The membership period runs from 1st January to 31st December and for 2026 the membership subscription is £11 per member, i.e. joint memberships pay £22.
Your U3A membership is administered in a separate website known as Beacon. You can access that from this page via this link: Beacon Members’ Portal.
Tip: While in Beacon: you can update your U3A membership contact details; e.g. telephone number or e-mail address.
Also, providing your annual subscription is due (after the 1st January each year): you can renew through the portal and make payment using a debit/credit card, or your PayPal account, if you have one. This is safe & secure – it also reduces administration and speeds up the whole process compared to all other methods. The details required were shown in your renewal invitation e-mail, this was sent on New Years’ day.
If you are unfamiliar making on-line payments, please refer to this document showing the screens to expect and explaining how to use them. Online Renewal Guide in particular, this demonstrates that you CAN renew online WITHOUT a PayPal account – and without having to create one.
Please use this link to enter our Beacon Members’ Portal and refer to your renewal e-mail for the necessary information, check your spam/junk mail folder if you haven’t seen it yet – it was sent about 07:39 on 01/01/2026.
Paying cheques into our account now incurs a charge, the minimum is 80p/cheque if we deposit it. The charges we have to pay are higher still if you deposit the cheque at a Post Office or Bank counter, so please get them to us (see Meeting or Postal sections below).
Paying into our account by bank transfer remains free and so, if you normally pay by cheque, can we ask you to consider changing to pay by bank transfer in future. This would help us to keep costs – and the membership fee – down.
Renew at Monthly Meeting
Renewal is also possible in person at our January or February Monthly Meetings, ideally paying with a debit/credit card.
Alternatively a cheque*, but not cash, will be accepted.
Postal renewal
You may also renew by posting a cheque for £11 made out to Windsor & District U3A sent to the following address;
Membership Secretary, Windsor & District U3A, Box 165, 24 – 28 St Leonards Road, Windsor, SL4 3BB
* Please use a BLACK pen and write your Membership number on the back of the cheque, this can be found in your renewal invitation.
Joint members may post a single cheque for £22, with both membership numbers written on the back.