We meet on the third Monday of each month at 2pm at Beechwood Community Hall, Barming
In addition to the Interest Group meetings, monthly meetings are held on the third Monday of each month at Beechwood Hall in Barming from 2pm onwards where we have an interesting speaker each month. Scroll down for a list of forthcoming meetings and speakers.
Although we have to book speakers months, or even years in advance, we are always keen to receive suggestions and recommendations from members for speakers or subjects for our monthly meetings.
If you find parking difficult at Beechwood Hall, why not use the FREE Hospital Park& Ride service which runs every 30 minutes from the old London Road P&R site, behind DFS. As from January 2026 this is a small shuttle minibus run by Streamline. See Maidstone Hospital website for details.
Tea, coffee and biscuits are available after the speaker with time to chat to fellow u3a members.
To find out more about each meeting, please click on the individual meetings below.
Brian Cookson - Greenwich, where time began. Brian's talk takes us around Greenwich to learn about his history and architecture. We start with Canaletto's famous view of the Royal Naval […]
Dr Blay Whitby - Life in the age of Artificial Intelligence. What has come to be called The Fourth Industrial Revolution is now well under way. Artificial Intelligence (AI) will […]
We are able to offer members the opportunity to attend the very popular show, Oliver, on Wednesday 4th November 2026 at London's Gielgud Theatre, the matinee performance. We have great […]
Fran Sandham - A Solo Walk across Africa. Critically acclaimed author and former Rough Guides editor Fran Sandham walked across Africa solo from the Atlantic on Namibia’s Skeleton Coast to […]
Our Christmas party this year will be on Monday 21st December at Beechwood Hall from 2-4pm. This year Danielle Barnett will be joining us with a theme of "Tis the […]
Michael Smith - The Franklin Expedition of 1845 was a doomed British voyage led by Captain Sir John Franklin seeking to navigate the final unmapped sections of the Northwest Passage […]
Dean Caston - This talk will focus on the life of a variety artiste exploring performers, speciality acts and the theatres that played an important part of this golden era […]
Dr Anne Logan is a historian specialising in 19th and 20th century British social history and women's history. She has been a lecturer at the University of Kent since 2001. […]
Colin Brown - Founded in 1842 as the National Institute for Preservation of Life, the RNLI is a charity that saves lives at sea around the coasts of the UK, […]
Gillian Lloyd - not too many people get to see Polar Bears in the wild and most who are lucky enough to have done so, would have observed them from […]
