Just to remind you all, this year we would have celebrated our 10th Anniversary, in September in some style! Linda Broadbent baked and iced a wonderful anniversary cake for our party. Gordon organised the lovely enamel 10th anniversary badges. There was also a party organised for the Anniversary Celebration [...]

As you can probably guess (I have thrown the crystal ball away), the trip has been cancelled due to Covid-19 restrictions. Let's hope 2021 is a better year for us! GA      

I am working on a community engagement project on behalf of the charity Sustrans and in partnership with Durham County Council to tie in with the resurfacing of large sections of the Cold Hesledon Walkway/Yellow Brick Road (part of National Cycle Network Route 1) between Dawdon and South Hetton [...]

I had a message from a friend who is a member of Houghton-le-Spring U3A saying that some members had received a SCAM message claiming to be from NHS App asking for bank details to pay for a Covid - 19 test .   Jean W  

Current Affairs Group Leader Malcolm Wilkinson We normally meet on the Friday morning, 10am, the day after our U3A monthly meeting. The meetings are held in Seaham Masonic Centre and are open to anyone. We can have anywhere between 8 and 18 present. As you can imagine, there is [...]

Before he contacted Durham Council! After he contacted Durham Council! Well done Gordon and the Environmental Department for their very prompt response.

This article is so befitting for all of us... take time to ponder... the last statement cannot be refuted:-    I FIRST STARTED READING THIS EMAIL AND WAS READING FAST UNTIL I REACHED THE THIRD SENTENCE.  I STOPPED THEN AND STARTED OVER, READING SLOWER, AND THINKING ABOUT EVERY [...]

Cyber Advice and June Summary What cybercrime has been reported in our area? ?? In June we had a total of 242 reports made to Action Fraud for our area. Of these reports, hacking of social media and email remained the most commonly reported by volume, along with numerous [...]

We have a received an email from HQ, please see below. I have received a few phishing emails, supposedly, from some of our “members”, even one in my own name! The last one was in fact from someone in Spain! I just mark them as spam and delete them [...]