The Aims of the Third Age Trust are:

1. To encourage and enable older people no longer in full-time paid employment to help each other to share their knowledge, skills, interests and experience
2. To demonstrate the benefits and enjoyment to be gained and the new horizons to be discovered in learning throughout life
3. To celebrate the capabilities and potential of older people and their value to society
4. To make Universities of the Third Age (U3As) accessible to all older people
5. To encourage the establishment of U3As in every part of the country where conditions are suitable and to support and collaborate with them

The Objectives of the Third Age Trust are to:

1. Provide national support to the Universities of the Third Age in the UK
2. Provide support and advice to potential new member U3As and seek to start new groups in areas where the U3A movement is under represented
3. Raise the profile of the movement both nationally and internationally

May 2007