With over 70 Interest Groups to choose from below is the current list of all active groups.
Where space is indicated for additional members, limited or occasionally, please contact the Group Organiser of that interest group directly.
Where the group is full, please contact the Group Organiser and ask to go on the waiting list, also, please complete the form to register your interest. The committee is keeping lists of people who are interested in the same group with a view to potentially starting another group of the same subject – Joining an Interest Group | u3a Bury St Edmunds
A – Z Interest Groups
| Interest Group | Space for Additional Members | Category | Meet | Click on link to go to the Interest Group |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Angel Book Group | No | Literature, Theatre & Film | First Wednesday – afternoon | Click to view |
| Antiques and Collectables | Yes | Other | Last Wednesday of the month – afternoon | Click to view |
| Archers Appreciation Group | No | Leisure | Third Wednesday – morning | Click to view |
| Art Appreciation | Yes | Arts and Crafts | Second Monday – morning | Click to view |
| Art History | Yes | Arts and Crafts | Second Wednesday – afternoon | Click to view |
| Badminton | Yes | Sport | Weekly – every Friday afternoon | Click to view |
| Bird Watching | No | Outdoors | Second and Fourth Wednesdays | Click to view |
| Book Group 1 | No | Literature, Theatre & Film | Second Tuesday – morning | Click to view |
| Book Group 2 | No | Literature, Theatre & Film | Second Monday – morning | Click to view |
| Book Group 3 | Yes | Literature, Theatre & Film | First Wednesday – afternoon | Click to view |
| Book Group 5 | No | Literature, Theatre & Film | 4th Tuesday – afternoon | Click to view |
| Bowls (Indoor Bowling) | Yes | Sport | Weekly – Friday afternoons | Click to view |
| Bowls (Lawn Bowling) | Yes | Sport | Weekly – Friday evenings | Click to view |
| Bridge | No | Leisure | Weekly – every Thursday morning | Click to view |
| Canasta | No | Leisure | contact Group Leader | Click to view |
| Canasta Group 2 | Yes | Leisure | contact Group Leader | Click to view |
| Chess | Yes | Leisure | Weekly – every Monday morning | Click to view |
| Cinema Group | Yes | Literature, Theatre & Film | First Monday – morning | Click to view |
| Cinema Group 2 | No | Literature, Theatre & Film | First Thursday – morning | Click to view |
| Choir | Yes | Music | Weekly – Monday afternoon | Click to view |
| Craft Group | No | Arts and Crafts | Second and fourth Tuesdays – morning | Click to view |
| Creative Writing | No | Literature, Theatre & Film | Last Tuesday – afternoon | Click to view |
| Cribbage | No | Leisure | Wednesdays fortnightly | Click to view |
| Cribbage Tuesday Group | No | Leisure | Monthly – second Tuesday afternoon | Click to view |
| Crime & Justice | Yes | Social Sciences | Monthly – 4th Thursday morning | Click to view |
| Cryptic Crosswords | Yes | Leisure | Monthly – Last Monday afternoon | Click to view |
| Current Affairs | Yes | Social Sciences | Third Monday – afternoon | Click to view |
| Elizabethan England and the Wider World 1558-1603 | Yes | History | Monday afternoons – see interest group page for the schedule | Click to view |
| English History | Yes | History | Fourth Wednesday – afternoon | Click to view |
| English Medieval Literature | No | Literature, Theatre & Film | First Tuesday – afternoon | Click to view |
| English Music of all Centuries | No | Music | Fourth Wednesday – morning | Click to view |
| Family History | Yes | History | Last Wednesday – late morning | Click to view |
| Flower Arrangement | Yes | Leisure | First Friday Mornings – Monthly | Click to view |
| Forget-Me-Not (Dementia Carers) | Yes | Other | Second and Fourth Tuesday – Monthly | Click to view |
