| Status: | Active, full but can join waiting list |
| Convenor: | |
| When: | 10:00 am When required |
| Venue: | As arranged/no fixed venue |
Start times are chosen for each activity and may not be 10.00am.
To contact the Convenor, please use the Enquiry link at the top of this page. Non-members should contact the Groups Advisers for more information.
The pictures in the gallery above show a few of the adventures that we have had in past years. The Past Adventures section gives full lists of all our activities.
ABOUT US
"If you never did you should.
These things are fun and fun is good."
(from One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish by Dr Seuss)
What have you always wanted to do and were perhaps afraid to try, or not had time or the opportunity to "give it a go"? Well, with our group you may get your chance. You may not be able to do every activity for good reason. For example you might not like heights, be claustrophobic or can't participate for medical reasons but don't let that put you off joining in. You can pick the activities that you fancy and for others you might like to come along and encourage those participating. If you look at our bucket list below you will see that it already contains a very wide and varied range from scary adventures to more gentle events. The pictures above mostly show the more adventurous and photogenic events, but we shall try to achieve a balanced programme in which there is something for everyone.
We are aiming to do at least one adventure a month. The actual dates will be determined by the organisers who will be trying to find the most suitable ones. Adventures will be indoors and outdoors and will continue all year.
BUCKET LIST
Our bucket list gives a list of all the things that we have done and those that we may like to do. Those already done are shown in bold. Adventures will be repeated so don't worry that you won't be able to do something just because it has already been done. We welcome suggestions for additional adventures to add to the list.
PLACES, EVENTS
Amazon Fulfilment Centre | Archaelogical dig | Avonmouth Port Tour | Backstage Theatre Tour | Banksy Tour | Bath Abbey | BBC Studios | Bizarre Bath Walk | Bristol History Tour | Bristol Obscura | Brewery | Clifton Vaults | Coal mine | Concorde | Exeter Underground Passages | Exmoor Wildlife Safari | Ghost Hunting | Gin Distillery | Haunted house | History Walk in Bath | Houses of Parliament | Laurie Lee walk | London duck tour | Mines at Combe Down or Radstock | Morgan Car Factory | Overnight in a museum | Overnight on a train | Portsmouth Dockyard | RSPB West Sedgemoor | Salisbury cathedral tower and mason's yard | Severn bore | Sheep Dog Demo. | Shepton Mallet Prison | Star Gazing | Starling murmuration | Sunrise at Glastonbury Tor | Sunrise at Stonehenge | Tour of Mini factory | Tower bridge | Train up Snowdon | Treasure hunt | Vineyard | Walking behind waterfall | Wells Cathedral High Parts | Westonbirt treetop walk | West S'set Railway |
HEIGHTS, DEPTHS, CLIMBING
Abseiling | ArcelorMittal Orbit | Canyoning | Caving | Climbing wall | Exploring sewers | Glacier slide | High ropes | Over the O2 arena | Pen y Fan | Rock Climbing | Roman baths tunnels | Severn bridge | Ship Rigging Climb | Transporter Bridge | Zipwire |
SKILLS, SPORTS, GAMES
Archery | Assault Course | Axe and Knife throwing | Bowls | Bushcraft | Circus skills | Clay modelling | Clay pigeon shooting | Conker Tournament | Crazy Golf | Croquet | Curling | Drumming | Dry slope skiing(Skiplex) | Dry stone walling | Duck herding | Escape locked room | Falconry | Fire walking | First Aid | Flight simulator | Footgolf | Foraging | Fossil Hunting | Geocaching | Glass blowing | Glass walking | Golf simulator | Greyhound racing | Hand Bell ringing | Horse racing | Ice skating | Kite flying | Laser tag | Martial arts | Natural navigation | Navigation and Hill Skills | Nordic Walking | Orienteering | Padel tennis | Petanque | Pickleball | Pole dancing | Quiz | Raft building | Roller skating | Self defence | Shooting Simulator | Skittles | Splasherist | Stained Glass | Tai Chi | Ten pin bowling | Virtual Reality Experience | Walking football | Willow basket making
IN THE AIR
Balloon flight | Glider flight | Indoor skydiving | Microlight | Parascending | Tandem hang gliding | Tandem parachute jumping
RIDING, DRIVING
Alpaca trekking | Dirt Buggy Racing | Blokarting | Camel trekking | Gokarting | Hovercrafting | Ice karting | Off-road driving | Off-road electric scooters | Pony trekking | Quad biking | Riding a unicycle | Segway | Skid pan | Rally Driving | Tank driving | Zorbing
ON WATER
Body boarding | Canoeing | Coasteering | Coracle racing | Dinghy sailing | Dragon boat paddling | James Bond boat trip | Jet skiing | Kayaking | Paddle boarding | Power boating | RIB ride | River boat trip | Scuba diving | Surfing | Water skiing | Waverley paddle steamer | White water rafting | Wild swimming | Windsurfing | Yacht day cruise
Clifton Suspension Bridge Vaults and Observatory 21st May
Cotswold Water Park 17th June water skiing, wake boarding, paddle boarding, canoeing
Walking Cricket 7th Jul
Bath Theatre Royal Backstage Tour 3rd Oct, 4th Nov
To enjoy the activities that we organise you need to be a member of the Active Adventurers group. Any member of U3A in Bath can join by paying a one-off joining fee of £10. The joining fee is necessary because to secure a booking we may have to pay a deposit in advance and at short notice and we need to have funds readily available to be able to do this.
