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What is Beacon?

Beacon provides Halesowen u3a with a secure, integrated, efficient and effective means for managing day-to-day business functions, Members, Groups and Finances, dealing with our administrative needs in one place.

Membership

Beacon provides a comprehensive set of tools for handling all aspects of your membership: maintaining your details, your payments and renewals, address changes, membership cards and communications.

Accurate information about our members is important for all these reasons, and Beacon behind the scenes connects Members details with the Groups they belong to, and their Memberships fees, so we can manage Halesowen u3a well.

Groups

Our 30 or so Groups are at the heart of a u3a, and Beacon provides our group leaders with the management facilities they require to run their groups, easy communication by email with members of groups, and with our group leaders.

Beacon also manages all our meeting dates, times and venues, and this website allows you to see that information yourself, quite handy if you put a link to it on your smartphone, as the most up to date timetable is always there for you.

Our aim is to get more Group Leaders managing their own lists of group members and calendar of their own group meetings online.

Finances

Financial management is based on a secure, simple transaction approach. Every transaction can be assigned to individuals, groups and categories, and the system provides tools for reconciliation with bank accounts and regular reporting.

This is the domain of our Treasurer, who understands these things.

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FOR OUR GROUP LEADERS, TRIP ORGANISERS and others with specific responsibilities...

Beacon Live System Login (you will need to be given a LOGIN and PASSWORD to be able to use this)

Access to our live Halesowen u3a Beacon site is provided for administrators/ group leaders and others needing it, via an individual login which will be allocated.

For advice/requests regarding contact BEACON