Category: Womens Institute

At our December meeting we all enjoyed our Christmas party with a tempting buffet provided by the committee. Janet entertained us with the pantomime “ Cinderella” which proved very amusing with her use of mixed-up words. Madeleine read out an historical list of Christmas Day events, plus a list of famous people born on that day. This was followed by an account of the history of Boxing Day. Pam had produced two ongoing quizzes and the outright winner was Jayne. After the refreshments and the raffle we enjoyed a Christmas singsong accompanied by Janet on the keyboard.

The president would like to thank all who contributed to a very successful and enjoyable evening.

The first meeting of 2017 will be on January 5th at the Church Hall at 7pm when our speaker will be Janet Young and the subject of her talk will be Lady Jane Grey, the nine day queen. Visitors will be most welcome.

Members are reminded that subs are due in January.

A welcome was extended to all at our October meeting and especially to our visitor, Ros. We hope she will join us again in the future.

Our speaker was John Sheen and using Christmas crackers in a in the shape of a clock face as a starting point, he produced twelve very different entertaining pieces, all with a Christmas theme. John’s qualification in teaching English and drama was evident when he brought humorous acting into his talk.

We received a thank you letter from Ty Hapus in response to our donation to the charity.

Members were reminded of several events within our link in the near future :-

Coffee morning- Dinas Powys, Nov. 5th

Christmas party- Dinas Powys, Dec 6t

Carol Service-Penarth, Dec 15th

Our November meeting will be “Call my Bluff” with guests from local W.I’s Visitors will be welcome. October raffle winner was Betty.

Members of our WI want to thank Phil. Morant for all the time and effort he’s devoted to the cleaning and staining of our memorial bench in the churchyard. which has now been restored to its original colour.

Many thanks, Phil.

We met in the church hall on Sept. 1st, our first meeting of the autumn session. Our speaker was Elin Jones from Ty Hapus (Happy House) in Barry which opened five years ago as a result of fund raising by Justine Pickering whose mother, at 54 years had a rare form of dementia. Ty Hapus was originally set up to support young people living with dementia but on a Thursday, people over 65 years are welcome at the day centre which is linked to the Alzeimer’s Society for training and support and the staff work very hard to encourage participation in any social groups available, such as a golf group, fitness group and music and poetry are often introduced.

Ty Hapus looks forward toward moving to new premises at Barry Community Hospital at the end of the year where two gardens will be available for their use so there will be many interesting challenges ahead.

As a result of our fund raising during 2016 Madeleine was able to present Elin with a cheque for £450 00 which was gratefully received on behalf of Ty Hapus and all members of Wenvoe WI are thanked for their hard work and effort in raising this sum.

After refreshments it was down to business. We were reminded of forthcoming events within the Glamorgan Federation, especially the Harvest Supper, on Oct 10th, hosted by Culverhouse Cross WI. Final plans will be discussed at our October meeting. Raffle prize went to Phyllis.

Next meeting is on October 6th, Church Hall at 7pm when the speaker will be John Sheen (uncle of Michael) and his subject will be “A Christmas Cracker”. Visitors are welcome

SEPTEMBER NEWS UPDATE

There was no August meeting for Wenvoe WI. However seven members joined Dinas Powys at their August meeting and enjoyed a fish and chip supper and a beetle drive. Congratulations to Phyllis who won the prize for the highest score. On August 22nd fifteen members enjoyed the skittles evening at Dinas Powys rugby club.

Our first meeting after the summer break will be on September 1st at 7pm.

Please remember that all future meetings will be held at the church hall unless otherwise advised. Our speaker on this occasion will be Elin Jones from Ty Hapus which supports people living with dementia and we will handover our fundraising cheque to her. Anyone who wishes to hear more about the work of the organisation will be very welcome.

At our July meeting we were saddened by the news that Olwen had passed away earlier that day. She had been a good and faithful member of our institute for many years but due to ill health had been unable to continue with her membership for some time and she has been sorely missed. We held a minute’s silence in her memory.

Viv Truran was our speaker for the meeting and she brought along some items for us to try to guess their age and value. Included was a cup and saucer from 1840 and a Christian Dior brooch from 1960. We enjoyed the challenge. On times we were quite close and sometimes our estimations were way out.

WI business began with feedback from our successful tea party. This was followed by details of forthcoming events-coffee morning hosted by Barry Highlight WI on Tuesday 2nd August and a harvest supper with Culverhouse Cross institute on the 10th October.

There was enthusiastic discussion regarding the opportunity of owning a banner for our institute. More details will be available at the next meeting.

To end the meeting we all enjoyed strawberries and cream .Raffle winner-Lyn.

No meeting in August but some members will be joining Dinas Powys on the 2nd and 22nd August.

NB All future meetings, unless otherwise stated will take place at the Church Hall.

At our next meeting on 1st September and Elin Jones from Ty Hapus, the day centre in Barry, which gives support to people living with dementia.