HGS U3A Monthly Talks

Our monthly talks are held at the HGS Free Church, North Square, London NW11 7AG. Doors open at 14:30, and the talk begins promptly at 15:00, concluding at 16:00. The venue is fully accessible, with disabled toilet facilities available. We look forward to welcoming you.

Group Activities

For information about regular group activities, please see the A-Z list of groups and groups listed by day.

  • AGM & Monthly Talk: Food and Nutrition to Optimise Healthy Ageing

    HGS Free Church North Square, London

    Please join us for our Annual General Meeting followed by an engaging, down-to-earth talk, designed especially for an older audience. The formal notification, with the agenda, and resolutions to be voted on can be downloaded here. You must be a current member of HGS u3a to attend the AGM. Please register your intention to attend

  • Monthly Talk: The Magic of Entertainment: Fun, Wonder and Surprise

    HGS Free Church North Square, London

    Discover the enduring appeal of magic as a performing art in this lively and entertaining talk. Explore how magic has captivated audiences through the ages, remains popular in modern entertainment, and can also support learning, therapy and personal development. Expect insight, enjoyment and a little wonder along the way. Harold Straker is an award-winning magician

  • New Members Tea

    HGS Free Church North Square, London

    Please join us for our New Members Tea at the HGS Free Church in North Square, a friendly gathering to meet fellow members and chat to organisers and find out more about u3a events and activities. You are welcome to come even if you are not a new member.

  • Monthly Talk: How Artists Change Art History

    HGS Free Church North Square, London

    This engaging talk by Estelle Lovatt unlocks the ideas and creative methods behind some of the world’s greatest artworks. The talk explores how master artists reshaped art history—period after period, “ism” after “ism”—from the Renaissance to Contemporary Art. Expect Leonardo, Rembrandt, Manet, Picasso, Rothko and Tracey Emin, among others. It also looks at headline-grabbing modern

  • Monthly Talk: Artificial Intelligence: Your Free, Expert Digital Assistant

    HGS Free Church North Square, London

    Already in your life — and easier to use than you think AI is already reshaping your world — and you've been using it longer than you think. Now, free tools like ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini put extraordinary capability at your fingertips: planning holidays, solving household technical problems, for some, even optimising your energy bills.

  • Monthly Talk: Whatever Happened to Our Language?

    HGS Free Church North Square, London

    Clichés, platitudes, absence of meaning and poor delivery in today’s spoken communication Why is it that those involved in public speaking, particularly those whose job it is to present programmes on radio and television, as well as those taking part, tend to fall into patterns of largely meaningless language? The talk looks at these patterns,