theWI Adderbury & District WI – Meeting Future Events & Happenings – Thursday 7th May 2015
Fosma Poetry Evening at Church House – Friday 8th May – bring a poem or two with you for a lovely evening. Children’s Society Coffee Morning at Church House – Saturday 9th May – 10 – 12 noon – plant and cake stall and £ stall Bluebell Walk at Ditchley Park – Tuesday 12th May – meet at The Institute 9.30am – no styles,reasonably simple walk 1.1/2 – 2 hrs. Needlecraft Group meet – Wednesday, 13th May – Maureen Bank’s home at 7.30pm Reading Group meet – Wednesday 13th May – Tricia’s home at 7.30pm for “Some Luck” by Jane Smiley Adderbury Community Food Market at The Institute – Thursday, 14th May – 6 – 8.15pm Friday Morning Village Coffee – Church House 10 – 12 noon – money raised to Church House and Church – excellent cakes Gardening Club Plant Sale – Church House – Saturday 16th May – 10 – 12 noon Bloxham Flower Club Open Evening – Blessed George Napier School – Thursday 21st May – tickets from Veronica Scriven contact on 01295 812642 – £8.00 – plus future dates News & Views for May – Green Card notices at meeting – details on separate Future Events post School Fete – Saturday 13th June – 12 midday start – sign-up sheet for help and filled/covered jars to June meeting Party in the Park – Saturday 20th June – 2-5pm – sign-up sheet for help and cakes at meeting Evening Visit to Sulgrave Manor – Thursday 28th May – £9.00 pp to May meeting and some places still available Farm Walk and Supper – Thursday 25th June – 6.00pm – sign-up sheet at May meeting The Mikron Theatre – The Pig Place – Thursday 13th August – subject The WI – sounds good fun Adderbury Gardening Club – future visit to Highgrove Hall – sign-up sheet for Aug/Sept. – cost dependant on coach Waddesdon Manor – Friday 5th June – £28.00 non-National Trust member, £15.00 for members – bring cards WI Centennial Fair, Harrogate – details in News & Views – or call 0844 644 3644 / www.thewishow.com Blenheim Food Fair – 21 – 23rd May Margaret Halstead –...
Read MoretheWI Adderbury & District WI – News & Views Magazine May 2015 – New Events 2015
From Your Board of Trustees: Green Card notices seen at Meeting 7th May 2015 Page 5 – NATIONAL MEMORIAL ARBORETUM – Monday 27th July For this visit there will be two options: Option 1 – Coach only: Cost – Members £20.00 , non-members £22.00. Option 2 – Coach and Land Train: Cost – Members £24.50, non-members: £26.50. Provisional pick-up points – Nettlebed, Redbridge P&R, Pear Tree P&R, Banbury. Closing date – Friday 3rd July Page 6 – Combined Arts – Elvis Presley Memorabilia Exhibition at the O2 London – Wednesday 22nd July Cost – Members £$34.00, non-members £37.00. Closing date – Friday 5th June Page 7 – Events – A Visit to Buckingham Palace – Tuesday 18th August or Thursday 20th August – And a tour of Royal London – all with a Blue Badge guide. Full details see the April issue of News and Views. Provisional pick-up points – Nettlebed, Peartree P&R, Redbridge P&R, Didcot. Cost of coach, entry and guide – Members £47.50. non-members £49.50. Closing date – Friday 5th June Page 8 – Home & Gardens – Sir Harold Hillier Gardens, Romsey – Thursday 6th August Provisional pick-points – Chipping Norton, Pear Tree P&R, Nettlebed and Didcot. Cost – Members £28.00, non-members £31.00. Closing date – Friday 3rd July Page 9 – Sport & Leisure – Mitford Country Ramble – Wednesday 8th July & Wednesday 15th July – Distance – 5 miles. Start – 10am in Asthall (Between Witney and Burford Cost – Walk only – £4.50 (members only. Closing date – Friday 5th June Contact Gill Hunt for further details – [email protected] . / tel. 01295...
