FERNDOWN U3A 2025 – 2026

        The Indian Cooking Group has been very busy learning new skills and it looks like they had a sumptuous celebration at the table afterwards!

              This year's Bowls Group has been really well received with everyone having fun learning new skills or helping newbies if they've played before. The group has had some lovely feedback and it's a really sociable group.  There has been a great...

Friday  26th  September 2025 Our first visit of the autumn term is to Lacock Abbey and the Fox Talbot Photo Archive in Wiltshire. After a slightly nippy start, the sun came out, and we enjoyed wandering around this lovely village with its quaint shops and film...

Our second 3 mile walk of the year was around Ferndown Common. Richard Buxton led us round the common stopping for the occasional interesting fact. - Pigs and acorns were the under great discussion!!  Mushroom and ponds were also a focus.  The weather held out and we...

Our 'What Happened Where You Live' group has recently been out and about walking around and viewing sites of local historical interest.  One visit took them to West Moors where they viewed the site of the railway once which connected the village to the national...

Two Fu3a members in their 70s are married  - the Registrar for the ceremony was another Fu3a member.  Is this a first! (the Registrar was member Caroline Marsh) Huge congratulations, Clare and Bob

On Thursday 18th September  18 intrepid cyclists set off on their first cycle of the U3a year. The rain held off as we set off through Uddens Plantation using gravel tracks, roads & the newly installed cycle path. Our circular route of about 6 miles returned us to...

On 20th August 72 members  of Fu3a set off for a trip to Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew. This was a first for us by taking two coaches. Kew Gardens  is a world heritage site and houses the largest and most diverse botanical collections in the world.  We were able to...