Membership Fees and Types of Membership

The membership year of Southampton U3A is 1st April to 31st March.

Our annual membership fees include a £4 capitation fee to our national organisation, the Third Age Trust, which provides a wide range of services and benefits. They produce a bimonthly magazine ‘u3a Matter’ with information about other groups and activities. (Members who already belong to another U3A, i.e. Associate members, do not need to pay the capitation fee and will not receive a copy of u3a Matters through Southampton U3A.)

The fees include an emailed bi-monthly newsletter which informs you of what is happening in Southampton U3A.  If you require a printed copy of the newsletter, there is an additional charge of £20 for the year, which helps pay for printing and postage.

Our current full year fees are as follows:

Full (email newsletter)  £10.00

Full (printed newsletter) £30.00

Associate* (email newsletter) £6.00      

Associate* (printed newsletter) £26.00

*Please note that Associate membership is for people who also belong to another U3A and pay their capitation fee through that U3A. If you select Associate membership you will be asked to provide the name of the other U3A to which you belong.

Members who join between 1st April and 30th September pay the full membership fee which covers until 31st March of the following year.

Members who join between 1st October and 31st December in any year pay a reduced fee, which will give membership until 31st March of the following year. (Full with email newsletter £7, full with printed newsletter £17, associate with email newsletter £3, associate with printed newsletter £13.)

Members who join during January-March pay the full membership fee but will not be asked to renew until the following year, meaning that they get up to 3 free months membership.