Our speaker was Amanda Harris, an award-winning writer and speaker about her experience of living with visual impairment. Amanda has suffered since early childhood from a number of conditions which affect the Optic nerve. She described her school and home life, teenage years, university, work life and holidays. She is married to a partially sighted Read more

General Meeting: May 2025 Autumn Rose is road safety Co-ordinator from Via East Midlands Ltd and with her 2 colleagues delivered a slick, punchy presentation, well prepared and tailored to an audience of older drivers. I don’t think I was the only person in the hall who soon began desperately trying to remember the Highway Read more

General Meeting: April 2025 John Tidmarsh is membership secretary of West Bridgford U3A but he came to speak to us about his trip to Antarctica. Apart from his stunning photography and descriptions of the journey and life on and off the ship he was extremely amusing with a very dry sense of humour. We heard Read more

General Meeting: March 2025 Jane Wright was a trained primary teacher who changed careers to work for Mary’s Meals, a charity providing meals to schoolchildren in the poorest areas of the world. She is based in the East Midlands and East Anglia and she introduced us to the charity and its fundraising. Jane wanted to Read more

General Meeting: February 2025 Felicity Whittle worked for over 29 years in the House of Commons Library in various roles and she gave us an insight into the workings of Parliament. The proceedings and legislature must be impartial and some is confidential e.g. constituency matters, but the rest is available on the website and in Read more