April 2015 - Ferndown and District U3A

Registered Charity no. 1073206
April 2015
Tel: 07799 121 926 – please leave a landline number.
Email: ferndownu3a@gmail.com
Website: www.ferndownu3a.co.uk
2015 – 2016 U3A Brochure
The new brochure is about to go to print.
All current members will receive their copy of our
2015-16 brochure in advance of the Open Day on May
22nd. You will receive it in one of the following ways:
Judith Hodges and Bob Reeve will be in the Lobby of
the Barrington Centre on the following mornings
between 10.45 and 11.15,
Tues May 12th,
Wed May 13th,
Thurs May 14th, and
Fri May 15th.
SPRING FRIDAYS
A series of talks and group presentations
throughout the Spring
Fridays 10.30 – 12 noon
MAY 1ST GERRY’S COFFEE MORNING
– The Creative writing group will present
some of their work.
Tea and coffee available from 10am
MAY 8th THE CHANGING FACE OF BRITAIN – ‘The
morning after the night before’;
a post-General Election discussion with
BRIAN WILLIAMS
All talks are held in the Conference Room at the
Barrington Centre.
Please try to collect your brochure this way as it will
reduce our costs. Anyone who isn't able to do so will
receive their copy in the post early in the week of
May 18th.
Jenny Bass will be visiting all the Bridge groups during
the week beginning May 11th.
On the Open Day itself, Committee Members will
outside Tescos actively encouraging new members to
join us!
Just to whet your appetite, there are a massive
24 new groups!!
Coffee and tea are available every Friday from
9.30a.m, provided by
The Ferndown Area 50+ Forum
For further information on ‘Spring Fridays’ contact
Bob Reeve at
reeve64@btinternet.com
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FERNDOWN U3A CHICAGO BRIDGE DRIVE!
Full enrolment details are in the brochure.
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Open Day
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Don’t forget to come to the Open Day on Friday 22
May at the Barrington Centre from 10am to 4pm.
This gives you the opportunity to talk to many of the
group leaders and to learn more about the groups
which interest you.
And don’t forget to bring your friends and
neighbours!!
Saturday 20th June
At the Barrington Centre
1.30 – 5.30
£20 per table
To book a table please contact Jenny on
01202 873228, or email: jmbass17@gmail.com
Nature Walks
WALK 2. Saturday 9th May at 10.30am. Around Porr Common. Meet at the Angel Inn, Ringwood Road.
These walks are going to become a regular monthly event from September 2015. Look in the new brochure,
(when you receive it) for more details.
GROUP LIMITED TO 16 WALKERS - For more information please call Julia Lockwood: 01202 914277
BEGINNERS SPANISH – Olay!
Maria Gonzales is offering a beginners Spanish group during the Summer Break.
It will be on the 2nd and 4th Monday of each month from June to September from 2.30 – 4pm at her home in
Ferndown.
To enrol, please contact the membership Secretary on ferndownu3a@gmail.com and quote group code L10.
MEMBER OF THE MONTH - This month’s member is Ian Burr who many of you will know
from the 5 mile pub walks.
I had a professional career mainly in Warwickshire before moving to Ferndown four years or
so ago. Not knowing anyone locally it occurred to me that joining U3A might be a good way
of meeting a few people – and so it proved.
I have an interest in literature, art, and architecture, and during my three years of
membership I have consistently been able to find groups that I have enjoyed, some of them
leading me in unexpected directions.
An enthusiast for country walking (possibly because it doesn't cost anything!) I now lead the
five mile walking group and am very happy to have found a way of contributing to U3A
without having to stand up in front of an audience!
Some of our members are up for anything!!!!
My name is Pat O Riordan - When I retired I needed something useful to do and was very lucky as U3A was just being
set up in Ferndown so I joined. I lead the Keep Fit class for about 13 years and this year I lead the Badminton group.
I have organised the Singles luncheon group for about 12 years. I also do some charity work.
I have decided to do a Wing Walk for Alzheimers Research.
The event takes place on 16th May at Compton Abbas at approx. 13.30pm
The reason to choose this charity is because the last years of my mother’s life were blighted by this horrible disease.
We are all living longer but we need to add life to these added years; we need some answers. Rather than looking
after people with the disease we need to be able to prevent it or diagnose it earlier and hopefully find a cure.
Everyone has their own favourite charity that they like to support but if you feel you could support Alzheimers
Research that would be wonderful. Donations can be made at www.justgiving.com/Pat-Oriordan or I do have forms
which can be filled in. Many thanks.
01202 8917742
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Possible new Group
Would anyone be interested in attending or taking part in a class/talk/discussion-group that addressed
Anthropology?
This would provide the opportunity to learn about the evolution of cultural and social behaviour of homo-sapiens
since the earliest available archaeological records, perhaps dating from ten or even twenty millennia ago.
Early people developed mutual communication skills and will have perceived benefits from practicing altruism and
establishing moral codes of behaviour. There will also have been inevitable curiosity about the nature and purpose of
the sun, moon, stars and their own being. In the absence of the tangible evidence available today, some dared to
create notions and of those notions the more impressive or attractive ones became entrenched as popular myths.
Images of gods were invented and religious feelings of homage and veneration were formed.
We do not have a leader so far, but if anyone has the experience to take it on, or if you would like to join such a
group, please contact Bob Reeve at: reeve64@btinternet.com
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You may be interested in this link provided by members of the Heritage Coast U3A:
http://www.whatsoninlyme.co.uk/u3a.htm
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PUZZLE SPOT
Two women and two doctors walk into an ice cream parlour.
They each order an ice cream cone.
When their ice creams come, there is only 1 strawberry, 1 chocolate and 1 vanilla.
How come they didn't complain?
Last month’s answer – he wouldn’t be able to sell any plums – it is a pear tree!! (Apologies to everyone who
struggled to do the maths)
DID YOU KNOW?
If you count upwards from one and spell out the numbers, you won’t use the letter ‘a’ until you get to one
thousand!!
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Damaris Silver Screen is a ground-breaking initiative that seeks to re-engage lonely older
people in cinema as an enriching social activity.
We are pleased that this is also supporting cutting edge research at the University of
Southampton into non-pharmacological interventions for the prevention of dementia.
And we're delighted that the press have also picked up the story which means that momentum
is really building for this fantastic cause.
We plan to do further pilots of Damaris Silver Screen in Wessex before a national roll-out.
Currently we are raising funding for the project through grant applications, corporate sponsors
and the glamorous Rotary Red Carpet Gala Screenings.
How can I get involved?
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Help us spread the word by sharing this email with your friends and contacts
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Raise awareness by posting your favourite film quote on Twitter using #linetoremember
and www.damaris.org/silverscreen
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Read more at www.damaris.org/silverscreen and keep up to date with developments by
following us on Twitter
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Set up fundraising events and tell us about them on our Virgin Money Giving page
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Visit our Virgin Money Giving page to donate to the project
Text 'SILV33 £5' to 70070 to make a £5 donation now
Yours truly,
Emily Smart
Damaris Silver Screen
Any comments on the Newsletter, or content for the next one, please email Judith: jdth.hodges@gmail.com