The U3A
More than 753 U3As in the UK have a membership in excess of 231,419 which is growing at a rate of around 10% per annum. It is the only national education organisation in the UK run entirely by its own members.
The aims and objectives are:
To encourage and enable older people no longer in full-time paid employment to help each other
to share their knowledge, skills, interests and experience.
To demonstrate the benefits and enjoyment to be gained and the new horizons to be discovered in learning throughout life.
To celebrate the capabilities and potential of older people and their value to society.