Programme 2024 -25

All meetings are held in the WI hall unless otherwise stated on the third Wednesday of the month at 2pm. Visitors interested in joining the WI are very welcome. Just come along to the meeting or if you’d like to chat about it first please contact Hilary (07813 152425) or Sheila (01252 409868).

21 February 2024, 2pm
Speaker: Nick Brazil
Topic: Slovenia- the Balkans beautiful northern secret

18 March 2024, 2pm
AGM

17 April 2024, 2pm
Speaker: Dr Lindsay Browning
Topic: Sleep and Wellbeing

15 May 2024, 2pm
Speaker: Jennipher Marshall Jenkinson, a leading authority on microwave cooking, author of several books on the subject and Chairman of the Microwave Technologies Association since 2003.
Topic: Microwave cooking

19 June 2024, 2pm
Speaker: Frances Carlow ‘The Pearl Lady’
Topic: Pearl and the Art Deco

17 July 2024, 2pm
Speaker: Tom Way, wildlife photographer
Topic: Wildlife on your doorstep

There is no meeting in August but an informal event will probably be organised

18 September 2024, 2pm
Speaker: Jennifer Cowling
Topic: The extraordinary things we say: a light-hearted look at English ‘figures of speech’

16 October 2024, 2pm
Musical Entertainment with : Amanda Shora
Topic: Folk songs and Ballads

20 November 2024, 2pm
Speaker: Graham Horn
Topic: A long walk — the MacMillan way

December 2024
Christmas Lunch (local pub, venue to be decided)

18 December 2024 2pm
Entertainment with Robin Maddy
Magic Show with interaction

17 January 2025, 2pm
Speaker: Ailsa Claybourn
Topic: Six hundred years of the English Landscape in English Poetry: how literature reflects historical attitudes to nature

21 February 2025, 2pm
Speaker: Jane Fletcher
Topic: Craft from home possessions

19 March 2025, 2pm
AGM

16 April 2025, 2pm
Speaker: Emily DelaHaye
Topic: How accupuncture works

21 May 2025, 2pm
Speaker: Marion Scott-Baker
Topic: All about kimonos