Membership Renewals Only

For members with a registered email address, your membership renewal details for the following year will be sent to you by email annually. Members who have an email address registered with us will not receive written (postal) renewal details, so it is most important that you regularly monitor your emails. Please let the Membership Secretary know if you change your email address or any of your other contact details. Also, make sure that you have noreply@u3abeacon.org.uk entered in your contacts and safe senders list; this should ensure that you always receive our emails; otherwise, they may end up in your junk mail.

Membership Renewal notifications were sent out by email on the 15th of October 2025.

There are no changes in the renewal fees for the year commencing 1st January 2026. Fees have been kept at £15.00

But, once the one-month grace period for lapsed membership renewals has ended (31st Jan 2026), you will be required to pay the full membership fee of £20 if renewing a lapsed membership.

If you wish to renew a lapsed membership, please contact our Membership Secretary . No form will need to be filled in. Just your name and membership number.

Our three methods of payment are:

1) Our Preferred method is by Bank Transfer to:
Canvey Island U3A
Sort Code: 20-70-93
Account No: 03633780.
Important: Please use your membership number as your payment reference. In the case of couples paying on a single bank transfer, please use both membership numbers, i.e., 123-321 (to renew members 123 and 321). If paying for another member, please include their Membership No. as the reference.

Please Note: We do not have the facility to accept online payments via this website, but we can accept Bank Transfers. To use the Bank transfer (BACS) facility, you will need to have online or telephone banking set up with your bank, or personally visit your banking organisation to arrange a transfer to our account.

2) CHEQUE - IMPORTANT: Cheques MUST be made payable to Canvey Island U3A (and nothing else) and sent by post or delivered by hand to: 84 Denham Road, Canvey Island, Essex, SS8 9HA. Please write the membership numbers of the members being paid for on the back of your cheques.
3) CASH - paid to the Membership Secretary at any Main meeting or the above address. If paying by cash, please don't just post it through the letter box, arrange with Membership Secretary a convenient time when she is in.
PLEASE REMEMBER TO ALWAYS STATE YOUR MEMBERSHIP NUMBER WHEN RENEWING. PLEASE CONTACT THE Membership Secretary IF YOU DO NOT KNOW YOUR MEMBERSHIP NUMBER.

Your subscription covers the following: -

£4.00 per member is a "Trust Membership Subscription". All u3a's have to pay this sum annually on 31st March to "The Third Age Trust".
£1.00 per member, per year, is paid to the "Third Age Trust" for the use of the Beacon Membership Management System.
Introduction to our interest groups.
The cost of booking the Paddocks and Smallgains Hall each month.
The cost of booking a Speaker/Entertainer each month.
Tea/Coffee & Biscuits at the break each month.
Sandwiches at the Christmas party Meeting.
The Third Age Matters magazine (TAM). This is free to any member who wants to receive it, but you would have had to tick the TAM box on your original Membership Application form to receive it or ask the Membership Secretary at any time to add your name to the list.
Printing, Postage, Stationery & Equipment.
Access to any outings & social events arranged.

IMPORTANT

Membership of Canvey Island U3A does not entitle you to join another U3A's interest groups or meetings, unless you are a member of that U3A or the other U3A's rules allow this.

To participate in any of our interest groups or any outing/event, you are required to be a fully paid-up member of Canvey Island U3A. The only exception is when a coach trip is organised by the Events Organiser or a Group Liaison and there are seats remaining on that coach. After being offered to all of our members, any spare seats can then be offered to members of other Local U3A's. Due to the terms of our insurance cover, it is no longer possible to include Friends and Family on Trips.

MEMBERS PERSONAL DETAILS

It is most important that we have your correct contact details, including an email address if you use email. Now that we have our Beacon membership management system up and running, we will be relying on its email facility to contact you concerning all U3A matters. Being the most cost-effective method of contacting you, we will use email wherever possible. (Most of us have a Smartphone in our pocket or bag these days and it's quite simple to set up and monitor your emails with it.)

However, it is important that you do not give us an email address that you never use, as we send important notifications via email to those with email addresses i.e Membership renewal notifications and AGM documents.

Please make sure that you have noreply@u3abeacon.org.uk entered in your contacts/safe senders list as per details at the top of the Beacon page, this should prevent emails sent via Beacon from ending up in your Junk / Spam.

GDPR

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force in 2018. Because of the limited type of data we hold, there are no major changes necessary for us at Canvey Island U3A. What we will be doing is amending our registration forms to make it clearer how we use your data.

Canvey Island U3A takes members' privacy seriously; we only use your personal information for the purpose of administering your membership.

We store your personal information on Beacon, a secure online system run by the U3A National Office. Membership details are available to Trustees and Group Liaisons on a “Need to Know” basis only.

Where members have requested to receive the “Third Age Matters”, we give these names and addresses to a mailing organisation approved by the U3A National office.

We do not give your details to anyone else outside Canvey Island U3A without your consent.

Our full Data Protection Policy and Privacy Policy are available on the Membership page.