Dates for your Diary
Participation in any event listed here is open to the whole SWHerts u3a membership, although places may be limited on some trips.
Please contact the relevant organiser to check availability.
SOCIAL EVENTS BILLBOARD Carol Stanton This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Christmas Lunch at the Blue Check restaurant.
There are just four tickets left for our annual festive lunch on Monday, December 15th. Contact the Social
Events team on This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or in the Stanborough Centre foyer during our General Meeting.
Quiz Group Fish and Chip Quiz Night
The Quiz Group will be holding their Annual Fish and Chip Supper Quiz at All Saints Church Hall, Horseshoe Lane, Leavesden, WD25 0LU on Tuesday 17th March 2026.
More details from Derek Hammond in January 2026's Newsletter.
December
Mon 1 General Meeting at Stanborough Centre: No Speaker: Variety Show
Coach Trips 1: NO TRIP THIS MONTH
Wed 10 Coach Trips 2: Christmas lunch on the riverboat Tereza Joanne (SOLD OUT)
Mon 15 Christmas Lunch at the Blue Check restaurant
January 2026
Mon 12 General Meeting at Stanborough Centre: Speaker: Charles Wallace: “Emma Hamilton — Lord Nelson’s Mistress”
Coach Trips 1: No details available
Coach Trips 2: No details available
February
Mon 9 General Meeting at Stanborough Centre: Speaker: Jonathan Jones: “Stanley Holloway”
Wed 18 Coach Trips 1: Imperial War Museum (Tickets available in January)
Coach Trips 2: No details available
March
Mon 9 General meeting at Stanborough Centre: Speaker: Brian Cookson: “London Bridges”
Tue 17 Quiz Group Annual Fish and Chip Supper Quiz, All Saints Church Hall , Horseshow Lane, Leavesden
SWHerts u3a holds regular Monthly General Meetings on the second Monday of each month, from 10.00 am to 12:00 noon, at The Stanborough Centre, 609 St Albans Rd, Watford WD25 9JL. Doors open for members at 9.15am. Please do not enter before then.
Next month’s meeting will be on Monday 12th January 2026
PEARL & DEAN CONTACTS
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COACH TRIPS 1
Coach Trips 1: Leader: Roger Frost (01923 465739)
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Thank you to the members who have supported our visits during 2025.
We have planned an exciting and varied programme for 2026 and once we have confirmed the bookings we will give details of the visits as the months progress during 2026.
Our first visit will be to the Imperial War Museum on 18th February. Details will be in the January Newsletter.
In the meantime, my thanks to the Planning Team who worked hard arranging these trips.
We wish all our supporters a very happy Christmas and good luck for the New Year.
COACH TRIPS 2
Contacts: Lorraine Law (07906 500974)
and Gill Dobson (07769 963532; This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)
We are looking forward to our last trip of the year to the Tereza Joanne Christmas Lunch on Wednesday 10th December.
The coach will be leaving from Stanborough at 10.30 am. If anyone has any food allergies or special dietary requests please come and see us at the Coach Trips 2 desk.
Thank you all for supporting our trips throughout the year.
We would like to wish you all a Happy Christmas and a healthy New Year
LONDON WALKS
These gentle walks are open to all members. Pre-booking is not usually required unless the walk includes admission to a Museum or Gallery.
TRIPS FURTHER AFIELD
Leader: Mike Findley (01727 845122)
Currently on sale is a 4-night break in Torquay by coach with a full package of excursions starting 11th May 2026.
An exciting, fully-featured break including a murder mystery dinner. There may be some limited double/twin rooms available but all single rooms are taken.
In planning for 2026 are a possible holiday in Albania and a coach tour of the far north of Scotland.
Details of these will be released as soon as they become available.
We hope to provide details of planned Trips Further Afield as well as those closer to home in the New Year.
Near or far, if you would like to find out more about any of the above, contact Mike Findley on 07804 651620.
Full details and booking forms from the TFA Table.
Reminder—Riviera Travel Partnership scheme with the Third Age Trust.
Members who take holidays with Riviera Travel can earn commission for our u3a. In 2022, we received £675 from Riviera for holidays booked by our members. Claiming the commission is easy. When booking a holiday, members should say they are SWH u3a members and ask for commission to be paid. Riviera Travel will pay the commission to the TAT who then notify our Treasurer and transfer it into our SWH Bank Account
As Sergei would say — “Simples”