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.
Useful Links
Social Events and Trips
Monthly Programme 2026
Monthly Programme 2025
Forthcoming events
Past Events
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Quiz night November 2025
What a spectacular night the Events team laid on for us all, starting with a delicious meal served by Culinary Delights from Edwinstowe, the Pork loin steaks were extremely tasty and I'm sure the other options were just as delicious.
It was lovely to see Chris Neighbour there who has just lost his dear wife Wendy 🫂
After teas and coffees the quiz started, hosted by Roy and Sue Dexter who pitched it just right, it was a very entertaining quiz with 4 rounds of 5 questions then a picture round and then 4 more rounds of 5, each round had a theme and there was a lot of head scratching around the room.
There were about 15 teams of 4-6 people all with exotic team names and the winning team who led from the start were called 'Highly Strung', as they came from the Tennis group. The team was Jean Parry-Williams, Ann Street, Sue Coulson, John Harris, Jeff Coulson and Paul Webb, who will share the trophy for a year, and they all received a nice goody bag.
In the interval there was a bottle raffle run by Pam and we all raised around £168 for the Air Ambulance charity
I'd like to offer a big thankyou to the Events team once again for a fantastic and enjoyable evening, look out for the next events!
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Clipstone Headstocks
What an interesting morning we all spent at the Clipstone Headstocks museum. We learned so much from Stuart about the history and the legacy of the site and about Nottingham and the surrounding areas.
Stuart told us about Raleigh cycles and all the amazing inventions, then about the war years and the many vehicles and flying machines and also about the mine itself and all the machinery.
There were so many interesting facts and figures, including the depth of the mine, 920 metres, the speed of the lifts, 30 mph for the descent, the amount of coal that was mined, 1 Million tons per year!
Most of us retired to Rumbles in Vicar Water country park for a delicious variety of lunches and scones, all made fresh in the open kitchen by the talented chef
Well worth a visit on a Friday at 11am
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Barn Dance
Dance the Night Away
All the local u3as enjoyed a 'barnstorming' evening at the Forest Town Arena with great music and a caller to direct the dances, together with some lovely hot cobs it was great event
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