Our Tetbury & District U3A is approaching its first anniversary with next year’s (2020-2021) membership renewals due on 1st August 2020.
The Coronavirus Covid-19 Pandemic and UK Government legislation have stopped our planned AGM, Group meetings and Monthly speaker talks at the Goods Shed. We anticipate this situation continuing until Government guidance advises otherwise.
Many of our groups are meeting virtually using video conferencing technologies and telephone calls. Our committee has continued to function with monthly Zoom virtual meetings and a summary of meeting minutes is available on our website ‘Policies’ page https://tetburyu3a.org.uk/policies.
We have trimmed expenses to the bare minimum and our Treasurer has registered our local U3A with HMRC to receive Gift Aid. Therefore, we propose to reduce all membership renewals to a nominal £5 as a Covid-19 concession for this year through to 31st July 2021.
We hope to resume Group meetings and Monthly speaker talks at the Goods Shed as soon as possible and thereby normalise next year’s membership renewals and new membership applications from 1st August 2021.
For the latest Government advice please refer to https://www.gov.uk/coronavirus.