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    • 06 Oct 2025
    • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
    • Cookridge Village Hall

    Speaker: Robert Gee

    Robert comes highly recommended as a speaker who is  sure to put a smile on our faces as well as providing an insight into the origins of the humble pie.

    We will start with a free pie raffle before going back to early civilisation where it all began. With a visual presentation taking us up to the present day.


    • 20 Oct 2025
    • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
    • The Grove Centre Horsforth

    Speaker: Paul Shagouri

    This is a local small hill top wood that many know little about.

    What is the story of the ownership and activities since the dissolution?

    There has been a friends group over the last 20years and the work they do.

    It may inspire you to go for a walk!


    • 03 Nov 2025
    • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
    • Cookridge Village Hall

    Speaker: David Hall

    David Hall made more than 50 programmes with Fred Dibnah for the BBC. Here he talks about this work as Fred's Producer and Director.

    • 17 Nov 2025
    • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
    • The Grove Centre, Horsforth

    Speaker: Veronica Bird

    Working in the Prison service for 35years starting as an officer and making it up to Governor. Working in both male and female prisons  with some of the most dangerous prisoners including Charles Bronson. My journey has taken me to prisons in both Russia and Australia as well as visits to 10 Downing Street and finally Buckingham Palace. Two of our members will role play as prisoner and Russian prison officer.  

    • 28 Nov 2025
    • 8:30 AM
    • Chatsworth House
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    Register

    Registration open- initially for Members only

    Experience the magic of the Enchanted Garden in the house at Christmas at Chatsworth, 

    The trip to Chatsworth includes:

    • A self guided trip around the decorated House at approx. 11.00am
    • Access to the Christmas Market (opening times are 10am - 5.30pm )
    • Garden Light Trail
    • Seasonal crafts 

    Seawards coach will pick up in the usual places

    Asda Car Park in Holt Park - 8.30

    Opposite Queens Arms , Horsforth - 8.40

    Opposite Fink Hill Car Park, Horsforth  - 8.50

    Cost - £57

    Payment should preferably  be made online during registration, pay by card at a Monday meeting or cheque made out to Cookridge and Horsforth U3A and sent to the Treasurer. 

    If you have any issues with registration please contact Barbara Stearn on 07534243838






    • 01 Dec 2025
    • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
    • Cookridge Village Hall

    Speaker: Christine Lazenby

    Learn about musical handbells, their place historically in the north of England and currently in the U.K and worldwide. Hear about the variety of music that can be played on handbells and have the opportunity to make music yourself.

    • 15 Dec 2025
    • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
    • The Grove Centre, Horsforth

    The Music Group will  entertain us with a random selection of music which will consist of some seasonal music but also a miscellany of items they have played in their first year as a group.

