| Status: | Active, open to new members |
| Convenor: | |
| Group email: | Publicity Team group |
| When: | Meetings are held as and when required |
| Venue: | Various |
Our publicity team, reaching out to the community.
The publicity group are responsible for ensuring the High Wycombe and District u3a is increasing their membership by maintaining a high profile amongst the local community.. This is achieved through holding local exibitions and events.
June 2026
Hazlemere Patient Practice
Our pictures (Below) shows Paul Gilliam, and Michael Wright greeting visitors to the u3a stand and left Paul and Babara manning the stand at the Hazlemere Patient Practice event held at Hazlemere Community Centre on Saturday 27 June. This was the first time we had attended this event. In 2025 over 250 visitors attended but this year the extremely hot weather resulted in a much lower attendance. However, 23 local Organisations attended. Rosemary Cropper and Carol Gilliam unexpectedly attended as visitors.
The event was judged a success in so far as we had several members of the public expressing their interest in joining our u3a. My sincere thanks to Publicity group leader Barbara for organising me on what was almost the hottest day of the year.
Paul Gilliam
June 2026
Napfest
In June, we participated in 'Napfest', a local village annual fete. Our picture shows our enthusiastic publicity team, and our groups co-ordinator Paul (far right), at their u3a stand operating a ‘bottle’ tombola, raising funds for the Village Hall - as well as informing visitors to the stand about our local u3a group.
March 2026
Barbara, a member of the publicity team looking after the very eye catching display which generated much interest from the local attendees. This was an event held by a the village for all the interest groups that use the community hall.
Christmas 2025
Our publicity team once again reached out to the local community by taking part in the annual Christmas Tree Festival at All Saints Church in the centre of High Wycombe. Each year, the church invites local organisations to decorate a Christmas tree to showcase their work and community involvement.
Our tree reflects the voices of our u3a members. The decorations feature comments and reflections on what being part of u3a means to them, highlighting the friendships and enjoyment shared across our groups.
The tree, pictured above, will be on display from 17th of December 2025 to the 3rd of January 2026
St Michael and All Angels Church's Flower Festival at Hughenden Park.
Members of the u3a threw themselves enthusiastically into putting together an excellent exhibition of their beautiful arts and crafts as part of the St Michael and All Angels Church's Flower Festival at Hughenden Park over the bank holiday. A couple of members also contributed to the actual Flower Festival and our team enjoyed telling the visitors to our exhibition all about the u3a and what it has to offer. The weather was brilliant and the cakes and coffee at Church House never ran out, so a good time was had by all, including some of us having the opportunity to tour the bell tower and witness the expert ringers in action. What a treat. We hope that several people who visited us will want to join us as we move into the autumn. Thanks to everyone who took part.
