Membership of Sawston Area u3a is open to anybody who is no longer in full-time employment. There are no age or other restrictions. All that is required is a wish to continue to learn. Our membership year begins in October.
Term times
Autumn: October - December 2025
Spring Summer: January - August 2026
Fees: Annual Membership £30. If you are joining the Theatre and Outings Group, there is an extra charge of £5 to cover expenses. In this case your fee will be £35.
(No discount is given for belonging to more than one u3a)
Fees: Join Jan 2026 or later the fee for the remainder of the year is reduced to £16.
Enrolment
Click below to download the 2025/26 Membership form. To print the form press Ctrl+p, on your keyboard, (the Print Preview will appear) then press Print. If you have any questions or you do not have a printer, you can email our Enrolment Secretary.
Bank Payments:
Account: Sawston Area u3a
Sort Code: 20-74-05
Account No: 00693251
Please use your membership number as a reference so we can identify you.
Complete the form, and send it (with your cheque, if you are unable to make a bank payment) to Barbara Chew, 33 Old Forge Way, Sawston CB22 3BZ.
Please ensure you quote the reference number when applying to join a Group.
If you are not providing an email address you will need to include a stamped addressed envelope to receive your results of the enrolment process.
Gift Aid: Sawston Area u3a is now a registered charity, no 1141150, benefitting from Gift Aid in the past year. We thank all members who completed the Gift Aid consent on their enrolment form and would ask that they do so again for the coming financial year.
In the rare event that all the activities you have applied for are full, you will be contacted by our Enrolment Secretary. You will be offered the option to continue with the enrolment (hoping a member will withdraw from one of the activities), or have your membership fee returned.
Conditions
- No places will be reserved for former group members so it is essential for all members to re-apply.
- The enrolment process starts on Thursday 1 August 2025 when the application forms will be opened randomly and places allocated.
- After this date members will be accepted on a first come first served basis on the receipt of an application form and membership fee.
- Some groups have limited spaces so you need to apply before this date to have the best chance of success.
- Please do not apply for groups with a limit on the number of places unless you intend to be a frequent attendee (in fairness to those on the waiting list).
Withdrawing from Classes and Activities
If you find that a class is not what you expected, or you need to withdraw from a class for any other reason, please advise the Co-ordinator or Enrolment Secretary rather than just not attending as there may be a waiting list for the course.
Cancellation of Classes
The committee reserves the right to cancel any class due to low enrolment and attendance or for any other reason.
Email addresses
All members are asked to provide, where possible, an email address to receive an increasing amount of u3a information. The use of email addresses saves time and work for the administrators and cost to the u3a. We will send information by post to members without access to email but it is inevitable that they may receive information later than those members with email addresses.
If you do not use email regularly, please consider asking a friend or relative if you could enter their email address. Please be aware of the points below:
- Email addresses are only used to communicate to members within the Sawston Area u3a.
- Email addresses are never shared outside the organisation or with other u3a members.
- We use Bcc to avoid broadcasting your email address to other members. (Please ask a committee member if you need this to be clarified)
- Email addresses are not stored as contacts on the email system.
u3a Matters
All members now receive a copy of the u3a Matters magazine four times each year, by direct mail. The committee will only supply members’ addresses to the u3a Head Office with no other details, subject to data protection legislation. The cost is met from the membership fee.
Insurance
Sawston Area u3a accepts no responsibility for accidents not covered by its Public Liability Insurance.