Book Group meeting
2022-06-08 19:30 - 21:00 (Europe/London)
The book we will have read for this evening’s discussion is The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng.

June Members' Meeting - NB change of date
2022-06-09 19:30 - 21:00 | The Institute, The Green, Adderbury, Oxfordshire, OX17 3NE, United Kingdom
Our speaker for this evening will be Jane Robinson, the author of ‘Ladies Can’t climb Ladders: The Pioneering Adventures of the First Professional Women’.

Craft Group Meeting
2022-06-14 14:00 - 16:30 | Beehive Cottage, Adderbury
Members gather together to create lovely crafts for ongoing and future Branch events. Our meeting will be hosted by Theresa for fabric tulips and discussion for future events’ crafts such as poppies, bunting and Christmas items

Craft Group meeting
2022-06-14 14:00 - 16:30 | Beehive Cottage, Adderbury
Members gather to create lovely crafts for ongoing and future events hosted by Theresa. Contact Margaret, our President, for further details and join us if you are interested in creating lovely craft items.

National Needlework Archive, Newbury
2022-06-23 10:00 - 15:30 | National Needlework Achive, Newbury
Members visit the Archive to continue their cleaning and stitching work on our original Banner of 1921 under the guidance of Conservation expert Wendy.

Farm visit
2022-06-30 14:30 - 17:00 | Meadowsweet Farm, Horley
Emma Hamer, our speaker at our meeting in April, has kindly invited us to visit her farm at Horley. This will be in the afternoon of Thursday 30 June, starting at 2.30. Members can choose either to walk the fields or to go straight to the farmhouse to watch a film about the farm in the old farm shop. The walk is about two miles long and and after it members will drive to the farmhouse to join the rest of the party for tea and cakes. Please arrange to share transport where possible. Parking for those joining the walk will be at the Old forge. To reach the farmhouse, turn right just before the signs for the end of the village. at Contact Margaret, our President, for further details.

Members' Meeting
2022-07-07 19:30 - 21:30 | The Institute, The Green, Adderbury, Oxfordshire, OX17 3NE, United Kingdom
This evening one of our members, Jo Dyson, will speak about the work of FareShare, a national charity that aims to tackle hunger and food waste by redistributing surplus food from supermarkets to local charities.

Book Group meeting
2022-07-13 19:30 - 21:00
Our second title by Amor Towles, Rules of Civility, will be the subject of our meeting this evening.

Visit to Hill Close Gardens in Warwick with tour and coffee POSTPONED
2022-07-19 11:00 - 12:30
This visit has been postponed because it was to take place at the height of the July heatwave.
The hidden hedged gardens of Warwick are rare survivals of Victorian gardens, originally used by townspeople who had no outdoor space where they lived. They were threatened with destruction but were saved and restored, The summer houses are Grade 11 listed. The gardens are approximately 26 miles from Adderbury and the postcode is CV34 6HF. The minimum number for this visit is 10 and the cost is £8.50 per person. Members are encouraged to arrange car sharing where possible. We will need to leave the village by 10.15 am. For more information or to add your name to the list of members planning to come, please contact a committee member.
Hot drinks and light snacks are available but if the weather is good members may like to take a picnic to enjoy on one of the allotment plots that make up the gardens. Some of the plants raised in the gardens are sold in the plant nursery.

Archive group meeting
2022-07-20 11:00 - 12:30
Group members will meet to progress the various strands of research and recording relating to the Holt archive.

Work on the original Adderbury WI banner
2022-07-21 08:30 - 17:00
Three members will spend the day at the National Needlework Archive in Newbury to continue cleaning and conserving the banner,

Discussion group meeting
2022-07-25 14:00 - 16:00
If you would like to join this lively group please contact our President, Margaret. As usual, members will meet in the upstairs room at Harpers.

Work on the original Adderbury WI banner
2022-07-28 08:30 - 17:00
Three members are spending the day at the National Needlework Archive in Newbury to continue cleaning and conserving the banner.

Members' Meeting
2022-08-04 19:30 - 21:30
Our speaker this evening, Liz Mitchell, will tell us about wool weaving and its history in the Cotswolds. Liz is a member of the Oxfordshire Guild of Weavers, Spinners and Dyers and was the editor of their newsletter for a number of years. On this occasion refreshments will follow her talk with the business part of the meeting after that..

Visit to the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies with a short talk and a tour of the buildings and gardens
2022-08-10 10:00 - 12:00
This visit has been arranged following a talk at our meeting in January. There will be a short introduction to the Centre, followed by a guided tour of the buildings and the gardens, both of which are of outstanding quality.
Depending on numbers, we hope to have the use of the Barton community bus which seats 15, plus up to 3 cars with five members in each. This would allow 30 people to take part.. Parking at the Centre is limited to three cars and a coach and reaching it from Adderbury by public transport is complicated. The bus would leave at about 9.15 am and return to Adderbury after the visit. but there may be the option of a drop-off near the city centre for those who would like to spend time there and then take public transport home. The estimated cost is about £10 for transport and £2 for refreshments. For more information or to add your name to the list of members wishing to join this trip please contact a committee member.