    • 10 Feb 2026
    • 7:00 PM - 11:00 PM
    • Napoleons Casino

    Registration will open during December once the menu has been released

Past events

15 Sep 2025 After Titus Salt 1876 -1958
01 Sep 2025 Understanding the Greenhouse effect and Global Warming
21 Jul 2025 Summer Celebration and AGM
10 Jul 2025 Summer Excursion on the East Lancashire Railway
07 Jul 2025 Scam Awareness Talk.
17 Jun 2025 Trip to Thirsk including the Races
16 Jun 2025 Staying at the REAL Marigold Hotel
09 Jun 2025 Visit to Leeds Library
02 Jun 2025 Police museum, mounted section
19 May 2025 The man who put the words into Frank Sinatra
28 Apr 2025 Yorkshire Cancer Research The Immortal Lifeof Henrietta Lacks
31 Mar 2025 Spring Social
28 Mar 2025 Ceilidh number 2
17 Mar 2025 Travelling Blind
04 Mar 2025 Site visit to Martins Green Recycle Centre
03 Mar 2025 Leeds Discovery Centre
17 Feb 2025 There's more to Tenerife than Playa De Las Americas
04 Feb 2025 Napoleon's Dine In Style Dinner
03 Feb 2025 My time as an Advocate and Judge.
20 Jan 2025 A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words
16 Dec 2024 Christmas Social
02 Dec 2024 Christmas Performance by the Daytones Barbershop Choir
29 Nov 2024 Christmas visit to Burton Agnes
18 Nov 2024 The Lighter Side of Things
04 Nov 2024 'The WI, then and now'
21 Oct 2024 Life in the NHS - It only hurts when I laugh!
07 Oct 2024 Lasagne Pots
01 Oct 2024 Visit to Veolia, Leeds Re-cycling and Energy Recovery plant
16 Sep 2024 'The Ghostwriter'
02 Sep 2024 Exploring Alaska
09 Aug 2024 Visit to Durham and Kynren
15 Jul 2024 Annual General Meeting followed by Leeds Waits Presentation
03 Jul 2024 Guided Tour of Saltaire Village
01 Jul 2024 Summer Social with a difference
24 Jun 2024 Day Trip to Thirsk
17 Jun 2024 The Conservation Volunteers and Hollybush Conservation Centre
03 Jun 2024 Update on the work of the Yorkshire Air Ambulance
20 May 2024 Titus Salt and life in Bradford 1803 to 1876
29 Apr 2024 Animals in Wartime
15 Apr 2024 The Dr Crippen Case
06 Apr 2024 Ceilidh Evening
18 Mar 2024 "Too Much Fighting on the Dance Floor" ... and Elsewhere! 'Charting the Eighties'
04 Mar 2024 Albania: A Secret Land Revealed
19 Feb 2024 Adel Players
05 Feb 2024 Be Prepared
30 Jan 2024 Napoleons Casino 'Dine in Style'
15 Jan 2024 A post Christmas Social get together
11 Dec 2023 Stormy Stories
20 Nov 2023 The Mobile Police Museum
16 Nov 2023 Neverland - Castle Howard
06 Nov 2023 Impressions of China
16 Oct 2023 Explore Your U3A
02 Oct 2023 My life in the water industry 1969 to 2009
26 Sep 2023 Visit to Yorkshire Water Treatment Works- Headingley
18 Sep 2023 All Things Chocolate
10 Aug 2023 Day Trip to Levens Hall in Kendal
19 Jul 2023 Visit to Elsecar Heritage Centre and Wentworth Woodhouse
17 Jul 2023 Commonwealth War Graves
03 Jul 2023 Annual General Meeting
26 Jun 2023 Social Gathering
05 Jun 2023 Solo Adventures in some lesser known Scottish Islands
01 Jun 2023 Day Trip to Ripon
15 May 2023 Trash to Treasure - The Cone Exchange
17 Apr 2023 Tales of a Customs Officer
03 Apr 2023 Not making Sense of Poetry
20 Mar 2023 Inn and Out at the Top
15 Mar 2023 Bradford Industrial Museum
06 Mar 2023 Music and Instruments of the Renaissance
20 Feb 2023 My Life in Show Business
06 Feb 2023 The Road to Big Sur
31 Jan 2023 Dinner at Napoleon's Casino
16 Jan 2023 Members New Year Get Together
05 Dec 2022 Fools Gold Christmas Show
02 Dec 2022 Murder Mystery Evening
25 Nov 2022 Trip to Castle Howard - Into the Woods
21 Nov 2022 What does climate change mean for the children of today?
07 Nov 2022 Fulneck fosters an early feminist
17 Oct 2022 The Real Junk Food Project
