Tag Archives: W~I Centenary

Social planning evening – Market Harborough WI float at the 2015 Carnival

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WI Centenary logo eeD5k3OX_400x400To celebrate 100 years of WI, we are going to have a float at the Market Harborough Carnival on Saturday 13 June 2015.  If you would like to help with planning, as well as being on the MHWI float, then come along to a fun, social evening at the Roebuck, Rockingham Road, 7.30 pm Tuesday 10 March. 

Gemma Jaysart has lots of ideas and will be joining the planning group.

If for any reason you can’t make the 10th, then let Clare Farquahar, President have your name.  You can also  Contact Us or call 07547 890 756.

International WIs – do you have a contact?

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WI Centenary logo eeD5k3OX_400x400Let’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.

Centenary evening out to see ‘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

Gemma’s embroidered MHWI Centenary brick

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Gemma Underwood’s Centenary Brick for MHWI

Gemma Underwood kindly offered to decorate a ‘brick’ for Market Harborough WI.  This will go to the Leicestershire and Rutland Federation of WIs to make up a panel of bricks for the whole county. We think she has done a superb job – what do you think?

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Close up of the Old Grammar School, the focal point of Gemma’s Centenary brick

 

Donate a skill for our March raffle

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WI Centenary logo eeD5k3OX_400x400The WI Centenary year is just the time for members to share their many and varied skills.  This could be a skill such as knitting, crocheting, DIY, gardening, hairdressing, nails, baking a cake or babysitting, the list is endless.  You need to give 2 hours and the venue can be wherever you wish.  You could even make it a social evening by sharing a bottle of wine while you help several members learn a new skill.

We need to prepare cards for the Skills Raffle at the March meeting, so please Contact Us, call 07547 890 756 or speak to a Committee member (we wear sashes at the monthly meetings) at the February meeting.

Raising Agents WI centenary show to visit Market Harborough

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‘Raising Agents’, a touring play celebrating the WI Centenary in 2015, is being performed by Mikron Theatre (check out their promotional video).  Their base is a canal barge and it is coming to Market Harborough for a performance at the Congregational Church Hall on 22 May 2015, so book the space in your 2015 calendar now.

Who are Mikron Theatre?