40th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS -EVENTS AND ACTIVITIES

A sub committee (including John Sutton, Jeff Hewitt, Naz Reed, Lesley Charnock, Rita Fidler, Anne Hughes and Carol Bradbrook-Taylor) is heading up planning for celebrating our 40^th Anniversary year from October 2025 to September 2026.  

The following table provides a summary of events. Please contact Carol Bradbrook-Taylor at mediau3a.tad@gmail.com for further details.

Forthcoming Events

DATE	EVENT	ORGANISER	COST	Comments
27 May 2026	Special Concert 2PM - 4PM	CBT/JS/JH	£5
10 June 2026	Lunch – The Black Horse	LC/NR	approx £35 TBC
30 July 2026	Day Trip to Gilbert White’s House, Sussex.  Retracing the 1st trip made by this u3a.	CBT	approx £40 TBC
September 2026	Tea Party and Music – Bowls and Tennis Club	NR	£20 TBC

Past Events

DATE	EVENT	ORGANISER	COST	Comments
1 October 2025	Anniversary Meeting 1	JS	-	Completed
15 October 2025	Anniversary Meeting 2	JS	-	Completed
17 October 2025	Afternoon Tea Party -Thame Tennis and Bowls Club	JS/NR	£7	Completed
1 Nov-21 Dec 2025	Exhibition in Thame Museum	CBT	Free	Completed
19 Nov 2025	Crafts and Hobbies Show	JS/CBT/HP/Crafters	Free	Completed
31 Mar 2026	Quiz	JS	£5	Completed
	2025/2026 Membership Card with drawing of Commemorative Bench	DM/AF		Completed
	Anniversary Banner	RF		Completed
	Commemorative Record and Digitalisation of past records	NW/AH/CBT
	Memories of Past Holidays – for Book and Exhibition	CBT
	Memoirs of Past Chairmen – for Book and Exhibition	CBT
	Commemorative Bench – outside Thame Museum	CBT		Completed

To celebrate our ruby anniversary we commissioned a bench which has been installed outside Thame Museum.

Quiz

Exhibition at Thame Museum

Tea Party at Thame Tennis Club

Enguistics ABC for our u3a

Our Enguistics group has written an ABC for our u3a click this text to see it.

Do you have photographs from a Thame & District u3a Study Tour?

• We're looking for photographs we can share about past activities. Some of you will remember the study tours that Gill and Ron Bellis (see below) organised between 2008 and 2017. If you have any photographs from these trips then we would like to include them in a future presentation.

• If you have several or they are too large to attach to an email contact Nigel on the same email and he will share drop box details.