Groups Management
Gail Allaby – Groups Co-ordinator: groups@u3atod.org.uk
Dee Kerslake – Assistant Groups Co-ordinator: deekerslake@hotmail.com
Venues. Click here for a list of our venues.
Joining a Group
It is essential that before you attend a group, you contact the convenor for further information. Some groups, for example, may be full and will not be able to accommodate you. You may also want to know a little more about what their meetings cover, and whether or not you will be able to access their meeting places. Convenors will be able to respond to most of your questions and concerns.
Costs
Membership of U3A Todmorden is £15 a year and this must be paid before you become a regular member of a group. Join us here. Moreover, some groups have to make charges for room hire or for equipment. Please check with a group convenor before finding yourself inconvenienced.
Here’s the latest groups’ report. Or click a name below for more details of that group.
Here is a pdf of the current groups to download
- Art Appreciation / History
Mary Findon; 01706 814022; w.m.findon@btinternet.com
1st Thursday of the month, 2.00 – 3.30 pm, Fielden Centre - Art Club
Jean A Pearson; 01706 813933; pearson382@btinternet.com
Alternate Tuesdays, 10.30 am – 1.00pm, the Fielden Centre - Beginners Modern Greek
Ron Tapsell: 07930020418 rontapsall@hotmail.co.uk
Alternative Thursdays. 11 a.m. Saltonstall room Hebden Bridge Town Hall. - Coffee Club
Jean A Pearson; 01706 813933; pearson382@btinternet.com
1st Monday of Month, 11.00 onwards, Honest John’s - Concert party
Rita Olley; 01706 819926; ritaandreg@todonline.co.uk
Friday, 2.00 – 4.00pm, Various locations - Craft
Mary Findon; 01706 814022; w.m.findon@btinternet.com
Alternate Fridays, 10.30am – 1.00pm, Fielden Centre - Creative Writing Group
Barbara Griffiths; 01706 876984; barbiegriff@gmail.com
Colin Sanson; 01422 845401; colinsanson@hotmail.com
2nd and 4th Thursdays, every month. 2.00 – 4.00pm, TCRC room. - Crown Green Bowling
Peter Carrigan 07852 488884 carrigan90@gmail.com
Returning in April 2020 - Dance
Fiona Ryland 07719 422946 fio.a.ryland@gmail.com
Mandy Hill 0788 788 0607 mandy@hillsown.com.
Fridays 1.30 -2.30pm at the Dawn Chapman School of Dance. Victoria Road, OL14 5LP. 01706 839113 - French Conversation
Anne Foster; 01706 814623; thefostershq@yahoo.co.uk
2.00 to 4.00pm, Fire Station Community Room. Please contact Anne. - French Improvers (Monday Group)
Gill Radford; 01422 886021; gillmradford@btinternet.com
1.00 – 3.00 pm, every 2nd and 4th Monday of the month, Fielden Centre upstairs room. - German Group
Andy Hollis; andy.hollis1@gmail.com
Weekly, Tuesday afternoons, 2.00 – 4.00pm, Community Room, Todmorden Fire Station - Golf for Fun (short ten-week course)
Mike Cook; Tel 07976 402276; michaelcook2016@yahoo.com
Mondays, 10:00 to 12:30 noon, Todmorden Golf Club. - Let’s go
Linda Cook; 01706 817254; landcook@talktalk.net (Available to All Members). Various locations, phone Convenor for details.
- Let’s Go Trip to Lytham
Forty-nine members enjoyed the June sunshine on the Fylde coast recently. They spent leisure time in the leafy town of Lytham, mentioned in the Domesday Book, before visiting the Grade 1 listed Lytham Hall, a Georgian mansion situated in 78 acres of parkland and former home of the Clifton family, where they had a tour ...
