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Open Day at Lancaster Tennis Club
Free Tennis and Pickleball Open Day. Sunday, 19 April 10am - 12 noon. All standards are catered for including beginners or people who haven’t played since school. And there will also be a chance to try the fast-growing game of Pickleball. No prior registration is needed – just turn up – and we can provide balls and racquets.
There will be a chance to meet our Cartmell Academy coaching team as well as friendly Club members. We offer adult coaching for beginners and intermediate players.
The Open Day will provide a great chance to try out the Club’s astro turf courts, find out more about the Club and our social tennis sessions, teams and matches. And see what makes Pickleball so popular. Click here for more details.
Friends of Carnforth Library
Friends of Carnforth Library are holding their Annual Book & Jigsaw Sale on Thursday, 16 April 2026.
See the linked flyer for full details: Book & Jigsaw Sale
Festival of Bowland events 2026
Full details of the 2026 Festival Bowland events programme are available on the Forest of Bowland National Landscape website. New events that may be of interest are being added regularly.
University Research Volunteers
We have very good links with the Psychology Department at Lancaster University. Throughout the year, there are opportunities to take part in research taking place in their labs which may be of interest and relevance to members of our u3a. In return, PhD students come and talk to us about their findings.
Details of the current research volunteer projects are on this page. If you want to take part in any of these research projects, please contact the relevant researcher whose email is attached to each item.
Lancashire Place Name Survey is seeking volunteers
The Lancashire Place Name Survey was founded in 2000 with the aim of collecting and publishing the major and minor place names of pre-1974 Lancashire, including those areas now in Cumbria, Greater Manchester, and Merseyside.
We explore all Lancashire place names - from single fields, streams, and hills to hamlets, villages, and towns. We study their origins, and record changing spellings from the earliest written manuscripts to the present day.
We are seeking new volunteers to help with the project: collecting names from archive catalogues, original documents, maps, and printed sources. If you would like to learn more, please see our website www.lancspns.weebly.com or contact Nigel Neil .
LESS is seeking new Directors
LESS is a not-for-profit Community Interest Company.
It has been working in Lancaster District since 2007 to support more sustainable living. LESS currently holds the coordination function for the Food Futures network and has supported the set up of other strategic local food projects such as Gather, The Plot, Where The Wildings Are! and the Closing Loops project
It organises the quarterly seasonal markets in Lancaster too and publishes the Thrive magazine. It has recently purchased a community farm in Lancaster with support from the UK Shared Prosperity Fund and this will be developed to include food production, community building, education and training.
LESS is looking for a couple of new Directors to join the organisation. The roles are voluntary and we welcome people who are passionate about local food systems, creative local solutions to global challenges and/or have skills/experience in Finance, HR, Equalities, Diversity & Inclusion, Safeguarding and Health & Safety. If you are looking to be involved in making Lancaster a more sustainable place to live, this is an opportunity for you!
More information is available at https://lessuk.org/less-is-seeking-new-directors-copy/
Part-Time Adult Learning Courses
Lancaster and Morecambe College has a variety of part-time Adult Learning Courses that may be of interest to members.
Some are free, others have a small fee of around £4.
To look at what’s available in the coming months, click on the website on the link below and look at the index A-Z.
https://www.lmc.ac.uk/part-time
u3a Learn to Live Report
A new report, titled Learn to Live: A blueprint for better health and wellbeing, has been published. This report sheds light on the value of a low-cost, non-formal learning model for better health and wellbeing, and for healthy and active ageing.
Non-formal learning, unlike formal learning, happens outside organised education. It is a mutual experience with no strict hierarchies - everyone shares their skills and learns from each other. There are no qualifications as continued learning is its own reward. The u3a is arguably one of the biggest and most successful examples of non-formal learning in the world.
Now, a report published by u3a suggests that non-formal learning can help tackle loneliness, encourage social connection, and even improve the health of participants and wider communities. The u3a model embodies the five ways to promote wellbeing - connecting, being active, taking notice, continuing to learn, and giving. It also tackles ageist attitudes and stereotypes. u3a members are active participants in society who continue to learn and give back to their communities. To read the report, click here: Learn to Live Report
Free IT Help in Local Libraries
Did you know our library service run FREE sessions to help people get the best out of their phones, tablets and laptops?
Take along your phone, laptop or tablet and the staff and volunteers will help you. You can use the library desktop if you prefer and there is free wifi in all our libraries. Complete Beginners are welcome as well.
- Bolton le Sands: Thursday 10-11am * booking required
- Carnforth : Thursday 2-3pm
- Heysham : Friday 10-12 noon
- Lancaster : Thursday 2-4pm
- Morecambe : Friday from 10am. Sessions supported by Lancaster and Morecambe College staff but will be temporarily suspended during the summer months; please ring for information.
- Silverdale : Thursday 2-3pm
For bookings and more information, ring 0300 1236703 or visiting Lancashire Libraries
Can you help at these sessions? Halton Library is looking for a volunteer to run their computer help sessions, if anyone is interested , please follow this link : Halton Library Digital Champion
Local Arts and Talks
In and within easy reach of our local area we have:
Talks and other local events
Lancaster University Public Lectures
Lancashire Libraries online services
Members of Lancashire County Libraries can obtain online access to read a wide range of newspapers and magazines, as well as ebooks and audio books. Virtually all daily newspapers are available and many of the magazines that you might see in the shops. The choice includes foreign newspapers and magazines which can be translated by the website. You can have a look at on the Lancashire Libraries Digital Library page
