Brixham WI on Tour from Churston library via Broadsands back to Brixham. Lovely walk, excellent company, thank you Hilary Bligh, Tina Hemmings Wendy Parr Sue England Sue Martin Yvonne Lovell Jean Bartlett Mary Williams and Gail Baggaridge

Next week crazy golf!

Next week’s programme: 

Monday meet for The 10.30 am bus for a walk from Broadsands back to Brixham. (Crazy golf has been put forward a week for purely selfish reasons)

Tuesday 11 am meet at The Railway Inn for coffee

Thursday 8.30 am swim

We have another lovely family few days ahead, so I am afraid I shall miss the walk and the coffee again! Have a great time! 

 What will Brixham WI members do this week?

Monday 10.30 am meet at the bus station for a walk somewhere!

Tuesday 10.30 meet at the Man and Boy for a Brixham walk

Thursday 8.30 am swim at the Admiral Pool

Have lots of fun! We have visitors, so I will not be joining you!

 Four Sew Monday lap quilts being wrapped up ready to send off to NHAP, a Facebook group which sends sewing, knitted and crocheted items to hospitals, care homes, refuges…. All sorts across the country. 

 https://www.denman.org.uk/at-home/courses/online-course-card-making-with-liz-back-to-basics-2022-01-24-160000/

Denman

Card Making with Liz - Back to Basics!

The designs and techniques which will be covered during this session need no special equipment or tools and will enable you to create beautiful cards to be proud of.

 

You have the opportunity to attend our excellent national Annual Meeting, via zoom for only £5! This is a brilliant chance to get a view of our big picture, find out about the organisation you have joined as a WI member! It will take place on June 11th and we have to book the ticket right now! Take my word for it! The Annual Meeting is worth it! Get in touch with me or Wendy Mac today!

 Such a wonderful day for a marvellous walk with super company! Thank you all for a really great start to the week! Another fabulous walk is planned for next week!

Gail Baggaridge, Hilary Bligh, Sue England, Tina Hemmings, Mary Williams, Yvonne Lovell, Jean Bartlett, Sue Martin and Wendy Parr

We shall also have a crazy golf tournament on Monday 31st January - weather permitting! If I remember correctly, Sue Martin currently holds the championship cup after last year’s Cayman Golf and crazy golf in Goodrington Park!

 This coming week, for your sheer enjoyment, Brixham WI members, we have:

Monday: 10.30 meet at the bus station. Bus to Waterside, walk from Goodrington into Paignton.

Tuesday: 10.30 meet at the Man and Boy statue for a Brixham walk

Wednesday: THERE WILL BE NO MEETING! (Should this come as a surprise to you, please read last week’s email from Brixham WI)

Thursday: 8.30 swim at the Admiral Pool

The results of our voting on the shortlisted resolutions:

 fit for purpose for girls 0, 

appropriate sentencing for non violent women offenders 3, 

equality in law for the menopause 3, 

Appropriate support for women and girls with ASD & ADHD 3, 

Tackling digital exclusion  7.

Thank you all for your participation. 

What shall we do this year!

 

The WI (National Federation of Women's Institutes)

19h  · 

Get involved in Show the Love 2022!

The WI is kick-starting our climate campaigns this year with Show the Love 2022.

The UK Government came out of the COP26 UN Climate Summit with a big to-do list.

This February 2022, we must all come together to make sure they deliver on their promises and plans.

There are two ways you can get involved in Show the Love 2022.

You can use your green hearts to ask your MP to keep up the momentum on climate change. This can be done through sending your MP a green heart affixed to your Show the Love postcard, or by presenting them with green hearts through an in-person or virtual meeting.

Using you, or your WI’s creative skills, you can make, wear and spread green hearts around your community to make visible to your MP your wish for the pledges made at COP26 to be acted on in Parliament. The more green hearts MPs see in their constituency, the stronger their mandates to make sure your wishes are acted on in Parliament.

There are a range of resources available to help you with your Show the Love 2022 plans, including the action pack, policy briefings to use when meeting your MP, craft templates; including a new green heart craft from Patrick Grant from The Great British Sewing Bee, and downloadable postcards.

You can access these resources here:  https://www.theclimatecoalition.org/show-the-love?fbclid=IwAR0onuY3LIv5h7YoYCsgDjn0J86yHPgysQZgUwXHMmx66Yhh70U_RSX244s

As a WI member, you will be receiving a postcard for your use in February’s WI Life.

