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If you are a member of Bognor Regis U3A and have a green membership card it’s time to renew your membership.

The new membership period starts on 1st April 2012 and runs until 31st March 2013; membership card colour is pink for this period.

Download a form HERE and send it with your cheque and stamped SAE to the membership secretary: details on the form.

BIRTHDAY BARN DANCE

One year on from the launch of Bognor Regis U3A in May 2011, we have a fun birthday celebration for members and their partners.

There will be live music, barn dancing to a caller, and a ploughman’s supper, all for the ticket price of £8 per person. Come and join in the easy dancing - no partner or expertise needed - or just enjoy a drink at the bar and listen to the music amongst U3A friends.

Date: Friday 18th May 2012 Time: 7.30pm - 10.30pm

Venue: Newtown Social Club, 16a Greencourt Drive, Bognor Regis, PO21 5EU.

Parking: The social club has its own car park.

Tickets cost £8 pp, To order tickets send a cheque to Bognor Regis U3A - please write your name, phone number and number of tickets required on the back of your cheque to:-

Bognor Regis U3A
15 Park Drive
Yapton
Arundel
BN18 0JF

Please enclose a stamped addressed envelope for return of your tickets.

Next Monthly Meeting

Thursday, 24th May 2012
Starts 10am; ends 11.30am

Bersted Community Centre,
Chalcraft Lane, Bognor Regis, PO21 5UB
Entrance £1 includes Coffee/tea and biscuits.

Iain Palôt will tell us what it’s like ‘Being a Magistrate’

Forthcoming Events

18 May	Barn Dance (see left)
22 May	Rhythms of Life (see below)
24 May	Monthly Meeting (see above)
28 June	Monthly Meeting
26 July	Monthly Meeting
	No Monthly Meeting in August
27 September	Monthly Meeting: SkyLab - The Effect on your body of going into space. A Talk by Mike Whittle.
25 October	Groups Fair and Open Day at the Gordon Centre replaces Monthly Meeting for October

..........NEW: - See Poems from Bognor Regis U3A's recent limerick competition
New Groups in Red. Go to the Groups page to find out more.
Bird Watching	Book Club	Bridge	Canasta	Computers
Cribbage	English History	Family History	Family History-Advanced	Flower arranging
Science/Technology	French	Gardening	Geology	German-Beginners
German-Intermediate	Going-Out Group	Guitar playing	Italian Conversation	Italian
Jazz Appreciation	Local History	Luncheon club	Mah Jongg	Music Appreciation
Patchwork/quilting	Play reading	Poetry	Scrabble	Sewing and knitting
Spanish	Tai Chi	Table Tennis	Walking	Wine Appreciation

Recent Activities

Luncheon club enjoying themselves as usual.

How to start Flower Arranging.

A great turnout for the first Bognor Regis U3A walking group –
11 members showed up for the Arundel park walk led by Suzie Wheller. About 5.75 miles were covered in perfect weather, with glorious views of the Arun valley. It was agreed that a very high standard had been set by this walk and all members are keen for the next one!




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The Rhythms of Life: How Our Biological Clocks Tick
Tuesday 22nd May 2012

Welcome Trust Lecture Theatre at The Royal Society, Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1
14.00 – 14:45 presentation by Professor Foster
14:45 – 15:15 refreshments in the City of London Room
15.15 – 16:00 Q & A session

Admission is by ticket only at £14.50 per person including refreshments.

Apply to: The Third Age Trust, 19 East Street, Bromley BR1 1QE. enclosing s.a.e. Cheques payable to The Third Age Trust.
Tickets will not be available on the door

• Why is the 24 hour pattern of sleep so important to health?• Do humans, like many other animals, show seasonal changes in biology?• Why is light so important to our body clock and how is it detected?• Do our body clocks change with age?
This is the eighth annual Staying Sharp event, sponsored by The Dana Alliance.This presentation will discuss the essential science that drives the dailyand seasonal rhythms in plants, animals and even ourselves.
Speaker: Professor Russell Foster Chair of Circadian Neuroscience, Brasenose College, Oxford University
Author of: Rhythms of Life, Seasons of Life, Sleep: A Very Short Introduction

Introduction: Len Street OBE Lea Valley U3A

Barn Dance
There will be live music, barn dancing to a caller, and a ploughman’s supper, all for the ticket price of £8 per person.

Friday 18th May 2012 Time: 7.30pm - 10.30pm
Venue: Newtown Social Club, 16a Greencourt Drive, Bognor Regis, PO21 5EU.

Introducing U3A

U3A is a learning cooperative, an international association of men and women, no longer in full-time employment, who willingly share their time, knowledge and experience with each other.

Learning and social activities take place in groups, organised by volunteer group leaders. We meet mostly in members’ own homes in a friendly atmosphere, with no restrictions on how many group activities you can join.

Why U3A?
U3A is short for University of the Third Age. It is a university in the original sense of the word: a collective of people devoted to learning, all of whom are in their Third Age. The Third Age refers to the period of time after the First Age of childhood dependence and the Second Age of full time employment and parental responsibility. The U3A started some 26 years ago and has now expanded to well over 250,000 members within some 820 local groups. Each local U3A, such as the Bognor Regis U3A, is autonomous but affiliated to the national Third Age Trust. If you would like to know more about how the U3A started and the principles upon which it is based, visit the National website www.u3a.org.uk.

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About Bognor Regis U3A
Bognor Regis U3A was born on 5th May 2011, when a launch meeting attended by local people voted overwhelmingly to start up a new U3A for Bognor.
In September 2011 we became affiliated to The Third Age Trust, establishing us as a full member of the U3A community.

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