Information for members

Our u3a Day Trips or Events are advertised in the Advanced News email, Newsletter and on our Website. If they involve money changing hands, tickets/places for them will be sold at our General Meetings and a notice with the name of the trip/event being displayed in a Perspex holder on the allocated table.

We have a system of booking to cut down on queuing.  Could you bring your cheque - made out to S-L-H u3a Social or Stanford le Hope and District u3a depending upon the nature of the event and complete an Event Booking form with your details and preferences.

When you hand this over, you will be given a receipt or told it will be ready to collect at the end of the meeting. Hopefully, this will be quicker, easier, and you won't miss your cuppa in the interval queuing up.

You can download and print an Event Booking Form here. For more information, please see Reading and Printing PDF files

Paper forms will also be available at our General Meetings, and an Event Booking form is generally available on the back of the newsletter.

If you can’t find the table selling the tickets you want to buy, please ask an Executive Committee member.

All general Day Trip places will be sold first at a General Meeting. This is to try to avoid members wanting to buy tickets and finding that all the places have gone before the meeting. Some people know about it before it is advertised to the whole membership as they are on mailing lists, and have access to email and phone numbers for the trip organisers.

All our Interest Group Leaders have to tell the Meeting and Speaker Secretary by the Monday before the meeting about the sales so he can save and allocate tables for them and prepare the signs.

If a Day Trip is organised by an Interest Group and is connected specifically to the theme of the group (e.g. Family History running a trip to the National Archives at Kew in order for people to do family research) - the members of that Interest Group will know about before it is advertised to the membership in general and may have already paid for tickets/places.

If there are still places left, the trip will be advertised by Newsletter and Website and tickets sold at the next General Meeting after the adverts.