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MFWI Updates

Happy Birthday – October 2021

October is a massive month for WI birthdays in Middlesex Federation.

Happy birthday to all these WIs!

We want to know how your WI is celebrating in 2021
Please share with us!

HA 01 October 2012

Stow Roses   02 October 2013

Ashford Evening 03 October 1984

The Alexandra 05 October 2010

Stone Rangers 08 October 2014

Greenefielde 09 October 1956

Hanwell 09 October 2013

Bedfont Belles 10 October 2014

Shoreditch Sisters 11 October 2007

Hampton 11 October 2011

West Hampstead 13 October 2011

West Drayton 14 October 1919

Halliford 16 October 1922

Pinner 16 October 1968

Laleham 22 October 1935

N1 24 October 2006

Manor Farm 27 October 1972

Twickenham 27 October 1988

Happy Birthday – September 2021

 

Happy birthday to just one Middlesex Institute celebrating its birthday
this month

West Ealing         27 September 2011

Cow Byre Craft Exhibition: back for 2021

Cow Byre Craft Exhibition now on – 15-20 August 2021

We take Cow Byre Exhibition space on the Manor Farm Complex in Ruislip on an annual basis and… we’re back in 2021!

Our exhibition will be held from 15-20 August and everyone’s welcome to come and browse our handiwork and view demonstrations.

The 2020 exhibition was cancelled due to Covid-19 however we are back here exhibiting in 2021.

You can find the Manor Farm Complex on Pinn Way in Ruislip, HA4 7QL: come and say hello!

 

MFWI Annual Meeting 2021

For the second year running, our Middlesex Federation Annual Council Meeting was held online, following a poll of our members. It was disappointing for us in our centenary year, but our members’ wellbeing is always our highest priority. In addition, we were thrilled to have several guests from NFWI and other Federations, something meeting online allows us to do with such ease: it was lovely to see you all!

Middlesex Chair Lorraine Reed-Wenman welcomed Zoom attendees and spoke of the challenges of the past year, while Treasurer Sarah Endersby presented the Financial Report and Anna East reported on the year in Public Affairs.

We were thrilled to have two excellent and engaging guest speakers. Newly-elected NFWI Chair Ann Jones. Ann, a dual member of Llanddewi Brefi and Tregaron WIs, Ceredigion Federation. Ann, who grew up in a Welsh speaking household, reminded us that the NFWI brings together the women of England and Wales. I think we were all impressed with her warmth and welcome and look forward to her term as Chair.

Our principle speaker was Dr Katy Willis, a general practitioner and Ambassador for charity Hope for Justice, an international charity which exists to bring an end to modern slavery by preventing exploitation, rescuing victims, restoring lives, and reforming society. Katy provided an excellent summary of the issue, which was adopted as a WI resolution in 2020, reminding us of the various types of slavery, and how we can identify potential cases in our communities.

Thank you to everyone who attended: we hope you enjoyed it as much as we did.

Our in-person Centenary ACM is now planned for March 2022 to round off our Centenary year, and we’re all certainly very much looking forward to it!

200+ Club – June Winners

Congratulations to our
June 200+ Club winners!

1st prize – £35

Dallas Barnes-Hughes, Halliford

2nd prize – £20

Sarah Endersby, Sunbury on Thames

3rd prize – £15

Christine Newell, Hillingdon

Interested in joining?

Keep your eye out in your email for the application form for the next 200+ Club year: applications close 30 September 2021.

 

Happy Birthday – July & August 2021

Birthday cake

There are no Middlesex birthdays in the summer months of July and August: guess we were all too busy doing summery things to be setting up Women’s Institutes!

 

Annual Council Meeting – 22 July 2021

This event will go ahead online rather than face to face and will be in place of our planned Centenary Council Meeting for this year. This was as a result of the poll we asked you to complete; thanks to all who gave their input.

An agenda will be sent out nearer the time but will include speakers from NFWI, Hope For Justice on Modern Slavery and our own Representatives.

Don’t worry, we are still looking at holding the ‘real’ Centenary ACM, before the end of our Centenary year (March 2022): more details to follow in due course.

How do I book?

We are still in uncertain times, so we will not be going down the usual route of booking via your WIs but will be using Try Booking (a bit like Eventbrite) for our event.

Please click here or copy/paste this link into your browser and follow the prompts:

https://www.trybooking.co.uk/BBVY.

The link will take you directly to the MFWI ACM Event where you can book tickets for yourself and/or a group of you completely free of any charges. You will need to have access to the internet, whether it be on your own or with a group of friends (dependant on the government guidelines at the time of course).

The confirmation email you get will have the zoom link and details for you to join us on the day. The ticketing system will be open up until a couple of days before the event so you have plenty of time to organise yourselves, book a place and join us from the comfort of your own home.

We look forward to seeing you on 22 July!

 

Federation Training Update

I attended the recent Federation-run training session for Presidents and Secretaries on Zoom which was incredibly insightful.

We learned about how to run our WI as well as where to find information and documents we may need on My WI, which I had never really used before then.

It was great to see so many Presidents and Secretaries from WIs across the Federation attending and we were able to have a discussion about other aspects of running our WI from emails to social media.

From this discussion there were a few WIs who felt they would benefit from having an additional session centred around social media and it was agreed that this would be arranged in order to assist those who need it.

I thoroughly enjoy attending sessions like this as we can all learn from each other and get ideas to take forward to our own WIs.

If you interested in future training sessions, please contact Secretary@mfwi.org.uk.

Happy Birthday – June 2021

Birthday cake

A happy birthday to our Middlesex WIs celebrating in June.

Southbourne       03 June 1953

Greenford            11 June 1985

Hayes Town        17 June 1993

Stanmore            18 June 2018

200+ Club Winners – April 2021

Congratulations to the winners of our April 2021 200+ Club draw!

1st prize – £35

Pinner WI

2nd prize – £20

Margaret Wootton, Bedfont Belles

3rd prize – £15

Kath Davis, Greenford