Nillumbik University of the Third Age (U3A) welcomes retirees and semi-retirees to join our friendly community. We offer opportunities for members to engage in great learning, sporting, artistic and social activities without a need for formal educational qualifications – all that’s required is a love of learning and a friendly outlook.
Our newsletter
We send out regular newsletters (Gibber Gabbers) to around 1,900 people in total. You can read all these newsletters, dating back to 2012, on our newsletter page.
Our latest Gibber Gabber was sent out on 13th December.
If you would like to submit an article for a future Gibber Gabber, or discuss the possibility of so doing, send an email to the editor.
If you are not a member but would like to receive these free newsletters yourself, just sign up.
Our 2025 classes
We currently run around 90 different courses each term. These cover a wide range of subjects including languages, physical activities, cards & puzzles, music, art, literature, history and science.
Our weekly 2025 classes will start in the week commencing 3rd February.
Note that the Office will be closed between midday, Wednesday, 11th December to 1pm, Tuesday, 28th January. Emails will be dealt with during this time.
Our Office & new membership system
Our Office is at Eltham Central Pavilion, 18 Panther Place. Map. It is open (during term times only) on Mondays, 1-3pm and Thursdays, 10am-midday. Email: office@nillumbiku3a.org.au. Tel: 0468 300 764.
In March 2025, we are planning to move to a new computerised membership system called Member Wizard. This new system will make it easier for our members to enrol in classes, to see their membership and enrolment status, and to maintain their contact details. Read more about the Member Wizard system.
Membership
Membership is open to all retired and semi-retired people and we have no age limits. We have around 920 members.
Our annual fee is just $55 a year and participation in classes is then free.
Our upcoming events
Jenny Gowan will discuss the implications of particular medicines for falls and preventive treatments. She will also take any questions on the safe use of medicines.
Jenny is an accredited consultant pharmacist and focuses on medication reviews in the home and in aged care facilities as well as quality use of medicine consultancy for community health. In 2013, Jenny received the PSA Australian Pharmacist of the Year and in 2016 was the Australian Consultant Pharmacist of the Year. In 2024, she received recognition as a Member of the Order of Australia for service to medicine as a pharmacist, to professional societies and to community health.
The arrangements for you booking your place will be announced in early 2025.
Howdy quizzers, 2024 soon to be ‘goneski’ and before you blink its ‘hellooooo 2025’. Well, pencil in 9.30am on Wed 19th Feb 2025 onto your new wall calendar (or smartphone, smart watch or post-it note for the fridge) because a new round of fun quizzes begins. Lots of history and geography, Australiana will return, literature of course, and another round of ‘annoying’ double meanings words to work out. And nope – still nothing on sport, technology or music after the 1960s. What’s not to like about 90 minutes of quiz questions.
Your host: David O’Brien.
The arrangements for you booking your place will be announced in early 2025.
Our class blogs
Many of our classes blog on this website, including our art classes, choir, golf, jazz appreciation, our walking groups and our writing groups.
Look at some of the art produced by our members.
Or stories from our Collaborative Writing Group, our Writing Workshop and others.
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