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Reading u3a is a learning co-operative of mature people, which enables members to share many educational, creative and leisure activities. Activities are organised mainly in small groups that meet regularly, sometimes in each other's homes but more often in hired halls. It pursues a wide range of topics; some academic, some practical and others recreational. Reading u3a is a member of The Third Age Trust, the national body of the u3a.

  •  Mostly day-time meetings 
  • Various venues across Reading 
  • A wide variety of interest groups 
  • Theatre visits & other outings

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Wide Range of Activities and Special Interest Groups

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  Go to our Groups and Special Interest pages where you can see the variety of activities on offer.  Some groups allow people who are not members of Reading u3a to attend a meeting of the group as a guest to get a flavour of Reading u3a activities. You can request this from the special interest pages.

Open Meetings

Non members are welcome to a limited number of open meetings to get a flavour of our activities.  Open meetings are held on the fourth Monday of each month (except Bank Holidays) at Abbey Baptist Church. 

See below for details of our next open meeting.

Open Meetings

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200 Years of Railways
A talk to Reading u3a by transport expert Christian Wolmar
 
2025 is the bicentenary of rail travel in Britain, and with the birth of the modern railway the history of Britain – not least Reading – changed for ever. A good time to reflect on the railways’ enormous impact.
 
Who better to guide us through these 200 years than Christian Wolmar, author of a series of books on railway history and a writer and broadcaster specialising in transport matters. He has spent nearly all of his working life as a journalist – writing for most of our national newspapers as well as magazines such as The Oldie and the Spectator. Among his numerous feature TV appearances, he has been on Coast, Julia Bradbury’s Railway Walks, BBC4’s ‘Railways: the Making of a Nation’ and the railway programmes presented by Ian Hislop and Michael Portillo.
 
For Reading u3a this is a welcome return visit by this popular speaker and railway expert. Non-members are welcome and entry is free – join us at 2pm on Monday 28 April at Abbey Baptist Church, Reading RG1 3BE. 

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