Join Us

How to Join

Complete an application form online by clicking HERE

Or

Download a Membership Application Form by clicking on the icon to the right. Print, complete, and post the form to the Membership Secretary, whose name and address is shown at the bottom of page 2, or hand the form in at a monthly Speaker Meeting.

Annual Subscriptions

Our membership year starts December 1st. Annual membership fees are shown above right but if you join after March a reduced subscription is available, and it continues to decrease each quarter. Details are given on both the downloadable and online Application Forms.

Your subscription includes:

• Speaker and venue hire costs at our monthly meetings,
• Refreshments at our monthly meetings, including our Annual General Meeting, and our December/Christmas meeting,
• Your downloaded copy of our monthly News Bulletin,
• Affiliation fee to the Third Age Trust,
• The quarterly magazine “Third Age Matters” published by the Third Age Trust,
• Third party insurance cover,
• Membership of as many Interest Groups as you wish.*

* There may be modest additional charges for some Interest Groups (for example for room hire and/or refreshments). If applicable, they are stated on the Group’s webpage.

Before Joining

If you have not yet been along to one of our monthly meetings, we would encourage you to do so before applying to join. There’s no charge and you can chat to us, raise any queries you might have, and find out about our Interest Groups without any commitment. Prospective members, who are interested in specific Interest Group(s), are allowed to attend two group meetings without any obligation to join. Please click on our Interest Groups page for full details of all of our groups and contact the appropriate Group Coordinator to make the necessary arrangements.

You don’t need any qualifications to join; all you need is a willingness to share in the experience and take part. There is no obligation to join any group; you may decide you only want to come to the monthly meetings to listen to the speakers and socialise with new friends. The choice of groups is entirely yours, you could join all of them if you have time and provided there is space. What you will enjoy is meeting people and making many new friends whilst acquiring new knowledge and skills. Anybody who is not in full time employment can join u3a. You don’t have to live in Burton Joyce itself; we have members from surrounding areas such as Carlton, Gedling, Stoke Bardolph, Bulcote, Lowdham, Gunthorpe, Woodborough, Thurgaton, and Southwell, and we welcome new members wherever they live. Members of another u3a can also join, attend monthly Speaker meetings and participate in our Interest Groups by becoming an Associated Member, for which a reduced subscription is charged.