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The Buzz Autumn 2020 BARNSLEY AND DISTRICT U3A Internet: Barnsley U3A / Charity no. 1077654 Send info. and photos to: [email protected] 1 These are very difficult and challenging times for everybody and none more so than for our particular age group. However, despite this and the present U3A closedown, we have been absolutely overwhelmed by your response to our membership renewal process. Over 1,150 of you have renewed your subscriptions. Our concern now, though, is that with such support from our members, we have very little to offer by way of our normal activities. I know that a lot of you are having virtual meetings and using the technology to good effect but this is not what we are really about. The need for physical interaction is what the U3A movement is founded upon. However, video conferencing is a helpful substitute in the circumstances within which we find ourselves, and many members are building up new found knowledge and confidence in the technology, which will potentially also prove beneficial in the longer term. Like many of you, I had never heard of ‘Zoom’ prior to March of this year but now I am logging in to it on a regular basis. The Executive Committee is meeting every two weeks on ‘Zoom’ and we are having regular Coordinators’ meetings. In addition, we have started to run the monthly meetings in this way. The July meeting got us off to a good start with around fifty members joining in. Then, at the August meeting we had over sixty tuning in to keep up to date with the latest news and to listen to a brilliantly interesting and entertaining presentation from two of our members, Andrew and Sue Green. You can read more about their presentation on pp 6, 7 & 8 in this ‘Buzz’. Three months have passed since our last ‘Buzz’ was produced and, as I write in mid-August, we are still very restricted in our ability to open up our activities. With the exception of one or two outside groups, we are still in U3A lockdown but one sees that Government rules are gradually beginning to change and we want to be ready to set our groups ‘free’. In order to ensure our members’ safety and security, we are working to the advice set out by our U3A National colleagues after their lawyers have considered the impact of the Government’s rules. This helps us to ensure that we retain the necessary third-party insurance cover. All these issues provide new and complex challenges that all U3As will have to manage. This has consequently led us to decide to build our own local expertise so that we can support all groups in the preparation of the necessary formal risk assessments. The good news is that we have now appointed Trudy Atkinson as our Risk Assessment Officer to support all Group Coordinators through the process. Another very important appointment that we have made recently is into our Development Officer position vacated by Joanie Tollerfield. Lynn Maloney has taken on this role and has got straight into action. You will be able to read an article setting out some of Lynn’s thoughts and ideas on pp 4 & 28 of this ‘Buzz’. I need, at this point, to propose a big vote of thanks to Joanie whose energy and commitment enabled us to create a number of new groups during her time in the role. Can I also thank Robert Green and Sue Button for their years of outstanding leadership of Family History at Dodworth Library. They are now standing down but watch this space. Please see Page 46 for a new Coordinator request. I started this message talking about the wonderful support we have received from all of you who have renewed your membership subscriptions. Such commitment ensured that, unlike a number of other U3As, we have remained open for business and we are intent on keeping in touch with you and telling you the latest news at regular intervals. In addition to our Beacon Messages and the interim newsletter, we have what is generally regarded as the best printed U3A newsletter around. I believe that our ‘Buzz’ is the best of the best and we want to ensure that every member receives their copy in a timely manner. This is why we have decided that it is appropriate to again post this new edition in preference to trying to arrange a collection process, which would be a logistical nightmare. I know that you will enjoy this latest edition; the response to the Summer edition was wonderful. Thank you! I truly hope that when I am writing my next message, there is a lot more good news to talk about. In the meantime, we will post Beacon messages to keep you informed about any re-opening progress. Take care, everyone, and keep safe and well. Alan