{"id":42,"date":"2011-05-17T20:11:42","date_gmt":"2011-05-17T19:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.u3aarmagh.org\/?page_id=42"},"modified":"2014-03-01T13:32:22","modified_gmt":"2014-03-01T12:32:22","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.u3aarmagh.org\/?page_id=42","title":{"rendered":"About us"},"content":{"rendered":"

Armagh and District U3A<\/strong> was formed in April 2011 and is continuing to grow and attract new members.<\/p>\n

The U3A<\/strong> caters for people from all walks of life, whether retired or semi-retired and following a wide variety of interests. U3A is not an academic institution nor yet an ordinary club, our\u00a0most important principle being that we teach and learn from each other. \u00a0The term ‘university’ is used in its original sense of a grouping of like minded people meeting together.<\/p>\n

U3As comprise a number of interest groups<\/strong> which meet weekly, fortnightly, monthly\u00a0or just occasionally. These activity groups reflect the interests of the group\u00a0convenors\u00a0almost all of whom are volunteer members, and also the desire of the members to learn more about a particular interest. The convenors look after the practicalities of running a group ie membership,\u00a0premises, refreshments etc.<\/p>\n

U3As<\/strong> are run by the members through\u00a0an elected committee, sub-committees and with support from other U3As throughout the Province. A nationwide network is promoted by the Third Age Trust<\/a>, our\u00a0parent body in London. Members act as convenors, leaders, tutors, typists\u00a0or coffee makers, looking after individual interest groups, using enthusiasm\u00a0\u00a0and their life-time experience to encourage fellow members to participate\u00a0and help. They are not necessarily, in fact often NOT teachers! Sometimes,\u00a0to provide variety where members are either unable or unwilling to give up their time, groups invite outside tutors and speakers to help them with their\u00a0activities, but, if at all possible, not on a regular basis. Links may also\u00a0be made with other educational organisations, such as LibrariesNI, WEA or the local FE\u00a0College who may provide premises, help and advice or classes requiring expensive\u00a0equipment such as IT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Armagh and District U3A was formed in April 2011 and is continuing to grow and attract new members. The U3A caters for people from all walks of life, whether retired or semi-retired and following a wide variety of interests. U3A is not an academic institution nor yet an ordinary club, our\u00a0most important principle being that … Continue reading About us<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-42","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.u3aarmagh.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.u3aarmagh.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.u3aarmagh.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.u3aarmagh.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.u3aarmagh.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.u3aarmagh.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1154,"href":"https:\/\/www.u3aarmagh.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42\/revisions\/1154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.u3aarmagh.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}