Category: Womens Institute

 

At our first meeting of the new year our speaker was Rosemary Scadden whose talk was devoted to various tricks with scarves. We had brought scarves with us and we were shown many ways of folding them and we tried to copy them.

Thanks were expressed to Margaret and Pam E for taking part at Wenvk community carol service and the Social Link carol service. Our attention as drawn to various future events within the Glamorgan Federation. We hope to support the literary lunch at the High Tide, Porthcawl on March 22nd. Interested members should bring 312. 00 to our February meeting. We voted on our Resolution and our choices will be forwarded to Federation House Our banner is on its way

Next month’s speaker is Janet Young and her talk is entitled “ Plots and Conspiracies “ All guests are welcome, free of charge.

 

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At our December meeting members were delighted by the return of Betty and to see Maureen. A reminder was given of the carol service at St. Mary’s and of the Link carol service at Dinas Powys.

Work on our banner is ongoing and we hope it will be completed by our 25th celebration on 1st March when we meet.

Madeleine was honoured to have placed a wreath on our behalf at the village Cenotaph on Armistice Sunday.

We received a letter from Patricia Coulthard, thanking the branch for our donation to the local branch of the National Autistic Society. Our charity for 2018 is Wales Air Ambulance.

The latter part of the evening was in party mood with Madeleine and Janet providing entertainment and we heard “Whatever happened to Christmas, (printed in What’s On some years ago.) And we once again related and agreed with its contents. Pam supplied a quiz and we enjoyed searching for the answers while enjoying our party buffet

Our first meeting of the New Year is on January 4th in the church hall when we will be voting on our resolutions and subs of £41,00 for the calendar year are due. It would be an advantage to our treasurer if members could put money or cheques payable to Wenvoe. The subject is to be “How will I fold my scarf” and members are asked to bring along a scarf to join in. Visitors will be welcome.

 

The president and committee wish all members and their families good health for the coming year

 

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Everyone was welcomed at the meeting by the president, especially new members, Pat and Zena. The effort and hard work by members in making the Link meeting such a success was much appreciated. Names were taken for our summer lunch at the Aubrey Arms, Bonvilston on 4th August at 12.30 pm. Final plans were made for the charity afternoon tea on 14th July at 2.30pm.

Barry Highlight WI have invited our members to their coffee morning on 22nd July and several members expressed interest.

As a result of ill health our speaker for the meeting was unable to be present but members had a social evening with strawberries and cream.

As there is no monthly meeting in August so the next monthly meeting will be on 7th September at the Church Hall when the speaker will be Keith Moger and the subject will be the History of Cardiff hospitals. Visitors are very welcome.

 

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WI Everyone was welcomed to our meeting by the president especially Federation Chairman Ann Davis and Federation Secretary June Humphry. Judith Jessop came as a visitor and we hope she will join us again soon. Details were given of our Table Top Sale. The following events are as follows – Culverhouse Cross WI fashion show, Link meeting at Wenvoe on 16 June and the charity tea party on 14 July. May has been Resolution Month and members present voted unanimously to support this year’s resolutions – alleviating loneliness and keeping microplastic fibres out of our oceans. Presentations were received from our secretary, treasurer and president and we would like to thank Mike Flynn for auditing our accounts again this year. The committee for 2017 – 2018 is as follows –President, Madeleine Rees, Vice President, Margaret Morant, Secretary, Pam Ewington,Treasurer,June Davis. Committee members are Maria Williams, Janet Young and Jayne Aust. The evening concluded with humorous stories from Ann Davis.
Our next meeting is on 1st June at the Church Hall at 7pm, when our speaker will be Viv Wigmore who will be speaking of her “Journey in Jewellery Making” Visitors are welcome.

The president introduced our speaker Peter Cox to our March meeting. Peter is a former employee of G.C.H.Q-a British Intelligence and Security Organisation, responsible for providing the British government and the armed forces with information to keep our country safe. We were given an intriguing and interesting insight into the work at G.C.H.Q, touching on the story of Geoffrey Prime, who was a former linguist at G.C.H.Q who in 1982 was jailed for seven counts against the official secrets act. He had been interested in all things Russian, especially communism and was fluent in the language. There are several interesting social events for members in the coming months as follows:

April 19th – Dinas Powys fashion show with the Edinburgh Woollen Mill.

May 17th – Link Meeting at Sully and one at Wenvoe Community Centre on June 16th.

June 21st – Garden Party at Margam Park.

 

Our Table Top event is on May 6th, at 10.30 at the Community Centre. We would appreciate donations for the tombola or raffle prizes which can be brought to our April or May meetings

Our next meeting at the church hall on April 6th and Stephen Allen will talk about “Care in the Community”. Visitors are welcome.

Event in box. WI Table Top sale, Saturday May 6th, 10.30 Community Centre. Admission 50p, to include coffee and biscuits. There will be a raffle.

 

 

 

 

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Our speaker in February was Tracey Wadsworth who is a beautician based at the Jasmine Room at the Copthorne Hotel, who came accompanied by her assistants, Lauren and Olivia. We were all very interested in the various treatments available, some of which were demonstrated on a few of our members – transformation of eyebrows on Jayne and Phyllis, a mini facial on Shirley and gel nail polish treatment on Margaret and Janet. We were grateful to them all for giving us their time and expertise. We all thoroughly enjoyed the meeting.

The latter part of the evening was devoted to WI business. We have been invited to fashion shows at Penarth and Dinas Powys, the latter at 7pm April 19th and featuring Edinburgh Woollen Mill. Names were taken for this and for the Summer Garden Party at Margam Orangery on June 21st.

Members were reminded that orders for diaries and calendars have to be submitted by 31st March and any unpaid membership fees are due to be paid at our next meeting, which will be on the 2nd March when our speaker will be Peter Cox and his subject will be “My Life as a Spy". Any guests will be welcome

 

 

 

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Members were welcomed by our president to the first meeting of 2017 but sadly we learned of the passing of Vera Tipples, a former president and a faithful, enthusiastic member of our institute until ill health prevented her from joining us. Our thoughts are with Cliff and his family and members observed a minute’s silence in Vera’s memory.

At this first meeting our speaker was our own member, Janet Young, whose subject was the nine day queen, Lady Jane Grey, who was born in 1537 and was the great grand daughter of Henry V11. Her parents forced her into marriage with Guildford Dudley, a devout Protestant and was named as Edward V1’s successor. She was crowned Queen four days after the death of Edward. She was executed on the 12th February, 1554 at the age of 16 years and died a martyr.

Business matters followed refreshments when members were given details of Glamorgan Federation events in the near future. Raffle winner was Gloria.

At February’s meeting Tracey Wandsworth will be giving a beauty demonstration and visitors will be welcome.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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