THE UNUVERSITY OF THE THIRD AGE

 

 

LOCAL PORTAL

June 2023: Currently the Main Greater Thame U3A website is simplefied due to Internet Service Provided problems.

Users may click the button to the right to gain access to the welcome and other pages. Otherwise, use the Contact us facility and we will return you a call or an email.

 

 

To visit the main GTU3A website click this button

Welcome!

This is the “Portal” or subsidiary web site for the Greater Thame U3A where “Greater” means the geographical area of Thame town and surrounding villages and hamlets that do not have a U3A of their own.

People arriving at this site may already know what U3A stands for but, if not, it means University of the Third Age a nation wide organisation primarily set up for older members of society to organise themselves into activity groups that have similar interests in subjects where they want to indulge, learn and enjoy doing.

There is no lowest age limit to joining our U3A but in practice members are people who have some leisure time in which to join in and enjoy the company of other like minded folk.

Readers can make further enquiries about our U3A by clicking on the button marked GTU3A Website and also further using the Contact option at the head of that page to learn about joining us.

There are loads of “Activity Groups” and we welcome even more to extend our portfolio so, if there is not one to your liking just let us know and we can help to set up a new group. There is bound to be existing members who will share your interest.

The Greater Thame official website is hosted on the national U3A Sites Organisation which results in a long web address that is not easily remembered.

This page is designed to help members reach the main pages rather more easily having simply typed in the address of this page which is just: www.gtu3a.me.uk.

Members can save this site address in the *Favorites store on their computer program used for internet access and never need to remember this address again. However, it is a nice short title to tell to your fellow members whereas the real address is not.

Think of it as:

WWW

DOT

GTU3A

DOT

ME

DOT

UK

 Most website start WWW for World Wide Web

 All names are dotty because web people say DOT instead of Full Stop.

 This is the initials of our U3A

 Dots are used as spaces between bits of addresses.

 Stands for members for which this site exists

 
  Another Dot used as a space.

 UK means the site is located in Britain

 

  That's it! Just think: -

WWWdotGTU3AdotMEdotUK (Simple eh!)

*Favorite or favourite? They have the same meaning, but favourite is used in British English, Australian English, New Zealand English and Canadian English whereas favorite is used in American English. Most computer "speak" is generally written in American English. Older versions of Windows Internet Explorer have the word Favorites as a menu item near the top of the page. Newer versions have a star near the top right corner of the screen. Touch and clicking the star will reveal the Favorites item.