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.
Broad Town Women's Institute - Events and Plans
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The Summer walk is on Wednesday 16th August.  It will start at 6.30pm with a pub meal afterwards at 7.30pm. It is a short walk round the lakes at...

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July Meeting 2017
For our meeting in July we enjoyed a demonstration of Indian cooking by Savita Ladva who is a friend of one of our members. Savita was both educationa...

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June Meeting 2017
For our meeting this month we went to visit Allington Grange’s garden in Allington. This is a National Garden Scheme garden which was opened spe...

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Our speaker in May was Alistair Garrard. Alistair is a former RAF Dog Handler and Trainer. He told us how after he joined the RAF he spent some time a...

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Our speaker in April was Fred the Forager, aka Fred Gillan, who teaches people how to forage for wild plants, he also runs a herbal dispensary. Fred t...

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March Meeting 2017
Our speaker in March was Sue Dunmore from Swindon Volunteering.  She gave an informative talk explaining the history of volunteering, which start...

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Musical Extravaganza
BTWI swapped Wiltshire for London's theatre land and visited the West End premiere of The Girls. The musical is based on the 2003 Calendar Girls f...

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February Meeting 2017
In February we had a first aid demonstration given by Kevin Dickens from the St John Ambulance.  He showed us how to deal with an unconscious pat...

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In January our speaker was Janet Bultitude a Graphologist.  She gave an interesting talk about what our handwriting shows about our characters.&n...

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Current Committee 2017
President: Dawn Flynn Secretary: - Lesley Mosley and Annette Moore Treasurer: - Beatrice Brazier Committee:- Chris Chandler If you would...

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