We hope you will find these items of interest on local issues. They have been collated from various organisations and sources. Some may ask you to complete a survey to give your response to influence future decisions. Others give information that may affect your day-to-day activities. They are not all u3a related. Where links are provided, they do not represent a risk if you click them. In this day and age, the most common way of providing information and contact is electronically using a website and email.
To make it easier to find information this section has been subdivided into a number of pages to group together items with a common theme. This section will continue to have items of a local nature. Please click on these links to find information of interest to you.
SUGGESTIONS BOX How to leave us a comment, suggestion of just tell us how we are running your u3a.
DID YOU KNOW? Information about what is changing, and we need to know about. Landline changes, Government help with bills., Voting identity, and more
HEALTH Routine Flu Vaccination, hearing and other health issues, NHS 111 link, Free Food and latest Covid-19 information.
LOCAL GROUPS & ORGANISATIONS Citizens Advice, Thurrock Community Forums, Thurrock Adult Community College
OTHER u3a's Links to East of England Region u3a and Virtual u3a
READING AND PRINTING PDF FILES How to view and print PDF files.
SCAMS Advice from police sources and elsewhere.
USEFUL INFORMATION FREE Home Fire Safety Visit, Priority service register, Power cuts, Emergency Alert System, Bus timetables, Rail Travel, Bin collections. PFCC Television Licence conditions and lots more.
Large Print Newsletters
We print a few newsletters in A4 size with size 16 text for those members who have difficulty reading our handy sized version. We have members who have put their names down to receive a copy in this format and are pleased with the larger versions. The son of one member told one of our Executive Committee members how much easier his mother found reading it in large print format. From another member, we received a delightful letter of thanks to the Executive Committee, telling them how much better the large version was for her.
If there is another member who would like to try the large size newsletter, give one of the Executive Committee your name and one can be printed and saved for you at the next General Meeting.
Getting to General Meetings
Would members who regularly have problems getting to General Meetings or know of other members who cannot get to General Meetings, please make themselves known to an Executive Committee Member and state what area they live in - this is especially if it is an area which is not on a bus route.