The main U3A monthly meetings are held on the third Wednesday of each month at the Pemberton Community Centre, H.E. Bates Way, Rushden, Northants, NN10 9YP  to which we invite guest speakers who cover a wide range of topics; the current programme can be viewed by choosing "Monthly Meetings" on the Menu Bar. The atmosphere is always welcoming and friendly and refreshments are available. 

There are lots of links which may prove to be of interest on our Useful Links page including details of our local MP's.  Also keep an eye on the News page for (hopefully) up-to-date items.

The subject of my piece today is our website.  I don’t know if you have looked at it recently: go on to Higham & Rushden U3A - and there it is, looking very informative and interesting. 
 
Recently, the committee had a meeting with Alan Bailey our Webmaster.  We all looked at the website and people came up with suggestions to keep it bright and interesting.  We also need to keep it up to date by removing some of the historical entries. 
 
The Website is a very useful part of our information because not everything can fit into our Newsletter, but, of course, websites are only as good as those who work on it and keep it up to date. 
 
The Groups Section is gradually building up with some very interesting Group Pages and although some groups find it difficult to think of what to put on their page, it need only be a brief description of the group.  We also thought that photos of the Group Leader would be helpful so that new members to that Group know who they need to talk to.  Don’t make your Group Leader do all the work, group members can contribute and help to make their Group Page worth looking at. 
 
Alan is doing a great job at maintaining the website (steady! - Alan) but it is down to members to feed him the material via the webmaster email address and keep it fresh. 
 
I hope you will all try to contribute to the information on the website to make our U3A branch so interesting

Chris



Remember - this is OUR site:-
 Please send me anything you would like on the site (pictures, items of general interest, breaking news, useful links to other websites etc) - email to and keep our website interesting.  (Please email your pictures to me - I would love to change the front page picture(s) on a regular basis - any pictures of U3A activities would be good - send them as an attachment - if you are not sure how, email me and I'll tell you)  If you find any links which don't work or any spelling mistakes PLEASE contact me by email - click on my name Alan Bailey - The WebMaster.