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Welcome to the Sandbach U3A Web Site

It is designed and managed by club members.

Sandbach & District U3A is a club for people no longer engaged in full-time employment.  It is a Registered Charity (No. 1105144) and is affiliated to the Third Age Trust.

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St Marys church stands on the edge of Sandbach town centre

Announcements

David and Pat Leydon have recently visited Spain where they came across an expatriate branch of U3A. They joined the U3A walkers and describe their experience with pictures showing how the weather and ground conditions in Spain differ from what we are used to in leafy South Cheshire. 

Click here to read of their walk

Become a Computer programmer!

If you have a copy of Microsoft Office on your computer at home, you may not realise that it includes a powerful programming language (VBA) that you can learn and then create programs to make your data processing easier. A proposed class for 2009/2010 targets people who are comfortable using the spreadsheet Excel and want to make the computer do some of the data entry / processing / reporting that they otherwise must do manually. The Sandbach webmaster - Kevin Dean - learnt VBA with Cheshire Police and used it to report on crime & disorder.  He will guide you through the learning process and suggest programs that you might create to amaze your friends. 

Participants will buy their own copy of a self study book and Kevin will guide them through the learning process that they will follow on their own home computer.  He will then suggest programs for them to write. Kevin will provide support mainly by phone and email and will supply a large reference collection of examples taken from his police work and programs he has written for home use..

A Climate Change Group

Since the newsletter was produced another group has been proposed for the next U3A year. Dave Whitworth is the guiding hand behind the new group and he describes the new group as follows:

If mankind induced global warming is as serious as most scientists are saying, this is probably the greatest challenge our grandchildren will face. This group will seek to form a view on how serious it really is, and what we as individuals, or as a community can do about it. For example, on a personal level what is our carbon footprint made up of, and how can we achieve reductions? On a community level, what would it take for Sandbach to be carbon neutral, and how could we contribute?

Setting Up an Antiques and Collectibles Group

The questionnaire results have shown that there is considerable interest in having an Antiques group within Sandbach U3A. The leader of the Antiques group at Alsager U3A is prepared to offer advice. One member of Sandbach U3A has some past experience. We are asking for a few volunteers to join to set up such a group to commence in September. If you are willing to help in this way please contact the webmaster.

The Trips & Outings page lists trips from July 2009 to January 2010 ______________________________________________________________________

The club constitution is now available on the web site with the minutes of the latest AGM  Click on “What is U3A”

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