U3A Roseland and District
How we work
As the U3A is a self-help organisation it is important for its future development that study, social and physical activity groups are led by volunteer members. No monetary remuneration is offered (except legitimate expenses approved by Committee) although the reward of helping your fellow Man, developing your own skills and learning more about your favourite subject is far greater than any amount of cash.
Please read the following notices and, if you feel you would like to try your hand at leading or co-ordinating, please contact Shirley Davis on 01872 270030.
Please remember: there is no contract so if you want to change your mind after starting or life throws the unexpected at you, you simply give notice to quit. It is that simple.
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Are you cut out to be a Group Leader? |
The U3A needs more group leaders – and you could be just right for the job, says Glenys Tuersley of the Learning Support Group.
The U3A offers a unique way of studying. Unhindered by the need to follow a set syllabus or prepare for exams, we may choose our objectives, plan our own course of study and go at our own pace.
We can choose to do short courses to see how we manage, or longer and more ambitious projects.
“I could do that …” The anguished words of Alan Bleasdale’s unemployed hero in The Boys from the Blackstuff are applicable to many U3A members on the realisation that co-ordinating or contributing to a group activity is not outside their ability.
The company of others will keep us at our studies, and help by sharing experience and discussing topics to overcome the difficulties we may encounter on the way.
We can blend arts with sciences, lend an international flavour to literature and music, and branch off at will if the whim takes us to look more deeply into an area that might otherwise be overlooked.
With all this freedom in the way we study, with the back-up of learning materials provided by the Resource Centre and a measure of enthusiasm, together with some lateral thinking, perhaps some of us will begin to realise – “I can do that.”
The important first thing is to form a group of people keen to study in the same area. Once the group exists it will attract others of like mind. How often I hear people saying “I would love to do some Science, but we haven’t a group.” Without grasping the nettle, they never will have a group! Enjoy learning in the tradition of the grand amateurs like Darwin, who learnt for the love of their subject. You can do it.