- Lunch Club
Gisela Lea-McCann; 01422 843329; gleamccann@aol.com
Please contact Gisela for information and you will then be sent details of the following month’s venue. - Mah Jong
Harriet Appleby; Tel 07773 623655; ha@blurrededges.co.uk
Wednesdays, 3pm – 5pm at The Hare & Hounds, Burnley Road, Todmorden, OL14 8EA. - Music Appreciation
Suspended until we can find a new convenor
- Novel Appreciation
Anthony Peter; 01706 551998; antpeter51@yahoo.co.uk
Usually 1st Monday of the month, Todmorden Library, 2pm to 3.30pm’ ? - Old English
Emily Watnick; emilywatnick@gmail.com
Old English is at the Stubbing Wharf Please email Emily for details of this group. - Opera Appreciation Group
Keith Coates; 01706844821; k.coates994@gmail.com
Stubbing Wharf at 1pm to 4:30, monthly on second Tuesday of the month. - Philosophy
Peter Baron; 01706 813044; baronps@hotmail.com
Alternate Mondays, 10.15am, Central Methodist - Photography Group
Nigel Plant; 07929 756356; nigelonline@mac.com
2nd & 4th Thursdays of the month, 10.30 – 12.30, Stubbings Wharf - Photography Group 2
Ernie Rogan; 01706 812015 arlineandernie@tiscali.co.uk
Every third Tuesday, Fire Station Community Room - Poetry Appreciation
Lynne Taylor; 01282 411902; lynne.tlr@btinternet.com
Second Friday of the Month, 11.00am – 12.30pm, Todmorden Library - Poetry Enjoyment Group
Lynne Taylor; 01282 411902; lynne.tlr@btinternet.com
11.00-12.30, every fourth Thursday of the month, at Todmorden Library - Practical Art
Wendy Coates; 01706 344821; coateswendy1@gmail.com
and Corinne Roberts; stoneyroyd12@gmail.com
Alternate Fridays, 11.00am – 1.30pm, Fielden Centre - Psychology
Linda Robson;; linlinrobson@btinternet.com
- Quiz
Myrna Beet; 01706 815458; myrna-cb@tiscali.co.uk
Every fourth Thursday of the month, 10am, Central Methodist Church - Reader Group (3 Valley Readers)
Caroline Pinder ; 07960339037; cspinder@btinternet.com.
Please contact Caroline for time and venue - Science
Tom Williamson; 01706 810016; tom.w16@tiscali.co.uk
2nd and 4th Wednesdays, Fielden Centre, 10.15am - Scrabble 1
Pam Booth; 01706 818729
Alternate Fridays, 2.30 – 4.30 pm, (next 24th August) Central Methodist - Scrabble 2
Marion Kershaw; 07979624111 todwords@yahoo.co.uk
1st and 3rd Mondays of the month, 1.00 – 2.30, the new venue for Scrabble 2 is the Golden Lion, Fielden Square. - Social history
Alan Fowler; 01422 842828; alanfowler1944@btinternet.com
3rd Friday in the month, 10.15, TCRC room - Table Tennis and Badminton
Ernie Rogan (CONTACT ONLY) 01706 812015 arlineandernie@tiscali.co.uk
Mondays (term time), 3.00 – 5.00pm, Todmorden Leisure Centre - Tablet and ipad Club
Ian Mcadie; 07398682519; ianmacadie279@gmail.com. (Available to All Members)
First Tuesday in the month. 11.00am – 12.30, Weatherspoons - The Last Cowkeeper in Garston
U3A Todmorden’s October meeting enjoyed a superlative afternoon of quiet rapture in Dave Joy’s energised, energising and fluent talk about his cowkeeping family from Garston.
And what, we wondered, was a cowkeeper?
A cowkeeper was a Yorkshire or Lancashire farmer of the early nineteenth century who spotted that milk transported in churns by the railway to growing ...
- THIRD CONVENORS’ LUNCH
Central Methodists Todmorden was the venue for the third Tod U3A Convenors’ Lunch. The purpose of these is two fold: as an expression of thanks from the Committee for all the hard work the convenors do to keep Tod U3A going. Secondly, it is an opportunity to keep convenors up-to-date with anything they need to ...
- THIRD CONVENORS’ LUNCH
Central Methodists Todmorden was the venue for the third Tod U3A Convenors’ Lunch. The purpose of these is two fold: as an expression of thanks from the Committee for all the hard work the convenors do to keep Tod U3A going. Secondly, it is an opportunity to keep convenors up-to-date with anything they need to ...
- Walking
Peter Gibson (ToddyPG@gmail.com) and Bill Griffiths (bill@gryffon.co.uk).
Last Tuesday in the Month. Available to all members - Wine Appreciation Group
Roger Howard; 01706 815166; jroger.howard@btinternet.com.
Fridays in the upstairs room at the Fielden Centre. Please contact Roger for the next tasting in good time, so he can make sure there is enough wine for every one. - World Affairs
Peter Baron; 01706 813044; baronps@hotmail.com
Alternate Wednesdays, 2.30pm to 4.00pm, Fire Station community room
Bridgeholme Cricket Club Pavilion
Central Methodist Church
Centre Vale Park Bowling Club
Dawn Chapman School of Dance 01706 839113
Fielden Centre Main Hall Audrey 01706 839802 (Accessible)
Fielden Centre Upstairs Room Audrey 01706 839802
Fire Station Community Room 01706 813541
Golden Lion 01706 816333
Hare and Hounds 01706 417074
Polished Knob 01706 810480
Saltonstall Room, Hebden Bridge Town Hall 01422 417 300
Stubbing Wharf Amy 01422 844107
The Pub Glenn or Mel 01706 812145
Park
Todmorden Community Resource Centre 07852 355111
Todmorden Golf Club 01706 81 29 86
Todmorden Library 01706 815600
Todmorden Sports Centre 01706 839090
White Hart 01706 811760 Honest John’s 01706 815646
Some groups meet in various other places.