There’s lots happening at the Nunawading Community Hub this month with the launch of the Whitehorse Seniors Festival, which was hosted by U3A Nunawading on the first Sunday of the month and Council’s annual Spring Festival to be held on Sunday 23 October. Our Social Committee is also busy planning our upcoming Melbourne Cup Eve Afternoon Tea and last week members enjoyed another Coffee & Cake event at the Hub.
With a new Committee of Management, Seniors Festival and Spring Festival being celebrated in and around the Hub, an active Social Committee and preparation for next year’s enrolment, there’s plenty happening at U3A Nunawading.
U3A Nunawading held its 32nd Annual General Meeting at the Nunawading Community Hub on Wednesday 17 August with approximately 70 members and invited guests in attendance. This was our first AGM at our new home and the first held face-to-face since 2019 due to COVID-19 restrictions.
Congratulations to our Social Committee for organising the Coffee and Cake event in the last week of Term 2 and Christmas in July lunch which were both much appreciated by members.
On 17 August we will be holding our 32nd Annual General Meeting at the Hub. The official Notice of Meeting will be sent to you early in August with all the details.
We ended Term 1 with Easter celebrations and the Social Club will be treating us to coffee and cake in the last week of this term. We’ve had a number of well-attended Four O’clock Forums and in the second week of the upcoming holidays members will enjoy our first ever Christmas in July lunch at the Hub.
Many of you have already bought your tickets for the Christmas in July lunch, which the Social Committee is hosting on Tuesday 5 July. Please ask at the reception desk for tickets – $40 each. Remember we don’t take cash. You can read more details about the lunch in the Social Committee’s article in this newsletter.
National Volunteer Week (NVW) is on 16 – 22 May 2022. The theme for National Volunteer Week 2022 is Better Together.
Many of you may have noticed groups of us enjoying a tasty lunch in the Hub foyer over the past couple of weeks. Duty Committee Members (Valerie, Frank, Colin, June, Gary, Athalie, Judith, Marlene, Terry and myself) were hosting our valued teams of Reception Desk Volunteers as a way of thanking them for the work they do for U3A Nunawading. The service they provide enables us to be far more responsive to our 2,000+ members than we could ever do without them.
With International Women’s Day celebrations, our monthly Forums and a U3A Social Committee, the Hub is taking on a whole new aspect as members enjoy new opportunities to socialise. None of this would be possible, of course, if we did not have Council monitors checking the vaccination status of everyone entering the Hub each day.
It’s great to see our wide range of classes settling in as members get better acquainted. Our 2022 program of Four O’clock Forums is also underway with a great talk by the Director of our Royal Botanic Gardens late last month, and a new Social Committee has been formed with the brief to give members the opportunity to once again enjoy the social side of their U3A membership.
It was wonderful to see so many happy faces returning to classes earlier this month. The last couple of weeks have been very busy preparing for our 2022 U3A year with Reception Desk Volunteers and Class Leaders attending their annual Information Sessions. Along with the Committee of Management, these are the key people who keep the wheels turning at U3A Nunawading.
The year got off to a great start with our annual Summer School.
Our office is now closed and will be open from Monday 31 January from 9.00am – 3.30pm to assist you with enrolments and accept membership fees. Term 1 starts on 7 February.