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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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Summer Outing

Anne posted on August 01, 2014 14:33

In August we had our summer outing and this year we went to Highclere Castle. Twenty one WI members and four guests from Broad Hinton’s ‘Ridgeway Ladies’ travelled  by coach to  Highclere in Hampshire, famous now for being the setting for the filming of Downton Abbey.

We were lucky with the weather and enjoyed exploring the house and gardens. We had an excellent lunch and many of us managed to fit in an ice cream and/or cream tea! There was a lot of chat sitting in beautiful surroundings in the sunshine, a really enjoyable day.

Our next meeting will be at 7.30pm on 17th September and we will be back in Broad Town Village hall. It is a members evening when we will be reviewing good books, lovely places to visit, good places to eat etc. New members are always welcome. Call Jane on 01793 731105 for more information.

 

 Highclere Castle or the now famous 'Downton Abbey'.

 

 

 Afternoon tea and cakes in the beautiful surroundings of Highclere Castle.

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