Swann 2 Buzz Editor and Vice-chairman: Derek Bacon CONTENTS P2 Chairman’s Message Welcome to the P3 Editorial / Contents / Winter Buzz deadline Autumn 2020 ‘Buzz’ P4 Re-opening of groups. Development Officer. I hope that you enjoy P5 Mary Brook at 100. Happy birthday! reading it P6-8 August Monthly Meeting; Sue and Andrew Green ‘Lockdowns of the Past’ and ‘Eyam’ P9 The Alan Swann Advice Page Once again, ‘The Buzz’ comes without its P10-11 Indu Kumar: My Covid Days usual group activities articles so is dependent P12-13 Our photographers in Lockdown: Norman Creighton on fewer contributors, but those articles P14 Mac McKechnie written for us to read have required much P15-17 Writers of The Third Page / John Hines poem effort and I believe that they merit your time. P18 Sue Rowley: My Dad’s War I am hoping that many groups will be offering P19 Birdwell Buddies / The Bun Run ‘post-lockdown’ articles for the Winter Buzz. P20 Table & Board Games / Upwords advert The articles range from the very deep and P21 Conversational French moving to the stunning, to the humorous. To P22 Book Forum 2 / UW advert every contributor, my huge thanks. P23 Spine-tingling moment: Passchendaele 2017 P24 Don Smith: The Match of a Lifetime The front cover is by Janet Simpson of our ‘Art P25 Mary Melling / Travel / Walking Cricket for Beginners’. Look closely; it combines P26-27 Our Artists in Lockdown: Margaret Hall humour, the pesky 2020 virus and our desire P28 Associate Member: Colin Hermitage to get back to activities. Thank you, Janet! P29 Stitches in Lockdown This quarter we feature two of our greatly- P30 Two U3A Projects: Making Memories & High Street valued Associate Members, Mary Brook on P31 Spine-tingling moment: The Valley of the Fallen her 100th birthday and Colin Hermitage. P32 Advert: Barnsley Municipal Funerals The themes of ‘Humiliation’ and ‘Real-life P33 IMPORTANT: Guidance on Re-starting BU3A groups Spine-Tingling Moments’ were suggested to P34-38 BU3A Activities Calendar Sept - Dec (once permitted) P39 Venues & Buses me. I’ve tried writing one of each. Go on, you P40 27 Figures of Speech get writing, join in, let it all out! It’s cathartic! P41 Tuesday Walkers At Priory, in March, the man from the Co-op P42-43 Yoga advised us to pay NOW for our funeral and P44 Advert: BIADS then not bother dying! A new advertiser with P45 Theatre us, Barnsley Municipal Funerals, must have P46 Two humiliations (one, really!) been listening! Another new advertiser, UW P47 Easyfunding & SmileAmazon (Utilities Warehouse) could save you money. P48-49 Robert Green: A Scrap of Paper It comes recommended. P50 Development Officer / Cookery Corner At my request, Don Smith has updated his P51 Jo Kasparek: Money Makes the World Go Round 2010 ‘Buzz’ article for us. Some members are now meeting up in person as friends, abiding by government DEADLINE FOR THE rules. Walking Cricket is underway as a U3A activity with a full risk assessment completed. Norman Creighton and Margaret Hall’s WINTER ‘BUZZ’: artistry is pretty special. Such talent in BU3A! The back cover shows a few photos of BU3A FRIDAY 13TH NOVEMBER members meeting up as friends. 3 RE-OPENING OF BU3A GROUPS POST-COVID Owing to the Covid situation, we have to comply with government rules and the consequent National U3A's guidance before we re-open any of our 130 groups. THAT GUIDANCE IS ON PAGE 31 OF THIS ‘BUZZ’, AHEAD OF OUR GROUP ACTIVITIES PAGES The Committee is pleased to have appointed Trudy Atkinson as our Risk Assessment Officer. Before re-opening a group, every Coordinator must contact Trudy Atkinson (see Contact Sheet) so that we can be satisfied that the Covid Risk Assessment procedures are being followed and that NO BU3A member will be exposed to unnecessary risk at future meetings. FROM THE NEW DEVELOPMENT OFFICER Lynn Maloney Since the beginning of Lockdown, life has certainly been strange. Being a member of BU3A has helped but life is still challenging. Many groups have been able to continue online through various platforms such as Zoom and it was good news to hear that some groups were finding ways to meet in gardens whilst following social distancing rules. A few weeks ago, I decided to take up a new challenge and offer to become the new Development Officer for our U3A. It is a good time to take on this role as I have time to gather my thoughts about the job and get a team together, though in that respect I am lucky that John and Ingrid Colley agreed to stay on. I want to take this opportunity to ask everyone to think about our groups and what new groups might enhance our U3A.
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