| French Culture et Société | Yes | Languages | Thursday mornings – weekly | Click to view |
| Gardens | Yes | Outdoors | Contact group leader | Click to view |
| General Knowledge Quiz | Yes | Leisure | Second Friday – morning | Click to view |
| German Conversation and Reading | Yes – 2 more members | Languages | Every 1st and 3rd Thursday – morning | Click to view |
| Government & Politics | Yes | Social Sciences | Second Tuesday – morning | Click to view |
| History of the English Language | No | History | Second Thursdays – morning | Click to view |
| History under Discussion | No | History | Variable – see group page | Click to view |
| Homer’s Odyssey | Yes | Literature, Theatre & Film | Third Thursday – morning | Click to view |
| Irish Writers | Yes | Literature, Theatre & Film | First and Third Wednesday – morning | Click to view |
| Italian Beginners Conversation | No | Languages | Second Tuesday – afternoon | Click to view |
| Italian Conversation | No | Languages | Weekly – Tuesday | Click to view |
| Italian Conversation 2 | Yes | Languages | Weekly – Thursday | Click to view |
| Longer Walks | Occasionally | Outdoors | First Thursday – morning | Click to view |
| Lunch Group | No | Leisure | Fourth Tuesday – Midday | Click to view |
| Lunch Group 2 | Yes | Leisure | Third Tuesday – Midday | Click to view |
| Mah Jong | No | Leisure | Weekly – every Thursday morning | Click to view |
| Members on their own (MOTO) | Yes | Other | Contact co-ordinator | Click to view |
| Monday Walking | Yes | Outdoors | First and third Monday mornings | Click to view |
| Music for All Ages | Yes | Music | Second Thursday – morning | Click to view |
| Music Matters | Yes | Music | Fourth Wednesday – morning | Click to view |
| Opera | No | Music | Fourth Thursday – morning | Click to view |
| Painting and Drawing | Yes | Arts & Crafts | Weekly – Tuesday mornings | Click to view |
| Petanque | Yes | Sport | Alternate Monday and Thursday afternoons | Click to view |
| Philosophy for All | No | Science & Philosophy | Fourth Monday – morning | Click to view |
| Philosophy for All Group 2 | Yes | Science & Philosophy | Third Thursday – afternoon | Click to view |
| Photography | Yes | Leisure | Third Thursday – afternoon | Click to view |
| Pickleball | Yes | Sport | Friday afternoons – weekly | Click to view |
| Poetry Reading | Yes | Literature, Theatre & Film | Second and fourth Tuesday – afternoon | Click to view |
| Portrait Drawing | Yes | Arts & Crafts | Variable – contact organiser | Click to view |
| Racketball | Yes | Sport | Weekly – every Thursday afternoon | Click to view |
| Recorder Consort | No | Music | Weekly – every Friday afternoon | |
| Science in Cambridge | Yes | Science & Philosophy | Monday evenings – variable | Click to view |
| Science and Society | Yes | Science & Philosophy | First Wednesday – monthly | Click to view |
| Scrabble | Yes | Leisure | Monday afternoons – weekly | Click to view |
| Shakespeare | No | Literature, Theatre & Film | Second and fourth Thursdays – morning | Click to view |
| Spanish Conversation | Yes | Languages | First Friday of the month | Click to view |
| Suffolk Churches and Villages | No | History | First Thursday – morning | Click to view |
| Suffolk Churches and Villages – Group 2 | Yes | History | Third Thursday – morning | Click to view |
| Theatre Group | Yes | Literature, Theatre & Film | Variable – see group page | Click to view |
| Walking Too | No | Outdoors | Fourth Thursday | Click to view |
| Wildlife Group | Yes | Outdoors | Two Tuesday mornings each month, usually second and fourth of the month | Click to view |
| Wine Appreciation | No | Leisure | Second Thursday every two months – evening | Click to view |
| The Other Wine Group | No | Leisure | Third Wednesday – afternoon | Click to view |
| Writing Your Memoirs | No | History | First Monday – morning | Click to view |
