Changing your Beacon Administrator
If your U3A has changed its Beacon administrator there are two things you need to do. A new step by step video will guide you through the process.
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User and Training Guides now on Beacon Help Centre
The Beacon User Guide and the training guides have now moved to the Beacon Help Centre.
Membership fees post-crisis
Some U3As are spending less money during the crisis and are looking for how they can compensate their members. Beacon will support you once you have made your decision.
Using Beacon to keep in touch during the lockdown
This website asked U3As how Beacon was helping them during the lockdown. Read what Downe and Dunmow U3As told us.
New Beacon Help Centre
The Beacon team are pleased to announce the Beacon Help Centre. This uses a new helpdesk system with a greater capacity then the existing one and with more features. The new platform also provides a knowledge base and will become the new home for the Beacon training guides.
Beacon News 15 – March 2020
Beacon News 15 has been published. Click on the image to read it, or use the link below the image to subscribe.
Supporters See New Beacon
Beacon supporters from all over the country met in Birmingham to learn about Beacon Upgrade, to help plan the rollout and to see it in action.
West Lothian Becomes 400th Beacon User
West Lothian U3A became the 400th to benefit from Beacon. Meet their membership secretary, Helen Duffin, to hear how it went.
Improvements to Beacon’s Finance Module
February will bring significant improvements to the way Beacon handles ledgers, with renamed fields, improved sorting and better handling of credit batches.
Beacon News 14 – January 2020
Beacon News 14 has been published. Click on the image to read it, or use the link below the image to subscribe.