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Stroud

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Groups

At present we have about 50 groups running. If the group or activity you would like to join is full or not on our list, or if you have difficulty contacting the Group Coordinator, please contact our Groups Secretary Jane Harvey. Jane can facilitate starting new groups or offer alternate methods for contacting existing ones. We are currently developing some guidance for starting up a new group.

You can attend up to two Group or Monthly Meetings as a guest and free of charge to see if it's what you want, before you need to join. Members of other u3as are always welcome to join in our activities but must be an Associate member of Stroud u3a to do so. Access to our monthly meetings or to one group is free of charge for Associate members. See our Join Us page for more information.

Use these buttons to sort our list of groups into the order most useful to you:

Groups listed by category

Arts and Crafts

Games

General

  • Drama
    Status: Active
    on Wednesday mornings
    10.30-12.30, 1st & 3rd Weds
  • Play reading
    Status: Active
    on Monday afternoons
    2nd and 4th Monday at 2.15pm

Humanities

  • History book club
    Status: Active
    Monthly on Wednesday afternoons
    2.30pm First Wednesday
  • Mediaeval art and architecture
    Status: Wait list only
    Monthly on Monday afternoons
    normally 3rd Monday from 2pm; occasional additional meetings.
  • Social history
    Status: Active
    on Tuesday mornings
    2nd Tuesday, 10:00 am
  • Wisdom Traditions
    Status: Wait list only
    Monthly on Monday afternoons 2:00pm-4:00pm
    Second Monday in Month

Languages

Music

Natural history

Reading and literature

  • Book club
    Status: Active
    Monthly on Monday afternoons
    2nd Monday
  • Literature 1
    Status: Active
    on Monday afternoons
    1st and 3rd Monday at 14.00
  • Literature 2
    Status: Active
    on Wednesday afternoons
    1st and 3rd Weds at 14.15
  • Poetry for pleasure
    Status: Active
    on Wednesday afternoons
    Last Wednesday of the month
  • Readers
    Status: Active
    on Thursday afternoons
    Certain Thursdays at 14.00

Social

  • Current affairs
    Status: Wait list only
    on Tuesday mornings
    10.30-12noon, 1st & 3rd Tuesdays
  • Discussion
    Status: Wait list only
    Monthly on Tuesday mornings 10:30am
    Second Tuesday of each month
  • Food appreciation
    Status: Active
    on Wednesday mornings
    Second Wednesday
  • Solo group
    Status: Active
    on Monday mornings
    11.00am onwards

Sport and exercise

  • Badminton
    Status: Active
    Weekly on Monday afternoons 3:00pm
  • Croquet
    Status: Active
    Weekly on Wednesdays
    Easter to October only
  • Cycling for softies
    Status: Active
    As agreed
  • Gentle Yoga
    Status: Active
    on Thursday afternoons 2:00pm-4:00pm
    Second and Fourth Thursdays
  • Keep fit
    Status: Active
    Weekly on Wednesday afternoons
    starts at 2 pm
  • Paddlers
    Status: Active
    Monthly
    Varies - as arranged
  • Tai chi
    Status: Active
    Weekly on Thursday mornings
    11.00am

Walking

Writing

All of our groups are "for our members by our members" and we therefore hope that members will share the workload of co-ordinating their Group activities. All Groups have one or more Coordinators and need at least one contact person to talk to potential new members.

Groups decide for themselves how frequently and where they will meet and also what their size should be. Often group size is limited by venue and sometimes if there is enough interest we can help to start new groups or find more suitable venues. We encourage our group Coordinators to operate waiting lists as this gives us a better idea about when it might be worth facilitating a new group or venue. If you have an interest which you would like to develop with others either as a group member or as a Coordinator, or would just like to meet people with similar interests, why not Join Us?

Group Coordinators: if you’d like to post notices of events or add notes/photographs to your group page, please contact Richard Bedford.