Here are details of all Northampton u3A groups currently available to Members, please click on a group name of your choice for more information and to contact the Group Leaders.
Members suggestions for new groups - see Prospective new groups
If you cannot contact a group, please Email us via the 'CONTACT' page, or phone Jane Evans on 07784 766440
Do you have a talent or a special interest?
Are you prepared to share your expertise with others who may be interested?
Do you want to learn more about something and are prepared to work with others to do so?
It is all about sharing learning experiences. Northampton u3a, like other u3as, is a learning cooperative which draws upon the knowledge, experience and skills of its own members to organise and provide interest groups in accordance with the wishes of the membership. The teachers learn and the learners teach.
See Prospective New Groups where help is specially requested. You don't have to be an expert, only interested and willing to help. Lots of guidance and help is available to assist Group Leaders.
Please contact Jane to offer assistance or to suggest a new group.
See here please for all Group Leader Information and Forms.
Groups listed alphabetically
-
Architecture - Buildings through the Ages
Status: Active
Monthly on Monday mornings 10:30 am
1st Monday -
Armchair Holidays
Status: Active
Monthly on Monday mornings 10:30 am
2nd Monday -
Art
Status: Active
Weekly on Thursday afternoons 2:00 pm-4:00 pm -
Astronomy
Status: Active
Monthly on Tuesday afternoons 2:00 pm
2nd Tuesday -
Ballroom dancing
Status: Active
Weekly on Friday mornings 10:00 am -
Bird watching
Status: Active
On Tuesday mornings 9:30 am
1st Tuesday -
Book Reading 2
Status: Active
Monthly on Tuesday afternoons 2:00 pm-4:00 pm
2nd Tuesday -
Book Reading 3
Status: Active
Monthly on Saturday afternoons 2:00 pm
1st Saturday -
Book Reading 4
Status: Full
Monthly on Wednesday afternoons 2:00 pm
3rd Wednesday -
Books and Natter
Status: Active
Monthly on Monday afternoons 2:00 pm
3rd Monday -
Bowling (Short Mat 2)
Status: Active
Weekly on Friday afternoons 2:30 pm-4:30 pm -
Bowling (Short mat)
Status: Active
Weekly on Tuesday afternoons 1:45 pm-4:00 pm
13:45 for 14:00 start Weekly except last in month -
Bowling (Ten pin)
Status: Active
Weekly on Thursday afternoons 2:00 pm
2nd Thurs 2025 N.B. Thursday 4th December -
BRIDGE (Social)
Status: Active
On Thursdays 2:00 pm
1st and 3rd Thursday each month -
Bridge 1
Status: Active
Weekly on Monday afternoons 2:00 pm
in term times -
Bridge for Beginners
Status: Active
Weekly on Tuesday afternoons 2:00 pm -
British History 1
Status: Active
Monthly on Friday mornings 10:30 am
3rd Friday -
British History 2
Status: Active
Monthly on Thursday mornings 10:30 am
3rd Thursday -
British History 3
Status: Active
On Thursday afternoons 2:00 pm-4:00 pm
4th Thursday -
Canasta
Status: Active
Weekly on Friday afternoons 1:30 pm-3:30 pm -
Card Making
Status: Active
Monthly on Monday afternoons 2:00 pm
2nd Monday -
Card Making & Home Crafts 1
Status: Active
On Tuesday afternoons 2:00 pm-3:30 pm
2nd Tuesday -
Card Making & Home Crafts 2
Status: Active
Monthly on Tuesday afternoons 2:00 pm
3rd Tuesday -
Charles Dickens
Status: Active
Monthly on Monday mornings 10:15 am-12:15 pm
2nd Monday -
Coffee Afternoon
Status: Active
Weekly on Tuesday afternoons 2:00 pm -
Coffee Morning
Status: Active
Weekly on Thursday mornings 10:30 am-12:00 pm -
Country Dancing
Status: Active
Weekly on Wednesday mornings 10:00 am-12:00 pm -
Creative Writing 1
Status: Active
Monthly on Tuesday mornings 10:30 am
1st Tuesday -
Creative Writing 2
Status: Active
Monthly on Monday mornings 10:00 am-12:30 pm
1st Monday -
Cribbage
Status: Active