03 Oct 2022 Part 3 Saltaire - 1979 - Present
19 Sep 2022 CANCELLED - The Real Junk Food Project
14 Sep 2022 Visit To Jodrell Bank Discovery Centre
05 Sep 2022 A Mediterranean Tour - Not Just a Load of Old Stones
04 Aug 2022 Day Trip to Sledmere and Beverley
04 Jul 2022 AGM Followed by talk on Digital Banking
20 Jun 2022 Gamblers get the spots, family gets the symptoms
15 Jun 2022 Cookridge and Horsforth U3A Drop-In
06 Jun 2022 The Coffee House - History with Music
26 May 2022 Day Out at Ripon Races
16 May 2022 The Diet of Medieval Monks
04 May 2022 New Members Meeting
25 Apr 2022 My Life in Theatre
04 Apr 2022 Leeds Hospitals Charity
11 Mar 2022 Murder Mystery Evening
07 Mar 2022 An Introduction to planting and garden design
21 Feb 2022 Cooking for State Visits and Christmas with the Royal Family
07 Feb 2022 Hull 1968 - A Winter of Woe (Tragedies and Triumphs)
01 Feb 2022 Dinner at Napoleons Casino, Leeds
17 Jan 2022 The Good the Bad and the Ugly
13 Dec 2021 Christmas Social
06 Dec 2021 Christmas Lunch for Members
15 Nov 2021 The Life of Susannah Wesley
01 Nov 2021 Part II - Saltaire after Titus Salt 1876 -1980 Maria Glot
18 Oct 2021 Heirs Presumptuous - The Lennox Stuarts of Temple Newsam
04 Oct 2021 THERE WILL NOT BE A MEETING ON OCTOBER 4TH
29 Sep 2021 New Members Meeting
20 Sep 2021 Cooking For The Queen
06 Sep 2021 Yosemite To Las Vegas
29 Jul 2021 Coffee Morning
26 Jul 2021 Coffee Morning
22 Jul 2021 PAT TESTING OF CHU3A EQUIPMENT
12 Jul 2021 Annual General Meeting
21 Jun 2021 My Magic and other Magicians
14 Jun 2021 Quiz via Zoom
07 Jun 2021 The Cascade Gardens of Bonsal
02 Jun 2021 National u3a Day
24 May 2021 Bang up to the Elephant
17 May 2021 QUIZ VIA ZOOM
10 May 2021 The Voice for All Occasions
03 May 2021 QUIZ VIA ZOOM
28 Apr 2021 GROUP LEADERS' MEETING VIA ZOOM
26 Apr 2021 Kirkstall Abbey
19 Apr 2021 QUIZ VIA ZOOM
12 Apr 2021 Back to Back Housing Development on the site of the Victoria Gate Shopping Complex
22 Mar 2021 Quiz
15 Mar 2021 PhysioNet
09 Mar 2021 Quiz
01 Mar 2021 SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING
15 Feb 2021 Never too late to set sail
01 Feb 2021 Dark Light
19 Jan 2021 Test Event Setup
18 Jan 2021 You Stupid Boy - Britain's Home Guard during World War 2
04 Jan 2021 Hearing Dogs for Deaf People
21 Dec 2020 CHRISTMAS PARTY
14 Dec 2020 Childrens' Favourites - The 1950's with a Festive Theme
07 Dec 2020 “Travels with a penguin to Antarctica”
16 Nov 2020 BARROW TO BAGHDAD & BACK AGAIN - ZOOM MEETING
02 Nov 2020 “John Dudley and the Nine Days Queen.”
26 Oct 2020 Group Leaders Meeting
26 Oct 2020 “What it’s like being a jobbing Actor today”
05 Oct 2020 Islamic architecture in Spain
23 Sep 2020 Committee Meeting
21 Sep 2020 The Grandmothers and their Recipes. ZOOM MEETING
14 Sep 2020 Adjourned AGM on ZOOM
07 Sep 2020 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING BY ZOOM
20 Aug 2020 Cancelled Kynren - An Epic Tale of England and The Heritage of Northumbria
29 Jul 2020 Cancelled Sledmere House and Beverley
06 Jul 2020 Cancelled The Back to Back Housing Development
18 Jun 2020 Cancelled The Gardens & Heritage of Worcestershire & Herefordshire
10 Jun 2020 Cancelled Visit to Scampston Hall and Gardens
01 Jun 2020 Annual General Meeting - Postponed
28 May 2020 Cancelled RIPON RACES
18 May 2020 Cancelled Cone Exchange
04 May 2020 Cancelled Cooking for the Queen
24 Apr 2020 Cancelled 7 Night Cruise to Norway
20 Apr 2020 Cancelled Who is Githa Sowerby?
16 Apr 2020 Cancelled Tour of Leeds Arium
06 Apr 2020 Cancelled Town Crying Past and Present
25 Mar 2020 Cancelled Garden Group social gathering
16 Mar 2020 Group Leaders' Meeting
