Extract from old pages - Crouch Valley

General Info

SWF Village Hall Fire Alarm Procedure/Parking

Please click on the following link to read the updated Village Hall Fire Alarm Procedure for 2025. Click this link for the latest information regarding Village Hall Car Park Notice

Who We Are

To understand what and who we are, the National organisation have produced a leaflet Who We Are outlining what it does and aims in more detail.

Club Constitution

Following agreement by members at the February 2018 monthly meeting the club rules relating to the recommendation from National as to the objectives of U3A have been made to the constitution of Crouch Valley U3A. The signed amended Club Constitution March 2018 - V2 is now available.

Registered Charity

Crouch Valley U3A is a registered Charity as from April 1st 2018. Its registration number with the Charities Commission is 1180675 with its Charity Commission Certificate that has been issued.

Fraud Alert Information

With Essex Police support the Fraud Alert web page is maintained on the Thorpe Bay u3a website. Please follow Fraud Alert Information link and this will take you to information on Fraud and a link to Thorpe Bay website.

Data Protection

New Data Protection requirements are to be introduced in May 2018. These new requirements define how information is transmitted and this includes the use of personal information.

To enable National to communicate with members we need to forward details such addresses and e-mail information.

Please be advised following a question to National we have received the following statement.

"Members details that are being held by the National Office will never be sold to other organisations."

As part of GDPR requirements members are required to update their details online. Please read Direct Mail Update and follow the instructions to verify your information. Please note the dates when the information can be updated.

Safeguarding Policy

As with many organisations it is recommended that we as club adopt a Safeguarding Policy. At the July 1st 2019 Committee Meeting the following Safeguarding Policy document. Please note the date it was agreed.

Meeting Dates

Meeting dates for 2024. Please follow the Events link which will give details of the monthly meeting.

AGM 2025

Please be advised the date of the 2025 AGM is Tuesday April 22nd

Welfare Officer

Lynda Evans has taken on the role of Welfare Officer. If members wish to contact her, members can do so by mail via the Contact page.

Record Forms

To help Group Leaders with keeping records of attendance and accidents that may occur you can download the following forms.

Attendance Record Form

Accident Report Form

Public Liability Insurance

The club is covered for Public Liability with Aviva Insurance.

Full details are available by following u3a Public Liability Insurance 2023

Risk Assessment

Venue Risk Assessment Checklist

Venue Risk Assessment 2018

Secretary

Detailed below is general information for all Crouch Valley U3A members.

Mirthy Broadcasts

We broadcast educational and entertaining online talks by the best public speakers for U3A Clubs and members across the country, today working with over 100 clubs monthly and delivering talks to over 14,000 retirees.

Our talks are viewed from the comfort and safety of your member's own home.

Mirthy broadcasts a FREE talk every Thursday which is open to your members to join (last week we had over 1,000 join us from across the country!). This is a great way for us to raise awareness of our speakers.

You may feel this is a good benefit to share with members to keep them socially active throughout yet another lockdown. Members can register for our free talks here - https://mirthy.co.uk/talks/

Your club can also book from over 100 online talks to be made available for your members at a date and time of your choice. Here is our catalogue - https://mirthy.co.uk/catalogue/

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask.

Latest Podcast

Please follow Latest U3A Podcast You Tube link from the Association of U3A's

Fraud Update

Please visit our Information page to access the latest notification by Essex Police and follow the link that will direct you to Thorpe Bay U3A website.

Phishing Notice

National have advised members to be aware of Phishing mails that appear to be genuine. Please read Phishing Urgent Notice for more information.

Essex Association Study Days

Information regarding information days will be posted as and when advised by National.

U3A Newsletter - Important Information

The U3A Newsletter is now available by e-mail. It means members will have to be added to the 'opt in' list of U3A members. To subscribe please follow the U3A Email Newsletter link and follow the instructions.

In the meantime, booking is now open.

U3A Governance

Please follow Governance Survey link to the Findings and Recommendations of the Working Group into the future structure of the Third Age Trust.

U3A Events Update

The U3A have just published a Research Guide “Getting involved in Research”. It will shortly be available on the National website. The guide has been produced in response to a growing interest in research within the U3A movement and aims to encourage U3A members to get involved in research and provides the basic guidelines on developing a research project. There are already a large number of projects in the National Research Database

Links

Treasurer

TREASURER INFORMATION AND GUIDANCE

GUIDANCE & FAQ's

The following guidance documents have been issued by National for the start of 2023.

YEAR END ACCOUNTS

The accounts have been prepared for the year ending March 2022. They have been examined and approved by Khan Thornton.

For income & expenditure please read Treasurers AGM Report 2023

GROUP MONIES

Individual Groups should not hold more than £50.00 and any surplus funds should be paid over to the Treasurer for banking into the main u3a account. As we are now able to do Bank Transfer can you please where possible use this method of payment.

Please follow the Group Monies Summary January 2025 link which will show the funds held in the main bank account which will be updated at regular intervals.

To view the full details of income and expenditure for each group will be displayed on the main Group page.

Group Leaders please advise the Treasurer if there is anything you do not agree with.

DONATIONS

Our U3A is covered by the Charities Act as such payments cannot be made to another charity. (Funds have to be used for our Charitable purpose), however, we are allowed to make a one off payment to another charity at the request of a speaker in lieu of their fees.

Stamp Collection

In addition to the above charities our U3A are also collecting stamps. Due to our U3A unable to meet we still need members to collect stamps. During the Xmas & New Year period can you please save all your stamps. Bob Le Beau is coordinating this again for this year. We will advise of collection at a future date.