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Notices
The u3a Publications Team needs you!
We are still looking for members to help produce the annual Newsletter. It’s creative, great fun and puts you at the heart of Chichester u3a. Whether your interest is in writing, interviewing and reporting (written, audio or video), photography, design, desktop publishing, or just brainstorming ideas, WE NEED YOU!
If you think you might be interested and want to learn more, please contact me for a chat by simply replying to this bulletin email. I look forward to hearing from you.
Many thanks, Miriam
Visit to Fort Nelson, Portsmouth
Wednesday 22nd May 2024
Join us on a visit to this fascinating restored Victorian fortress. We will meet in the Visitor Centre Lobby at 10.30am.
- Free entry
- Café & Gift Shop
- Parking Limited
- Car-sharing recommended
Booking may be done on the website HERE
If you can offer car-sharing or would like a lift (there is no public transport to Fort Nelson) please put a note in the “Comment” box on the booking form.
If you have any queries please Contact the Chair
Fishbourne Literary Festival
16 June 2024 14.30 – 16.30
| Fishbourne Literary Festival presents a special event with the author Conn Iggulden Join him for a fascinating talk in St Peter and St Mary Church Hall, Fishbourne PO19 3XT As part of the Festival of Chichester, St Peter and St Mary Church Hall will host an afternoon with one of the most acclaimed authors of historical fiction writing. He will talk about his new epic Nero, the first in an enthralling new trilogy about the tyrant of Rome. Buy tickets online at www.fishbourneliteraryfestival.co.uk Tickets: £15 for the event – includes refreshments of cake and tea |
Groups Notices
“Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” – Mark Twain
New Scrabble Group
Would you like to join a new Scrabble group? We are proposing to meet in the Festival Theatre café on the first Thursday of each month 3.30 – 5pm for a regular game of scrabble.
Do let us know if you are interested. Please contact Alison via the Groups Team.
Exciting New Group: Pickleball
Tuesdays 2.00-4.00pm, term time only
Westgate Leisure Centre
Starts Tuesday 18th June
£4.70 payable at Reception
Please register your interest using this link
NOTE: Pickleball is a racket or paddle sport in which two players or four players hit a perforated, hollow plastic ball with paddles over a 34-inch-high net until one side is unable to return the ball or commits a rule infraction. Pickleball is played indoors and outdoors. Wikipedia
New Poetry Group
Would you like to register your interest in a new Poetry group?
Read more ……
A new Poetry group is starting. We will be looking at poets from the 20th Century including
T.S. Eliot to Maya Angelou & Theodore Roethke to Spike Milligan.
We will meet once a month either in members’ homes or at St. Paul’s Parish Centre, Churchside, Chichester PO19 6FT. Day & time will be chosen to suit the majority.
If you’d like to register your interest please contact the Groups Team.
There will be a preliminary meeting on a break out table at the Coffee Morning in the Minerva Theatre on June 7th from 10.40 am.
Bridge for Fun Group needs a mentor
We are looking for a skilled bridge player who might be prepared to give up two hours of their time on Mondays (including Bank Holidays) to act as a mentor to a new bridge group. Bridge for Fun 3 is held from 10am to 12noon at Donnington Hall, Stockbridge Road, Chichester. If you could mentor this group please leave a message for Barbara Howden Richards on 01243 926787, which is an ansaphone.
Bus Walks 2
We have set up a new walking group – Bus Walks 2 – meeting Monthly on the 3rd Wednesday from 9:30 – 13:00.
These walks will be approximately five miles long and either circular or linear, starting at a bus stop in Chichester. There will be an option for lunch at the end. These will be faster paced walks.
This group currently has vacancies, so if you are interested, please contact the Groups Team.
National u3a & Regional Events
National u3a
There is a wealth of information on the National u3a website –www.u3a.org.uk , including online groups, u3a Radio podcast, upcoming events like Festival 2024 (18th-20th July, at York), and the latest issue of Third Age Matters, the monthly national u3a magazine (Here is the link to the current version.)
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