Our craft group focused on making Christmas decorations for our stall at the Brockenhurst Christmas Fun Evening on 2nd December. Carole had made salt dough so Maureen and Julie got busy with rolling pins and cutters and made a variety of decorations. Carole, Gina, Evelyn and Corinne got cutting and sewing to make some lovely felt decorations. Ann H had got the ball rolling and … Continue reading October Craft Group (Part 1)
Janice sends her thanks to everyone for their generosity in knitting and donating for Hats off for Ukraine. It was received very gratefully when she took all that she was given down to The Hub at Ampress Lane. These hats were previously delivered from Brockenhurst WI New Forest for Ukraine are appealing for thick knitted hats and scarves from those who are happy to knit.Donations … Continue reading Hats Off for Ukraine
We met this month for our meeting at The Village Hall. The competition of the month for this month was to make Christmas Tree decorations. We received a good selection and money was raised by voting with silver coins for our charity ACWW. The craft group brought along some of the July New Forest Show entries so that members could be encouraged to enter … Continue reading October’s Meeting and Press Report
Here is a round-up of our forthcoming activities for October: On Monday 10th October we have our monthly meeting upstairs at Brockenhurst Village Hall. The speaker is Mrs E Barron MBE and the talk is entitles “in Grandpa’s Footsteps”. Janice will have a table for anyone who has kindly donated knitted hats for her ‘Hats Off for Ukraine’ campaign. She will then deliver them to … Continue reading October Activities
On 30th September, Ann H led the craft group in Iris folding, a paper folding technique. Maureen, Sue and Corrine attended this session. As you can see from the photos, the results are superb! All three now want to do tea bag folding which Ann has demonstrated before. Thank you for hosting this Ann. The next craft group session will be held on: We will … Continue reading September Craft Group
On Friday 16th September members of Brockenhurst WI and one guest met at Carole’s house to plan for the coming months. We looked at ideas of Christmas Decorations for our stall at the Brockenhurst fun evening in December and this is something we will work on in the next couple of months. We welcome more members to help us with this, either at our Craft … Continue reading September Craft Group
Our lovely member Janice has had a great idea! Janice realised that many Ukrainian people have left their homes with what they can carry. With winter approaching, people living in Ukraine are going to be feeling the cold. So Janice has been busy knitting hats that she has donated to New Forest for Ukraine. At our September meeting, Janice asked for more members to join … Continue reading Hats off for Ukraine
Despite the terrible sadness of Her Majesty the Queen’s death our meeting went ahead. The Queen was a member of the Sandringham and West Newton WI since 1943. After Jerusalem and a minute’s silence, we sang the National Anthem. It was a busy meeting as we had our “Glorious Gords” competition judged by last year’s winner, Di Fletcher. This year’s winner was Liz Wingham, with … Continue reading September Meeting
Rather than doing separate posts for our activities, this month we are going to trial doing one post that covers all the activities for the month. Dates of these and all our activities are also on our “Diary Dates” page. Monthly Meeting Our meeting is on Monday 12th September. The subject is Violette Szabo GC and the speaker is Jeremy Prescot. At Brockenhurst Village Hall 7pm … Continue reading September Activities
Brockenhurst WI are having a stall at Brockenhurst Green Day on Saturday 10th July. Many local and New Forest groups and businesses are taking part in this day and it is promising to become a very interesting and educational Eco fair. It is being held at St Saviours Church garden on Saturday 10th July from 12 noon to 4pm The WI Sub-committee for this event has come … Continue reading Brockenhurst Green Day
Brockenhurst Women's Institute 