Fake Cake Bake tonight

WI Centenary logo eeD5k3OX_400x400Join us this evening for a fun evening baking fake cakes for our carnival float in June.  You can join in as you wish: help bake fake cakes, help set the float on the day, be on the float or be a follower.  A fantastic, one off opportunity and we’d love your help, whatever you can give.  Time 7.30 pm.  Call 07547 890 756 for venue details.

WI Centenary Craft Fair at the Harrogate International Centre

WI Centenary logo eeD5k3OX_400x400Saturday or Sunday 5 and 6 September 2014 – proposed coach trip to the first ever WI Centenary Craft Fair at the Harrogate International Centre. The fair offers four fantastic days of craft, creativity, shopping, education and fun for everyone – members and non-members alike.  Sign up sheet available at March meeting onwards.  Prompt response needed, please, so we can book tickets and the coach.

Last chance to get your tickets for the Mikron Theatre – ‘Raising Agents’

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Friday 22nd May at 7.30pm. Congregational Hall, Bowden Lane, Market Harborough, LE16 7JD – buy your ticket now!

We are delighted to announce that the Mikron Touring Theatre will be in Market Harborough in May with their specially written play to celebrate 100 years’ of WI.

Bunnington WI is a bit down-at-heel. Dwindling membership means they can barely afford the hall, let alone a decent speaker. So when a PR guru becomes a member, the women are glad of new blood. Initially.

The milk of WI kindness begins to sour when she re-brands them the Bunnington Bunnies. They’re hopping. With stakes higher than a five tiered cake stand, a battle ensues for the very soul of Bunnington, perhaps the WI itself!

On the threshold of one century into the next, this tale of hobbyists and lobbyists asks how much we should know our past or how much we should let go of it.

Above all else, like the WI itself, Raising Agents is a story of friendship.

 

Friday 22nd May at 7.30pm. Congregational Hall, Bowden Lane, Market Harborough, LE16 7JD . Full £12, £10 conc. For tickets please email  marketharboroughwi@gmail.com.  Tea & Coffee/BYOB

Items urgently needed for the Carnival float

  • Bath sponges
  • Car sponges
  • Foam sheets
  • Polystyrene large bits for carving into shapes
  • Cardboard
  • Poster paint

Needed urgently for making model cakes for the carnival float.  Bring them along to the next meeting on 22 April.  If you can’t make the meeting and are able to donate any of the above items, then email marketharboroughwi@gmail.com or call 07547 890 756.

We also need more volunteers, to help make items for the float, decorate it on the day and support as walkers during the procession.  You can help with lots of things or just come along for a fun making craft night.   We need commitment to join in….we don’t want to cancel!!

Purchasing your copy of The WI: A Centenary History

WI Centenary logo eeD5k3OX_400x400Mavis Curtis’ book, The WI: A Centenary History, has studied the suffragists who made the WI one of the most important movements for women in the 20th century.  Clare Farquhar, our President, will be purchasing copies of this Centenary book via Market Harborough WI.  Name and payment to Clare by the April meeting, please.   In the meantime, do check out the link above to lots of fascinating pictures in a March issue of the ‘Daily Mail.’

Jamtastic! Your help is needed, too

carnival apr 15-w500-h500Our first carnival craft night was “jamtastic”!  Not the traditional WI jam making technique, but the wallpaper paste gave just the right consistency!!

Annabel and Gemma had great fun experimenting to get just the right colours.  We have damson, raspberry and apricot (which has some lumps in  it which looks very authentic!).

Victoria, Janice and Linda snipped and fixed the lids.  Thanks to Linda for supplying such lovely fabric.

Patsy and I have been looking through our list of needs and ladies that would like to join in the carnival fun.  Our next craft night will be cake making.  We need bath and car sponges,  blocks of polystyrene, sheets of foam, anything we can shape and turn into a variety of gateaux!!  All donations gratefully received.  If you would like to join in this evening a date will be announced at the next meeting.

We are still looking for volunteers to help us out on carnival day June 13th.  Please sign up, we are having so much fun, but we do need more people!! So please let email marketharboroughwi@gmail.com if you want to join in or have materials to donate.