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Allison Dawes

Fran Marsland

Jane Huckerby (Leire WI)

Margaret Wrathall

Sally Illsley

Christine Walkden

FEBRUARY 2021

These are a selection of the iris and daffodil bulbs that members were given in their Christmas gift bags

Some of them have really beautiful markings. We are now waiting for the miniature daffodils to come into bloom!

And here are some:

Tracey did some seasonal hearts along the Quirky Bird theme for the Green Hearts campaign

and Fran did a valentines theme to show support for the NHS and all Frontline workers:

We are displaying a poster to support Climate Change Awareness and the need to protect our environment

JANUARY 2021

MEDICAL DETECTION DOGS - these are the six dogs that are currently being trained to detect the Covid-19 virus

SEPTEMBER 2020

Our committee met in the garden of Mrs Sheila Phillips to discuss the restarting of our regular monthly meetings. Our hopes were dashed a couple of days later when the Rule of Six changed the scenario for permitted meetings!

MAY 2020

Our VE Day commemoration bunting is ready to display - when we can!

Pat and Derek celebrated the 75th anniversary of VE Day on the 8th May with a socially distanced street party. Residents had got together to provide every neighbour who had celebrated the actual day in 1945 with a delicious Afternoon Tea.

We are pleased to report that the flowering cherry tree planted to commemorate the centenary of the NFWI in 2015 survived the damage caused by vandals in 2018.

JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2020

Broughton Astley WI supported Climate Change Awareness month with our Green Hearts bunting displayed on the railings by the brook in our village.

December 2019

Enjoying cocktails mixed by the Cocktail Shaker Boys

"Grasshopper", "Blue China", "Cosmopolitan" and "Merry Berry Cherry" cocktails and mocktails!

What a great way to spend a party evening!!

October 2019 A Day at the Flour Market (Wycliffe WI Group competition)

August 2019

Another member celebrated a special birthday and was presented with a small gift.

July 2019 Life in the Swinging Sixties

June 2019 Broughton Astley Carnival day

May 2019

After the Resolutions discussions, we spent some time crafting and made greeting cards and decorated gift boxes

March 2019

Gyles Brandreth was our main guest speaker at our Federation Annual Council Meeting

Table Sale at Broughton Astley Village Hall

February 2019

Jerry (short for Jerusalem) hedgehog came to visit with Colleen Powell.

Colleen brought lots of interesting and useful information about caring for the hedgehogs in our gardens!

December 2018

Suffragette peg dolls and rosettes decorated our tree at the St Mary's Church Christmas Tree festival.

November 2018

A small group enjoyed a Leicester City Walk, which traced the steps of some of our famous Leicester Suffragettes and told us some of their stories.

We laid our commemorative wreath of knitted poppies at the Broughton Astley memorial on Remembrance Sunday.

Wycliffe Group Annual meeting competition - Broughton Astley were awarded 1st place for our depiction of the well known saying "Looking for a needle in a haystack".

The depiction had to include a floral arrangements, and we chose a field and hedgerow theme appropriate to the time of year.

SEPTEMBER 2018

A group of us spent a sunny morning at Blaby Crazy Golf!

AUGUST 2018

Leicestershire and Rutland Federation celebrated its Centenary year with a party at Beaumanor Hall

JULY 2018 - Meeting up with Foxton WI

23 JUNE 2018 Broughton Astley Village Carnival - Refreshments in the village hall

Our cake table

The Refreshment team

Raffle table

and on the school field ..........

Celebrating the 2018 Centenaries and our WI

JUNE 2018 Acholi Beadcraft bracelet

MAY 2018

Button hole competition

APRIL 2018 - OUR CENTENARY CHERRY TREE

WI Centenary Tree Planting

In September 2015 we planted a flowering cherry tree to celebrate the Centenary of the formation of the WI. Present were Mrs Julia Surfleet our President (left), Mrs Hilda Nichols, our longest serving member, and Federation President Mrs Janet Kirk.

Visiting the tree in May 2017, we are pleased to report that it is well in leaf and flower!

May tree

We had an afternoon making some dolls according to the instructions in the recent WI Life Friendship edition with some attractive results!

Peg Dolls craft afternoon

One of our ladies made some knitted outfits instead!

On Broughton Astley Village Carnival Day - 24th June 2017 - we had a stall on the school field selling cakes and displaying a promotional table showing what we do as a WI and also giving information on the NFWI in general. We hope this will encourage some new members and we did have a number of visitors showing interest.

Carnival tent