The canal gardens, Roundhay
Click below for enlarged versions of photos taken at the some of the Group's recent activities.
Lifelong Learning in Action
Welcome to the web site of U3A Leeds, devoted to lifelong learning, providing opportunities to share skills and interests by learning together.
U3A Leeds is affiliated to a national organisation, the Third Age Trust. Membership is open to anyone within the Leeds area who is no longer in full time paid employment. There is no age limit.
For information on how to join, please see the Membership page.
Forthcoming activities
Next Book Group meeting
2 September
The Book Group will meet at The Four Seasons Café (Age UK Leeds), Mark Lane, Leeds, off Dortmund Square between St John's Centre and St John's church. The reading assignment is "any novel by Graham Greene".
Next general meeting
14 September
Mary Bentham
Food in Roman times
For details of general meetings, see the Programme page.
Next Strollers Group walk
15 September
Ripon canal and return
For details see the Strollers Group page.
Literature Group
The first meeting of the Literature Group in the Autumn session will be on 21 September, not 7 September as originally announced.
New Groups
Two new groups will start in the autumn: a Choir Group and a Knitting and Needlework Group.
Choir Group
The Choir Group will hold an introductory meeting at 11am on Friday 17 September, at the Yorkshire College of Music and Drama, 19 Shire Oak Road, Headingley. Refreshments will be available. The group needs at least ten members in order to get off the ground.
Knitting and Needlework Group
This group will meet at the Four Seasons Café (for directions on getting there, see the Book Group item above), starting on Monday 20 September, 1.30–3.00pm.
Announcements from other organisations
The Hope Theatre Group
The Hope Theatre Group is performing Shakespeare's King Lear, directed by Peter Gilbert (leader of our Literature Group), played in the round in the Lady Chapel at St Oswald's Church, Guiseley, 1 – 4 September at 7.15pm. Advance booking opens 31 July. Phone Elizabeth Hoyle (01943 872549) for information and tickets.
Heritage Open Days, Thurs. 9 Sept. – Sun. 12 Sept.
Heritage Open Days celebrates England's fantastic architecture and culture by offering free access to properties that are usually closed to the public or normally charge for admission. This year, among many other local properties open to the public, Harewood House will be offering free admission on Fri. 10 Sept. and Sat. 11 Sept. For more information, contact Leeds Civic Trust (tel. 243 9594) or www.heritageopendays.org.uk.
During the Heritage Open Day weekend the Churches Conservation Trust has eight churches participating with free events in North Yorkshire. The nearest ones are at Lead, Skelton cum Newby and Cowthorpe.