WI County News DECEMBER 2021 8pp

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Trustee Topics

FEDERATION OFFICE The newly formed Community Projects Committee
has been busy over the past few months. We all know
SCFWI, 344 Bristol Road how hard lockdowns have been for ordinary families
Bridgwater TA6 4BU but for the young people living in YMCA’s across the
01278 496400 County, it has been exceptionally difficult. Unable to
mix with other residents, confined to groups of maybe
Email: [email protected] 10, not allowed out. The staff at the various residences have done their utmost to
www.womens-institute.org.uk/somerset keep the young people safe. More than ever your donations of towels, bed linen,
kitchen utensils and toiletries have helped the staff who have been unable to fund
OFFICE OPEN raise in the usual way. Some of the YMCA’s support families and have over the
past 18 months housed people who had nowhere else to turn to. Handmade items
9.30am - 3.30pm, Mon - Thurs and home baked cakes have also been much appreciated.
Closed Friday
We have made deliveries to four large YMCA’s across the County. They then
Federation Secretary distribute your donations to other locations, including Yeovil, Street and Taunton.
Casey Worrall We hope to make another delivery in March 2022.

Federation Administrator Hazel Hillman continues with deliveries of hand-made items to hospitals, care
Judith Laughton homes, special schools and is looking for new recipients for the beautiful items
you have made.
COUNTY NEWS
None of the above would be possible without you, our members.
Editor
Annie Makepeace At this time of year our attention is turning to Christmas Shoeboxes. We hope we
will have enough boxes to provide the YMCA’s, Women’s Refuge and the Village
Email Agent Network.

[email protected] We are looking for new projects to support in the New Year, so please, if you
Tel: 01823 433393 have a favourite charity that the WI could support in some way, we are open to
suggestions.
Advertising Assistant
and Gallery Co-ordinator Thank you for your support and enthusiasm.

Laura Balkwill With the festive season approaching, we can only hope that Christmas 2021 and
Email New Year 2022 will be better for us all.

[email protected] Jo Stewart, Chair of Community Projects [email protected]
Tel: 07860 531998

Editorial for COUNTY NEWS
must be received by the 1st of the 200+ CLUB WINNERS
November
month preceding each issue,
by Email if possible to the Editor 125, Angela Bunting
Binegar WI £15
or typewritten copy and printed
photographs to the Federation Office 143, Patricia Du Pontet
Bishops Hull WI £10
address at top of this page
Dear Members,
THERE IS NO ISSUE IN AUGUST I am so honoured and pleased to share my good news, the Board of Trustees has voted me
in as County Chairman for a second year. The County Chairman role is usually for 3 years,
Advertising and but is voted on each year after the Annual Meeting. I look forward to working alongside
Gallery pictures my fellow trustees in the year ahead.
I would be pleased to come along and join you all at your meetings and I’m looking forward
Advertising and Gallery must reach the to getting out and about. I have already accepted several invitations for 2022. Also please
Advertising Assistant by the 1st of come and see the new County Office, give Casey a call and she will arrange a time for you.
the month preceding each issue If I am free I will be there to say ‘hello’.
As we said at the Annual Meeting, please do let us know what events you would like us to
Lineage: Cost per word arrange, or come in and see us, join a committee. Would you be interested in joining the
18p for WI members Board of Trustees? If so, let us know.
30p for non-members Christmas is not far away. I wish you all a very Happy Christmas and best wishes to you
and yours for the New Year.
(or advertisements placed on behalf Teresa Hemms
of non-members.) [email protected]

Display: Rates and sizes upon
application to the Advertising Assistant

SCFWI does not accept responsibility
for goods or services advertised in

COUNTY NEWS

2 December 2021

Food & Garden

Chair: Annie Makepeace

Saturday, 26th March, 2022

Walton Village Hall
Meadow Lane, Walton, Street BA16 9LA

Come and enjoy an afternoon tea
of dainty sandwiches, scones and jam,
Victoria sponge and delicious cakes.

Listen to Yvonne Bell’s
fascinating talk on gardens

in Edwardian times

£1C5o.s0t 0
member £1C7o.s0t0

non member

Walton Village Hall

Apply to the Office by 12th March

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We need pictures to fill our gallery - please send digital pictures to the Editor at [email protected]

Horton and District WI were entertained with an
evening of seated pompom dancing by Tina Backwill

Glastonbury WI having fun with seated pompom Sampford Arundel WI enjoyed a guided walk with Ann and Reg Hendy through the 40
dancing! acre Middle Hill Farm/Langford Lakes Christmas Tree Farm, Langford Budville.

Walton WI enjoying a visit to the almshouses in Wells in August.
4 December 2021

om or prints to SCFWI, 344 Bristol Road, Bridgwater TA6 4BU. We will print as many as we can each month!

Shepton Mallet WI visited The Royal Mint and Cardiff in September. Trull Trendles WI had their first indoor meeting in
September with a talk about dementia (though it looks as
if someone was prepared for the outdoors!)

