The Science Group have had the idea and made our entry into the Hucknall Christmas Tree Festival and Competition this year. The venue is St Mary’s church.

It runs from now 1st December 2021 until 12 noon on Saturday, 4th December.

I wish to thank them for their donations ,suggestions and a special thanks to the very creative members of the group who set it up today.

There are lots of interesting trees to see and if you like ours please register a vote for it.
We are on the right hand side as you enter the church in between Specsavers, Lapwings and the John Godber Centre entries.

It starts tonight at 5pm to coincide with the Christmas market ,entertainment in the market place and the lights.

Wednesday, 8th December 1.30pm to 4.00pm at the John Godber Centre
The Man who invented Christmas – a modern classic

Film Summary:
In 1843, the celebrated British novelist, Charles Dickens, is at a low point in his career with three flops behind him and his family expenses piling up at home. Determined to recover, Dickens decides to write a Christmas story and self-publish it in less than two months. As Dickens labours writing on such short notice, his estranged father and mother come to stay with him. Still haunted by painful memories of his father ruining his childhood by his financial irresponsibility, Dickens develops a writer’s block which seems to have no solution. As such, Dickens must face his personal demons epitomized through his characters, especially in his imagined conversations with Ebenezer Scrooge. Now with a looming deadline, Dickens struggles for inspiration against his frustrations and his characters’ opinions in a literary challenge creating a classic tale that would define the essential soul of modern Christmas.

Running Time: 1 hour 40 minutes, colour, PG with subtitles.
Enjoy a drink and mince pie/savoury during an interval.
Please browse the book stall at the back of the hall – it is our clearance sale!
Pay on the door, £3.00 to cover the cost of the refreshments, hall and sound system hire.
Please note: enter the hall only from the car park rear doors.

A group of our members have suggested an alternative to writing and exchanging Christmas Cards between u3a friends.

The suggestion is that, instead, we each make a donation towards the joint u3a /John Godber Centre defibrillator fund.

If you wish to do this a collection point will be in the John Godber Centre hall at the Christmas lunch on Monday 6th December 2021 and at the film on Wednesday, 8th December

Thankyou