Weekly on Wednesday afternoons 2:00 pm-4:00 pm -
Crochet
Status: Active
Monthly on Tuesday afternoons 2:00 pm-4:00 pm
1st Tuesday -
Croquet
Status: Active
Monthly on Monday mornings 10:00 am-12:00 pm
2nd Monday April to October -
Cycling
Status: Active
Weekly on Thursday mornings 10:30 am
Most Thursdays (subject to weather conditions) -
Decorative Arts
Status: Active
On Wednesday mornings 10:30 am
Last Wednesday -
Discussion Group
Status: Active
Monthly on Monday afternoons 2:00 pm
4th Monday -
Dixielanders Jazz Band
Status: Active
Fortnightly on Tuesday afternoons 2:00 pm-3:30 pm -
Early Civilisations
Status: Active
Monthly on Monday afternoons 2:00 pm
4th Monday -
Exploring Churches of Northants
Status: Active
Monthly on Wednesday mornings 10:30 am
3rd Wed - May-Nov -
Family History
Status: Active
Monthly on Wednesday afternoons 2:00 pm-4:00 pm
1st Wednesday -
Flower Arranging
Status: Active
Monthly on Monday afternoons 2:00 pm-4:00 pm
2nd Monday -
French Beginners
Status: Active
Fortnightly on Monday mornings 10:00 am-12:00 pm
First and Third Mondays -
French for Improvers
Status: Active
Fortnightly on Monday mornings 10:00 am-12:00 pm
2nd & 4th Mondays By Zoom -
French Revisited
Status: Waiting list
Weekly on Wednesday afternoons 2:00 pm-4:00 pm -
Gardening
Status: Active
Monthly on Wednesday mornings 10:30 am
3rd Wednesday -
Genealogy 1
Status: Active
On Friday mornings 10:30 am
2nd Friday -
Genealogy 2
Status: Waiting list
Monthly on Thursday mornings 10:30 am
1st Thursday -
Genealogy 4
Status: Active
Monthly on Tuesday afternoons 2:00 pm-4:00 pm
3rd Tuesday -
Geology
Status: Active
Monthly on Thursday mornings 10:30 am
1st Thursday -
Golf
Status: Active
Weekly on Thursday mornings 7:45 am
tee-times from 8.00am -
Have Pass Will Travel
Status: Active
Monthly on Wednesday mornings 10:00 am
1st Wednesday around 10.00am -
Historic Northampton
Status: Active
Monthly on Wednesday mornings 10:30 am
2nd Wednesday -
History of Art
Status: Active
Monthly on Thursday mornings 10:30 am
2nd Thursday -
History of Art 2
Status: Active
Monthly on Thursday mornings 10:30 am-1:30 pm
4th Thursday -
History of Railways
Status: Active
Monthly on Thursday mornings 10:00 am-12:00 pm
2nd Thursday -
Ideas and Ideologies
Status: Active
Monthly on Wednesday afternoons 2:00 pm
3rd Wednesday -
Italian Beginners
Status: Waiting list
Fortnightly on Tuesday afternoons 12:30 pm-2:00 pm
1st and 3rd Tuesdays -
James Joyce’s Ulysses
Status: Active
Monthly on Thursday afternoons 1:30 pm-3:30 pm
3rd Thursday -
Knit and Natter
Status: Active
Fortnightly on Thursday mornings 10:30 am-12:30 pm
2nd & 4th Thursdays -
Latin
Status: Active
Fortnightly on Wednesday afternoons 4:30 pm-6:00 pm
2nd & 4th Wednesdays -
Lets Learn Latin
Status: Active
Fortnightly on Tuesday afternoons 2:00 pm
1st & 3rd Tuesdays -
Local History 1
Status: Active
Monthly on Friday mornings 10:15 am-12:15 pm
1st Friday -
Local History 2
Status: Active
Monthly on Friday mornings 10:00 am-12:00 pm
1st Friday -
Mah Jong
Status: Active
Fortnightly on Monday afternoons 2:00 pm-4:00 pm
Fortnightly -
Meet n' Eat
Status: Active
Monthly on Thursday afternoons 1:00 pm
2nd Thursday -
Microscope Users
Status: Active
Monthly on Friday mornings 10:00 am-12:00 pm
1st Friday -
Moral Maze Discussion Group
Status: Active
Monthly on Wednesday mornings 10:15 am
1st Wednesday -
Music (Classical) Appreciation
Status: Active
Monthly on Thursday afternoons 2:00 pm-4:00 pm
1st Thursday -
Music from Pop to Rock
Status: Waiting list
Monthly on Monday afternoons 2:00 pm-4:00 pm
2nd Monday -
Music Performing Beginners
Status: Active
Fortnightly on Wednesday afternoons
2nd & 4th Wednesdays before 2 pm -
Musical Performing Group
Status: Active
