2017
Spring Council Meeting (SCM) April 12 2017
I’m looking forward to meeting many of you at the Spring Council meeting, make your bookings as soon as possible, but even if you don’t get this Message Board until after the closing date do enquire at the office for spare seats. Don’t miss Mandy Hickson!
Reminder - ‘Save Denman’ Fundraising - Don’t forget those laundered Scarves for sale at the SCM.
2018 Calendars. We are trying something new this year.
In the past the Delegate who attends the SCM is asked to take a preview calendar back to their WI and the remainder are mailed out to WIs. Each WI is normally asked to purchase at least one calendar. In response to your comments, we will be providing a A3 preview sheet only as an example and asking WIs to order calendars once their members have had chance to see the preview sheet.
Join Devon’s email programme
Sheena McDonald, our web editor, has informed me that she has had a good response to last month’s invitation to join our email programme. In case you missed it, the enclosure has been repeated this month.
Be part of this great project!
Making Devon Federation Dementia Friendly
A number of WIs in Devon have been embracing the Dementia Friendly concept by inviting Heather Penwarden or one of the other Dementia Champions to speak to your WI and then some of you have become Dementia Friends. Others, such as Silverton WI have gone a step further and have opened their own Memory Café.
The Board of Trustees would now like to determine if the Devon Federation as a whole would like to become a Dementia Friendly organisation.
Heather has agreed to be Chairman of a small steering committee and we are to inviting members who are interested in joining this committee to contact Heather at heather.penwarden@devonwi.org.uk.
We anticipate the committee would only meet every few months over the next couple of years and would look at what is happening already in the Federation, and share ideas via the Devon newsletter, website and Facebook. In addition the committee will investigate other ideas that the Federation or WIs could use to help their members who have memory problems and even set up a dementia resource area on our website.
DFWI 2020 Questionnaire
We had a nearly 70% response rate to our questionnaire, thank you to all the WIs who took part.
There was an overwhelming preference for the large event in 2020 to take place in June, but the preferences for weekday versus weekend were much closer but with the majority happy to attend either, so the final choice will have to be determined by availability of a large enough venue.
Media Support Group
Are you interested in social media, computers, websites, development of the newsletter? This new group might be just for you. Help us to take the Federation forward. Check out the full details in the March Devon Newsletter.
Lots to get your teeth into this month, don't miss out!
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