2023 Christmas Party

46 of our members had a wonderful ‘home grown’ Christmas party this year. We changed our table arrangement from previous years, with more of a ‘street party’ feel to it and more space for entertainment. Our members were welcomed with a glass of fruit punch or wine. Our local dance group from The Dyas Lishman Dance Academy opened our event with a short but very entertaining performance. Instead of exchanging presents members were asked to bring along a donation to the Northwich Food Bank – they were extremely generous and the table was filled to overflowing with their gifts. Pat…

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November Subgroup Meetings

 Click on the links below to find out what we have been doing, and to have a look at some more pictures of our activities The Book club discussed their favourite classics. Walking group unfortunately had to cancel their walk – everywhere was very, very wet, but a few did meet for refreshments at ‘The Shed’. Scrabble had a meeting, as did Craft Group who made baubles and planned their 2024 programme. Art group and Baking Beauties both had a Christmas theme – Art group made cards and mini gift boxes and Baking Beauties made Christmas mini treats

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Cheshire Federation Jigsaw Challenge 2023

Whitley entered this competition to complete a 500 piece puzzle in 1hr 30min. It was so popular this year that teams competed on 2 consecutive Mondays at WI House in Chester. Our team of Ann C, Jean W, Susan B and Yvonne C enjoyed a very pleasant, sociable morning, although we found this year’s puzzle difficult – rather too much dark green foliage with small yellow/white foliage! We came 3rd with 174 pieces left -just 2 pieces more than the second placed team. Well done to the Whitley Witches.

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Our Remembrance tribute

Annette and the Craft Group have been very busy making poppies over the last couple of months, painting ‘bottle ends’, adding black buttons and attaching 100 poppies to a board. Our giant poppy is now in place by our ‘centenary tree’ at the Nature Reserve on Raddel Lane.

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November 2023 Main Meeting – AGM and Bauble Making

The first part of the meeting was our AGM. Pat presented the financial position and Susan gave us the Annual Report, illustrating her talk with various pictures taken during a busy year of activities. Melanie was confirmed as our President for 2024. On behalf of our 56 members Helen H thanked Melanie, the committee and the subgroup leaders for everything they do. Annette, our craft guru, then showed us how to make a Christmas Bauble. With the help of Craft Group members she had prepared individual ‘kits’ with a polystyrene ball, pre-cut fabric pieces and other accessories. There was a…

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October Subgroup Meetings

There has been lots going on this month. Click on the links below to find out what we have been doing, and to have a look at some more pictures of our activities Book Club discussed ‘The Chilbury Ladies Choir by Jennifer Ryan Walking group chose a lovely Autumn day to walk around Neumann’s Flash in Northwich Scrabble group enjoyed an sociable evening Craft group finished off their Remembrance Poppy display Art group had a go at making their own Christmas Cards Baking Beauties had a ‘ Halloween and Bonfire Night’ theme

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Autumn Group Meeting

The Village Group Autumn meeting was held at the Milner Institute at Moore Members were entertained by Alison Neil portraying the author E Nesbitt in her own one woman drama. The audience were drawn into this amazing lady’s interesting life, quite bohemian in parts and definitely ground breaking in writing books specifically designed for children to read themselves.

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October 2023 Main Meeting – Members’ Evening

We returned to our tradition of letting our Committee take a well earned break and a group of members took over for our October meeting. Names were drawn in June and the team of 10 people did a fantastic job in running the meeting and providing a very memorable evening. Entertainment took the form of a Morris Dancing evening, with singing and dancing by the ‘Earl of Stamford’ Group. Our members did not need a great deal of encouragement to join them for the last 2 dances, waving our handkerchiefs and banging our sticks like experts! Helen H took on…

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September sub-group meetings

After our August break, it was good to be back enjoying our sub-group meetings, though the Walking group took its break during September rather than August. The Book Club had a complete change and discussed poetry and individual’s favourite poems. The Scrabble group enjoyed a game and a chat and the Craft group met in Susan’s garage rather than the Village Hall as they were working on their November poppy display, which involved rather a lot of red paint! Ann C showed the Art Group how to use the ‘grid’ method to reproduce a picture. Baking Beauties took a break…

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