Fortnightly on Wednesday afternoons 2:00 pm
2nd & 4th Wednesdays -
Mythology
Status: Active
Monthly on Friday mornings 10:00 am-12:00 pm
4th Friday -
Nature
Status: Active
On Tuesday mornings 9:45 am
2nd Tuesday - 10.00am start -
New Experiences
Status: Active
Monthly on Thursday mornings
4th Wednesday or Thursday -
Nordic Pole Walking
Status: Active
Weekly on Friday mornings 10:30 am-11:30 am
Weekly -
Opera Appreciation
Status: Active
Monthly on Monday mornings 10:00 am-1:00 pm
3rd Monday -
Oxford
Status: Active
Monthly on Tuesday mornings 10:30 am-12:30 pm
1st Tuesday monthly in St Georges Avenue, NN2 6JA except no meeting in March 2025 and June's meeting is on the 27th May 2025 -
Philosophy
Status: Active
Monthly on Tuesday mornings 10:00 am-12:00 pm
2nd Tuesday on Zoom -
Photography for Fun
Status: Active
Monthly on Monday mornings 10:30 am
4th Monday -
Pickleball
Status: Active
Fortnightly on Monday afternoons 2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Alternate Mondays -
Poetry
Status: Waiting list
On Tuesday mornings 10:00 am
3rd Tuesday -
Psychology
Status: Active
Monthly on Friday afternoons 1:00 pm
1st Friday -
Quilting / Sewing
Status: Active
Monthly on Tuesday afternoons 2:00 pm-4:00 pm
1st Tuesday -
Quiz
Status: Active
Monthly on Monday afternoons 2:15 pm-4:15 pm
4th Monday -
Ramblers
Status: Active
Monthly on Friday mornings 9:30 am
4th Friday usually 10.00 start -
Saturday Supper Club
Status: Active
Monthly on Saturday evenings 7:30 pm
2nd Saturday -
Science
Status: Active
Monthly on Wednesday mornings 10:00 am-12:00 pm
1st Wednesday -
Scrabble
Status: Active
Weekly on Wednesday afternoons 2:00 pm-4:00 pm -
Shakespeare for Pleasure
Status: Waiting list
Monthly on Monday mornings 10:00 am-12:00 pm
2nd Monday -
Singing Extra
Status: Active
Monthly on Thursday mornings 10:30 am-12:00 pm
3rd Thursday -
Singing for Fun
Status: Full
Monthly on Friday mornings 10:00 am-12:00 pm
1st Friday (WE DO NOT MEET IN JANUARY AND AUGUST) -
Skittles
Status: Active
Weekly on Wednesday afternoons 12:00 pm-1:30 pm -
Spanish Hablamos Espanol Aqui
Status: Active
Fortnightly on Monday mornings 10:00 am -
Spanish Intermediate
Status: Active
Fortnightly on Wednesday afternoons 1:45 pm-3:45 pm
2nd & 4th Wednesdays -
Striders
Status: Active
Monthly on Friday mornings 9:00 am
2nd Friday usually 9.30 start -
Strollers
Status: Active
On Monday mornings 10:15 am
3rd Monday for a 10.30 start -
Sunday Lunch 1
Status: Waiting list
Monthly on Sunday afternoons 12:30 pm
1st Sunday -
Sunday Lunch 3
Status: Active
Monthly on Sunday mornings
4th Sunday -
Sunday Lunch 4
Status: Active
Monthly on Sunday afternoons 12:30 pm
4th Sunday -
Table Tennis 1
Status: Active
Weekly on Monday mornings 10:00 am-12:00 pm -
Table Tennis 2
Status: Active
Weekly on Wednesday mornings 10:00 am-12:00 pm -
Table tennis 3
Status: Active
Weekly on Tuesday afternoons 2:00 pm-4:00 pm -
Tai Chi 1
Status: Active
Weekly on Thursday mornings 9:45 am-10:45 am -
Tai Chi 2 (for advanced work)
Status: Active
Weekly on Thursday mornings 11:00 am-12:00 pm -
Theatre for Enthusiasts
Status: Active
Monthly on Monday afternoons 2:00 pm-4:00 pm
3rd Monday -
Theatre Visits
Status: Active
On Wednesday afternoons
Usually Wednesdays -
Trips (by coach)
Status: Active -
Ukulele Workshop
Status: Active
Fortnightly on Tuesday mornings 10:00 am-12:00 pm -
Vegetable Growing
Status: Active
Monthly on Tuesday afternoons 2:30 pm
2nd Tuesday -
Wine Appreciation 1
Status: Active
Monthly on Friday afternoons 2:00 pm
1st Friday -
Wine Appreciation 2
Status: Active
Monthly on Friday afternoons 2:00 pm-3:30 pm
Bi-monthly 1st Friday -
Wine Appreciation 3
Status: Active
Monthly on Friday afternoons 2:00 pm-3:30 pm
Bi monthly last Friday