Barnet University of the Third Age (BarnetU3A) offers people no longer in full-time employment an opportunity for life-long learning, friendship and hopefully some fun. The key aims of BarnetU3A 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.
Currently Barnet U3A has nearly a 1000 members engaged in over 100 groups.
Some results from the annual members' survey are below. The overall satisfaction with BU3A is very very high. Members are also very happy with the particular groups that they have joinred.
Overall Satisfaction with BU3A
Are Groups meeting members' expectations
Barnet U3A Membership Statistics
Below are some graphs showing the composition of the membership. There is a discussion about these statistics in the forums - join in.
