A learning and social organisation for the Retired and Semi Retired living in the Blackwater Valley area of Northeast Hampshire including the districts of Yateley, Blackwater, Hawley and Frogmore. U3A membership is not related to a specific age but to a period in one’s life (the third age) after the second age of full-time employment and parental responsibility. Anybody in their third age can join U3A and this includes people who are working part time. There is no lower age for membership.