The Groups Co-ordinator is there to provide assistance for Group Leaders to help with the running of their groups. Talk to the co-ordinator if you have any questions, need any help or are unsure about anything. You will also find some useful information in the Handbook below, which will provide advice and support to interest Group Leaders
Further Help and Advice
Winchcombe u3a Policies
Our Health and Safety Policy can be downloaded from the Policies Page. This includes an Incident/Accident Reporting Form.
There is also a wealth of useful guidance information on the Third Age Trust's website.
In particular, Group Leaders should make themselves familiar with information available under the Advice area of the Trust's website. In order to access this information, U3A members must open an account. This requires setting up a username and password. This is straightforward to do. All Group Leaders are encouraged to look at this information, in particular the sections relating to Risk Assessments and Incident Report Forms.
We also have a Safeguarding policy which aims to ensure that members can enjoy our u3a activities in a safe, tolerant, and caring environment. The safeguarding officer referred to in the policy is the Vice Chairman of our u3a, to whom all enquiries about the policy should be addressed.
See the Policies page also for our Policies on Privacy, Equality Equality and Diversity, and Grievance Procedures.
Beacon for Group Leaders
All Group Leaders are responsible for keeping group details up to date on Beacon, and Group Leaders can access the Beacon Administration site by using the login details provided by the Beacon Administrator.
A guide for Using Beacon has been produced especially for Group Leaders and can be accessed and downloaded by following the link.
Website Group Pages
All Group Leaders are responsible for ensuring that group details are kept up to date on this website.
Please contact our Groups Coordinator, to advise her of any changes to your Group activities or if you have any queries regarding the running of your group.
As a Group Leader, you can update your own group's page on the website if you wish to. Let the Web Administrator know and you will be given editing rights that enable you do do so. A document providing Editing Guide for Group Leaders is available for download. (Click on the link.)
Subject Advisers
There is a network of over 70 national subject advisers, whose role is to provide advice on both the setting up of a group in their particular specialty and the sustainability of ones already in existence, which may benefit from new ideas or a different approach.
Copyright
If you use material that comes from outside sources, make sure that you have taken into account copyright considerations. See Guidance on Copyright.
Setting up new groups
OurGroups Coordinator is the person to contact if you would like to set up a new group.