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Last Updated: 8 Aug ’26
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We will have a u3a stand at the Box Moor Trust festival on Sunday 20th September from 11am to 3pm.
For more details see https://www.boxmoortrust.org.uk/box-moor-trust-festival-2026/
Last updated: 16 Aug ’26
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The Painting for Pleasure group will be exhibiting some of their work at the Art in the Nave, a yearly Art exhibition in St Mary’s church in Hemel Hempstead, showing paintings by local artists. The group would love you to come to see their work at the exhibition.
There is a preview evening on Friday 28th August, 7pm to 9:30pm, and you will be very welcome then, or Saturday 29th, Sunday 30th, or Monday 31st, from 11am to 5pm.
Entrance will be £2 only or donation, free entry for anyone under sixteen.
There will also be a u3a stand, showing the work of our other Arts and Crafts groups.
Further information is available at https://stmaryandstpaulhemel.org.uk/art-in-the-nave/
Last updated: 16 Aug ’26
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MONDAY 7 September, 10:00 REFRESHMENTS,
10.30 PRESENTATION
doors open 09:45
About eight years ago, after a career in international IT and Management Consultancy, Mike became a volunteer at Bletchley Park, having attended as a visitor for perhaps ten years previously as a visitor. Mike serves as a volunteer Guide at the BP heritage museum and also demonstrates the Turing-Welchman Bombe and Enigma codebreaking at the National Museum of Computing. In 2024, Mike Barbakoff entertained us with his presentation about The Women of Bletchley Park. He now presents “Codebreaking against the Land of the Rising Sun”. This talk embraces the inception of the UK/USA Special Relationship and highlights the Signals Intelligence activities of the United Kingdom and United States against Japan in the Second World War. It covers the efforts of Bletchley Park and its overseas outstations as well as the enormous contribution of the Unites States Navy and Army, Australia and New Zealand SIGINT operations. Failures such as Pearl Harbor and successes such as the Battle of Midway are used to illustrate the effectiveness of Signals Intelligence No fee to be paid Contact: Groups via this link (select addressee: Groups) The meeting will be hybrid, if you wish to participate on Zoom, use the link that will be supplied in the Group News closer to the date. If you experience difficulty with the sound, turning on Captions, at the bottom of the Zoom screen on a PC or by clicking on More … on an iPad, should assist greatly. Please bear in mind that the task of getting both sound and picture to members on Zoom is fraught with difficulties. We continue to struggle on, it may not always be totally successful No fee to be paid Contact: Groups via this link (select addressee: Groups) The meeting will be hybrid, if you wish to participate on Zoom, use the link that will be supplied in the Group News closer to the date. If you experience difficulty with the sound, turning on Captions, at the bottom of the Zoom screen on a PC or by clicking on More … on an iPad, should assist greatly. Directions
Northchurch Social Centre Bell Lane, Northchurch Berkhamsted HP4 3RD There is parking at the centre. Please double park! Directions Buses between Hemel and Berkhamsted: 500 and X500 bus. Buses are approximately every 30 minutes: 500 and X500 Timetable See Northchurch Map Last updated: 8 Aug ’26
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Exploring London, Wednesday 19th and 26th August
August Walk: North Woolwich
This is a 2.5 mile level walk exploring the history of North Woolwich and its current regeneration. We will look at how a remote marsh became a gateway to the world, how it experienced economic boom, decline and revival. We discover why sites built for industry are now used for leisure, see houses built on shipyards and watch planes land on water. We will walk under the Thames and take a ferry to return to the Thames’s north bank.
Remember if you apply for others, you are responsible for passing on messages.
Please indicate if you are NOT willing for your email address to be shared with other successful applicants.
If you have any queries regarding this walk, please contact Sue via Coordinator. Late applications will be accepted.
Last updated: 24 Jul ’26
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MONDAY 3 Augusty, 10:00 REFRESHMENTS,
10.30 AGM & PRESENTATION
doors open 09:45
John Tyler has worked in nature conservation for over thirty years, first with the Ecological Parks Trust creating urban nature reserves for children to experience wildlife at first hand and then as the Warden of the Sevenoaks Wildlife Reserve in Kent, 135 acres of wetland and woodland where he created and managed habitats and guided schools and adult groups around the reserve. He has a particular fondness for Glow-worms. As well as wildlife, his interests include photography, prehistory, carving and coracles.
In 2023 John fascinated us with his spectacular photographs of the crabs and other animals on Christmas Island. 2025 had him taking us closer to home and exploring The Changing Wildlife of the Chilterns. From warm seas, through Ice Ages, tundra and forest to the farmland and beechwoods of today, we travelled through a hundred million years to follow the story of the Chiltern landscape and its wildlife.
In 2026 he describes the seasons all around us and reminds us to look at the wonderful natural world around us.
