You have reached the home page of the U3A Port Hills branch of the U3A Network in Christchurch. The U3A
movement in New Zealand is a loose collection of local U3A organisations
who all support the general aims and directions of providing life-long
learning opportunities for their members in their ‘third age’ using the
skills of their members gained during their ’second age’.
************************************ PLEASE NOTE. Dear Members, for those of you wanting to keep up-to-date with our U3A happenings please click on CURRENT NEWS and when there scroll right to the bottom of the page as new and interesting stuff is added on an irregular basis.
Latest POSTINGS :- MAY 7th Additional Update to the Speakers
CURRENT NEWS - U3A Conference Queensland - Details
********************************************** April 13th Change in Natural History - Interest Group New data on speakers Results of elections - update to Committee Members for 2012-13 year CAMLA farm trip write up and pictures - CURRENT NEWS
March Added 'DEATH and the VIRTUAL WORLD' or "Does your Will include your online data and assets?" SEE CURRENT NEWS NEW UPDATE - Current Affairs interest group now meets on the
third Monday of the month at the Beckenham Library meeting room from 10.30am
until 12.30pm.
The change was necessary in order to acommdate a new member. ********************************************
Thank you for visiting our new Internet site. As an up-to-date organisation, we want to give you the opportunity to stay in touch with us. A new content management system will enable us to always keep you up to date.
SITE NAVIGATION - to visit other pages of this site - please point your cursor to the required page title in the yellow column on the right and - CLICK - on it. You will be taken directly to that page.
At present, our web site is still under construction. We are making an effort to present you with our entire spectrum of our activities as soon as possible. At this point we can provide you with information regarding the location and dates of our meetings. The emphasis of our site is on providing up-to-date information on the activities offered by our group. This will certainly be of interest to you if you are interested in keeping yourself active and enjoying life, mentally and physically, and acquiring knowledge. Check this site later and often as we are constantly updating it at present.
In the meantime you can reach me regarding web site development or web page errors at ph. 03 338 8117 or Email:beaverslodge@xtra.co.nz. We are looking forward to hearing from you.
You can also contact our President for details about the group and membership at our e-mail address:- porthillsu3a@yahoo.co.nz
If you are not familiar with the U3A movement and this is your first contact with us - online: We would be pleased to hear from you!
Please let us know what you need to know about our group and ask any questions you may have as we will be more than happy to help.
In brief, you should know the following about us:-
Our U3a PortHills Group was established in 2004 and had been an outstanding success ever since. The group is designed to appeal to those of over 55 years-of age and there is no upper age limit for membership. THERE IS NO WAITING LIST for new members. We have a regular attendance of between 80 - 90 people at our monthly meetings. Our annual subscription is $25. Our regular members particularly value our monthly meetings and our Interest groups which vary in size from 4 to 22 members per session.
