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Coffee & Tea events are back for 2025! Join us at one or two or three and bring your non-member friends along to see what we are doing. Come along to socialise with old friends not seen for a while and meet new ones. Coffee and tea and biscuits provided. FREE event to say thanks to our members for supporting us.

Please book your place with Winnie the secretary (secretary@u3a-luton.org.uk ) or via the 'contact us' page so that we know how many to cater for. You need to provide your name/s, membership number/s, and the date you wish to attend.

Our next social get together will take place on 20th November 2025 at St Mary's Church Hall in Luton Town Centre. This is a morning event from 10am - 12 noon. All the events include all the difficult quizzes that members love to do! Come along for coffee, tea, and biscuits and meet up with friends and new members.

Our social event on 21st October 2025 at Raynham Way, Eaton Green Road, Luton was a great success and several new members attended. 66 people attended the afternoon event from 2-4pm. We enjoyed a good natter and of course the usual hard quizzes! Make sure you attend our November event!

20th September 2025 at Christchurch, Bushmead, Luton. This was on afternoon event 2-4pm. We had 70 members attending and it was a very enjoyable, successful event. The quizzes were challenging but everyone had fun with every table trying to guess the most answers. Very good to meet some of our new members attending. Thank you to all the team for making it a great afternoon.

Our general meeting of 27th October 2025 at Venue 360 saw the return of Paul Barwick who gave us a presentation on Alexander Litvinenko, the Russian spy who was murdered. It was a brilliant account of his life, defection to the UK and his eventual demise. It was enthralling and there was a good attendance of some 145 members many of whom remarked how enjoyable it was.

Our General Meeting of 28th July included a presentation by Howard Slater and was all about the life and music of Andre Rieu. It was such an interesting presentation and our many members who attended, throughly enjoyed it. A few emotional tears shed over the beautiful music !

Take a look at the bottom of the page for all our presentations and dates for the rest of the year.

Tour of Town Hall: On 28th June, 21 members had an opportunity to tour ourTown Hall. Everyone really enjoyed themselves. Hardly anything has changed since it was rebuilt and completed and opened to the public in 1936. All very Neo-classical and Art Deco style. The Chair will organise more visits in the future if possible. Thanks again to David J for sharing his heritage knowledge and for making an interesting morning.

Our 2024 Christmas event including the Chair's Festive Jumper Competition with songs from David Mills

COFFEE MORNINGS AND TEA AFTERNOONS!

Thank you to all volunteer members who have helped make these a great success! They have been a huge success for 2 years running now! Our first one was 24th September 2024. About 50 attended and enjoyed the social atmosphere, meeting old and new friends and enjoyed the quizzes. Our second was on 19th October at Christchurch, Bushmead and we had about 80 attending. Again it was a very enjoyable afternoon and we also had a presentation by Luton Healthwatch which our members found very valuable. Our last was on 22nd November at the Olive Tree Church in Blenheim Crescent and despite the snowy morning we had 40 members attending. These are proving to be popular events! Thank you to all members who have attended and supported the volunteers and the work they do to keep u3a Luton ticking over.

Monthly Meetings

On the last MONDAY morning of each month (with some exceptions) a meeting for all members, is held in the Riverside Suite at Venue 360 in Gypsy Lane, Luton (unless otherwise advised).  Directions from Parkway station can be found here. Directions to Venue 360. The meetings are open at 9:45 which gives members an opportunity to meet their friends and Committee members over a cup of tea/coffee, browse the Bring & Buy stall or buy a book or jigsaw or bric-a-brac. There is usually an entrance charge of £6.00 for the monthly meetings. Please remember to bring your up-to-date membership card with you to sign in. It is also crucial that you enter an 'in case of emergency' telephone number on the back of your card in case you fall ill during an event or when you attend your group sessions.

At most meetings a Speaker gives an illustrated talk for 45 to 60 minutes. This starts at 10:30 am. After questions we give out any notices about groups or items of interest.

There are many free events and tutorials which you can register for on the National u3a website. They include cookery, garden talks, singing, poetry, mathematics, Latin, crosswords cryptic, creative writing, philosophy, law, Japan, Geology, Van Gogh. Click on the u3a tab on the top menu, Learn, Laugh, Live !

We may from time to time have to cancel a monthly meeting because of bad weather. If there are last minute changes you will be advised by email or you can call our voicemail telephone number for confirmation 01582 803923 and there will be an announcement on the welcome page advising you. A member of the committee will call you back if you telephone. Please make sure we have your up-to-date email.

General Meeting 29th July 2024

General Meeting 19th August 2024

General Meeting 30th September 2024

General Meeting 28th October 2024

Paul Barwick gave us a very interesting but sad presentation about the death of PC Yvonne Fletcher. Also some eye opening information about the government of the time.

General Meeting 25th November 2024

Colin Richards from u3a Watford and District returned to give us an excellent presentation on 'Evolution and Convergence' . A history of some of our everyday gadgets and how far they have progressed. Certainly a trip down memory lane for many of us. It was very interesting and informative. Our Mayor of Luton gave us a very interesting speech and praised the work we are doing for many people in the town. She answered some questions and told us about her start in politics, the process of becoming Mayor and what she has most enjoyed so far in her role and what has been the most challenging thing for her. Thank you to both for making our November meeting a very enjoyable morning.