You can read previous email publications which have been sent to members
Newsletters for 2026
March 2026 - Newsletter Guest speaker - John Allan "Confound and Destroy"
February 2026 - Newsletter Guest speaker - Tamsin Beaumont, St Elizabeth Hospice.
January 2026 - Newsletter Guest speaker - Barbara Meyer, Big Cat & Nature Photographer.
Newsletters for 2025
December 2025 - Newsletter - Guest speaker - Linda Scoles, HELP! I need a lifestyle advisor
December Christmas Special 2025 - Newsletter
November 2025 - Newsletter - Guest speaker - Mu Gurbutt, Tresco Abbey Gardens of the Scilly Isles
October 2025 - Newsletter - Guest speaker - Ruth Wallis, Africa Alive Zoological Society of East Anglia
September 2025 - Newsletter - Guest speaker - Norma Howell, Medical Detection Dogs.
August 2025 - Newsletter - Guest speaker - Andy Malcolm’s talk about the Royal National Mission to Deepsea Fishermen
July 2025 - Newsletter - AGM & Guest speaker - Geoffrey Kaye - Death, Sex and Drugs, the Pre Raphaelite Brotherhood
June 2025 - Newsletter - Guest speaker - Elissa Draper, East Coast Community Healthcare
May 2025 - Newsletter - Guest speaker - Tracy Mackness, The Giggly Pig Company: Life and Times of an Essex Bad Girl
April 2025 - Newsletter
- Guest speaker - Jenny Mallin Life Behind the Scenes at the BBC
March 2025 - Newsletter
- Guest speaker - Christopher Ellis. Climate Change, and the Environmental
February 2025 - Newsletter
- Guest speaker - Tony Diamond - Chocolate
January 2025 - Newsletter
- Guest speaker - Sam Passi - Silvertime Legal
Newsletters for 2024
November 22nd 2024 - Extra Newsletter
Christmas Special Meeting 11th December
November 10th 2024 - Newsletter
November 2nd 2024 - Newsletter Extra
Monthly Meeting - 10th Anniversary Celebrations
October 2024 - Newsletter
Monthly Meeting - Wed 16 October 2024 - Linda Scoles - Journey to Citizenship
September 2024 - Newsletter
Monthly Meeting - Wed 18 September 2024 - Garry Powell - Death in Disguise
August 2024 - Newsletter
Monthly Meeting - Wed 21 August 2024 - Barry Linton of Essex Police - Staying Safe Online
July 2024 - Newsletter
Monthly Meeting - Wed 17 July - Pat Alker - 'Silk Road Cities of Uzbekistan'
June 2024 - Newsletter
Monthly Meeting - Wed 19 June - Sarah Doig - The Real Basil Brown
May 2024 - Newsletter
- Guest speaker - Robert Tilney - History of Firearms and Duelling
April 2024 - Newsletter
- Guest speaker - John Hammond - St.Elizabeth Hospice
March 2024 - Newsletter
- Guest speaker - Phil Love - ACT and the Waveney Centre
February 2024 - Newsletter
- Guest speaker - Malcolm Brown - My Life as a Pharmacist
January 2024 - Newsletter
- Guest speaker - Cheryl Lewis - The East Anglian Air Ambulance (EAAA)
Newsletters for 2023
December 2023 - Newsletter
- Forecast for next year's speakers
December 2023 - Christmas Extra
- Guest speaker - Jane Hoggar - My Life as a Bluebell Girl
November 2023 - Newsletter
- Guest speaker - Steve Ward - The Disappearance of the MH370
October 2023 - Newsletter
- Guest speaker - Amanda Richmond – Climbing Denali in Alaska
October 2023 - u3a Convenors
- Lunchtime Meeting 29th September - Feedback
September 2023 - Newsletter
- Guest speaker - Fran Sandham - "Dr Livingstone I Presume"
August 2023 - Newsletter
- Guest speaker - Nigel Macknight - Adventures of a Dyslexic Author
July 2023 - Newsletter
- Guest speaker - Andrew Baker - The Second Elizabethan Age
June 2023 - Newsletter
- Guest speaker - David Williams - Goodbye To The High Street
May 2023 - Newsletter
- Guest speaker - Iestyn Edwards - My Tutu Went AWOL
April 2023 - Newsletter
- Guest speaker - Martin Lloyd - Passports, Assassins, Traitors and Spies
March 2023 - Newsletter
- Guest speaker - Mu Garbutt - The Ship That Never Was - A True Story
February 2023 - Newsletter
