u3a

Culm Valley

Welcome to Culm Valley u3a.

We are part of a UK-wide movement of locally-run interest groups that provide a wide range of opportunities to come together to learn for fun. Members explore new ideas, skills and activities together.

All u3a members draw upon their knowledge and experience to teach and learn from one another just for the pleasure of learning.

It's all voluntary; a typical u3a will be home to many interest groups covering a wide variety of different subjects - from art to walking and everything in between.

On the first THURSDAY afternoon of each month, except January, we hold our Members Monthly Meeting at Willand Village Hall. Members start arriving from 13:15 onwards to find somewhere to sit, get a cup of something hot, check the Interest Group tables and socialise with other members. At these meetings we usually have a guest speaker after which members are updated with news of the latest developments in Culm Valley u3a.

Our Next Monthly Meeting

Date: Thursday 2nd July 2026

Speaker: Justin Newland

Title: The Limits of Empire - how Drake's Circumnavigation changed history  

Justin, a Somerset author and entertaining public speaker, will explore England's coming of age in the Elizabethan era. At the beginning of Tudor times Britain was a small island on the edge of the continent of Europe. But sparked by the imperial vision expressed in The Limits of Empire, an influential 1577 treatise by Dr. John Dee, royal advisor to Queen Elizabeth 1 and by Frances Drake's extraordinary circumnavigation of the world, England moved onto the world stage.

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