The Ukulele group continues to meet every week on a Tuesday at the 'Inn on The Green' pub in Radbrook, for a lively strumming and singing session, which normally lasts for two hours.

We have built up a varied song collection and take it in turns to choose and introduce a song from the Shrewsbury U3A Song Book, to ensure that we all get a chance to play our favourite tunes and songs.

Over the last year, we have played to a range of audiences, including residential homes, day centres and community clubs throughout the district.

We have a great deal of fun playing and singing and it's a bonus to be able to share some of this with other people. We also enjoy meals out together and the occasional theatre trip.

At present we have 35 members on our books and can cater for around 35 people, therefore, currently there is little scope to accept additional members wishing to join the group. However, we welcome all enquiries from new members and treat all applications to join on a case by case basis. We can also offer help to anyone who wants to learn to play the ukulele. We can even provide the loan of a Ukulele, for anyone without an instrument.

There is a charge of £1 per session which includes a cup of tea or coffee and a biscuit.

We have built up a wide-ranging repertoire of songs old and new(ish). We try to perform each one better every time and we have a lot of FUN. The ukulele is designed to be as easy as possible to play - absolute beginners can master their first two chords and be strumming along with the rest of us in twenty minutes. We were all beginners not so long ago.

No ability to read music is needed although it does help if you know (or, with a little prompting, can remember) the tunes of popular songs of the 20th century. You bring the ukulele, we provide the song sheets. Lots of song sheets!