Handmade bouquet fun at Tippetts Florist

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In the Christmas raffle, I was very lucky & won a voucher for £45 towards a floristry course at Tippetts florists in Oadby!

Last Saturday I joined a small group of ladies at Tippetts florists & we were taught how to create a hand tied bouquet!   The course was very informative, the tutors were friendly & helpful, we were given a great selection of flowers to work with & we all came away with a beautiful handmade bouquet! (All materials included in the price of the course).   I thoroughly enjoyed the day and picked up lots of new skills!

I would recommend Tippetts florists in Oadby if anyone is interested in a floristry course, it was very reasonably priced, the course content well thought out & the tutors were very knowledgeable. It was worth every penny!

Thank you WI, it was a great prize & I had a lovely day!     Emma Page, MHWI member

In touch with WIs in other countries

We are delighted to have made contact with WIs in Melbourne, Australia and Canada.  You can check out the Country Women’s Association  We hope to be exchanging gifts and keepsakes with them this summer and will be sharing these with you.  Donna, their Executive Director, is most impressed with our website and particularly likes our motto ‘Something old, something new.’

Our second contact has been with Shelagh, a nurse living in the middle of Canada in Winnipeg, Manitoba, a city with a population of about 750,000.  She has visited the UK and particularly liked Durham and the people.  Shelagh also said she had, ‘visited your website, and it appears that you have a lot going on these days!!’  

Do you have a contact with a WI or similar organisation elsewhere in the world?  If so, do get in touch with them and share our website, Facebook and Twitter pages or pass on the contact details to a Committee Member or Contact Us.  Let’s make this Centenary year the one where Market Harborough WI connects worldwide!

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Last chance for Top Tips and Recipes

WI Centenary logo eeD5k3OX_400x40031st May is your last chance to submit tips and recipes for our WI Centenary Top Tips booklet due out later this year.  Get emailing and send them to: marketharboroughwi@gmail.com

You can also hand them in to a Committee member at the May monthly meeting.

(copyright – your personal, favourite recipes, please!)

Still time for Top Tips and Recipes!

WI Centenary logo eeD5k3OX_400x400Apologies – 31st May is actually your last chance to submit tips and recipes for our WI Centenary Top Tips booklet due out later this year.  Get emailing and send them to: marketharboroughwi@gmail.com

You can also hand in hard copy to a Committee member at the April or May monthly meetings.

(copyright – your personal, favourite recipes, please!)

Prize winners – let us know how your skills raffle prize went

Last Wednesday saw our first ever skills raffle.  Members donated their time to do a whole host of things, including learning to knit or crochet, baking a cake, demonstrating decorating cup cakes, learning to play poker, babysitting, making bath bombs and bubbles and a car valet.

If you were a lucky winner (or even the skills person), then do send in a photo and a few words letting us know how it all went!  Email: marketharboroughwi@gmail.com