No fee to be paid
Contact: Groups via this link (select addressee: Groups)
The meeting will be hybrid, if you wish to participate on Zoom, use the link that will be supplied in the Group News closer to the date.
If you experience difficulty with the sound, turning on Captions, at the bottom of the Zoom screen on a PC or by clicking on More … on an iPad, should assist greatly. Please bear in mind that the task of getting both sound and picture to members on Zoom is fraught with difficulties. We continue to struggle on, it may not always be totally successful.
Directions
Boxmoor Playhouse
72 St John’s Rd
Hemel Hempstead
HP1 1NP
Parking round the Moor OR 55 – 57 Park Road, HP1 1JS
Directions
Buses between Hemel and Berkhamsted: 500 and X500 bus.
Buses are approximately every 30 minutes: Red Eagle Buses
Local buses running in St John’s Road past Boxmoor Playhouse
Last updated: 7 Jul ’26
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Explore London – Hammersmith Bridge to Chiswick House
Tuesday 19 and Thursday 21 March
Tony will be leading a walk in the Hammersmith Bridge to Chiswick House beside the Thames on Monday July 27th and Wednesday July 29th.
We will discover pubs, brewing, ghosts and connections to the Arts and Crafts movement. The walk is just over two miles in length and mostly flat. The return journey from Chiswick House to Hammersmith Tube stations is by bus.
If you wish to apply for this walk, please email the coordinator via the group page after 09.00 on 1 July with a maximum of 4 persons per application.
If you miss the 1st July you can still apply, especially If you can do both dates, so numbers can be balanced on both walks.
Remember if you apply for others, you are responsible for passing on messages. Please give your full names and U3A numbers and preferred date and indicate if you are flexible on the dates. Please use the following link to checkout the Exploring London Webpage: https://u3adacorum.org/?page_id=1168
If you have any queries please contact Hilary via Coordinator
Last updated – 26 Jul ’26
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MONDAY 6 July, 10:00 REFRESHMENTS,
10.30 PRESENTATION
doors open 09:45
Tricia Thompson is an experienced public speaker presenting lively, interesting and fun talks to groups of all sizes around the country.
The talk to be presented follows the spread of seaside holidays to all classes. It explores the iconic entertainments from the donkey rides on the sand to amusement arcades and buying pink rock to take home with you.
Most of the u3a members will remember these joys from their childhoods. More recently the British seaside holiday has meant Spain or Greece, and the local seaside resorts have been in something of a slump.
No fee to be paid
Contact: Groups via this link (select addressee: Groups)
The meeting will be hybrid, if you wish to participate on Zoom, use the link that will be supplied in the Group News closer to the date.
If you experience difficulty with the sound, turning on Captions, at the bottom of the Zoom screen on a PC or by clicking on More … on an iPad, should assist greatly. Please bear in mind that the task of getting both sound and picture to members on Zoom is fraught with difficulties. We continue to struggle on, it may not always be totally successful.
Directions
Boxmoor Playhouse
72 St John’s Rd
Hemel Hempstead
HP1 1NP
Parking round the Moor OR 55 – 57 Park Road, HP1 1JS
The parking outside St John’s church now has a 3 hour limit and no return for 2 hours. This is to discourage commuters going to the station using it for all day parking. The three-hour limit works for our monthly meeting. Warning, there is someone who checks!
Directions
Buses between Hemel and Berkhamsted: 500 and X500 bus.
Buses are approximately every 30 minutes: 500 and X500 Timetable
Local buses running in St John’s Road past Boxmoor Playhouse
Last Updated: 4 Jun ’26
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u3a Dacorum now have their own Facebook Group, which reflects the various group activities that u3a members can join.
It is also where Group leaders can submit their own group’s information to be shown on the u3adacorum Facebook.
Here is the link to view the u3adacorum Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1214692039477191
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We are sorry to say that the following groups have been cancelled, for various reasons.
If you would like to re-start the group, please contact the Groups Secretary
You do not need to run the group by yourself, often someone is willing to help.
A Cappella (147)
Belleplates (062)
Board Games (070 and 212)
Bowls (006)
Creative Writing A (077)
Computer Support (069)
French and Fun (015)
French Conversation (014)
Garden Appreciation (016)
Geology 1 and 2 (021 and 184)
Line Dancing (022)
Music Appreciation (034)
News (Have Your Say) (362)
Painting Unlimited (09)
Painting for You (196)
Playing early Music (043)
Recorder Ensemble (148)
Scalextric (365)
Sign Language (227 and 189)
Short Day Trips (186)
Shorter Walks A & B (050)
Sunday Scrabble (055)
Swimming Berkhamsted (226) But see Swimming (221) ex HH
Ukulele 2 (192)
Whist (091)
Last Updated 24 Jul ’26
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