u3a in london
London
Our U3A is made up of men and women who are not in full time employment and who
meet together to study a wide range of subjects. Our meetings take place in the
old Hampstead Town Hall, on Monday to Friday during term time. We currently have
about 180 classes on offer, all of which are run by members. We are all
volunteers: no-one who works in our U3A in any capacity is paid. We are not a
university which awards degrees, but a group of people learning from each other.
Many of our tutors are highly qualified and others have no qualifications at
all. You don’t need qulaifications to join and you will not be given any: we
study for the pleasure of learning. The leaders of our groups are called
‘co-ordinators’ because we see learning as a co-operative process. Like other
U3As we are autonomous and make our own rules and regulations. We receive no
government or local authority grant and are entirely self-financing.