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22nd Jan 2018oldlenton commented on:
Do you feel lonely at times?Whilst I realise that not everyone has the same personality and some may find it difficult to socialise, I found the best thing I did on retiring and as a single person, was to join our local U3A. We now have well over 400 members and 48 different activity groups. Over the last ten years I have made many new friends through the U3A and I now run five groups (Reading Group, Creative Writing Group, Lunch Group, Weekenders Group and Pub Quiz Group) as well as attending the History Group and a Singalonga Group (which is great fun!). So I would suggest to anyone who is lonely, to check out where their nearest U3A is and go along and find out more about it, even if they only joined one group or just went to the main monthly meeting I think it would help. My best successful group is the Weekenders when we meet once a month for Coffee Club when we plan our events for the next month or so. We try to have monthly Social Evenings (at someone's house when we each provide an item for the buffet), one outing (Bus Pass Day Out cost nothing), and one lunch out. We have a nucleus of around 18 members with an average turnout of 12 at each of the above events. The best thing I ever joined!