Saffron Walden

Welcome to Saffron Walden u3a

Jigsaw Challenge - new event - Tuesday 9th June

Our JIGSAW CHALLENGE is being held on Tuesday 9th June at the Bowls Club in Abbey Lane at 12:30 pm.

Come along and support this new venture. Entry is £10 which includes a Ploughman's Lunch at half-time. Teams of 4 will compete - please email Sue Matthews or phone her at 07426 802232 to book your slot.

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Next Open Meeting - Monday 15th June 2.30pm

Our next Open Meeting features a talk by Peter Batty entitled 'Band of Sisters'

Featuring amazing stories of women in World War II. Monday 15th June at the Bowls Club, doors open at 1:45 pm for a 2:30 pm start.

Free entry, free refreshments and free raffle - come along and enjoy an afternoon with your u3a friends and make some new ones.

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Summer Concert - World in Union - Saturday 18th July 12 noon

Our Harmony Choir presents its Summer Concert 'WORLD IN UNION' at 12pm on Saturday 18th July on the Bandstand in Jubilee Gardens, also featuring our Ukulele Group.

This is the highlight of our Summer Season and our Harmony Choir have chosen a wonderful selection of songs for you which includes melodies from Lerner and Loewe's My Fair Lady, John Rutter, The Beach Boys, Mamas and Papas, and Take That. Our Ukulele Group will also be performing a well-known selection from their vast repertoire - so a wonderful afternoon of entertainment is guaranteed.

Entry is free whilst donations are welcomed and will all go to EACH, the East Anglian Children's Hospices - a really worthwhile charity. We look forward to seeing you there.

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Lake District - 5 Day Break - 17 - 21 May 2027

5 day break staying on the outskirts of Grange over Sands at the Cumbria Grand Hotel, trips include Blackwell Arts & Crafts House, Haverthwaite Railway, Windermere Lake cruise to Bowness-on-Windermere, Levens Hall and Gardens with cream tea.
Free time in Ambleside, Bowness in Windermere and Kendal.
£730 - £800 approx. Deposit of £50 is due by 17th July 2026.
If interested please contact Dawn White on 07876 353677 or email: dawnwhite@fmail.co.uk

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Welcome to the Saffron Walden u3a website, where we hope you will find all you need to know about our organisation. We are proud to be the first u3a to be set up in Essex in 1984.

We are a self-help, self-managed, lifelong learning co-operative for those who are no longer in full-time employment, providing opportunities for our members to share learning experiences in a wide range of interest groups and to pursue learning, not for qualifications, but for fun. Hence the u3a motto "Learn, laugh and live".

Most of our 850 plus members reside in and around Saffron Walden, but new members are always welcome, See our Membership page for details about joining.

We currently run about 46 classes and activities and these are listed on our Groups page. Term times are similar to school terms, running from September to July but a number of groups meet throughout the year. We always welcome ideas for new groups and activites.

We hold Open Meetings on the 3rd Monday of each month with a guest speaker, and our Theatre and Travel group arrange a number of outings and holidays each year. Please see our What’s On page for future dates.

We produce our “UPDATE” magazine for members twice a year and a Newsletter each month to keep members abreast of current issues. Please see our latest Update, top right of this page, or visit our Publications page.

Unless you opt out, members will also receive the “u3a Matters” magazine by post 5 times a year, in February, April, June, September and November, from our parent organisation, Third Age Trust.