Our U3A is made up of men and women who are not in full time employment and who meet together to study a wide range of subjects. Our meetings take place in the old Hampstead Town Hall, on Monday to Friday during term time. We currently have about 130 classes on offer, all of which are run by members. We are all volunteers: no-one who works in our U3A in any capacity is paid.

We are not a university which awards degrees, but a group of people learning from each other. Many of our tutors are highly qualified and others have no qualifications at all. You don’t need qulaifications to join and you will not be given any: we study for the pleasure of learning. The leaders of our groups are called ‘co-ordinators’ because we see learning as a co-operative process. Like other U3As we are autonomous and make our own rules and regulations. We receive no government or local authority grant and are entirely self-financing.