U3A CARRICK - SOME USEFUL BACKGROUND ON OUR ACTIVITIES:

U3A Carrick Group covers a wide-ranging area, so therefore general meetings are held in four locations.

VENUE	JANUARY	FEBRUARY	MARCH	APRIL	MAY	JUNE
Kea Community Centre, 47 Old Coach Rd., Playing Place	Friday, 5th January 10am - 12.30pm		Friday, 2nd March 10am - 12.30pm			Friday, 1st June 10am - 12.30pm
St. Mary’s Church Hall, Kimberley Place, Falmouth		Weds., 7th Feb. 10am - 12.30pm	Wednesday 7th March - John Bishop & Richard Allen	Wednesday 18th April 10 for 10.30	Wednesday 16th May Amanda Harris talking about her book WW1 Behind the Lines, her grandmother's story.	Wednesday June 20th
Conservative Club 80, Lemon St. Truro	Tues., 23rd January 2pm – 4pm	Tues., 27th February 2pm - 4pm	Tues., 27th March 2pm – 4pm	Tues., 24th April 2pm – 4pm	Tues., 22nd May 2pm – 4pm	Tues., 26th June 2pm – 4pm
Perranwell Centre School Hill, Perranwell Station				Friday, 6th April U3A AGM 10am – 12.30pm	Weds., 2nd May 10am - 12.30pm
VENUE	JULY	AUGUST	SEPTEMBER	OCTOBER	NOVEMBER	DECEMBER
Kea Community Centre, 47 Old Coach Rd., Playing Place		Friday, 3rd August 10am - 12.30pm		Friday, 5th October 10am - 12.30pm
St. Mary’s Church Hall, Kimberley Place, Falmouth	Weds., 18th July 10am - 12.30pm	Wednesday 15th Aug.10am - 12.30pm	Weds., 19th Sept. 10am - 12.30pm	Weednesday 17th Oct.10am - 12.30pm	Weds., 7th Nov. 10am - 12.30pm	Wednesday Dec.19th 10am - 12.30pm
Perranwell Centre School Hill, Perranwell Station						Friday, 7th Dec. CHRISTMAS SHOW 10am - 12.30pm

Wednesday 18th April a meeting at St Marys Church Hall,
10.00 for 10.30

Refreshments, chat and discussion regarding future meetings.. So come along to put your views forward and to meet the new organisers,..8 lovely ladies on the steering committee.
Our speaker will be Brian Sherriff giving a talk entitled From Bras to Bees! ooking forward to a return visit from Martin.

Monthly meeting – Tuesday 24th April.
During our meeting Liz Grant, Director of the much acclaimed U3A Choir, has offered to join us with some friends and talk about her life in music along with musical accompaniment.

Truro Conservative Club. Monthly meeting.
A big thank you to Eric Rabjohns and Chrissie for their musical entertainment at our March meeting. Eric with his guitar and stories was a perfect accompaniment to Chrissie and her singing along with her soaring and fluttering recorder playing. They provided us with an eclectic mix of music from thoughtful ballads to everlasting pop music.

May 22nd. Dr. Joe Pelton – The Future of Space.
this lecture by Dr. Pelton is one not be missed by every one with an interest or a concern for space travel in the future. This may be the only venue in Cornwall that Dr. Pelton is visiting.

Joe Pelton is a space enthusiast, and award winning author and editor of more than 50 books in the field of space, satellite communications systems and future technologies.
His achievements in the area of space safety and cosmic hazards were recently acknowledged by the presentation of two prestigious awards.
Joe received the Lifeboat Foundation Guardian Award, in recognition of his lifelong dedication to advance the science of space safety and cosmic hazards prevention for the greater good of humankind, and his tireless pursuit to educate the general public about the threats to humanity that can come from solar storms, comets and asteroids, and orbital debris.
Joe is Director Emeritus at the Space and Advanced Communications Research Institute (SACRI) at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. and former Dean of the International Space University (ISU) in Strasburg, France.
He has worked at NASA, served as Director of Strategy Planning for Intelsat and is the founder of the Arthur C Clarke Foundation.

Further information about Joe Pelton

Perranwell Meeting, Wednesday 2nd May, 2018
10:00 for 10:30 at the Perranwell Centre

This is to be an exploratory meeting to pose the question, “Do you, our Carrick U3A members, wish a regular monthly meeting to be held in Perranwell and, if so, would you be willing to help organise it?”

Such a question was put at a similar meeting in Falmouth on 7th March, see John Bishop’s report in the April Newsletter. The result was a resounding “Yes!” Several volunteer helpers came forward and a small steering group was formed, one of whose members, Wendy Morris, has since been elected to the main Carrick U3A Committee.

There is now an opportunity for all of our members, not only those living around Perranwell and Perranarworthal, who wish to continue meeting each month at the Perranwell Centre. Just what form the meetings, in future, may take and how they might be organised will be matters for discussion among those who attend, under the guidance of our new Chairman, John Bishop, and subject to the final approval of the Committee.

This move is part of the new Committee’s wish for greater transparency and devolution within Carrick U3A. There will be a further, similar Truro meeting, at the Conservative Club, on Tuesday, 26th June.

Constitution:

U3A Carrick operates under a formal constitution, which sets out our philosophy and operational practices under which we manage our various activities and groups on a day-to-day basis across our neighbourhood districts. We operate with a formal committee structure, which includes financial management. U3A Carrick Group is registered with The UK Charity Commissioners under charity number: 1034910.

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