We hold an open members' meeting very month except for May, August and December. This is on the 3rd Monday of the month in the Jubilee Hall, Wellow Road, Ollerton. Doors open at 12.30pm when people can meet together and find out what is going on from group leaders and a display of forthcoming events. After refreshments we welcome a guest speaker presenting a matter of interest to u3a members. March's meeting is an open meeting for members and non members where our group leaders showcase our groups and is also our annual subscription day. May's meeting is our Annual General Meeting and in August members enjoy an indoor picnic. December is our Christmas party and entertainment.
Please see the link below for details of the programme for our monthly members' meetings. More information on the speakers is below. Also visit our Groups page for the programme of activities and interest groups which are of open to all members.
Please note that Dukeries u3a members will have priority for events, and guests will be invited once members have had a chance to book.
Our programme of social events and trips for 2025 is under way and events and trips are planned for 2026.. Our guest speakers are already lined up for 2026. Please see below for more details.
For the U3A Christmas Party 2025, Sue North made this beautiful table decoration in memory of Wendy.
It was raffled off and made another £123 for the John Eastwood Hospice. 😊
Many thanks to all who bought a raffle ticket.
A message from Pam Hardwick our charity coordinator
Mmmmm a good party and it was great to see so many new faces, I hope you were entertained well and enjoyed yourselves.
The sale of bingo and sticky thirteen games came to £125 and the generosity of the winners in donating back their winnings swelled the proceeds to £145.
A member donated £5 and others donated 23p,( that was a funny story which has been repeated much to the amusement of the listeners)
My lovely group of gardeners donated £17 this month and it all added up to £167.23 which I have just transferred to our chosen charity.
So we have smashed our hopeful target of £9,000 👏👏 and have up to today raised £9,150.00.
My thanks go to you all for being so generous in supporting this life saving service and my hopes are that you will not need them to rescue you at any time in the future.
So I wish you all a very merry Christmas and a happy and healthy new year.
See you soon
Pam Hardwick
Charity coordinator.
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Social Events and Trips
Monthly Programme 2026
Monthly Programme 2025
Forthcoming events
Past Events
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Life and times of the Beatles
What a lovely afternoon we spent listening to Paul Lillee giving his fantastic talk on the Beatles, including songs and his amazing artwork (see pictures)
Here is some of his presentation, he talked about the early years and how the band was formed with a few who joined the original early band the Quarrymen with Stuart Sutcliffe and Pete Best who left the band before the fab four were settled when Ringo Starr joined after Paul, John and George.
Paul talked about the early songs and then conquering the USA and the famous concert at Shea stadium, the tour marred slightly with John's comment about being more famous than Jesus which was slightly taken out of context.
After finishing with touring and live concerts they concentrated on studio work with their manager Brian Epstein and producer George Martin (aka the fifth Beatle), one early song showing their progression was Yesterday. George was a little frustrated as most recordings were Lennon-McCartney compositions so George didn't get a look in for quite a while.
In their final couple of years they had various turmoils with Brian sadly committing suicide (eventually replaced by Alan Klein) and the infighting with Linda Eastman and Yoko Ono over managers and musical direction.
One of the last songs was the beautiful Hey Jude (originally Hey Julian) written by Paul for John's son with Cynthia
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Christmas party 2025
Great day at the Dukeries u3a Christmas party @Ollerton Jubilee Hall.. Well done and thank-you to the events team for organising today and The Banjoleers for the wonderful Sing Along entertainment. May we all wish you a very Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year.
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Edwinstowe Fair 2025
The free draw attracted 11 entries. Mike drew the winner this afternoon and the lucky new member is lady called Ivy. The remaining 10 had showed an interest and will be invited to join so we might get 11 new members.
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