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Parking. We have the Church, Ministry Centre, Café Vista and school parents all fighting for parking space, often at the same time. In order to avoid conflict no group activity should commence before 9.30am - a 20 minute set up time prior to that should be sufficient for most groups. In addition Groups are asked not to vacate the HQ, unless on foot, between 3.15p.m. and 3.45p.m. thus reducing the number of moving vehicles at school leaving time.

South West Lancs U3A Network. Find out more about Groups in the area with www.sw-lancs-u3a-network.co.uk/. Get more information on other groups and newworks

Wednesday 8th February. A new memory course starts. More details

Wednesday 22nd February. Short course on More Victorian Novelists begins. Details

Sunday 19th February. IS ROMANCE DEAD? At 2.30 Details

Tuesday 6th March. NW Region Science Day at West Lancashire Investment Centre from 9.45am - 3.45pm
4 speakers with North West connections:Dr Peter Rowlands - How Physics developed at Liverpool, Bob Roach - Joseph Priestley – a man of many interests, Professor John Stanley - Do we need Science in Surgery? Daniel Jubb - “It’s not rocket science – oh, yes it is!”

Thursday/ Friday March 22nd/23rd. Musical Theatre Group production"Up For It". Order your tickets now. See Musical Theatre Group

Saturday 21st April: an evening of music from the great American songbook featuring, among others, many of the timeless and sophisticated songs of Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday. Tickets on sale 1 March

Tuesday 12 June: Day tour to the Yorkshire Sculpture Park and the Barbara Hepworth Museum Details on Art Appreciation webpage

The October Monthly Speaker

Heather Butler-Smith talked about "A better life for the over 60s" at the October Monthly Meeting

New Members Tea Party

Around 80 people came to our new members tea party. The executive committee made cakes and Chairman Jeff explained explained how Aughton and Ormskirk U3A operated on an entirely voluntary basis and offered over 80 activities  for learning, exercising, enjoying and gaining fulfilment and friendship in retirement. This also marked UN Older People's Day which took place the following day - October 1st. 

Pauline Newton and Jeff Roberts at the New Members Tea Party

Mobility Outing

On a particularly blustery October day, an intrepid group made their way to see the Iron Men at Crosby beach and on for afternoon tea at Ladygreen Garden Centre. The outing was organised by Pat Atherton of the Helping Each Other Group for members who have difficulty getting out and about. This followed on from the theatre outings and more trips are planned.
On November 28th, an outing to Liverpool One shopping centre and lunch is planned. Contact Dorothy Harrison for details

Photos taken on the Mobility Outing - Stella Potter, David Lloyd and Kath McMinn just off the bus - and Ellen Jenkinson and Edith Cray enjoying an ice cream on the prom

Group Information, New Groups Short Courses

Successful Ageing: the Memory Course

The memory course aims to provide information about memory processes and to reduce anxiety about memory problems. This is through helping members to consider common memory problems associated with increasing age, how this can affect activities of daily living and what can be done to prevent or manage such problems.

At the end of October 2010 over 120 members had been through the course. So the memory course team decided to have a break.

Our team that developed the course - Sylvia Dillon, Norma Seddon, Ann Haskell and Wendy Craddock (and formerly Anne Stark) and myself are busily responding to a growing interest from all parts of the UK and will publish a handbook in January2012.

The team has conducted training courses for ten Lancashire U3A groups and twenty Yorkshire groups. Invitations are being processed by the East Midland Region, Thames Valley, South East etc.
Two Universities are to include the programme in extensive Dementia Prevention programmes and further research. Also, there is an expression of interest from government departments concerned with 'well being'

Read more details about the 'Mindgym' Memory Programme by Alex McMinn

New memory course

The next Memory Course will be in February: four 1½ hour sessions on consecutive Wednesday mornings at the Scout HQ from 1015 to 1200 commencing 8 February and then 15 February, 22 February and 29 February. The charge for the course is £5.00 payable at the first session.
If you would like to come on the course, if you are on the waiting list, or if you have previously completed an application form, please contact Wendy Craddock 01772 600 543

Book List:
A very basic overview
Mason D.J and Smith S.X. (2005) ‘The Memory Doctor’. New Harbinger Publica tion.
Smith T (2007) ‘Coping with Age-related memory loss’. Sheldon Press.
Related to later life memory problems – light hearted
Gibson H.B.(1995) ‘On the tip of your tongue. Your memory in later life’. Third Age Press. ISBN 189857605.

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