If you can make some cakes or cookies, or maybe have a pot of homemade jam to hand, then please drop them off to Clare (our President) and Isabel (our Secretary) who will be outside Market Harborough market from 2.30 pm today. They are being interviewed by Radio Leicester at 3 pm. Radio Leicester has been touring the county promoting their 
WI week and today is our turn. Your baking with help with MHWI’s cake and jam give out. So, ladies – let’s bake! This morning!
MHWI Sports Week
Some of our intrepid MHWI ladies, ever willing to try something new, signed up to try out Pilates and Hula Hooping this week as part of the NFWI Sports Week initiative. On Wednesday 14th September, the wonderful Jane Fletcher gave us a Pilates taster session. As a former ballerina, Jane has been practising Pilates for many years and decided 3 years ago to qualify as a teacher. jane-fletcher-pilates.pilatesnearyou.co.uk She was very gentle with us all, making sure that each exercise suited our individual needs. We were all highly impressed and would recommend Jane as a teacher. Although this was a low impact session, we can all confirm that we felt it the next day!
Friday, 16th September was a whole different kettle of fish, Hula Hooping with Rae, was more of a HaHa Whooping session!😝 Hysterically funny! Some of us mastered the movement, some of us didn’t! Clare and Carmen decided that body shape was definitely the key…well that’s our excuse anyway!
Rae, from doedemure.co.uk was a brilliant teacher, who is a hula hoop artiste. We were incredulous, as we swung our bums and tums in all directions in a hope of keeping the hoop circling, whilst she barely seemed to move her torso, yet kept her hoop twirling as if by magic!
Some of the ladies managed to advance to walking and hula at the same time! Caroline and the Jo’s were particularly good…Carmen and Clare looked on in envy!
Evanda managed to hula in both directions. And her young daughter just showed us all up!
Bridget just kept tenaciously at it, with splendid results.
When we moved onto the hand routine, Carmen and Clare came into their own😜. We all twirled, changed hands, rotated, spun and jumped through hoops. It all looked quite professional by the end…though a few stray hoops were seen rolling from one side of the hall to the other on occasion! Annabel and the Jo’s were true all rounders, and we will let you know if they run off to join the circus!
Thank you to the teachers and members who joined in these sessions last week. It was an excellent experience, with all the usual MHWI fun and laughter! Don’t forget that October meeting is Samba night!
Your help with local survey on loneliness
This survey is for completion by people of all ages and will help Voluntary Action South Leicestershire bid for 5 years’ further funding for an already successful project to which we have donated funds:
VASL ( Voluntary Action South Leicestershire) are carrying out a survey about Loneliness in the Harborough District.
Please could you ask your members if they would like to respond, or put this on your website? We would welcome as many local views as possible.
see http://vasl.org.uk/community- champions-survey
If easier I could send you paper forms
The survey closes on 28 September.
I can be contacted on MH 439262
Thank you
Rohini Corfield
Latest news from national WI
Updates on what’s happening: events, competitions, Denman, training, etc: nfwi-news-october-final
Your help – reasonable adjustments in hospitals project
The University of Bristol is currently doing some research about how hospitals in England make changes, or ‘reasonable adjustments’, to their services so that disabled people are not disadvantaged when accessing healthcare. Examples of reasonable adjustments include: providing a ramp entrance, a loop hearing system, or longer appointment times, as well as sending letters in easy-read format or large print.
The University is currently looking for people who would like to be interviewed about their experiences to share how hospital services have provided reasonable adjustments to meet your needs, as well as learning about what has worked well, and what could have been better.
The interview will take about an hour, and a researcher will either come and talk with you in person or talk to you over the telephone. All disabled people who take part in this interview will be offered a £20 gift voucher. To be able to take part, you must self-identify as a disabled person, be aged 18 or over, and have attended, or been admitted to any hospital in England in the last two years.
If you are interested in taking part in the project, or would like more information, please contact either Dr Stuart Read: stuart.read@bristol.ac. uk, 0117 331 0471; or Victoria Mason: victoria.mason@bristol. ac.uk, by Friday 30th September 2016. Stuart or Victoria will get back to you by Friday 7th October 2016 to let you know whether you will be interviewed. The interviews will be conducted between October-December 2016.
Kind Regards
Tracey
Tracey Allan-Jones
Office Manager
Healthwatch Rutland
c/o Voluntary Action Rutland
Lands’ End Way
Oakham
LE15 6RB
01572 720381
http://www.healthwatchrutland. co.uk/
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WI Sports week – fancy a go at netball?
National WI have passed on this information if you fancy having a go at netball:
Help needed – jam swap and cakes!?
Our president, Clare Farquhar, will be attending this event on the 22nd September on behalf of MHWI. If you would like to go with her or can help with donating homemade jam or a cake, then please contact us urgently: email: marketharboroughwi@gmail.com
Details (as much as we have) below:
We have been contacted by Radio Leicester for help from the WI with their outside broadcasting event for 19-23 September.
The afternoon show at 3pm with Ben Jackson would like to hold a ‘jam swap’.
Hinckley Canalside (19 Sept), Hugglescote & Coalville (20 Sept), Wigston Magna (21 Sept), Market Harborough (22 Sept) and Uppingham WI (23 Sept) are also be bringing cakes to the event during the week.
Working in retirement – share your story
WI Life would love to hear from members who have continued or started working in retirement – the more out of the ordinary the better!
Please email Hattie at h.parish@nfwi.org.uk explaining what you do and why by 23 September.
Hattie Parish
Editorial Assistant, WI Life
National Federation of Women’s Institutes (NFWI)
104 New Kings Road, London SW6 4LY
T: 020 7731 5777 ext 217
@WILifemagazine
It’s WI sports week – what will you be doing?
MHWI is supporting NFWI Sports Week from 12 to 18 September 2016. It’s your chance to come and try something new.
There’s Pilates with Jane on Wednesday, 14 September 2016,
5.15 to 6.15 pm or there’s Hoola Hoop on Friday evening 16th September 2016 (start time tbc later this week).
Both events in the large hall at the Congregational Church, Bowden Lane, Market Harborough. Bring your own refreshments.
Queries? email: marketharboroughwi@gmail.com
Invitation – Jambusters talk at Kibworth Village Hall
This has come my way from a friend in Kibworth and MHWI members may be interested in attending. I plan to go. Contact details in the message
Hi lovely people
I hope you don’t mind a mass mail out, but I am doing a push for a fundraising event we are organising at our village hall in Kibworth on Tuesday 27 September and wondered if you, or someone you know might be interested in coming along?
My cousin Julie Summers is an author and wrote a book called Jambusters about the history of the WI, that ITV then turned into the drama Home Fires which ran on ITV for 2 series on a Sunday evening. As part of our efforts to raise money for the hall, she is coming to give an illustrated talk on Tuesday 27th September. Doors open at 7 and Julie will be talking at 7.30. It won’t be a late night and should be finished by 9. Tickets are £5 each and all proceeds are for the Hall.
I am biased as she is my cousin, but she is a very good speaker and worth a listen if you are free that night? I do appreciate that it might not be your thing, but if you know anyone else who is a fan of the WI and may like to be there, please do pass on my mobile number 07919 410512 or email me back. We have sold lots of tickets already, but I would really like it to be a full house if possible.
If you want to know anything else about the evening, please do come back to me. Kibworth Ladies Choir will be performing while guests arrive and there will be refreshments available. It’d be lovely to see you there if you have a gap in your diary at all that night.
Many thanks
Erica
Market Harborough WI 