Beacon for Group Leaders
We use Beacon, an online management system developed by the National u3a, to manage our membership records and to send emails to members. Our financial transactions are also recorded within the system.
Access to the Beacon database is available to Group Leaders. This enables you to manage membership of your group (eg by adding/removing members, creating waiting lists), and to send out group emails (particularly useful for larger groups and for sending messages bcc). There is a ledger facility to record group income and expenditure, and the option to download group details to Excel for creating attendance lists if required. It also allows group leaders to monitor whether their members have paid their u3a subscriptions.
A short training session is all that is needed to use Beacon.
If you have already been set up as a Beacon user, you can login here: Beacon Login.
Help
For Help on using Beacon see our Beacon Advice for Group Leaders, the national Beacon User Guide or, if you want to know more or receive training, please contact our Beacon Administrator.