Chair
Kate King
Chair monthly committee meetings and the AGM. Allocate committee roles and tasks. Ensure activities are compatible with the local Constitution and with the principles of the national U3A movement. Act as the point of contact for national, regional and local U3A network colleagues, local partner organisations and members. Give credit where it's due and accept all blame.
Treasurer
Alan Pearson
Essential: basic numeracy and computer skills, including Excel and Word. A common sense understanding of income and expenditure. Attention to detail. Useful: experience of Sage (or similar) system and book keeping
Business Secretary
Trudy Roberts
Take and distribute the Committee minutes and Agenda each month. Maintain and up-date records.
Social Events
Cliff Hind
Organise and run U3A wide events such as the Christmas Social as directed by the committee. Recommend trips etc. to the committee for further consideration/action
Lectures Secretary
Barbara Burn
The Lecture Secretary is responsible for arranging the monthly lectures, finding and contacting the speakers with an aim to providing an interesting and informative programme of talks for the year. One has to liaise with the speakers directly to agree their fee and then arrange for this to be paid on the day of the lecture.
Study Groups Liaison
Peter Rose
An attention to detail and reasonable computer skills is important. Organise the text for study group entries in the annual u3a brochure. Help IT by providing study group details to keep the website current. Support, assist existing study group leaders and encourage new study groups. Organise a study group leader meeting annually.
Publicity Secretary
Trudy Roberts
The role of the Publicity secretary is to encourage and collate all the news relating to U3A in Bury St Edmunds from the committee members and group leaders each month and put it together in a newsletter format to go out to members via the website.
IT
Andy King
Maintain the website in liaison with service provider. Support committee and general members with their IT needs. Keep the organizations IT hardware uptodate.
Volunteer Coordinator
Kate King
Organise and support the volunteer fire stewards and office duty volunteers. Complete the lecture and office rota for the volunteers and Committee members.
Educational Trips
Elizabeth Barham
Organise educational/interest trips with the backing of the committee, outside those organised by the relevant study groups.
