East Dulwich WI

10/02/2020

Join your local girl gang! 💜

The WI plays a unique role in providing women with educational opportunities and the chance to build new skills, to take part in a wide variety of activities and to campaign on issues that matter to them and their communities.

Check us out on the front cover of the WI membership leaflet, with our summer Croquet and Picnic being just one of our brilliant events.

We're open to new members and joining information can be found on our website at:-

http://www.eastdulwichwi.co.uk.

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09/02/2020

This month, our Book Club are reading "The Unmapped Country: Stories & Fragments" by Ann Quin. Grab your copy and join them for great chat, great company and a great curry at The Jaflong, 42 East Dulwich Road SE22 9AX @7.30pm, on Monday 24th February 2020.

New readers welcome!

09/02/2020

Our meeting this month was about the constellations which the star signs are based upon. It was a fascinating talk by astronomer, Tom Kerss, and just another reason why you should join your local girl gang.

The WI has over 6,500 branches offering a wide variety of activities to women across the country.

If you haven't already done so, please remember to renew your subscription for 2020, and if you would like to join us at East Dulwich WI, then please drop the committee an email at:-

[email protected]

05/02/2020

Ooh! We're getting ready for our meeting this evening, with astronomer, astrophotographer, and writer, Tom Kerss!

It's all about star signs and we can't wait!

Find out more about Tom's work at:-
https://tomkerss.co.uk

And tune into his podcast, Star Signs:-
https://starsigns.live

04/02/2020

What do the stars really say about you?

This month we're thrilled to welcome astronomer, Tom Kerss, formerly of the Greenwich Royal Observatory, to talk about the meaning behind the stars.

We will be meeting tomorrow, Wednesday, 5th February @ 7.30pm, upstairs in the EDT, and we can't wait!

This event is free for members, and guests may attend up to 3 of our meetings for a guest fee of £5 per visit.

We're looking forward to a great evening!

28/01/2020

Plastic Free East Dulwich do great work in our area, with their amazing efforts leading to East Dulwich being awarded the first "Plastic-free" community status in London. Please help and contribute to their crowd-funding campaign so the group can continue to rid our community of single-use plastics.

This is also a long-standing WI campaign from 1971, and we support and appreciate the work of Ric Baldock and his team.

Please help if you can! 💚

Please help!! We need another £500 of pledges before the end of the week. If we get that will pledge £1,000😁if not we get nothing😩Any contributions greatly appreciated to help us continue to work to rid our community of Link below:

https://www.spacehive.com/east-dulwich-plastics-campaign-2019-20

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09/01/2020

Our winning team from tonight's quiz! Well done ladies!! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

08/01/2020

The lovely Peter Hillyard, always providing a wonderfully fun and entertaining quiz night to kick off the year!!

08/01/2020

For the first meeting of the year, we're going to challenge the little grey cells with our annual quiz night!

Come and join us this evening if you love a bit of competition.. or not, it's just for fun! 😉

We're in the EDT from 7.45pm. This is free for members, but if you want to try one of our events, our guest fee is £5.

08/01/2020

It's that time again for membership renewals, and we have a fantastic calendar of events for 2020!

Annual membership is £43 which means free entry to all our monthly events and a year's subscription to WI Life magazine! New members are welcome 😊.

Members will have received renewal details in their monthly communication - new joiners can send our committee an email, and we will get back to you with membership details.

Happy 2020! ❤💕

01/01/2020

Happy New Year! Happy New Decade!! Wishing you all good health, much wealth, and a lot of happiness in 2020!! 🎉🎉🎉 .

31/12/2019

Come on 2020, we're ready for you!! Whatever you do this evening, we hope you have a wonderful end to 2019 ❤🎉

31/12/2019

The Women's Institute have put together a wonderful video of WI highlights from 2019, and we're in it!

Lovely to see some smiling faces from our summer Croquet event at the start of this film!!

It really is amazing to see some of the many achievements of the WI - together we are stronger!! 💜

Take a look back at some of the WI's achievements from 2019. With thanks to all our members and supporters for a brilliant year.

31/12/2019

Our lovely Book Club might've needed an extra meeting (or two) to decide on their best nine books of 2019!

Nevertheless, they've had a great year of great reads, great company and great chats over some great curries 😊

It's been a great 2019 for our Book Club 😉❤

31/12/2019

Our Make & Do Group have had a really fun 2019. From a day out at the Knitting & Stitching Show in Olympia to learning new skills such as embroidery, circular knitting, marbling, word art, making padded coat hangers and crafting handmade Christmas cards. We also made little green hearts for the NFWIs Show the Love climate change campaign 💚

Check out their

29/12/2019

2019 is almost over and we would like to thank all our members, friends, and guest speakers for their support in making this a brilliantly successful year! Here's our best of 2019 ❤

Big love to our amazing guest speakers:-

• Quiz night by Peter Hillyard.

• Literary Evening with Duncan Barrett & Anna Mazzola

• Self Defence by Peckham Krav Maga

• Perfumery by Michael Donovan

• EDWI Cake Ladies at Dulwich Festival Fair

• Croquet & Picnic at Dulwich Croquet Club. Official NFWI photos taken by Tasha for

• Crochet by Marisa Boselli

• Art Masterclass by Alen Clo

• Health Matters by Jade Howes

• Glue Club by Susan Perolls

• Terrarium Workshop by Sarah

• Drag Queen Bingo with Miss Bones

We would also like to give a special thanks to the East Dulwich Tavern and The Clock House who have generously hosted us this year ❤

25/12/2019

Merry Christmas Everyone!! Wishing all our members & friends a wonderfully festive and happy day! 🎅🎄💕