About

What is the u3a?

The u3a is a unique and exciting organisation which provides life-enhancing and life-changing opportunities. Retired and semi-retired people come together and learn together, not for qualifications, but for its own reward: the sheer joy of discovery!

Often we learn from and with each other, no ‘teachers’ and ‘pupils’ here, it is all very sociable.

However, please consider that everyone here is a volunteer, if you can ease the running of any groups you attend by helping the host/convenor in any small way, please do so. We can probably all say “we worked hard all our life, now it’s time to relax”, but if you do that here, you will be missing out.

The more you contribute, the more you will get from the u3a.

For more information on U3A at National level, please visit Third Age Trust

What does Windsor u3a offer?

Windsor u3a was formed in 2008 to bring the benefits of u3a to our area.

Windsor and District u3a has well over 700 members from a wide area around Windsor, including Eton, Slough, Datchet, Old Windsor, Englefield Green, Iver and Ascot – essentially as far as you wish to travel.

Our main activities centre on the 90+ Interest Groups our members run, many of which are hosted in their homes, see the details by following links from the Interest Group Info page.

Additionally, we hold monthly general meetings (with guest speaker) on the second Wednesday of each month, in Gardeners’ Hall, St. Leonards Road, SL4 3DR. Prospective members are very welcome. Do see the latest Online Newsletter (link right, or below) for future monthly meeting details, plus other events.

How to Join
For 2026, the annual membership fee is £11 per person from 1st January (£7 if joining from July onwards). A small additional (typically) ‘per-meeting’ cost is usually also necessary, dependent on many factors, the Interest Groups section in any Newsletter will give examples. For specifics, see each group’s own web page, accessible via the A-Z List of Groups page.

Joining online is the quickest option; visit the Join Us page and follow the instructions.

Joining is also possible by meeting us (typically at a Monthly Meeting), completing an application form and using your credit/debit card.

If you would like more information, you can contact any committee member via the About our Committee page, or visit our Contact Us page; we look forward to hearing from you.

Windsor & District u3a is located in the u3a South East Region, within which we benefit from support and events from Thames Valley Network (often known as simply ‘TVN’).

Our u3a was formed in 2008, we are a growing and friendly affiliate of the national u3a organisation.

Committee members are elected to the committee at the AGM in April, and can serve a maximum of two 3-year terms, but you can join the committee at any time of the year.

We also welcome members who may not wish to commit to a full committee position but are able to assist on an as-needed basis. (e.g. special events, both in planning and/or on-the-day).

Any member of Windsor u3a is welcome to attend one of our committee meetings (held on the first Wednesday, monthly) as an observer, just contact the secretary to arrange.

2025-26 Committee

In each box below, the role name is an e-mail link, click to create an e-mail.

Martin Pritchett

Chair

Martin’s role is to lead the Committee in setting and delivering u3a direction and strategy.

Keith Humphries

Vice chair

The Vice Chair’s role is to support and deputise for the chair.

Carol Crago

Secretary

Carol’s role includes publicity of Monthly Meetings, dissemination of information from the Third Age Trust, South East Region and Thames Valley Network to committee.

David Treder

Treasurer

David looks after our finances, licensing, expenses and Charity Commission business.

Kate Fagence

Membership

Kate handles Membership renewals, updates and queries.

Keith Humphries

Data Admin

Keith looks after the Beacon Membership database and assists with Technical Facilities at monthly meetings.

Mo Salter

Groups Coordinator

Mo organises the starting of new Groups.

Joanna Wattis

Speaker Bookings

Jo is the primary contact for speakers at our monthly meetings.

Linda London

Communications

Linda leads the Communications Group, overseeing all internal and external communications while serving as the committee’s liaison.

Jackie Wiggins

Newsletter Editor

Jackie compiled our Newsletter.

Dave Humphries

Web Editor

Dave administers the web site.
He also leads the Technical Facilities team.
(Non-trustee)

Annual General Meetings

2026 – To be held 8th April 2026

2025 – Held 9th April 2025

AGM 2025 Documents (pdf)

Contains: Agenda, Minutes of 2024 AGM, Chairman’s Report 2024, Vice Chairman’s Report, Treasurer’s Report 2024, Statement of Accounts 2024 and the Independent Examiners Report.

2024 – Held 10th April 2024

AGM 2024 Documents (pdf)

Contains: Agenda, Minutes of 2023 AGM, Chairman’s Report 2023, Treasurer’s Report 2023, Statement of Accounts 2023 and the Independent Examiners Report.

2023 – Held 12th April 2023

AGM 2023 Documents (pdf)

Contains: Agenda, Minutes of 2022 AGM, Chairman’s Report 2022, Treasurer’s Report 2022, Statement of Accounts 2022 and the Independent Examiners Report.

2022 – Held 13th April 2022

AGM 2022 Documents (pdf)

Contains: Agenda, Minutes of 2021 AGM, Chairman’s Report 2021, Treasurer’s Report 2021, Examiners Statement and Statement of Accounts 2021.

Important Documents

Constitution (pdf)

Privacy Policy (pdf) (being updated Oct 2023)

Pages may be reached through the menu system or via the links shown on the site map below.

Additional to the structured ‘pages’, we have topical ‘posts’, listed in the panel to the right (or below) most pages. Please note some content is visible only to members who have logged in.

This won’t be here on the real site, just my notes.

  • The editing interface feels more intuitive than Stackable, and less bloated with upgrade buttons than Publish Press. With both those, each accordion ‘item’ is a standalone entity, requiring separate editing, unlike the superior parent-child relationship here, which allows styling of all items on the page in one place. Also, in Kadence, the accordion items can be compacted to aid content editing by saving a LOT of scrolling.
  • I set each item as a heading type (h2) in main accordion properties
    The page opens with all closed.
    Then gave a couple of the items an anchor – and using that suffix (e.g. https://staging.windsoru3a.org.uk/about/#abt-winds-u3a ) loads the page with the relevant item open and positioned correctly! (EXACTLY what I’d hoped for)
  • Selecting the parent block allows addition of more accordion items, which appear at bottom, but are easily moved after the fact.
  • Only six icon pair choices; +/-, +/x, u/d arrows, in normal and reverse backgrounds
  • The new item comes with an empty ‘pane’ (div?), to which the safest way seems to be add a paragraph and paste in all content from the sub-page we’re about to lose.
  • The support website is logical and helpful to find how a specific block element works
  • However, the Kadence Block Controls is AI centric and not helpful to find how a specific block element works, but I don’t think we need it.