Upton House walk - Not held due to Covid virus
2022-08-18 11:30 - 12:30
Sheila P has kindly offered to lead a walk starting from the car park at Upton House. Please arrange your own transport, car sharing where possible, and meet at the car park at 11 am. This is an easy walk of about two and a quarter miles with three stiles. There is a bit of a climb to start with and at one point we walk along the wide grass verge for about five minutes. Everyone is invited to bring a picnic to eat on our return to the car park at the top of which there are picnic tables and benches.If you don’t want to walk but would like to come for the picnic meet us at about 12.30 in the car park.

Summer Party - Games in the Garden
2022-08-24 18:00 - 20:30
Caroline has kindly offered her lovely garden as the venue for our party this year. Please bring a plate of food to share. Let’s hope the weather is kinder than it was for last year’s party!

Members' Meeting
2022-09-01 19:30 - 21:30 | The Institute, The Green, Adderbury, Oxfordshire, OX17 3NE, United Kingdom
Our speaker this evening will be Cath Marriott, Head of Partnership and Community Safety at the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner for Thames Valley. These partnerships bring together local organisations with the shared goal or reducing crime and the fear of crime, anti-social behaviour, alcohol and drug misuse and reducing re-offending.

Book Group meeting
2022-09-07 19:30 - 21:00
This evening we will be sharing our thoughts on a modern classic, Jean Rhys’s novel Wide Sargasso Sea.

Visit to Aston Pottery and tour of the gardens where the dahlias should be in bloom.
2022-09-08 14:30 - 15:30
Aston Pottery, which has a restaurant and a gift shop, is well known for its gardens and has a wonderful display of dahlias in the autumn. The cost will be £6.95, with the option of lunch before the tour Please arrange car sharing where possible. Members planning to have lunch would leave about 12.15 and the visit will start at 2.30 pm.. Aston Pottery is about 28 miles from Adderbury. The postcode OX18 2TB. If you would like to join this trip or for more information, please contact a committee member.

Cinema Group
2022-09-08 18:30 - 22:00
We will be seeing the NT Live screening at The Light in Banbury of their production of Much Ado About Nothing. If you would like to join us please contact Margaret, our President, on 07800 721432. Meet in the foyer about 6.30 for the 7 o’clock start..

Discussion group meeting
2022-09-12 14:00 - 15:30
The topic for discussion this time will be Climate Change. If you would like to join us, please contact our President, Margaret. Your contribution will be most welcome. Meetings are held at Harpers coffee shop in their upstairs room.

WI Day Celebratory Coffee & Cake at Cotefield Garden Centre Coffee Shop
2022-09-16 10:30 - 13:00 | Cotefield Garden Centre Coffee Shop, Oxford Road, Bodicote, Banbury OX15 4AQ
Our plan is to meet at Cotefield’s Coffee Shop at 10.30 for coffee and cake (and buying our own favourite items) hoping that as many members as possible will be able to join in to celebrate the very first WI Meeting in Britain, at Llanfair PG on Anglesey, North Wales in 1915. This 16th September marks our 107 birthday.

Broughton Grange footpaths walk
2022-10-03 11:00 - 12:30
Sheila P, whose planned walk in August was cancelled because of Covid, has kindly offered to lead a walk that goes through the arboretum at Broughton Grange. There should be plenty of Autumn colour on the trees. More details will be available later.

Members' Meeting
2022-10-06 19:30 - 21:30 | The Institute, The Green, Adderbury, Oxfordshire, OX17 3NE, United Kingdom
On a seasonal theme, this evening Juliet Corston will demonstrate flower arranging with pumpkins. If you would like to buy a pumpkin to make your own arrangement there will be a sign up sheet at the August and September meetings. The cost per pumpkin is £7.50, payable in advance, preferably at the August meeting.

Discussion group
2022-10-10 14:00 - 15:30 | Harper’s Coffee Shop, Adderbury, The High Street, Adderbury'
Our discussion of issues relating to climate change will continue at this meeting. If you have not been to a discussion before but would like to join us, then please contact Margaret asap.

Lunch at Bloxham
2022-10-12 12:40 - 14:30
This first group lunch will be on Wednesday 12 October at the Chequer Trees, Bloxham Garden Centre. We will meet there at 12.40.
If you were not at the October WI meeting but would like to come, please contact Margaret asap.

Book Group meeting
2022-10-12 19:30 - 21:00
We have already enjoyed two titles by Tracey Chevalier and this evening we will be talking about her novel Remarkable Creatures, which is based on the true story of Mary Anning and her discoveries of fossils.

Craft Group
2022-10-17 14:00 - 16:30
Maureen Golder has kindly offered to host this meeting at her house in Hempton. If you have not been to a craft group before but would like to come, please let Margaret know.
We will meet at the Institute at 2 o’clock for car sharing

Holt archive group
2022-11-01 11:00 - 12:30
As usual we will meet at Harper’s.
