Your Committee needs you

An important message from our Chair:

At our monthly meeting, I told members that the committee is beginning to think about the AGM in September and the future of our u3a.

Every year, the Chair asks for members to join the committee and to take on roles, including becoming a convener, to help run our organisation. As you will be aware, we are very fortunate that in the past couple of years we have had some excellent new members joining the committee who are really making a difference. However, as is inevitable in any voluntary group, some very valuable committee members have indicated that they wish to step down in September, and so this leaves the pressing challenge of finding replacements.

I continue to be optimistic about the future of our u3a, but we must also be realistic. Unless some volunteers step forward, we are approaching a position where the future of Dawlish & District u3a will be at risk. We must all understand that if we want our u3a to flourish, we cannot ask the same people to take the strain, year after year. So, I ask all of you to consider how you can help to run our affairs. While there is ‘work’ to be done, it really is not too arduous if the roles are shared around properly and we all support each other.

When he was inaugurated as President of the United States in 1961, John F Kennedy used memorable words as a call to action: “Ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country”. I would not wish to make comparisons between asking for volunteers to help run the u3a and JFK’s rallying call to his fellow Americans, but I think you get the point!

If you would like to know how you can get more involved, please speak to any member of the committee, or contact me directly via enquiries@u3a.dawlish.info.

John Vick, Chair, Dawlish & District u3a