16 Mar 2020 The History of Hunger Hills Woods & the Friends Group
02 Mar 2020 Leeds North and West Foodbank, and The Trussell Trust.
27 Feb 2020 Talk on "The Archaeology Of Leeds
26 Feb 2020 PAT testing
17 Feb 2020 "Hiding in Plain Sight" - The Lost Cinemas of Leeds.
05 Feb 2020 Mah Jong 2 Night Break in Scarborough
03 Feb 2020 Charting the 1970s; "Captive on a Carousel of Time"
28 Jan 2020 Social Group Dine in Style at Napoleon's Casino
20 Jan 2020 Part 2 of Keep Rowing, Stop Drifting
06 Jan 2020 Recycling: Your Doubts Answered
09 Dec 2019 CHRISTMAS LUNCH (OPTION 2)
02 Dec 2019 CHRISTMAS LUNCH
18 Nov 2019 BOXING CLEVER
14 Nov 2019 Social Group Visit to "The Leeds Library"
04 Nov 2019 STOP DRIFTING, START ROWING
21 Oct 2019 Diaries of a Bomber Pilot
16 Oct 2019 NEW MEMBERS MEETING
10 Oct 2019 Day Out to Whitby and the North York Moors Railway
07 Oct 2019 INTEREST GROUP LEADERS' MEETING
07 Oct 2019 The Wainwrights in Colour Paintings
19 Sep 2019 Tour of the Bar Convent, York
16 Sep 2019 The Work of the Admiral Nurses
02 Sep 2019 SALTAIRE; BUILDING OF A WORLD HERITAGE SITE. TITUS SALT.
02 Sep 2019 5 DAY HOLIDAY IN NORTH WALES
22 Aug 2019 SKIPTON CANAL BOAT RIDE WITH LUNCH
18 Jul 2019 CROWN GREEN BOWLING
01 Jul 2019 Stay Safe On-line
20 Jun 2019 8 NIGHT CRUISE TO THE SCOTTISH ISLES
19 Jun 2019 Summer Social
06 Jun 2019 A Day Out at Ripon Races
03 Jun 2019 Annual General Meeting
16 May 2019 LEEDS CIVIC TRUST SUPPER WALK
13 May 2019 Tyke Talk
15 Apr 2019 Leprosy To date - Its Story
11 Apr 2019 Tour around Menwith Hill
01 Apr 2019 Model making -My Hobby
18 Mar 2019 Interest Group Leaders' Meeting
18 Mar 2019 Agatha -A Nun's Story
13 Mar 2019 Thwaite Mills Industrial Museum
04 Mar 2019 Charles Waterton, Walton Hall and Wouralia
18 Feb 2019 Sammy Khan
13 Feb 2019 Two night Mah Jong break in Scarboroough
04 Feb 2019 A Solo Walk Across Africa
29 Jan 2019 Dinner at Napoleon's Casino
21 Jan 2019 A Life of Crime
07 Jan 2019 Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Heart Club Ba(ckgrou)nd
03 Dec 2018 Christmas Social
19 Nov 2018 London, its Livery and Freemen
09 Nov 2018 10th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION DINNER
05 Nov 2018 Bhutan
17 Oct 2018 Meeting for New Members
15 Oct 2018 Ilkley and The Water Cure
01 Oct 2018 Group Leader's Meeting
01 Oct 2018 Martin House
17 Sep 2018 Evita - The story of the real Eva Peron
14 Sep 2018 Piano Recital
07 Sep 2018 Holiday to Berlin, Dresden, Meissen and Colditz
03 Sep 2018 The Goldfinch and Renaissance Art
15 Aug 2018 Boat Trip and Lunch on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal
06 Aug 2018 DAY TRIP TO LIVERPOOL
02 Jul 2018 DAY TRIP TO HULL
18 Jun 2018 Summer Event
07 Jun 2018 A Day at the Races
04 Jun 2018 AGM
28 May 2018 GARDENING GROUP HOLIDAY IN SOUTHERN IRELAND
15 May 2018 THE WINSTON CHURCHILL EXPERIENCE
14 May 2018 Pearls
26 Apr 2018 Drax Power Station
09 Apr 2018 Chasing Million Eyres – Following the trail Leeds to Siberia
28 Mar 2018 A visit to “Highways England”
19 Mar 2018 Group Leaders' Meeting
19 Mar 2018 Real Food and Wise Traditions
05 Mar 2018 Cancelled Ilkley and The Water Cure
28 Feb 2018 Leeds Industrial Museum at Thwaite Mills
19 Feb 2018 The Civil War in Yorkshire
07 Feb 2018 Mah Jong Holiday in Scarborough
05 Feb 2018 Yorkshire Air Ambulance
24 Jan 2018 Social Group Dinner at Napoleon's Casino
22 Jan 2018 Wartime Entertainment
08 Jan 2018 “Preserve Your Memories”-Charting a Decade (The 1960s)
04 Dec 2017 Your U3A Entertains
20 Nov 2017 Canal and River Trust
15 Nov 2017 Social Group visit to Veolia Recycling Energy Recovery Facility
06 Nov 2017 Tracking the Brontes
18 Oct 2017 New Members Meeting
