31st 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!)
Members of Market Harborough WI had a fun evening this week baking fake cakes for the float at the Carnival in June. You can still join in. Help with prop making, preparations for the day itself and on the day are still needed. Details of the next fun evening will be given at the May monthly meeting.
Join 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.
Saturday 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.
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
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!!
Do keep checking this page as it is being regularly updated with details of all the fantastic events Market Harborough WI is both organising and taking part in for this once in a lifetime celebration.
Our 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.
Please take a few minutes to have your say on the future of the WI by completing this survey from the National Federation of Women’s Institutes. 100 Years Membership Survey
To mark the WI centenary, the NFWI is conducting a special one-off survey of WI members.
About this survey
The aim of the survey is to understand the views of WI members on some of the big issues in Britain today, and also to understand what role members think the WI has to play in today’s society.
The results of this survey will be used to inform the NFWI’s future policy and campaigns. The findings will also contribute to a new centenary publication celebrating the WI’s historic achievements over the past 100 years and exploring the views and concerns of today’s members.
How to take part
We would really like to make sure that we hear the views of as many WI members as possible. We would therefore be delighted if you would be able to complete the survey using the link provided.
We would be most grateful if you would please circulate the survey to WIs in your federation, and ask them to share the web link above with their members. Last date for completing: 8 June 2015
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