{"id":32490,"date":"2026-01-08T21:02:53","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T21:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/westwoldsu3a.org\/?p=32490"},"modified":"2026-01-09T15:40:37","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T15:40:37","slug":"would-you-like-to-join-the-u3a-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westwoldsu3a.org\/?p=32490","title":{"rendered":"Would you like to join the u3a Council?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"624\" height=\"502\" src=\"https:\/\/westwoldsu3a.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Election26.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-32491\" srcset=\"https:\/\/westwoldsu3a.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Election26.jpg 624w, https:\/\/westwoldsu3a.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Election26-300x241.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Nominations are now open<\/strong>&nbsp;for Council Representative positions in your region or nation. You have until Tuesday 3 February to apply. You must be nominated by your home u3a and seconded by another. The full role description and requirements, as well as the nomination form, is available on the u3a website, linked below.&nbsp;Successful&nbsp;members will join the Council in April. If you have any questions about the process,&nbsp;please email&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:council@u3a.org.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">council@u3a.org.uk<\/a>.Please do share this widely with members at your u3a and consider whether you&#8217;d like to put yourself forward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.u3a.org.uk\/what-we-do\/events\/u3a-elections#ROLE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Role description and how to apply<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you are interested please contact Sharon on chair@westwoldsu3a.org<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nominations are now open&nbsp;for Council Representative positions in your region or nation. You have until Tuesday 3 February to apply. You must be nominated by your home u3a and seconded by another. The full role description and requirements, as well as the nomination form, is available on the u3a website, linked below.&nbsp;Successful&nbsp;members will join the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Obhw-8s2","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westwoldsu3a.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/westwoldsu3a.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/westwoldsu3a.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westwoldsu3a.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westwoldsu3a.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32490"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/westwoldsu3a.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32497,"href":"https:\/\/westwoldsu3a.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32490\/revisions\/32497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westwoldsu3a.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westwoldsu3a.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westwoldsu3a.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}