Please see individual Group Web Pages for more details.
Forthcoming events
A Paddle Board or Sit On Canoe Session at CRT (Canal & River Trust) Centre Wigan Top Lock.
Booking Required
Café Society will entertain us in the afternoon. They have a wondaful repertoire of 20's music. There is a bar on site to help us enjoy this special afternoon. Looking […]
Cost: £25
Booking Required
Thursday July 16th, 10.30 to 12.00, Village Hall Annex :- a talk on Denisovans, Neanderthals and emergence from the ice age by Maggie Simms Maggie is a professional archaeologist and […]
Cost: £3
Donald Storm is head of Kirkby Council and he’s got an eye on creating a new destination for tourists from around the world. And if he can make a few bob in the process, so much […]
Cost: £36. Ticket, coach and driver's tip
Booking Required
The unique and quirky garden at Mill Barn is a delight, or rather a series of delights. Along the River Darwen, through the tiny secret grotto, past the suspension bridge […]
Cost: £5 plus refreshments
Booking Required
Our annual trip to the Cartmel races. Bring a picnic, a chair and enjoy a great day out. Pick up Rufford 9.30am, Croston 9.45am, Mawdesley 10.00am, Parbold 10.15am. Click on […]
Cost: £35
Booking Required
Circular walk on the fells from Chipping village. 370 meters of ascent. Leader: Stan Parks
Booking Required
A Day Canoeing on Coniston Water, Canoe out to an Island for a Packed Lunch and Break then Canoe back to the shore.
Booking Required
Meet at the Continental Pub PR1 8JP. You can also book a meal there at the start for after the tour
Cost: £10
Booking Required
If you're looking for a heritage railway experience with real, working steam in action - one where the locomotives don't just pose for photographs but actually earn their keep - […]
Cost: £35
Booking Required
Haigh Hall near Wigan is undergoing complete refurbishment.We have booked a talk by Jim Meehan on the history of the hall, followed by a walk round the grounds (weather permitting).Cost […]
Cost: £5
Booking Required
We will have a guided tour taking approximately 2 hours - yes, 2 hours as there is so much to see.Book with Christine via the group email
Booking Required
Neil Hanson is a successful author with 70 published books to his name. As well as his own, much-acclaimed work, he’s also a “ghost writer”. His clients include household names […]
Venue: Mawdesley Village Hall
Cost: £3
Following a request, we are taking a small group this concert. It was booked in Dec 2025 and we sold all of our tickets before we booked. Bus will depart […]
Cost: £163 (including coach and driver's tip)
Booking Required
Leader: Hazel Taylor
Booking Required
Annual Visit to RHS Bridgewater Booking from 22nd July
Cost: £10 for the coach
Booking Required
The Shakespeare Group have planned another trip to Stratford on Thursday 8 October 2026 to see 'As You Like It'. In this production, as in Shakespeare's time, all the parts […]
Cost: £66
Booking Required
If you’d like to know what it’s like to share a bacon sandwich with a convicted murderer in the Old Bailey cells; to wear a 200 year-old horsehair wig; to […]
Venue: Mawdesley Village Hall
Cost: £3
Talk by Sarah Haisley
Cost: £5
40 years since its legendary West End premiere, the groundbreaking rock musical masterpiece, CHESS, explodes onto the Stockport Plaza Stage this October! From the composing genius of ABBA’s Benny Andersson […]
Cost: £38.50
Booking Required
Review from another U3A....... Frank Vigon delivered a talk titled 'The History of Advertising' to members of Clitheroe u3a at St. Mary’s Hall, which was described as both entertaining and […]
Cost: £3
Talk about Cornish Gardens. Cornwall is renowned for its exceptional gardens, thanks to its mild climate fostered by the Gulf Stream, which allows a wide variety of exotic and tender […]
Cost: £5
This time Matthew Bourne's production has both male and female dancers and is set in the London blitz Bus will leave stops as follows Rufford 12:00 pmMawdesley 12:10 pmParbold 12:15 […]
Cost: £76 (including coach and driver's tip)
Booking Required
Following the success of the last 2 years, we are offering this concert again. It will surely be another success, as the Children's choir always steal the show. They are […]
Cost: £48 (including coach and driver's tip)
Booking Required
Chorley based historian and author, Steve Williams, talk is entitled “Unsung Lancastrians”. As the title implies, he highlights some not so well known or famous Lancastrians – from entrepreneurs, suffragettes, […]
Venue: Mawdesley Village Hall
Cost: £3
Andy Bennet is the CEO of Moulton Glass, based in Cheshire. Lots of photos showing a brief history of glass manufacturing and how lead light / stained glass windows have […]
Venue: Mawdesley Village Hall
Cost: £3
Author Caroline James has owned and run businesses encompassing all aspects of the hospitality industry, a subject that features in her best-selling novels. For many years, she ran a business […]
Venue: Mawdesley Village Hall
Cost: £3
An A-Z of funny stories and anecdotes About Martin Gaffney 32 years with a major UK Police Force. A time to laugh a time to cry, a time to live […]
Venue: Mawdesley Village Hall
Cost: £3
Chris is one of our own U3A members who is a fascinating speaker
Venue: Mawdesley Village Hall
Cost: £3