YAHR PR Advisor
We are pleased to say Margaret Fiddes has taken on the role, she can be contacted using contacts page for advice or publicity@yahru3a.co.uk
‘The aim of the role is to support U3As in the region in their efforts to engage with local media and press in order to raise their profile.’
Margaret writes: Currently I am the Publicity Secretary for Sherburn & Villages U3A and a member of the Trust’s Communications and External Communications Committee.
This new role is part of the Trust’s strategic project of raising the profile of the U3A movement. I will be part of a UK wide team of other PR Advisors and I am looking forward to working with U3As in our region. As this is a brand new role we may be making it up as we go along but it would be great if we could make the region’s media more aware of the movement, and if we could find a way onto the contact lists of our local radio, TV and newspapers and become a go to when they are looking for the opinions of third agers or are covering stories relating to our demographic.
If U3As could get in touch with details of their publicity or PR secretaries names please that would be most helpful. It would be really useful to build up a database of contacts across the region. Please do email details to me and of course any questions or queries. Many thanks!
The Captain Cook event
this summer is cancelled. The organisers Whitby U3A are proposing to hold the event next summer, on Wednesday 23rd and Thursday 24th June 2021.
Summer Learning Break
The Hawkhills venue has been retained from 26th to 29th July 2021, details will be published later in the year.
YAHR AGM
The provisional date for a virtual meeting is Thursday 17th September 2020, details will follow including how to register.
U3A Life in Lockdown
A national film has been produced see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBSfUGiszz0taht it celebrates the wonderful things U3A members up and down the country have been doing in these difficult times, duration is approx. 7-minutes.
