We meet on alternate Mondays at the Falcon Hotel coffee lounge at 10:15am. We order tea/coffee in the bar to cover venue costs. The plays are supplied by St Austell library and are ordered as and when needed.
We meet on the 2nd Tuesday of each month, mostly for field trips. Most of our visits are all-day events. Watch this space for details of destinations, meeting places and times. This group arose out of the Geology group with a remit to expand and include geology, local industrial archaeology and heritage. There are a wealth of places to ...
LINE DANCING - FOR FUN This is a group that enjoys the fun of line dancing without worrying about telling their left from their right. It is run by an experienced teacher every week. Feel free to come along as often as you wish. There is a charge per session.
We meet on the 2nd Tuesday of each month at 2:30pm in a member's home. We have a schedule for each of the monthly meetings from September to July (taking a break in August to allow members time to indulge in holiday pursuits). A small ‘steering committee’ composes the yearly schedule, including the many requests from members that have been ...
We are a small, friendly and patient group, full of enthusiasm but until recently short of a space to play. However, we have continued to enjoy steady success in attracting new members, and happily, we have now secured the use of an Area in the Restaurant at The Brendon Arms, for our meetings. We start at 2.30 and play for ...
Meets on 2nd Wednesday each month, at 10.30am in Falcon Hotel, Bude. The aim of this group is to choose a period of history and then look at several different aspects of life at the time. Topics for discussion might include literature, the arts, social customs, education, transport, science, fashion, food, sport, economics, politics, and so on.
Meets on the 2nd Thursday of each month at 2.00pm in a member’s home in Bude. What do we do? We write short stories and sometimes do little exercises that help with inspiration, plots and layouts. And, we chat a lot! The stories, written at home, vary in length, usually from 500 to 1000 words. They are fairly short because ...
We meet on the second Wednesday of each month at 2:30pm in a member's home in the Holsworthy area. We source our books from Bude Library’s Book Group Collection, reading one of their recommendations each month. We are a relaxed, friendly group who share responsibility for leading each meeting by researching the author etc. and we learn from each other, ...
Meets on the 2nd Thursday of each month at 10.00am in the Parkhouse, Bude. Photos produced around the monthly theme are discussed in a relaxed and supportive manner. As well as helping each other with photographic queries we also hold occasional outings often in conjunction with Photography Group 1.
PLEASE check whether this group has restarted after covid. We meet on the second Thursday of the month at 10.00 am in the Coachman's Bar in the Falcon Hotel, Bude. Why not come and join us for coffee and a chat at the Falcon, a welcoming warm beautiful old coaching inn, no more than 600 metres from the Parkhouse Centre, ...
Meets on the 3rd Friday of each month in a member’s home with many field trips. Our walks/wanders are gentle and cover varying habitats, moorland, cliff, marsh, meadows etc., so that members can find a great variety of wild flowers in different seasons. We learn how to look and not walk past the tiniest flower and how to set about ...
We meet on alternate Mondays from 10:30 am to 12:20 pm at the Parkhouse Centre, Bude. When we are not rehearsing or compiling a play to perform, we mostly do improvisation and much laughter is often the norm. We don’t take our ‘craft’ over seriously, to enjoy is the order of the day and, if we can manage it, our ...
We meet on the 1st Monday of the month, usually around 10:30am, and on the 3rd Monday of the month, usually around 2pm. Starting points will vary. We are a friendly walking/strolling group for walks local to the Bude area, varying from 2-4 miles with a stop for refreshments where possible.
LINE DANCING - FOR FUN This is a group that enjoys the fun of line dancing without worrying about telling their left from their right. It is run by an experienced teacher every week. Feel free to come along as often as you wish. There is a charge per session.
Meets on the 3rd Tuesday of each month at 2.15pm in a member’s home. Subjects for discussion may either be planned in advance or dealt with spontaneously. The atmosphere is relaxed and informal, and not without humour! No subject is too controversial to discuss.
We are a small, friendly and patient group, full of enthusiasm but until recently short of a space to play. However, we have continued to enjoy steady success in attracting new members, and happily, we have now secured the use of an Area in the Restaurant at The Brendon Arms, for our meetings. We start at 2.30 and play for ...
Bude & District U3A holds 10 OPEN MONTHLY MEETINGS a year with a Speaker. These are held at 2.30pm at the Parkhouse Centre, Bude on the 3rd Thursday of every month except October (our Annual General Meeting) and December (our Christmas Festivity). The OPEN MONTHLY MEETINGS are free and include refreshments. Visitors are welcome to come along to a meeting ...
Meets on the 2nd and 4th Friday of the month at 10.00 am in the Bude Methodist Church Hall. £2 per session. This group is run by a qualified Tai Chi instructor and we tend to focus on Qigong (energy work), ‘Shibashi’ and various other Qigong practices to promote health and wellbeing.
We meet on alternate Mondays at the Falcon Hotel coffee lounge at 10:15am. We order tea/coffee in the bar to cover venue costs. The plays are supplied by St Austell library and are ordered as and when needed.
We meet on the 4th Monday of each month for walks of about 4-6 miles in the Bude and surrounding area. Please contact the Walking Group 2 Leader for details of the next walk and its meeting venue and time.
We meet on the fourth Monday of the month at 2:30pm at a member's home. Scrabble with other word games added, such as Quiddler, Upwords and Boggle. Fun and friendly afternoons.
Meets on the 4th Tuesday of each month from 1:30 pm to 4.30 pm in The Bude Cricket Club. Our Group offers opportunities which help us see and think like an artist. We enjoy using a variety of media and share tricks of the trade for interesting effects. We aim to have fun practising and experimenting in a relaxed atmosphere, ...
LINE DANCING - FOR FUN This is a group that enjoys the fun of line dancing without worrying about telling their left from their right. It is run by an experienced teacher every week. Feel free to come along as often as you wish. There is a charge per session.
Meets on the 4th Tuesday of each month. Time and place varies. Learn about energy and Ley lines, finding drain pipes, electricity cables and finding lost personal items. Visit archaeology sites, local churches. Indoor sessions could include dowsing for your own health, map reading and distance healing. Anyone is welcome to join, you don't have to know anything about dowsing.
The aim of this group is to observe the nature around us, including birds, habitat, wildlife, wildflowers, trees, coastal life, and more, mostly through field trips and guided walks and occasional presentations. Meeting every fourth Wednesday, usually for all-day field trips at varying locations. No dogs allowed, please, other than assistance or guide dogs. Group Leader Rosie Bowden
We meet on the 4th Wednesday of each month at 2:30pm at a member’s home, with occasional trips out. Serendipity can be defined as the gift of making fortunate discoveries by accident, so this group was conceived back in 2006 with the aim ‘to support, enable and encourage the exploration of an idea or project and to be inspired by ...
Meets on the last Thursday of each month at 2.30pm in a member’s home or out on a field trip. Serendipity is the discovery, by chance, of pleasing and/or interesting things! So, in our Serendipity 2 Group, we don’t plan things too far ahead. We are open to members’ suggestions and then learn a great deal at our meetings about ...
We meet on the last Friday of each month at 10:30am at a member's home. A different subject is chosen each month and it is interesting to see the many different interpretations that members present. This group will suit all levels of expertise (or none) and is a perfect opportunity to learn from others which is, of course, what U3A ...
Meets on the last Friday of each month from 2.00 pm to 4.00 pm in the United Reformed Church at the bottom of Killerton Rd, Bude EX23 8EL Every aspect of family history is explored using old photographs, post cards, school reports and records etc. Unusual names, trades/professions of our ancestors often turn up some interesting stories and occasionally we ...
