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WI: Inspiring Women
06/03/23
CLEEVE-BY -GORING AT our February meeting, we had a very interesting talk from Carol Mackay who heads up the six-strong emergency planning team at Oxfordshire County Council. The department co-ordinates the response of all the emergency services and ...
WI Roundup
08/11/21
CLEEVE-BY-GORING OUR second meeting since we restarted face-to-face meetings was on October 13 and featured an interesting talk on the River Thames and its history in this area from Peter Halam. It was a most enjoyable talk, with many amusing and ...
WI celebrate meeting with a royal theme
13/06/22
A TEA party was held and a post box was decorated by Sonning Common Women’s Institute. On Wednesday, June 1 the WI branch held its monthly coffee morning at the village hall in Wood Lane with a royal theme. Guests dressed in red, white and blue ...
Around The Women's Institutes
14/08/23
BENSON THE July meeting took the form of our annual summer garden party. The weather just held for us and we managed to enjoy some lovely cakes and sandwiches accompanied by a glass of bubbly before the rain arrived. Lots of chat followed our ...
Around The Women's Institute
10/04/23
BENSON THE March meeting was also our annual meeting, which ended our 96th year. Members reminisced on the year, renewed their subscriptions and re-elected their president and members of the committee. Following the business, the president ...
11/01/21
BENSON DURING December, as we prepared for Christmas, members were, sadly, not able to meet up as planned for a pre-Christmas drink and a mince pie, so it was correspondence via a newsletter and Christmas card only. Also, on a very sad ...
Benson WI
07/11/16
OUR president Yvonne welcomed members and visitors to our October meeting. She discussed business, including forthcoming Christmas events, Kew Gardens at Christmas, Christmas Songs and Winchester Cathedral and Christmas market. Then ...
08/03/21
BENSON IN March, Benson WI comes to the end of its formal year and moves into its 95th year. Members will be renewing subscriptions and electing their committee. Our president for the last three years is standing down this time, so ...
WI Roundup...
08/06/20
BENSON AS May has come to an end and June begins, our members and the wider community here in Benson will hope for an ease in the lockdown rules and an opportunity to see families and friends once again. Most of our members have ...
11/05/20
GREYS GREYS Women’s Institute is 100 years old this year, The WI was founded in Canada in 1897 at a time when women had very few rights, politically, socially, educationally or financially. It created a monthly meeting space ...
18/05/20
BENSON WI’s April meeting was, as with all other WI events, cancelled and our speaker, Julia Miles, postponed for another time. We should have been hearing about her life as a diplomat’s wife for many years in her talk, ...
Hambleden WI
25/05/20
IT does not seem long since early March when we on the WI committee were discussing a wide variety of events for all members to enjoy during 2020. Sadly, the March Hambleden WI meeting was to be the last before ...
12/10/20
BENSON ALL is still very quiet within the WI at Benson. It is hoped that we will return to our formal meetings in December but current guidelines from both the Government and our National Federation make this ...
Around the WI
11/09/17
BENSON THE meeting at the parish hall on September 20 will be open to all. Anyone who would like to hear Stewart Linford recount “The remarkable story of The Windsor chair” can attend. Entry for non-members ...
09/10/17
BENSON WE gathered on September 20 for an open meeting where our president welcomed 17 members and 14 visitors, including local friends and a few WI members from Berinsfield and Clifton Hampden. With the ...
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