Tuesday Craft afternoon

January Tuesday afternoon craft session was a great success! Thank you to Anj and Jenny B for organising, and to our tutors, Cathy and Zoë.

Everyone enjoyed it and produced some fab results.

Thank you to all the furniture movers!

With apologies if I didn’t take a photo of your creation.

Next one is on Tuesday 24th February. Organised by Barbara.

Conservation with LotE

 

What’s On?

 Another busy week ahead - all welcome to join in with each activity, just let the organiser know! 

A message from our membership officer

In April the new WI year starts,  and in most years a few women do not renew their membership.   In case of that happening,  we would like to ask for expressions of interest for women who would like to join us. This will give you the opportunity to come to a couple of meetings before the year starts, to let you see if you like us.
As our meeting is on the afternoon of  3rd Wednesday of the month, it is important that you have that afternoon free so that you can fully participate in our community.  

Membership fees for 2026/27 are £54. 

Look after your heart! ❤️

 The WI (National Federation of Women's Institutes)

In the spirit of Valentine’s season, as part of our Bystanders Can Be Lifesavers campaign activities we are excited to host our webinar: ‘Put your heart first this Valentine's: Everyday habits for lifelong heart health’, taking place on Friday 13 February, 12:00-13:00pm.

This webinar will focus on ways to nurture your most important muscle, your heart. Learn simple, evidence-based lifestyle habits that can strengthen your cardiovascular health and promote you long-term wellbeing. We will hear from healthcare experts on the importance of nutrition, physical activity, stress management, and preventative care, as well as quick tricks for how to easily increase your heart resilience in your everyday routine.

You can register here: https://learninghub.thewi.org.uk/at-home/courses/wellness-put-your-heart-first-this-valentines-everyday-habits-for-lifelong-heart-health

Conservation

 A message to those of us who are interested to continue working with the LotE project: next event is 29th January, 1.15 at Shoalstone Pool - please refer to the previously published poster for all details.

If you are interested, please follow the instruction below.

More support from Brixham for Ukraine

This is from an email received from John Brennan of Brixham Future CIC

 “For your interest, a Brixham Future CIC initiative, in conjunction with Brixham Fishermen, is finding a new use for redundant fishing nets to help Ukrainians defend themselves.  The nets will be extremely useful on the ground as anti-drone netting and camouflage.  This initiative will prevent nets being abandoned at sea as disposal costs on land are high and this is a very beneficial way to recycle nets.  Brixham Future, which has delivered several vehicles of aid to Ukraine, collected four dumpy bags of nets from Brixham Harbour on Friday 16th of January 2026, thanks to local fishermen and Torbay Harbour authorities.  The team at the harbour were very accommodating and we hope that there will now be a regular supply.”