WELCOME TO BUXTON & DISTRICT U3A

At the end of 2008, we are one of 695 U3A's in the UK, now with a total national membership of more than 200,000.
The Buxton U3A was founded in 1996 and has a current membership of a little under 600.

Aims and Guiding principles of the U3A movement

Preamble

The Universities of the Third Age in the United Kingdom (U3As) are autonomous, self-help organisations run by the voluntary efforts of their members. All U3As are members of the Third Age Trust (a Registered Charity No.288007), which is their national support and advisory body. The word “university” is used in its original sense of people coming together to share and pursue learning in all its forms. U3As have the following aims and guiding principles:

Aims

To encourage and enable older people no longer in full-time paid employment to help each other to share their knowledge, skills, interests and experience.

To demonstrate the benefits and enjoyment to be gained and the new horizons to be discovered in learning throughout life.

To celebrate the capabilities and potential of older people and their value to society.

To make U3As accessible to all older people and

To encourage the establishment of U3As in every part of the country where conditions are suitable and to support and collaborate with them.

Guiding Principles

U3As are guided by an extensive range of guiding principles, too extensive to read comfortably on a computer screen but published in full in U3A News Spring 2004.

It could be that every Member of Buxton & District U3a will be given a copy of them and that every new Member would then receive a copy with our joining information.

Last updated, 31^st December, 2008