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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May Meeting 2014

Anne posted on May 15, 2014 14:41

May’s meeting was held at Toomers Garden Centre near Lydiard Millicent. Nigel demonstrated how to make moss hanging basket filled with trailing begonias, lobelia, pelargoniums, geraniums, fuchsias, surfinas, verbena and marigolds. It was amazing how many plants fitted into a 14’’ basket. The finished basket was raffled and £40 raised for a Meningitis charity. We then had tea and some delicious and very generous pieces of cake and a chance to buy some plants some of which were really unusual.

Next month we are hoping to have a golf taster session.

If you would be interested in joining the WI we meet on the third Wednesday of the month at Broad Town village hall. For more information please phone Jane on 01793 731105.

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May Meeting 2014

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