The joining fee and payments for activities go into an Active Adventurers bank account that is monitored by a Treasurer of U3A in Bath and audited annually by an independent professional auditor along with all other U3A in Bath accounts. The bank requires outgoing payments to be approved by two members of our organising team. The names and pictures of our organising team are shown below.
As a member of the Active Adventurers group you will get full details of each forthcoming activity by email in addition to the brief details given on these web pages. For those not on line, we send the details out by post, in which case we ask for a supply of stamped addressed envelopes so that we can do this.
Occasionally we may need to make up a minimum number for a particular activity. If we cannot reach this number with our Active Adventurers group members, we may then open the activity to other U3A members. However, this will only be done after Active Adventurer members have had a chance to book and we have failed to reach the requisite minimum number.
You can click on anything shown in blue to view it.
ACTIVITIES DONE IN 2026
Go Karting 22nd Jan
Social Event with Games 11th Feb Report
Rally Driving Experience 19th Mar Report
Indoor Climbing Wall 24th Mar Pictures
A Natural Navigation Walk 27th Apr
Clifton Suspension Bridge Vaults and Observatory 21st May Report Pictures
ACTIVITIES DONE IN 2025
St.Nicholas Market and Air Raid Shelter Tour Jan Report with pictures
Shooting Simulator at Wadswick Feb There is a picture in the gallery above of the same event done in 2021.
Tour of the Houses of Parliament Feb Report
Tour of BBC Studios at Cardiff Mar Report with pictures
Splasherist Apr Pictures
BA737 Flight Simulator Apr Report with pictures
Orienteering May Report
Paddleboarding June Batheaston Report with pictures
Congo Falls Crazy Golf July Report with pictures
Electric Scooter Adventure July Charleton Park, Malmesbury. Report with pictures
Nordic Walking Sept Report with pictures
Natural Navigation Oct Report with pictures
Tai Chi Qi Gong Nov Report with pictures
Creating with Clay Nov Report with pictures
Skittles Nov
Skittles Dec
ACTIVITIES DONE IN 2024
Ten Pin Bowling Jan
Wallace and Gromit Escape Room Feb
Virtual Reality Event Mar
Archery Apr
Indoor Sky Diving May
Crazy Golf June
Dragon Boat Paddling July
Treasure Hunt Sept
Salisbury Cathedral Tower and Stone Mason's Yard Oct Pictures
Skid Pan Driving Nov Report
Drumming Nov Report with Pictures Video 1 Video 2
Pickleball, Bath Leisure Centre Dec Report with Pictures
ACTIVITIES DONE IN 2023
Boom battle bar January
Social coffee morning February
Nordic walking March
Go Ape in the Forest of Dean April
First Aid Course May
A Cruise on the Waverley Paddle Steamer June
White Water Rafting and Zip Wire in Snowdonia June Report
Wild Swimming in a River June
Yacht Charter on the Solent July
Boats and Balloons August
A boat trip through the Avon Gorge followed by a meal in Clifton while watching balloons from the balloon festival drift by.
Bushcraft August Report
Tour of Clifton Suspension Bridge September Report
Gliding July & Sept Report Video
Orienteering October Report
Tai Chi November
Kite Flying December
ACTIVITIES DONE IN 2022
Treasure hunt in Bath March
Go karting March
First aid course March
Surfing April
Microlight flight June and July
Banksy tour June
Abseiling September
Flight simulator October
Try Dive October
Exeter tunnels November
House of Frankenstein Escape Room November
Ten pin bowling December
ACTIVITIES DONE BEFORE 2022
Videos
Ice Karting January 2016
Hand Bell Ringing June 2019
Reports with pictures
Click the link below for the required year. In most browsers a PDF file for the stated year will open in a new tab or window. It will open showing an index page with pictures and titles of the activities done in that year. The blue links within each PDF year file take you between the index page and the individual activity reports. The blue links at the top of each activity report take you back to the index page.