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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This month we had our annual summer outing. Eighteen of us went to Kelmscott Manor, near Lechlade, the country home of William Morris.  We had a ...

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July Meeting 2015
This month we had a very entertaining talk by Georgie Jefferies.  She has spent time working at the Living Rainforest near Newbury and described ...

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June Meeting 2015
This month our speaker was Norman Jeffrey who is the Gloucestershire County Organiser for the National Gardens Scheme.  He told us the history of...

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This month our speaker was Ged Fitzgerald and he advised us on 'How to Stay Safe on the Internet'.   He explained the necessity of having st...

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Our April meeting was a follow on from last February's meeting where Dr Simon Manchip talked to us about Dementia.  This year Alison Bucknell a '...

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The National Centenary celebrations at the Steam Museum, Swindon on the 25th March 2015
Three members went to the national Centenary celebrations at the Steam Museum, Swindon on the 25th March 2015. Organised by the Wiltshire Federation, ...

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We started our March meeting with a very enjoyable t’ai chi session run by Faith Smith. Following refreshments we continued the evening with ou...

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February Meeting 2015
As our planned speaker was unavailable we invited Angela Hughes to talk to us, at very short notice, for which we were very grateful. Angela has work...

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January Meeting 2015
At January’s meeting we discussed and voted on a shortlist of seven diverse resolutions. These will go before the National Federations Centennia...

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Resources
www.thewi.org.uk Wiltshire federation: WI House,17 Couch Lane Devizes,Wiltshire, SN10 1EB Tel:01380 739 340 Denman College Marcham, Abingdon, Oxf...

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