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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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Scratch Choir Workshop

Anne posted on March 14, 2013 15:08

A very successful Scratch Choir workshop was held in February @ Broad Hinton Village hall. Organised by BROAD TOWN WI - 32 ladies (and some of their partners) enjoyed 2 hours of wonderful singing led by 3 enthusiastic scratch choir leaders - Linda Lee, Vicky Sweeney and Kate Rowe.

Without any auditions or much practice we were soon singing in wonderful harmony much to the surprise and delight of many of us. This really was singing for fun and was hugely inspiring. The songs were learnt by repetition - singing in groups with the guidance of voice leaders, and then we joined the groups together to sing the whole song.  The repertoire ranged from Beach Boys, Phil Spector, African tribal, Russian and was a wonderful mix. A short break in the middle of the afternoon gave us time to enjoy some lovely WI cakes and a well-earned cup of tea.

 A big thank you to Beatrice Brazier who coordinated the whole event and to our inspirational choir leaders from SWINDON SCRATCH CHOIR for a fantastic afternoon.

If you would like to get involved in singing for fun then look up Swindon Scratch Choir www.swindonscratchchoir.co.uk

 

 


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