After attempting to set up a Blender class for students at the collage I attend, and failing spectacularly. I am now considering opening to a wider audience.
Are there any people here who would be interested in a Blender user group/beginners class in Bristol, UK?
Well Iām in near Bridgend, above Cardiff. Thatās kiiinda close, but too far for me to go at the moment. Still itās an interesting idea. Are there any blender user groups in the uk at all?
Are there any blender user groups in the uk at all?
Not as far as I can tell.
Iām in cardiff and wouldnāt min meeting other blender users to swaps tips and info etc
One maby, anyone else?
Iām in the UK, Hull. I did the same thing at my college about 2 years ago and they loved it 
How did yours fail? was it lack of interest or what?
How did yours fail? was it lack of interest or what?
Mixture of lack of interest and lack of commitment. The first session had 3 attendees and went over the interface basics and messing around with cubes. The two following sessions were no-shows and session 4 they came, only to anounce that they were quitting, which was a bummer.
Anymore news on this?
Iām in the Newport area, and Iām interested in learning and sharing ideas/knowledge.
If nothing more, those interested, could do a meet at say a local community center once a month
and rotate it around the locations.
So one week it would be Bristol, next Cardiff, then Bridgend, etc etc.
Those having trouble to attend could car share, and again this would rotate as with the locations.
There may only be a few people involved initially, but this group could grow on a
āIf you build it, they will comeā basis. Get some cool projects to work on,
get it published online and locally maybe even enter the results into film festival/competition.
Just an idea. Flame accordingly 
Consider looking at this thread too - weāre trying to get a more general UK group going, possibly organising something. Take a look at the map too and add yourselves too, so we can see where blender users across the UK are.
Edit: Iām in Salisbury by the way.
Added to the map
We are in Bristol, me and my two sons.
Iām curious - are unis across the UK not making any effort to shift to Blender now? ie. after the release of 2.8?? It is, by all accounts, a game changer - do they not think so? How come?
The COST savings entailed will be massive, right? Hell, they could even shift to LINUX together with that and save even more!! 
Please call it Blender User Meetup. aka BUM.
I think most unis want to teach people software that is in use in the industrysā¦ equip them to be able to slide straight into a āprofesionalā rollā¦ im with you thoā¦ the savings alone make blender and Linux worth itā¦ i hate the idea of having to pay Adobe, Auto desk or Maxon money just to be creativeā¦
ā¦and what makes you think B is NOT in use in the industry? Havenāt you been READING elsewhere on the site, whatās going on??? 
Stuff like THIS, for example:
Which uni you at, bro?
Yeah I appreciate what is happening in the industry, and the direction it is heading inā¦ but it will take a while for blender to be the de facto 3d tool (cant wait till it is tho) and then it will take longer for the unis to catch up as they are always dragging their heels. its about what is industry standard and whats in use in most of the studiosā¦ its like not teaching the adobe suite to design sudentsā¦ as much as i dont want it to be the case it adobe is everywhere as is autodesk. Graduated while back at Coventry in GD not 3d. Have gravitated towards 3d through work.