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Who are we?

Christchurch University of the Third Age (U3A) offers a programme of educational and leisure activities for those not in full-time employment, and is part of a worldwide movement. Members with similar interests meet during the day in small groups, usually weekly or fortnightly and at various venues. The main aim is to advance the education of retired & semi-retired people and assist them in pursuing their interests within a social environment.

Coming events

(for next 3 months. See What's on page for full details.)

Monthly Meeting
14 Oct 2019

Vintage Brass Autumn Concert
26 Oct 2019

Vintage Brass Lunchtime Recital
30 Oct 2019

Music Study Day - CANCELLED
10 Nov 2019

Monthly Meeting
11 Nov 2019

Vintage Brass Christmas Concert
7 Dec 2019

Monthly Meeting
9 Dec 2019

Christchurch U3A Singers Celebration of Christmas
10 Dec 2019

Website performance

We are continuing to experience severe difficulties with the performance of our website. Some pages are very slow to load or may fail altogether - the worst affected is the 'Our Groups' page.

If you are a committee member, many of the maintenance pages are also severely affected.

If you get a '504 Gateway timeout' message, the page load has failed - the best I can offer is try again later. Performance does seem to improve in the evenings/early mornings. If the page you are looking for does respond then data accuracy is not compromised.

This problem is being pursued but I am unable to offer any sort of estimated fix time yet.