Category: Announcements

We are collecting various items – Two to recycle and one to be reused and made into something new.

1. Crisp Packets
Thanks for keeping up the good work by bringing your empties to the monthly meeting. It helps the staff at Rumbletums if they can be packed flat (as most of you already do).

2. Medication blister packs
Siobhan will be collecting medication blister packs (not the made up trays). Please bring to the monthly meeting or contact her directly.

3. Wool:
Jean Green writes requesting donations of wool. I have been making twiddle muffs for charity for a number of years mostly for care homes and a few private due to love one’s having dementia – it seems to help them. Also I knit knee blankets for cancer patients and heart patients. I am very grateful to those who have donated wool but I am always looking for more. To contact Jean, please use the form below:-

3. Books
Please hang on to any books that you wish to bring in until we can arrange a book sale. Thanks to those who bought some last month they are now in temporary storage.

David Rose

The newly formed Litter Picking Group has got off to a great start with members having collected almost 60 bags of rubbish since its inception at the end of August. One member has even found what is believed to be stolen property – a bicycle hidden in bushes and a rucksack with its pockets open and emptied. The Police have been informed and if the items are not claimed they will be ‘recycled’ respectively to a good home and a deserving charity. Group members go out either individually or in small groups as and when they are free and have garnered a lot of public support in the process. It’s just a pity there are still litter louts out there too.
For further information or if anyone else wishes to join please contact the group leader Val Gant on litter@hucknallu3a.org.uk

Some of the litter pickers ready for action:

Fake meal vouchers for Wetherspoon pubs

These are being promoted on Facebook, despite the chain shutting all its social media accounts in 2018. Facebook users who comment on the posts published by the fake Wetherspoon pages are told they will win meal vouchers if they receive comments from Wetherspoon. But these comments come from scammers who have set up the pages.

The posts read ‘Congratulations for those of you who have received comments from us, you have the opportunity to win them’. You are then asked to like and share the post with your friends.

Luckily, the fake profiles don’t have large followings unlike other competition scams, but they do have the potential to reach a large audience. Two false Facebook pages claim to be legitimate Wetherspoon social media profiles, both sharing posts following the same format. If received report it: to the 7726 service – a free text service that enables you to report all spam texts.

u3a Growing the Future

To mark the u3a movement’s 40th Anniversary in 2022, the Trust are creating a u3a anniversary woodland situated in the Brecon Beacons.

u3a member’s contribution to the u3a woodland will help benefit the environment, wildlife and climate for future generations. The movement’s target is for 5,000 trees to be planted between October 2021 and March 2022.

This project is launched in members’ magazine, Third Age Matters. u3a members can buy individual trees or a copse of trees and u3as are also encouraged to plant trees within their own communities.

The money for the trees goes towards establishing the trees and part of the cost for each tree is reserved as future payments for maintenance. Once they are fully established, they will be looked after as part of routine woodland management. We are fortunate to have secured the Woodland in an area of outstanding natural beauty and the trees will be expertly looked after by skilled arborists.

To buy u3a woodland trees, go to the u3abrandcentre.

The Choir desperately needs a musical director and accompanist in order to continue. The role entails a commitment of four enjoyable hours each month together with a little forward planning.

If you know of anyone who might be interested, perhaps a music teacher or piano player who would be willing to take on this voluntary role, please contact Christine Hemsley, the group leader, on the form below:-