At the Taunton Deane Divas WI meeting in October the Tatworth WI members Angela Long, Liz Terry and Stella Marks planted narcissus
theme was witches and pumpkins which tied in nicely bulbs purchased from the WI Bulb Scheme at Tatworth Memorial Hall in October.
with our talk about Witches in Somerset.

Members of Knoll Group enjoyed a holiday in Llandudno. The entertainment East Chinnock WI hosted a very successful musical quiz.
was Roger Reeves, singer and comedian, who was excellent. December 2021 5

WE ARE SO SORRY! 2023
Photographic
Apologies to Walton WI whose picture in
the Gallery pages of November County Calendar
News was incorrectly captioned. Competition

The picture of five lovely Walton WI ladies The subject for the WI 2023
should have read:
Somerset County Calendar

Photographic Competition is

Walton WI ladies visited Coxley Manor on a THE UNITED KINGDOM ‘Somerset Towns
very hot day back in June. After a tour of the SOCIETY OF CELEBRANTS & Villages’
lovely gardens they had tea and cake, sheltered
from the sun. Send to SCFWI, 344 Bristol Road,

Meeting room for Hire Bridgwater TA6 4BU

SCFWI, 344 Bristol Road, Bridgwater TA6 4BU by the end of January 2022

We have a pleasant and comfortable meeting room to suit up to The MCS
10 people available for hire at our SCFWI headquarters
at 344 Bristol Road, Bridgwater. The MCS system is the Membership
We also have a conservatory suitable for larger numbers Communication System. It is a
Disabled access and WC – Kitchen facilities included secure online database of each
member’s details, such as address
£5 per hour for WI members, and contact details and is used by
£7.50 per hour for non-members NFWI to send out a copy of WI Life to
every member.
For more information contact Casey on
Hence, it is very important that it is kept
[email protected] up-to-date so that new members receive
or ring 01278 496400 their WI Life and copies are not wasted by
being sent to those who are no longer WI
Want to advertise? members. Every WI should have an MCS
representative to update the system as
Please contact Laura Balkwill on necessary.
[email protected] or telephone 07860 531998
WI members must be registered on the
MCS system with an email address in order
to access MyWI and keep abreast of the
latest WI information. MyWI also features
stories, blogs, campaign news, crafts,
cookery, competitions and activities so
access is definitely recommended.

Anne Chadwick

Chair of Membership

Forthcoming Events for your Diary

EVENT DATES VENUE CLOSING CN ISSUE
SCFWI Carol Festival 8 Dec Wells Cathedral P1
November
Crocodile Lunch 23 Feb ’22 Monkton Inn, West Monkton, Taunton
24 Jan ’22 Page 1

Edwardian Tea and Talk 26 Mar ’22 Walton Village Hall, Street 12 Mar ’22 Page 3

PLEASE COMPLETE BOOKING FORM (available from your secretary) AND RETURN TO 344, BRISTOL ROAD

6 December 2021

Community Projects

Chair: Jo Stewart

Ambassadors: Hazel Hillman, Mendip and Margaret Lomax, Taunton

Hello ladies

Hopefully, by now I will have met up with
some of you at the Annual Meeting.

Thank you for all your 'goodies' collected
at the Meeting, which will be listed in the
next edition.

Thank you to:

Chewton Mendip WI – for oncology
heart cushions

Litton and Hinton Blewett WI – for
blankets and hand puppets

I have delivered to the RUH Breast Care
Unit and West Mendip Hospital.

Recently, I met up with Jaci Elliott, of
Evercreech WI. I was pleased to catch
up with her work with Project Linus UK,
of which Jaci is a Co-ordinator. Her area
covers Yeovil, Taunton, Langport and
Illminster.

‘A Quilt is a Hug you can Keep’ – what
a lovely motto! Project Linus helps to
provide comfort and security for babies,
children and teenagers who are sick,
disabled, distressed or disadvantaged.

I was able to tell Jaci that through
Community Projects, Somerset
Federation WI members (you!) are
already helping with special schools, care
homes, hospitals and dementia patients,
but I was pleased to be able to give her
some of your knitted and crochet blankets
for sick and vulnerable children.

Jaci told me she is needing quilts, square Jaci Elliott, Evercreech WI
or rectangular, 36" x 48" which can be
used as a bed top, cuddle quilt or play mat.

Can you help her? If you would like to
make a quilt, sewn or knitted, then we
can get them to her (while not forgetting
our well established projects).

KEEP UP THE GOOD
WORK YOU ARE
DOING LADIES –

EVERYTHING YOU
MAKE GOES TO
'A GOOD HOME'

Wishing you all a Very Happy Christmas.
I look forward to meeting up again in
2022.

Keep safe and well

Hazel

A months worth of work by
the Evercreech Linus group

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344 Transformed!

Work is now completed and our new HQ looks amazing!

8 December 2021