Destined to Survive 8 October 2025 Jonathan Marshall MBE speaks about Solly Irving, a Jewish Holocaust survivor b1930 d2017. After being liberated from Thereseinstadt concentration camp Solly came to England with the first group of children to be offered a home here. Solly felt it was his solemn duty to speak about his experiences to … Read more
Wednesday 13th August 2025 at 2pm The Changing Wildlife of the Chilterns John Tyler will give us a guided tour – from warm tropical seas, through Ice Ages, tundra and forest to the fields and beech woods of today, we travel through a hundred million years to follow the story of the Chiltern landscape and … Read more
Wednesday 9th July 2025 at 2:30pm The Blitz as a Catalyst for Greening London This talk on the Blitz describes how the devastation of bombing during the Second World War created opportunities for new parks and gardens and includes some surprising stories of what once lay beneath some of London’s well-loved parks. This is a … Read more
Wednesday 11th June 2025 at 2pm The Most Heroic Failure Shackleton’s Antarctic Sir Ernest Shackleton, an Anglo-Irish polar explorer, is renowned for his leadership of three British expeditions to Antarctica, most famously the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1914-1916) aboard the Endurance, a journey that became a tale of remarkable survival and perseverance. Jeremy Holmes will reveal … Read more
Wednesday 14th May 2025 at 2pm The Spice of life! Spices make up an important part of our lives. From cookery to medicine and perfumery -modern science has a lot more to learn from these pearls of our natural environment. Speaker – Luke S Degan This is a “face to face” talk at … Read more
Wednesday 9th April 2025 at 2pm Royal Weddings at Windsor Castle Dr Brigitte Mitchell is a member of the Windsor Local History Group. She will reveal her findings from her research in to 21 weddings, from 1121 to 2019, with some right royal scandals! Most recently, St George’s Chapel saw the occasion of the marriage … Read more
Wednesday 12 March 2025 at 2pm The Hidden Rivers of London We are all familiar with “Old Father Thames”, but of course, every river has its tributaries that feed in to them. Alan Fitzgerald has investigated these sources, many of them hidden from view, with their own fascinating stories. Alan will enlighten us about the … Read more
2025 marks ten years since Chalfonts u3a was formed. In March 2015, Chalfonts u3a was officially constituted as a member of the Third Age Trust and run by a steering committee until the first Annual General Meeting in 2016. With only 17 interest groups at the start these multiplied and multiplied so today Cu3a can … Read more