- Guest speaker - John E. Vigar - Leave No Stone Unturned
January 2023 - Newsletter
- Guest speaker - Taff Gillingham - World War 1 History
Newsletters for 2022
December 2022 - Newsletter
- Guest speaker - Charlie Haylock - An expert in dialects
November 2022 - Newsletter
- Guest speaker - Sam White - One Life Suffolk
October 2022 - Newsletter
- Guest speaker - Dr Sarah Cassell - Angel Roofs Churches of East Anglia
September 2022 - No Newsletter
August 2022 - No Newsletter
July 2022 - Newsletter
- 8th Annual General Meeting
- Guest speaker - Toby Capwell - Armour Through The Ages
June 2022 - Newsletter
- Trip to Sandringham 15th June 2022
May 2022 - Newsletter
- Guest speaker - Dr Twigs Way - Marianne North: Victorian Botanical Artist and Traveller
April 2022 - Newsletter
- Guest speaker - Andrew Summers - The UNSEEN ENEMY (The Great Influenza Outbreak of 1918)
March 2022
- Guest speaker - Sally Dearman - The Householder Path to Enlightenment
February 2022
- Guest speaker - Wendy Smith - Life as a Wimbledon Line Judge
January 2022
- Guest speaker - Richard Symes - The History of Dunwich Heath
Newsletters for 2021
December 2021
- Christmas Extravaganza
November 2021
- Guest speaker - Mark Mitchels MA – Sutton Hoo
November 2021
- Hot News! Drop in Sessions
October 2021
- Some interesting things coming up!
October 2021
- Guest speaker - Terry Waite - Creative Isolation
September 2021
- Guest speaker - Charlie Haylock
August 2021
- Guest speaker - Ian McLachlan - GI Brides
July 2021
- Guest speaker - Robert Tiney - Antiques Roadshow.
June 2021
- Evening Meeting - Thursday 1st July
June 2021
- Evening Meeting - Thursday 1st July
- Guest speaker - The David Parr House by Tamsin Wimhurst
June 2021
- 7th Annual General Meeting - Live Stream via YouTube, Wednesday 16th June 2021
- Guest speaker - Tony Diamond - Sir John Betjeman
May 2021 - ! URGENT !
- Beccles U3A - 7th Annual General Meeting
May 2021 - Newsletter
- Evening Meeting - Thursday 3rd June
- Guest speaker - John Hope - Time through the ages
May 2021 - Newsletter
- Monthly Meeting - Wednesday 19th May at 10:30am
- Guest speaker - Bernard Lockett - The Heritage of Gilbert & Sullivan
May 2021 - Newsletter
- Evening Meeting - Thursday 6th May at 7:30pm
- Guest speaker - Mary Smith - A School Girls War from a private diary
April 2021 - Newsletter
- Monthly Meeting - Wednesday 21st April
- Guest speaker - Andrew Baker - A Cliveden Weekend - The Profumo Affair Revisited
Newsletters for 2020
Wednesday 19 August Monthly Meeting - on Zoom
We are very pleased to be joined by Tony Diamond a well known local speaker for this month’s talk at our monthly meeting.
Wednesday 15th July at the revised time of 2pm
We are very pleased to be joined by Ben Witchell from Flint Vineyards in Earsham for this months live talk at our monthly meeting.
Evening meeting 2nd July 2020 - on Zoom
On Thursday 2nd July at 7.30pm we will hold our first evening meeting with a talk by Matt Day on Beccles Lido followed by a relaxed quiz.
17th June 2020 - Monthly Meeting - on Zoom
We may have had to postpone our AGM meeting for the time being but monthly meetings with speakers are still flying (without quarantine!).
Many of you saw her on stage in March last year and now you can see her on screen.
Sally Dearman is back with another exhilarating instalment of her life.
20th May 2020 - Monthly Meeting - on Zoom
- The meeting was titled “Inside Access” this was presented by Simon Baldry of Access Community Trust based in Lowestoft.
The current lockdown has highlighted the need for enhanced communication within Beccles U3A. The Chairman, Graham Jermyn, thought it might be a good time to try a more modern communications method. This is why you have received this trial email.
