Hartley Wintney & District

u3a

Members

Notices / Latest News

Membership Renewals

Membership renewals should have been completed by 31st August.  However, if you are still wishing to renew, we have arranged a Grace Period until 28th September. After that your membership will be lapsed with no access to our Groups or Monthly Meeting.

Simplified Membership Renewal

Good news! Beacon have simplified their payment system making renewing your membership much much easier.

This is now up and running 😊😊.

Click Here to Renew your membership

Associated membership with other u3as

We welcome full current members of other u3as to join as Associate Members of Hartley Wintney u3a if they wish. All who wish to participate in HW u3a group activities and/or attend our Monthly Meetings must be either a full individual member or an Associate Member at Hartley Wintney.  Associate membership costs £16.

Health & Wellbeing

On Thursday 30 July 2026 Consultant Cardiologist Dr. Os Alsanjari gave a talk to Hartley Wintney and Odiham u3as on:
“Hypertension: the silent pressure on your heart and blood vessels. What it means, why it matters, and what you can do about it”.
If you want to see his presentation you will find it here.

The next talk by Dr Os Alsanjari, as part of our Health & Wellbeing Group initiative.  Entitled Cholesterol - the good - the bad - and what we can do ourselves.

Contacts

  • The Committee and the main Support Services Roles are listed on the Committee & Support Services page. You can click on the role's name (blue & underlined) to send an email directly from this website.
  • Every Group names its Leader on the Group's page and you can click on the Leader's name (blue & underlined) to send an email directly from this website.

Publicity Team

The Publicity Team is not a Group (it is part of Support Services). The team is responsible for all advertising and running events such as the Village Festival stand and the gazebo in the High Street [last August]. It also produces the write-ups of each Speaker Meeting for the website. 

There are only four in the team, and they could do with some extra help. If you can help, please contact Madeleine Kudlac or Peter Johnson. 

Creative Writing

National Competition Success

Sarah Wood came second out of 525 entries in the National u3a Short story competition 2025 with her story "Finding the Key to Lost Memories".

  • The Year without a Summer
    The latest copy of The Times, dated 13 July 1816, lay open on the dining table of the Villa Diodot, a pleasantly palatial mansion on the shores of Lake Geneva. Mary and Shelley had decided to visit Lord Byron there a few days ago, and had taken the opportunity to do so on a morning… Read more: The Year without a Summer

Beacon

Beacon is the u3a movement’s integrated membership, groups, finance and mailing system. It’s important both to Hartley Wintney u3a and you, our member, that your information on Beacon is correct. Please check this in August each year (before membership renewals open) and remember to update it if anything changes.

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Documents

Note that some of the following documents linked below are password protected.