u3a

Northampton

Members Area

Useful information for our members.

We are a charity whose Trustees form Northampton u3a Committee, annually elected by the membership at our Annual General Meeting and our details are as follows:

Registered Charity No. 1077058 Part of the Third Age Trust Registered Charity number 288007

Northampton u3a is part of the , which includes: Northamptonshire, Leicestershire & Rutland, Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire and Derbyshire.

We are also part of the . Links to these u3a websites as well as the national website are on the u3a links page.

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Our informative is published 3 times a year. This is sent to members electronically , with paper copies mailed to those members without an email address they can easily access To see more details, please click on the link. This contains information about activities both past and to come, and information on how to contact Group Leaders.

Member safety is a priority at u3a Northampton. Group Leaders are asked to consider risks to members when attending u3a groups or events. Information pertaining to Risk Assessments may be found on the page

A members has been developed and may be viewed by clicking this link.

The 2025 Annual General Meeting, is to be held on 27th May at 2pm at Northampton County Cricket Club - Curo Lounge

The 2025 AGM Agenda and details can be viewed here

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The 2024 Annual General Meeting, was held on the 27th May 2025

At the AGM, the 2024/25 for u3a Northampton were presented, together with the Chair's Report 2024/25 and a record of the meeting is available here

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Membership Benefits

• Access to any of the 110+ interest groups
• A monthly meeting with guest speaker
• A local newsletter 3 times a year
• Social Events
• Membership of the
• from the including magazines, courses, events

To join Northampton u3a, please go to the page

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MOOC's Lifelong learning is available at Northampton u3a groups, but also through MOOCs.

MOOC's Massive Open Online Courses, are short courses provided free by many top Universities in UK and all over the world. Click the link to find out more.

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GDPR

The new General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) are now reflected in our forms for joining and renewing membership. We also have in place and Policies. Click the the links to access the documents. It is recommended that all members read them.

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Additional information is also available on the page which can be accessed by clicking this link. This includes details of the current committee and their job descriptions, our , and various policy/guidance documents.

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Members Portal login

Using our , you can now see the personal information we hold for you. If the information above is not what we should have recorded, it can be altered through the option in the portal to amend personal information; as can addresses, telephone and mobile phone numbers. You can check and amend this information, if necessary, online.

The Members Portal also gives information of all of our current groups. It is a long list and can take up to a minute to load. If you are interested in a group, that you do not belong to, please contact the Group Leader or contact in the group information. For some groups you may be able to join on line through the Portal.

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GIFT AID

We are very grateful to those of our taxpayer members who have registered to Gift Aid their annual subscription. Each year we are able to claim back a substantial Gift Aid amount which helps to fund our activities and to keep our subscription lower than it might otherwise be.

If there are taxpayer existing members who have not “Gift Aided” to date, we will be delighted to receive a form from you. Here is a link to download the form .

Remember also that if you have Gift Aided and then are no longer a tax payer, you must write giving a cancellation date, to the address below.

A little advice on completion: Please ensure the form is legible and print where requested. Remember to use your official Christian name...whatever HMRC would know you as. Enter as “this donation” whatever amount (usually £20 or £10) you paid this year. Where you are a couple and perhaps only one of you is a taxpayer (or you only want to complete one form) but you would like to Gift Aid an amount to cover both subscriptions, you can do this by simply listing your donation as perhaps £40 (the sum which covers both subscriptions).

Please send your Gift Aid registration form to: Mr Nick Stafford, 22 Burwood Rd, Northampton, NN3 2LS. Note that this does not apply to new members, who should send both forms to the Membership Secretary.

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GIFT AID SURPLUS – HELP FOR EQUIPMENT FOR GROUPS

There is some money available from Gift Aid, to help groups improve the content of their meetings. There may be some equipment you feel would enhance the quality of your learning, and, if this is the case, please apply in writing to me. Your request will then be taken to the Committee for their approval.

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Links

Members Portal login