FERNDOWN U3A 2022 – 2023

What a fantastic few days! The sun shone, the organisation was superb and the company wonderful.  We visited the Cutty Sark, the Greenwich Market, The Maritime Museum, Greenwich Meridian line and so much more.  A huge thank you to Richard for arranging a great few...

  “On Saturday 20th May, 17 members of the FU3A J1 Discovering Wessex group went on the last visit of this academic year to Tyneham. The weather was brilliant with clear blue skies giving wonderful views over the surrounding countryside and down to the sea, from...

I was sitting in the ladies at SeaCity Museum (Southampton). On the back of the cubicle door was a small poster. It read something along the lines of: " Why not visit the Tudor House Museum?"  and showed a picture of an attractive black and white Tudor house. Why not...

It was a lovely event as always with a few new faces which is nice to see. The winner of the main game was Val Harris with the wooden spoon winner Derek Holden. Our skittle picker upper was Debbie Dixon, who did a marvellous job. The winner of the killer game was much...

Our Annual General Meeting took place on Friday 16th December 2022 and as usual was well attended. Chairman, Bob Reeve opened the proceedings and shared a review of the year including, finances and events. Once again, we have had a very successful year and numbers...

70 members  attend the lunch at the Remedy Oak Golf Club. After a pre-lunch Bucks Fizz we were treated to a excellent lunch which catered for all appetites. The conversation flowed and laughter could be  heard all round the room.  Travelling by coach enabled a very...

On Saturday 17th December we were expecting our daughter to arrive from Henley-on-Thames and then for her to drive us to Gillingham, North Dorset, to spend the day with our son’s family. The mucky drive down from Henley had made rather a mess of her windscreen so we...

Click on the image to enlargeCHAIRMAN BOB REEVE WRITES  It is a privilege - and a pleasure - for me to be the latest Chairman of Ferndown U3A to stand up on this sort of occasion and say   Well Done - and Thank You. There have been 12 Fu3a Chairmen so far.  The first...

AUGUST 1966 In 1966 I was a student at Bulmershe Teacher Training College in Reading. Just down the road at Farley Hill, a school established to serve the needs of severely handicapped boys contacted the college to ask students for assistance with the pupils. As a...

 COMMUNITY POPPY CASCADE A huge thank you to everyone who has supported our Community Poppy Cascade. We have had wonderful help, contributing around 1500 items!! These have included knitting, crocheting, painting, felting and stone painting. It has been inspiring to...

This month the Tea at the Museum group visited Wimborne to tour the refurbished Museum of East Dorset and the Chained Library in the Minster. The Museum of East Dorset This historic building dates back to the 1500s. For more than 400 years, many different families...