U3A Bendigo

U3A Bendigo is a voluntary community organisation run by its members for its members to provide a range of activities and opportunities of shared learning for mature aged people, so as to keep their minds and bodies active in their life’s third age.

U3A aims are:

• To encourage and enable members no longer in full-time paid employment to help each other share their knowledge, skills, interests and experience
• To demonstrate the benefits and enjoyment of learning throughout life
• To celebrate the capabilities and potential of older people and their value to society
• To provide a creative use for leisure time
• To establish and maintain educational, cultural and physical activities
• To promote and further the concept and adoption of U3A in the Bendigo community and municipality
• To seek, maintain contact and network with organisations and individuals involved with U3A Bendigo

U3A Bendigo offers a wide range of activities throughout the year. These include activities and courses, which may be short or long, and range from formal language studies through to recreational and social activities.

All activities and courses are run during the day for the convenience of members at a range of venues within the Greater Bendigo area.

Our members join U3A Bendigo because learning should not stop as we get older. U3A provides social, intellectual and physical stimulation with activities that are designed to be enjoyable as well as stimulating. Our activities reflect the needs and abilities of our membership.

U3A gives you the opportunity to learn something that you have always intended to learn but have not had the time to pursue because our brains do not retire when we do!.