In addition, the NFWI Public Affairs team have a very limited number of physical packs and postcards available. Should you or your WI need any physical action packs or postcards, please contact pa@nfwi.org.uk

Here is something very different from Denman on line! Open to everyone, not just WI members!

It’s that time of the year for a warm wool beret. Join Sue to make a cosy handmade felt beret. Decorate it with needle felt or some appliquéd motifs or even make it sophisticated by adding seed pearls or pearl buttons. This is an easy introduction into making a felt hat using soft merino wool.

https://www.denman.org.uk/at-home/courses/online-course-make-a-felt-beret-with-sue-2022-01-18-12000

The WI (National Federation of Women's Institutes)

We want to hear from you! Share your views on the delivery of our strategic vision.

We aim to be an organisation of choice for all women, building on our past successes and the strength of our current membership and influence to ensure a sustainable and strong future for the WI.

We continually review how we are performing and appreciate feedback from WI members to support the NFWI Board of Trustees and staff team in monitoring and delivering on our strategic objectives.

This is your organisation and we want to hear your views and your experience of the WI so we can continually improve and develop what we offer.

If you’d like to share your views, please complete the feedback form on our website which includes an overview of our vision statements:

 https://www.thewi.org.uk/give-your-feedback?fbclid=IwAR2-42I6RGOL71B59jHo5lF5dkjR8EHIHifOj4zpZWuaeur1NqM2sce12_8

 You have received the January email, Brixham WI members! Please consider which resolution you will vote for! This is an integral part of the WI:

The very first WI resolution was passed in 1918 at the NFWI’s second Annual Meeting and called for a ‘sufficient supply of convenient and sanitary houses, being of vital importance to women in the country’.

We have made a difference in many aspects of our life - take a look here to find out more: https://www.thewi.org.uk/campaigns/100-years-of-wi-campaigns

 Brixham WI members, please use your vote! Look in the last edition of WI Life, or look at www.thewi.org.uk where you will find the shortlist from which you make your choice. Wendy Mac, our secretary will send your votes to Devon Federation. I will ask for your vote in the January WI email, coming to an in-box near you soon!

 Book Share members!

A Street Car Named Desire - will be discussed at the Golf Club at 2pm on Thursday instead of the Railway Inn. (Just a bit further along the road).

oh no! It was a Street Cat Named Bob, wasn’t it? 😹😹😹

 What a brilliant walk today, with lovely company and a change of scene. We finished at the Golf Club for a very good cup of coffee! Most of the party walked home, too! Thank you to Jean and Hilary!

There is a walk tomorrow as well, starting from the Man and Boy statue as usual at 10.30 - the Brixham Walk! Sue England Jean Bartlett Tina Hemmings Mary Williams Hilary Bligh Wendy Parr

 For this week’s activities, Brixham WI members, we have:

Monday 10.30am meet at the bus station to go to Churston Bridge and walk from there.

2pm committee meeting

Thursday 8.30am meet at the Admiral Pool for a swim

2pm Book Share group meet at The Railway Inn

At the end of a walk last November!

 Advance notice of a slight change for our walkers!

Instead of walking on Tuesday, we are changing to Monday at 10.30 am.

Also! The walks will be more varied!

Still very sociable, still not a route march and still ending up with a hot drink somewhere! 

You will need to bring your bus pass!

#BrixhamWIontour

 Some of us braved the cold wind for a walk this morning! Thank you all for your lovely company, it was great to see you all and have a chat! I forgot to take a photo of us; but rest assured that we looked very wind swept and interesting!

i hope those who met for a coffee at the Railway Inn had a good catch up, too!

 As a result of your answers to my question about our monthly coffee morning: it seems that it will go ahead but with probably fewer people!

A number of people would be happy to walk instead - so maybe there will be a walk from the Man and Boy statue at 10.30 for some and a coffee morning at 11 at the Railway Inn for the others.

If you said you would go to the coffee morning, please do - otherwise it would be awful for only one person to turn up!

 Good Morning, Brixham wI members, on the first Sunday of 2022! What to do this week?

Shall we meet at The Railway Inn on Tuesday at 11am?

According to the figures today, Covid and Omicron numbers in our area are rising! Do you still want to drink coffee together?

Shall we swim at the Admiral Pool from 8.30 am on Thursday?

Please let me know: yes or no? Which?

Happy and Healthy 2022 to all of our Brixham WI members!