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About Broad Town Women's Institute

The Broad Town WI are a friendly group of women. We meet in the village hall on the 3rd Wednesday of each month, apart from December when we meet on the 2nd Wednesday. We start with our speaker so please arrive promptly at 7.30pm for a talk or activity which may be educational, inspiring, amusing and energetic.  After the talk we have time for socialising and refreshments.  This is followed by a short business meeting.  We also arrange visits to gardens, pubs, local attractions, and go on summer walks.  With a membership of 27 and growing we are keen to welcome new members. We have had a stall at the Broad Town summer Big Gig for the past few years supplying the festival goers with hot drinks and delicious homemade cakes.

We are affiliated to the Wiltshire federation of WI which in turn is part of the national WI allowing us to make a difference to campaigns such as reducing supermarket packaging, influencing the price of milk at the farm gate and accurate labeling food with the country of origin.  Current campaigns are helping to alleviate loneliness, improving hospital arrangements for carers of people with dementia, helping to reduce plastic waste and trying to end food poverty. 
 
There is also a dedicated college of further education; Denman college in Oxfordshire, offering the widest range of courses allowing WI members to learn new skills or further existing ones.
 
If you would like to meet some new friends in the village, have an opportunity to learn something new and maybe influence a national campaign why not come along one evening soon?  Visitors are always welcome and you can try us out without any obligation.
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Program 2018

Anne posted on January 19, 2018 17:15 Article Rating

January 17th
Resolutions + Members Meeting - Interesting Chat (book, restaurant, theatre, anything else!)

February 21st
OPEN EVENING with Malcolm Holland - ‘From Wootton Bassett clean through Normandy’. A talk about how Wootton Basset assisted the US Army in WWII

March 21st
AGM + Adult Ballet class - beginners, very easy intro into ballet!!  Swindon Dance Outreach Program

April 18th
Author Debi Evans - Dragons & Rescue Dogs. https://www.debievans.com/about-debi.php

May 16th
Julia’s House Hospice - One of their volunteers coming to talk about their work. www.juliashouse.org

June 20th
EVENING OUT - Visiting the museum in RWB.  The scrap book we created in the 100th year of the National WI is to be presented.

July 18th
Hilary Bowen - Silver Clay Jewellery.   A demonstration (about 45 minutes) of how to make a piece of jewellery using silver clay. (From start to finish)

August 15th
Summer Walk - Westonbirt tour with Marcus Galea. Meal afterwards at the Hare & Hounds pub

September 19th
Still to be arranged.

October 17th
Mary Kellond - Flower arranging.   Session on decorations with sticky pads to add to bottles or chocolates!

November 21st
OPEN MEETING with Peter Struve - Star gazing

December 12th
Christmas festivities – to be decided nearer the time


Possible Extra Trips -
National Needlework Archive at Newbury
The Secret Garden in Highway.  Community Garden being set up for therapy work.
Tour of the Wyvern Theatre in Swindon.

IF YOU LIKE WHAT YOU SEE IN OUR PROGRAMME FOR 2018, AND FEEL YOU MIGHT BE INTERESTED IN JOINING US, PLEASE CONTACT KATE ORTON ON 01793 731536.  WE ARE ALWAYS DELIGHTED TO WELCOME NEW MEMBERS.

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