Community organisations - Penicuik and District u3a

Penicuik and District u3a

Live life to the full - that’s what the u3a is about and we are the Penicuik & District branch, the only one in Midlothian.

If you’re retired or semi-retired, want to get out more as COVID restrictions ease, make new friends and maybe learn a new skill, then this could be for you. Before Covid-19 we hosted a monthly guest speaker in Penicuik Town Hall and the topics were very varied. We have 23 interest groups involving academic, leisure, craft and social activities (complete list below). We have been relying on meeting through WhatsApp, Zoom, FaceTime and email, but we are carrying on! Indeed we re-started guest speaker meetings in October 2020 via ‘Zoom’ online.

If you wish to join these online meetings, with a possible view to joining our u3a, please contact our secretary through the email address below.  For our members, we also introduced coffee/cake/chat meetings, fun quizzes, photographic shows, cartoon shows all by online video-conferencing with Zoom and with a weekly schedule. We have an annual (March-March) subscription of only £15 (it’s £12 this year) and you can find out more on our website or by emailing our secretary at penicuiku3a@gmail.com

Academic - French conversation, French culture, Italian, Spanish, science and history,

Leisure - art appreciation, two book review groups, creative writing and family history.

Craft - needlecraft

Sport/exercise - rambling, tennis, table tennis, nature appreciation and Petanque is in planning.

Social activities - two lunch clubs, theatre and cinema visits and whisky tasting