About Us

 Aims: to encourage and enable older people no longer in full-time employment to help each other to share their knowledge, skills, interest and experience.

 U3A Bicester

Bicester U3A has about 120 members and has a variety of groups. There are currently 20 such groups, most of which meet in people’s houses as arranged within each group. Some organise trips to the theatre, Jazz evenings etc as appropriate

U3A stands for the University of the Third Age, which is a self-help organisation for people no longer in full time employment providing educational, creative and leisure opportunities in a friendly environment. It consists of local U3As all over the UK, which are charities in their own right and are run entirely by volunteers. Local U3As are learning cooperatives, which draw upon the knowledge, experience and skills of their own members to organise and provide interest groups in accordance with the wishes of the membership. The teachers learn and the learners teach. Between them U3As across the country offer the chance to study over 300 different subjects in such fields as art, languages, music, history, life sciences, philosophy, computing, crafts, photography and walking.

The U3A approach to learning is – learning for pleasure. There is no accreditation or validation and there are no assessments or qualifications to be gained.

U3A also run online courses on many subjects. The courses can all be studied from the comfort of your own home, (or library, or wherever you access the internet); they involve as much or as little contact with others as you wish - all through email. See http://courses.u3a-info.co.uk for more detail.