Please Note: Online viewing and enrolment is now available for all 2025 Term 1 courses/activities using the button above or the Classes menu option.
Members should see their printed Course Book for tutor contact details. Non-members can contact the U3A office for tutor contact details.
Please note that some classes require you to contact the tutor prior to enrolling in them.

News

 
  • All Courses/Activities for 2025 Term 2 are now available for viewing and enrolling online. To view and enrol in these classes, either log in to your Member Portal or click/tap on the CLASSES option in the main menu or click/tap on the green button “View Available Courses/Activities”.
  • There are eight new Courses/Activities starting in Term 2. Click here for details. For more information and to enrol in these, follow the steps in the first point above.
  • View the 2025 Term 2 Newsletter here. It includes details of new Term 2 courses/activities and changes to classes continuing from Term 1.
  • Term 1 finishes on Friday 4th April 2025 and our office will be closed for a three week break after that. Term 2 starts and the office reopens on Monday 28th April.
  • 2025 Memberships now open. Join as a new member or renew your existing membership by clicking/tapping on the appropriate green button on this page.
  • There is now a total of 142 Courses/Activities being offered in 2025 in a wide range of fields. To view and enrol in these classes, click/tap on the CLASSES option in the main menu or click/tap on the green button “View Available Courses/Activities”.

 

U3A is the University of the Third Age, which is the age of active retirement, coming after the ages of youth and working life.

University is taken in its original meaning a “community of teachers and scholars” – there are no academic requirements for membership and no exams!

U3A is a worldwide organization for retired or semi-retired persons. U3A courses/activities cover interests such as Sport, Family History, Exercise, Philosophy, Photography, The Arts, Language, Technology, Lunch Groups, Travel, Dance, Geology, History, Health, Music, Craft and Writing. U3A requires no prior learning.

About Us

U3A in Toowoomba Inc. is one of many similar U3A organizations in Australia. Formed in 1990 we provide educational and leisure courses/activities to seniors.

We have over 2000 members and we offer 140 courses each week; all of these at a low cost.

U3A in Toowoomba Inc. is a member of the Association of International Universities of the Third Age (AIUTA), and a member of U3A Network Qld Inc. 

Management and tutors are volunteers.  

Many classes are held at 7 Matthews Street, Toowoomba. All Members are welcome to join classes in Toowoomba, Crows Nest and Pittsworth depending on vacancies.

We look forward to welcoming you to Toowoomba U3A

Our motto is

'NEW INTERESTS - NEW FRIENDS'.

The office of U3A in Toowoomba Inc.
Located in the Philharmonic Performance Complex,
7 Matthews Street, Harristown.
PO Box, 404 Drayton North.  4350

You have elected to register as a New Member of U3A Toowoomba. If you proceed with this task, you will be asked to enter your personal and contact details and agree to our terms and conditions. An invoice for New Membership will then be generated and emailed to you for payment. It is important to specify an email address in your contact details as most of our communication with members is via email.

If you have been a member of U3A Toowoomba in the past, you can click/tap on the “Existing Member Renewal” button to renew your membership and update your contact and other details. An invoice for membership renewal will be emailed to you for payment.

Cost of new membership is $65 for the first full year or $35 if joining on or after July 1. After the first year, membership renewal is $55 per year.

If you cannot pay online, you can call our office on (07) 4687 7659 or visit us at 7 Matthews Street, Harristown.

If you are only wishing to browse through our list of courses and activities, there is no need to register as a new member at this stage. Simply click/tap on the CLASSES option in our main menu or click/tap on the green “View Available Courses/Activities” button on this page.

If you wish to proceed with registration, click/tap on the following link, otherwise click/tap on the cross in the upper right corner to exit this screen.

Proceed with Registration

Becoming a U3A Tutor

If you have knowledge and skills that you would like to share with groups of interested people, consider becoming a tutor with U3A in Toowoomba. Our U3A currently has around 120 tutors taking approximately 150 classes in a diverse range of courses/activities including all sorts of academic classes on subjects like history, languages, technology, philosophy, art, finance, literature and many more, as well as many sporting and social activities, exercises, walking groups, card games, lunch and movie groups and so on.

As many of our classes are often fully booked, we are always on the lookout for new courses or activities to meet the needs of our growing member base.

Don’t let the term Tutor discourage you. You don’t need any special teaching skills, just the ability to communicate your knowledge or ideas to others. In many classes, depending on the activity, you simply need to be able to lead or facilitate that activity.

Being a tutor at U3A can be immensely rewarding as it allows you to share knowledge and skills that you have accumulated throughout your life so far, in a convivial environment with people who have similar interests.

So, if you have an idea for a course or activity that you think would be of interest to our members, or if you simply want to learn more about becoming a tutor, please contact our Tutor Liaison Officer by email at tutorliaison@u3atoowoomba.au