16 Oct 2017 From Prison to Palace
02 Oct 2017 Group Leaders Meeting
02 Oct 2017 Laughter on the Airwaves
18 Sep 2017 The Yorkshire Vet
13 Sep 2017 Archery Taster Session
04 Sep 2017 A Muddy History of Britain
16 Aug 2017 Visit to Markenfield Hall, near Ripon
13 Jul 2017 Social Group - Crown Green Bowling
03 Jul 2017 The work of "Aid to Eastern Europe".
28 Jun 2017 Whitby via the North York Moors Railway
20 Jun 2017 Summer Social
08 Jun 2017 A Day at Ripon Races.
05 Jun 2017 Annual General Meeting plus "Keeping Safe".
17 May 2017 Coffee Morning
10 May 2017 Cone Exchange visit
08 May 2017 Essence of a Georgian Gentleman
25 Apr 2017 Social Group Dinner
24 Apr 2017 A Year in the Life of Rodley Nature Reserve
03 Apr 2017 Laughter - The Best Medicine
20 Mar 2017 Group Leaders' Meeting and Lunch
20 Mar 2017 In and Under the Vatican
06 Mar 2017 Istanbul - City of Intrigue
02 Mar 2017 Social Group visit to Yorkshire Water Treatment Works
20 Feb 2017 The Work of the West Yorkshire Lieutenancy
15 Feb 2017 Visit to The Rhubarb Triangle
06 Feb 2017 12 Minutes of Fame? An Experience of Reality TV.
24 Jan 2017 Social Group Dinner at Napoleon's
23 Jan 2017 Dementia Friends.
09 Jan 2017 Story Telling with Pictures and Music . An Introduction to AV.
05 Dec 2016 Christmas Social
21 Nov 2016 The Lives and Laughs of Morecambe and Wise
09 Nov 2016 Tour of Waste Recycling Depot
09 Nov 2016 CHATSWORTH AT CHRISTMAS
07 Nov 2016 Lord Moynihan
19 Oct 2016 Meeting for New Members
17 Oct 2016 GROUP LEADERS' MEETING
17 Oct 2016 Surviving the Holocaust
12 Oct 2016 Canal Boat Cruise with Buffet Lunch
10 Oct 2016 4 DAY HOLIDAY to EDINBURGH
03 Oct 2016 Clarinet on the Hoof
19 Sep 2016 Highlights of the Work of the Leeds Cancer Research Centre
07 Sep 2016 TOUR OF FARNLEY HALL
05 Sep 2016 Trash to Treasure
17 Aug 2016 ARCHERY TASTER SESSION
03 Aug 2016 Yorkshire and Humberside Regional Summer Showcase
27 Jul 2016 PORT SUNLIGHT
20 Jul 2016 Crown Green Bowling
04 Jul 2016 Yorkshire Places
20 Jun 2016 Summer Social
16 Jun 2016 "Anyone for Murder?" Theatre trip
06 Jun 2016 Annual General Meeting plus talk on Scams and Frauds
26 May 2016 Cancelled CRICH TRAMWAY MUSEUM AND BOLSOVER CASTLE
10 May 2016 The U3A 2016 Philosophy Study Day
09 May 2016 Crime Scene Investigation
18 Apr 2016 Memory Training "What was I saying?"
13 Apr 2016 DAY OUT TO SALFORD QUAYS AND ORDSALL HALL
11 Apr 2016 Group Leaders' Meeting
04 Apr 2016 The History of York Gate
21 Mar 2016 Life is a Paradox
09 Mar 2016 4 Day Holiday to Bruges via Eurostar
07 Mar 2016 Lady Randy
15 Feb 2016 How to be a Medieval Monk - Kirkstall Abbey
01 Feb 2016 Children's Favourites Part 2
21 Jan 2016 Craft Group Meeting
20 Jan 2016 Railways
18 Jan 2016 India Highs and Lows
06 Jan 2016 Warner Taster Break to Bodelwyddan Castle
04 Jan 2016 All in a Days Work
14 Dec 2015 Christmas Social Leeds Waits
16 Nov 2015 The Story of the Workhouse
02 Nov 2015 RNIB
19 Oct 2015 Walking and Running in Leeds
15 Oct 2015 Day Out to Yorkshire Sculpture Park and Hepworth Gallery
05 Oct 2015 The Life of Ian Fleming and 007.
21 Sep 2015 Street Angels
16 Sep 2015 IPad Beginners
10 Sep 2015 Interest Group Leaders' Meeting
07 Sep 2015 Broadcasting
06 Jul 2015 Yarns from the Textile Trade
01 Jun 2015 Annual General Meeting and Quiz
22 May 2015 Day Out
15 May 2015 Local History Talk on 150 Years of Music Hall
11 May 2015 General Meeting
27 Apr 2015 General Meeting
13 Apr 2015 General Meeting
16 Mar 2015 Titus Salt of Saltaire - Talk by Alun Pugh
02 Mar 2015 Atkinson Grimshaw Talk by Everleigh Bradford
25 Feb 2015 Interest Group Leaders Meeting plus Afternoon Tea



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