Category: Womens Institute

April Events

WOMEN’S INSTITUTE

April Events

Due to the Church Hall being used for the Maundy Thursday Supper, we held our April meeting on March 26th and, after some initial mishaps with the paints, members showed their creative sides and, judging from the laughter and lively chatter, an enjoyable evening was had making Easter sun catchers.

Our next meeting is the AGM on May 7th when the Committee for the next year and President are elected.

Please make a note in your diaries of our June 4th meeting, at 7.30pm. This will be an open meeting with Roger Crookes, who has been working in the gardening industry for around 50 years, giving us a pictorial presentation titled ‘Enjoying the Power of Plants!’ celebrating many of the important (and sometimes surprising) benefits of plants to our lives. Watch out for further details.

Visitors and prospective members are always welcome to our meetings. Please ring 07881853032 for further details.

Carol Charlson (President)

March Events

WOMEN’S INSTITUTE

March Events

At the end of January, the Standing with Giants charity asked WI members to make poppies to help refresh their installations. Wenvoe members rose to the challenge and made 125 poppies during February. Well done everyone.

At the beginning of March we welcomed Marc Harris from Dinas Powys as our speaker. Marc is a naturalist and author who has travelled thousands of miles in his lifetime, by bicycle and on foot, exploring the wonders of nature in the British countryside, which has inspired his writing. He gave us a very interesting and informative talk about his life, shared some of his excellent photographs with us and read a selection of articles from his book about South and West Wales along with some of his poems.

Due to Easter, our next meeting will be on May 7th for our AGM.

Visitors and prospective members are always welcome to our meetings. Please ring 07881853032 for further details

Carol Charlson (President)

February Events

WOMEN’S INSTITUTE

February Events

Our planned speaker for the February meeting had to cancel due to illness, but Charlotte is hoping to come and talk to us at a future meeting.

However, we had invited one of our longest standing speakers, Viv Truran, to our meeting to present her with a gift in recognition of all the entertaining meetings that she had provided us with, so she gave a short update on her more recent activities before we spent the rest of the evening socialising.

On 5th March we are looking forward to our talk from local author, Marc Harris. Our April meeting would have fallen on Maundy Thursday so we have moved it to March 26th when we will have an Easter themed workshop.

Visitors and prospective members are always welcome to our meetings in the Church Hall at 7.00pm, usually on the first Thursday of the month.

Please ring 07881853032 for further details.

Carol Charlson (President)

 

 

January Events

WOMEN’S INSTITUTE

January Events

Unfortunately, we had to cancel our talk on “The Spanish Armada of 1588” on January 8th due to the weather,

but we will add it to our programme as soon as we can.

Our lunch at the Horse and Jockey on January 15th was excellent; thanks to the staff for making us so welcome. We are looking forward to going back again.

On February 5th, Charlotte Archibald, the Engagement & Fundraising Manager of our 2026 chosen charity, The Vale Domestic Abuse Service, is giving a presentation on the work of the service and ways that we can support the charity during the year.

The following month we welcome local author Marc Harris who will be giving us a talk on the Wildlife, People and Places of South and West Wales.

Visitors and prospective members are always welcome to our meetings, which are held in the Church Hall at 7.00pm, usually on the first Thursday of the month.

Please ring 07881853032 for further details.

Carol Charlson (President)