New Groups and Potential Groups
To join one of these groups, you'll need to subscribe to Interest Groups Online (IGO). It only costs £12 per year and includes a subscription to the Third Age Matters, the u3a magazine. For more information, please visit the Interest Groups Online page.
Recently formed groups with vacancies
Potential Groups
Potential groups provide an opportunity for members to help set up a group which is not currently included in our active groups. When there enough members in the potential group, we organise a meeting so you can decide between you how the group will work and how it will be run.
In Beacon Members Portal the names of these groups start with Potential
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About Whisky
This might involve participants taking turns to highlight aspects of a particular distillery, method of production, taste even famous people known to love -
AI for Artists
This group will explore using an artist-led, exploratory approach to use free AI tools to re-imagine 2D images as spatial or 3D forms . This would be for creative and conceptual purposes, rather than technical 3D modelling. -
American Politics
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Current Affairs
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Fashion and Beauty
A discussion around available and affordable fashion items, including fabrics, make up, hair products - plus a monthly special sewing bee including recycling clothes, outfits for children, evening outfits and casual wear. -
Food and Drink
This group will have cookery tips, recipes, pairing ideas, the best of the YouTube / online videos, famous chefs and restaurants, food and drink from around the world. -
German Improvers
Our current German groups are all full, so we are setting up this potential group to get together people who would like to set up a new group for people who already have some knowledge of German. -
Great Albums '80s '90s
This group will explore great albms of hte 0s and 90s, or might be split in two to explore the two decades separately. -
Irish for Beginners
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Italian Conversation
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Learn Geoguessr
GeoGuessr is a browser-based geography game in which players try to deduce locations from Google Street View imagery. Essentially its a game where you are given a photo of anywhere in the world and you have to work out where it is. The skilled can do it in less than a minute!!! -
Map Reading
This group is intended to help people to develop their map-reading skills. Remember that u3a groups do not have "teachers" - ideally everyone is a learner and a teacher. -
Portuguese
How the group will work will depend on the abilities and wishes of the members of the Potential group -
Presentation Skills
The group hopes to attract members who would like to practice making short presentations. -
Sign Language
An online course by british-sign.co.uk will be used as the basis for this group. Members of the group will need to sign up for the course. -
This group will be for people with little or no knowledge of Welsh