jazz programmes for BBC Local radio across the South.
Chris has co-ordinated Jazz Themes for P&O cruises including on board the Canberra, Oriana, Aurora and Artemis.
Tue May 7th 2pm “A Writer's Journey - researching Human trafficking and modern slavery”
Speaker: Helen Matthews

Helen Matthews is an author of psychological suspense and domestic thrillers, and now has four published novels, two of which include themes of modern slavery. The first novel After Leaving the Village has a theme of human trafficking and has recently been republished by publisher Darkstroke Books, under the title Girl Out of Sight. Her novel The Girl in the Van (published in March 2022 by Darkstroke) has a sub-plot around a different aspect of modern slavery known as 'county lines'. Her books are actually gripping pageturners that sometimes deal with important contemporary social issues.

Today’s talk covers Helen’s journey as an author, how she became interested in human trafficking, where victims discovered in the UK have come from, the country of Albania and the work of the anti-slavery charity, Unseen UK, for which she is an Ambassador, and donates her fee to that cause.
Tue Jun 4th 2pm Kevin Patience: Treasures from the Deep
Tue Jul 2nd 2pm Emma Jolly: 3 French Queens and the Shakespeare connection
Tue Aug 6th 2pm Marc Heighway: Hidden in Plain Sight - reminders of WW2 in New Forest
Tue Sep 3rd 2pm Neil Dunnet: Sailing Tall Ships
Tue Oct 1st 2pm Brian and Jackie Sutton: Charles Dickens - controversial private life story
Tue Nov 5th 2pm: Paul Stickler: The Kray twins - murder case
Tue Dec 3rd Jane Glennie: Hertha Ayrton Portsmouth born award-winning inventor and suffragette

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