Read MoretheWI Adderbury & District WI – “Home Fires” ITV Sunday, 3rd May 2015
Dear Ladies, Were you watching “Home Fires” based on Julie Summers book “Jambusters” on Sunday, 3rd May? Did you record the whole series of six programmes to be screened over the next five weeks and did you enjoy ITV’s presentation? It was good wasn’t it? Until I had started reading “Jambusters” I had not realised just how much jam had been produced or how it’s production had been controlled by government regulations and regular government inspections. The jam was made from the wonderful harvest of 1939, and following years, which might otherwise have been wasted, falling on the ground and rotting; that the enormous amount of WI jam added flavour and nutrition, in the form of sugar, to the restricted war-time diet and a real contribution to the food supply available. Fruit was turned into chutney as well as jam and preserves and members bottled, canned and preserved throughout the season, enabling fruit to be kept and stored for the dark days ahead. Did you know that the American Federation of Business and Professional Women gave six canning vans to the WI containing all necessary equipment for the production of fruit. Ref: Jambusters by Julie Summers – photo section between P. 164 – 165 And of course, all of this fruit gathering, boiling. potting-up, canning and preserving was just another chore WI members had to contend with, alongside their own chores, family commitments and other war-time activities – like knitting and… Have you read “A Force to be Reckoned With – a History of the Women’s Institute” by Jane Robinson? Until I’d started reading this book, I had little real knowledge about the WI’s beginnings, which took place in Canada in 1897, at Stoney Creek, when Mrs. Adelaide Hoodless addressed a Ladies Night meeting and talked about the need for girls and women to be taught domestic science. Did you also know that in England around this time, there were Women’s Institutes already meeting of a very different nature to their Canadian prototype? One set up by Mrs. Nora Wynford Phillips in London, a “suffragist and keen campaigner for equal opportunities for professional women in their workplace.” Another WI group in 1913, concerned with adult education and “run by the London County Council and linked to a working men’s institute for education.” There were about thirty such groups in deprived areas as Hackney ,Brixton, Battersea, Deptford and Borough with classes in domestic and health subjects. That in the London home of Lady Cowdray early in 1915, a show was organised, which included live farm animals wandering about, to showcase “what women have done and can do in agriculture”. Her daughter was Lady Gertrude Denman – who became the WI’s National Chairman during the early days of WWI. Then I was fascinated to read online that Mrs. Alice Liddell who as a child inspired the creation of the book “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”, became the first President of Emery Down Women’s Institute close-by her home in the New Forest where, as Mrs.Reginald Hargreaves, she was known as a noted society hostess and mother of three sons. Margaret Halstead Ref: all information discovered in “Jambusters” by Julie Summers and “A Force to be Reckoned With” by Jane Robinson and from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia for the Adderbury & District WI’s...
Read MoretheWI Adderbury & District WI – North Cherwell Group Meeting, Bodicote – Wednesday, 22nd April 2015
Adderbury & district WI was well represented at the North Cherwell Group meeting on Wednesday, 22nd April, with the meeting opening to a fine rendition of Jerusalem, ” which was very moving. I for one could not remember all the words, not having sung “Jerusalem” for some time so therefore was very pleased when on the following day, St. George’s Day, 23rd April 2015 , Wigginton and Haxby WI posted for St. George’s Day and Shakespeare’s Birthday – “Wigginton and Haxby WI Thursday, 23rd April 2015 – St. George’s Day and Shakespeare’s Birthday – “Tis April 23rd Happy St George’s Day And did those feet in ancient time, Walk upon England’s mountains green And was the holy lamb of God, On England’s pleasant pastures seen! And did the Countenance Divine, Shine Forth upon our clouded hills? And was Jerusalem builded here, Among these dark Satanic Mills? Bring me my bow of burning gold; Bring me my Arrows of desire; Bring me my Spear: O clouds unfold: Bring me my Chariot of fire! I will not cease from Mental flight, Nor Shall my sword sleep in my hand: Till we have built Jerusalem, in England’s green & pleasant land. Margaret Halstead We sang Jerusalem at our North Cherwell Group Meeting on Wednesday, 22nd April and it was amazing – for Adderbury & District WIBodicote WI, Deddington WI, Barford WI and Banbury WI – I am WI and very proud to be a member of our brilliant, contemporary and forward-looking women’s movement xxx” Ref: Wiggintgon and Haxby WI FaceBook post on Thursday, 23rd April. 2015, for St. George’s Day and Shakespeare’s Birthday. The Group Meeting proceeded with brilliant addresses by all principal parties and last year’s Minutes were read out and signed as correct. After the business section, we had an amusing anthology of verse and song – “Letters and List” – and then we were invited to partake of Bodicote’s most wonderful cold table. Bodicote are renowned for their members’ hospitality. Raffle prizes were won and Bodicote’s Village Hall, packed with members from all of North Cherwell’s Group WI’s – Deddington, Barford, Adderbury, Bodicote and Banbury – hosted an excellent North Cherwell Group Meeting. Margaret...
Read MoretheWI Adderbury & District WI – Agenda for Resolutions Evening – Thursday, 7th May 2015
Church House, Adderbury, 7 May 2015 7.30 pm President’s welcome and opening remarks Minutes of the meeting held on 2 April 2015 to be approved and signed Matters arising: North Cherwell group meeting, WI calendar, wild flower seeds Committee report: Treasurer, News and Views, Denman course report Correspondence/communications Fund –raising: Party in the Park Programme and activities: Meetings programme for 2015/16, School fete stall, walks (12 May bluebell walk in Ditchley Park), book group, needlecraft group, Sulgrave visit (28 May) , farm supper, Mikron theatre (13 August) Any other business Community items Following the business meeting there will be a discussion of the WI Resolution for 2015 on Failing to Care. (Every WI is required to do this.) During the evening there will be the opportunity to ‘swish’ accessories such as scarves, belts, jewellery and bags. Bring up to five items and you will be given a ticket for each one. There will be time to inspect what everyone has brought and then you can exchange each ticket for an item you would like. If you have not brought anything of your own to swish, at the end of the evening you will be able to buy items for £1 each. The evening visit to Sulgrave Manor on 28 May can only go ahead if there are 15 in the group and there are still spare places. Please remember to bring £9 or a cheque to the meeting. Centenary raffle tickets will be on sale – excellent prizes!...
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