Author: Sharon Rupp

Free Home Energy Checks Does your home feel cold? Are you worried about paying your energy bills? As part of the Warm Homes programme, you could receive a free home energy check from Age UK Lindsey. If you are over 65, live in a cold home or have a long-term health condition, you may be…

Following the October visit from Lincolnshire Police, they have offered to run a half-day workshop for our members. The aim of the workshop would be to help members secure their online accounts, for example, changing passwords, enabling 2FA, setting up password managers etc. The workshop would also allow them to answer any questions and concerns…

Age UK are looking for volunteers to go to care homes local to them around the county, and act as “Visitor Hosts”. This involves greeting any visitors that come to the care home, ensuring lateral flow tests have been carried out and handing out the correct PPE to the visitor. This provides really necessary support…

Today’s speakers were from Lincolnshire Police’s Cybercrime Unit who gave a brief overview of the potential areas where we can be scammed and how to avoid it. They also provided a helpful guide for members to take away to read at leisure. I have a few spare so if you missed the meeting, come and…

The Committee extend a warm invitation to all members to attend a Committee Meeting to see ‘behind the scenes’ of what we do to keep your u3a running. You are welcome to come along and observe, and you might find being a committee member is not as daunting as you imagine, and more fun. The ethos…

JOHN NOWELL –  A DAY ABOVE LINCOLNSHIRE John Nowell served for 20 years in the Royal Air Force, and then flew as a personal pilot to His Majesty, the late Sultan Qaboos of Oman. He published his first photographic book at the Sultan’s request ‘A Day Above Oman’. Since retiring from commercial flying, John has…

The 2022 u3a Diaries are now available to order for £3.50. Please see me at this Thursday’s General Meeting to order and pay. Thank you Sharon Rupp

Scunthope U3A invite us to their last Zoom Speaker this Friday August 27th at 1.45pm, and the subject is Jack The Ripper presented by Paul Robbins. Paul returns to the East End of  his childhood to talk about the World’s greatest “criminal who done it” in history. He paints a vivid and moving picture of…

The 2022 u3a Diaries are now available to order for £3.50. Payment must be in advance please, and the last date to order is September 30th. Please see Sharon Rupp at the September General Meeting.

Today, at our first meeting with a speaker since March 2020, we welcomed Nigel MacKnight, a successful technical author. Coming from ordinary back ground, Nigel found an aptitude for writing technical books in layman’s speak about anything that moved –  rockets, spacecraft, aircraft, formula 1 and so on, and made a successful career from it.…

Once again, Scunthorpe U3A have included us in their Zoom speaker presentation on Friday 23rd July: ” The curious incident of Agatha Christie” Time: Jul 23, 2021 at  1.45pm Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83882493179?pwd=OE1VWmNJOGdJcVY1bnQydzkxYTFBQT09 Meeting ID: 838 8249 3179 Passcode: 077472

Louth u3a have kindly opened their July speaker by Zoom to us on Tuesday 13th July -apologies for late notification, we have only just received it. We had Mike Storr some years ago, and this is Part 2: ‘Masters of Mirth :: The Sequel’ An affectionate look at some more of my favourite Music Hall laughter…

KEEP FIT CLASSES   ARE RE-STARTING ON THURSDAY JULY 15TH at 10.15am AT THE FESTIVAL HALL  £1.50 PER SESSION COVID 19 REQUIRMENTS: PLEASE WEAR A MASK TO ENTER/LEAVE BRING YOUR OWN DRINK MAINTAIN 2M DISTANCE FETCH AND RETURN YOUR CHAIR VOLUNTEERS NEEDED TO SANITISE TOUCH POINTS AFTER THE CLASS LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING YOU AGAIN! ALL ACTIVITIES ARE…

40th Anniversary of the u3a movement 2022 In 2022, u3a will celebrate its 40th anniversary and a number of national events are planned throughout the year. Because there are so many Craft groups, there will be a competition to create an Anniversary quilt as a lasting souvenir of the occasion. This quilt is envisaged as a Moment…

Once again, Scunthorpe u3a have invited us to watch their monthly speaker entitled ‘The Village Lock Up’ on Friday at 1.45pm, details below: Jun 25, 2021 1:45 pm Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82284361081?pwd=dnlocVl5cEViRXRyRzhadmFZRHZnUT09 Meeting ID: 822 8436 1081 Passcode: 069904