U3A is an international movement which has been operating in Australia since 1984. It provides learning and social opportunities for people in their ‘Third Age’, the post-retirement stage of life when they have time to widen their horizons.
City U3A focuses on the City of Sydney local government area, with the following aims:
- to provide intellectually stimulating programs of learning for mature age people in partial or complete retirement;
- to deliver those programs of learning by means of a voluntary, self-help community in which all members enjoy equal status;
- to foster stimulating social contacts between members; and
- to improve the quality of life of members and to demonstrate that intellectual capacity can be maintained well into the "third age".
