Peter, Systems Administrator at Furness u3a said: “I just want to pass on our compliments to you and the other volunteers who have worked on the Beacon help and on coordinating Beacon software developments. The help pages are really good.” Read more

I am a big fan of Beacon. We transferred over from a system where all our records were kept on spreadsheets to Beacon as I took over as Membership Secretary, so I have grown with it. Beacon makes keeping membership records very simple, it is easy to update and any changes made to members’ details… Read more

I have been using Beacon for just under a year, primarily to record membership and membership renewal payments for a u3a numbering over 1000 members. As a ‘non-technical’ person, I have found the system simple and straight-forward to use. I value the fact that I no longer have to hold a lot of personal data… Read more

We have been using Beacon for 2 ½ years now and it has made a huge difference to the work of the Membership Secretary. Before Beacon we had a spreadsheet for member’s details. When a new member joined we had to enter the same information several times into various documents, now the information only has… Read more

As the Membership Secretary for Fife u3a the Beacon database management system enables me to manage the full data structure for storing our members’ details, enabling me to access and amend the data stored at any time Compared to the traditional approaches of storing data in Excel sheets etc this system has a number of… Read more

Comprehensive package covering Membership and Financial issues. Reduces time required to keep records up to date. Eric Moffat Read more

For the last six years I have been a Group Leader of one interest group and closely involved with the organisation and administration of three others. Three of these groups have 20-30 members and one has over 70. I have been using Beacon very successfully for over two years. Instructions are straightforward and easy to… Read more

Compliment for Documentation Team “One thing that I forgot to mention is that the User Guide is excellent and answered all our queries, congratulations to the authors”. Colin, Tadley & District u3a Read more

Thetford u3a are now up and running with Beacon, the management system for members. We are processing advance renewals for next year and our Groups Coordinator is getting to grips with setting up the groups. It’s proving to be a really useful system and I am sure as we get even more familiar with it,… Read more

Dear Beacon Team, We u3a committee folk are by necessity reasonably resilient and adaptable. However, recently when our large u3a suddenly found itself without a Beacon Administrator or Deputy, it was clearly time to remind oneself ‘Don’t Panic’. So, behaving in the most responsibly way I knew, I contacted our Regional Trustee Barbara Cordina and… Read more