As part of the Centenary year, Buckingham Palace is hosting a garden party, led by the Duchess of Cornwall. Each WI in the country has a ticket for a member. If you wish to put your name down for the Market Harborough WI ballot to be our representative at this once in a lifetime. There is help with the costs and transport is from WI house in Leicester.
A list was passed round at February’s meeting but if you missed this, then quickly get in touch with us: Contact Us or call 07547 890 756.
The Railway Arms at Kibworth Harcourt (6 Station Street, LE8 0LN) is the venue for the next skittles evening, starting at 7 pm on Wednesday 11 March 2015. Optional pub meal, approx. £5/£6, payable on the day. Hope to see you there. Names urgently to: Contact Us.
Sue Drage amazed members this week with her vast range of items made from recycled items. It was ingenious what could be made from items such as old bottles, plastic bags, drinks cans, sweet wrappers, magazines, old t shirts, paper clips, CDs, egg boxes and ties.
Sue has developed these crafty skills in recent years, making items for her own use, others to sell and has also been asked to go into schools to work with children. She even knits using old plastic carrier bags as ‘yarn.’ Her most bizarre request has been to make a spacesuit for a chicken!
Sue utilises her card making skills as well as her knowledge of origami. Tools include a hot glue gun, PVA glue, clear nail varnish, sellotape and cling film.
Thanks, too, to Sue’s husband, Richard, for coming along to help set up her display.
Bags, jars, bird feeder and cases from clear plastic bottles.
Tote bags made from drinks cartons (left) and crisp packets (right)
Decorative ‘shoes’ modelled on real shoes – layers of cling film, sellotape plus decorations. Bracelet from folded paper (no glue).
Sue’s favourite bag made from flattened drinks cans
The Bricklayer’s Arms at Kibworth is the venue for a WI Skittles evening on Wednesday 11 March. Simple, but tasty, pub suppers are available, too.
A great chance to relax and meet new people. Hope to see you there. Book your place at the February monthly meeting this Wednesday.
Join Sue Drage to get loads of clever crafty ideas on how to recycle rubbish. Click to read more about how Sue uses all sorts of materials and crafts to make reusable items to sell and for the homeless.
See you there – Wednesday 25 February, 7.30 pm at the Congregational Church Hall.
The local group of WIs next event is on Thursday evening 12 March 2015 at the Evangelical Church, Bath Street, Market Harborough. Guest speaker will be local ‘Bake Off’ winner, Frances Quin. Get your tickets (£10 each) from Fiona Thompson, Committee Member, at the February monthly meeting.
How about going along to the Leicestershire and Rutland Federation of WI’s Annual Meeting at the Grammar School, Great Glen? Speakers include Angela Rippon, reported to be ‘excellent’. Tickets £10 and opportunities for lift sharing.
Market Harborough WI member Vicky (not committee member Vicky) is entering the cooking competition. Gemma Underwood’s embroidered Centenary brick will also be on display. There will be activities, too, for visitors to join in. Contact a Committee Member at the February meeting to buy your ticket.
Let’s get networking with some WIs across the world in this Centenary year. Do you have a friend or family member who is in the WI or its equivalent (sometimes called Women’s Rural Institutes or Country Women’s Association) that would like to be in touch with Market Harborough WI? If so, maybe send them an email now, or use social media, and let a Committee Member know how you get on. We will need the contact details, too. Am sure we can make excellent use of our website/blog, Facebook, email and Twitter to make this idea happen.
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
Do you have skills that you could use to make items for sale at a craft fair? If so, you might want to get busy now and make use of the long winter evenings.
Your committee is planning a craft fair in the town as part of our celebrations for the WI Centenary. What better way to share members’ many and diverse skills?
Exact details of all aspects of this event and how it will work out will follow in the next few weeks. In the meantime, if you would like to be involved with helping to plan the fair or may be interested in running a stall or be able to donate items, let a Committee Member know or Contact Us or call 07547 890 756.
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