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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At our March meeting, the WI presented David Scattergood a volunteer for the Wiltshire Air Ambulance Charitable Trust (WAACT) with a cheque for £150. After his thanks David gave us an interesting talk about the work of this worthwhile cause. The Wiltshire Air Ambulance started fully as a joint venture with the police in 1990. The leased helicopter, 6 paramedics, 4 pilots and police observers are all based at Devizes and the WAACT contribution towards running costs is £700,000. The ambulance can get to any incident in Wiltshire within 11 minutes and last year they attended 629 incidents which included 126 road traffic, 85 sports related, 146 heart attacks, 21 paediatric collapses. They also pioneered the use of defibrillators while in flight which is now used by other air ambulances. This successful joint venture with the police ends in October 2014 when a national police service is to be introduced. It will then cost two and a half million pounds to keep the ambulance in the air! David encouraged anyone interested in volunteering time or as a fundraiser to look at the website www.wiltshireairambulance.co.uk.

 Next month, on Wednesday 17 April, Thomas Plant (with Hugo Marsh) is coming to give a talk and value antiques. Tickets have sold well but there are still a few left. We would like to raise as much money as possible for the 5 – 18 Counselling Project whilst at the same time have an enjoyable evening - £10 per ticket to include refreshments. (Tickets available from Kate Orton 01793 731536 or Michelle Sanders 01793 731357)

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