Cheshire members ‘Show the Love’ in Runcorn
Many of the stalls in the Runcorn Shopping Centre showed what WI members do for their community, information about resolutions we pass, our support for women all over the world through ACWW and our own college at Denman
Huxley Cup
Huxley Cup 2019 Competitors had a wonderful time at the Huxley Cup competition this year. The winner, Sue Macleod-Nice from Westham Evening WI, East Sussex Federation! In second place was Hazel Bentley from Kent – East Kent Federation, and third…
The Iron Maidens Feature in The Metro
But when it comes to shattering the charity’s twin set and pearls visage, few groups can compare to Iron Maidens WI in Merseyside. On their Facebook page, the group appeals to ‘anyone with an interest in Burlesque, Vintage Lifestyle, Steampunk,…
A Summer Walk Around Lindow Moss Wilmslow
As part of the Climate Coalition Week of Action Pauline Handley and Jean Hill, both members of Fulshaw WI, walked around Lindow Moss, Wilmslow taking photos and making notes as they went and discovered a beautiful and unique environment under…
Chester & Manchester Pride Marches
This was the first year CFWI had been represented at Chester Pride. The Public Affairs team had an information stand in the welfare Marquee on Castle Square on Saturday 19th August. Despite the dreadful weather Little Sutton Sapphires WI braved the…
Cheshire Visit to Denman
Cheshire Federation visit to Denman 22nd and 23rd October, 2017 2 places on the Federation visit to Denman on 22/23rd October have become available. The cost is £182 for this Taster Visit where you have 4 hours of tuition, a…
Gee Cross WI Well Dressing
This year’s well-dressing was a wonderful affair but tinged with a little sadness. As most of you know we lost our long serving joint President and friend Margaret Eddowes last November and as the well-dressing was very dear to her…
Kate Bliss at Poynton Civic Hall
Kate joined us at the Civic Hall in Poynton for a lovely evening. As Margaret Gradwell from Gee Cross WI said ‘Kate Bliss from Bargain Hunt, & many other Antique programmes gave a talk on special finds and how her…
Autumn Council Meeting
News and pictures have been posted as a new event Autumn Council Meeting
Copyright
We have copyright on our Cheshire News and online copies can only be viewed on one computer and not printed off to protect this copyright for members who buy their own copy. You need a Licence to reproduce music for…
Members visit WI House
Photos of Cale Green WI members Jeanette Paton, Jyoti Prayag, Jean Harding, Stella Campion and Sue Doyle at WI House WI House has been visited over the last 2 weeks by some of our Cheshire WIs namely Runcorn (Ferry Girls)…
We Will Remember Them
THE WOMEN OF CHESHIRE REMEMBER. The NFWI guidelines allow WIs to donate money to a poppy wreath on remembrance day so that members can remember family and friends lost in any war and the work women have done fighting…
Happy Christmas
Happy Christmas to all our members and friends. WI House is open on Friday 8th and Saturday 9th December. We look forward to seeing you. More dates for your diaries: We look forward to seeing everyone at the Carol Service…
Show The Love
This February the NFWI will be taking part in Show the Love again. There’s still time for you and your WI to join in – here’s how you can get involved. Show the Love encourages community-based climate change action around…
Zip World Bethesda
In a trip organised by Fulshaw WI, twenty intrepid Cheshire Federation members had great fun when they spent the day at Zip World, Penrhyn Quarry, Bethesda where there are two zip lines one of which, Velocity 2, is currently the…
West Kirby WI
A very warm welcome to the members of our newest WI in West Kirby who signed their constitution on Valentines Day and as one of their new members said ‘and on Valentine’s too, we must be really committed’. 100 potential…
The Climate Coalition – The Show the Love Campaign
Sue Bentley MBE, Cheshire Federation’s Climate Ambassador went to London on Wednesday 13th February to Meeting Room T, Portcullis House from 11.15am-1pm and then to Room C, 1 Parliament Street from 3-5pm to lobby MPs about supporting zero emissions by…
Resolution Vote Results
Cheshire Federation members are right on track with the rest of the country when it comes to the results of the resolutions vote. This year’s national total is the most selections cast since the individual selection process was introduced, with…
County Darts Championship
Veronica Gough Chair of the Sport and Leisure sub-committee writes ‘The darts final took place on Tuesday 12 March at Winnington Park Club. 12 teams met to contest the final and in a very pleasant atmosphere most games were closely…
Annual Council Meeting
The CFWI Annual Council Meeting was held on the evening of Thursday 14th March at Northwich Memorial Centre. Our Chairman, Jean Harding, deftly guided us through the business for the evening with news and exciting plans for the future. The…
CFWI Trustees
Jean Harding Chairman of Cheshire Federation is delighted to announce the co-option onto the Board of Trustees of Alia el Asmar, Great Moor & District WI and Wendy Morris, Fulshaw WI. Jean said ‘they will both be assets to the…
NFWI Online Craft Exhibition to Celebrate Centenaries
Is your WI celebrating its Centenary or are you preparing for the Federation’s Centenary? NFWI is hosting an online exhibition on My WI, featuring crafts created for these special events. The exhibition gives the opportunity to share photographs of the…
Spring PAL Meeting at Tarvin
On 26th March over 170 members gathered at Tarvin Community Centre for the PAL meeting ‘Our Planet, our Countryside, our Choices’. The first speaker was Faye Sherlock from Chester Zoo whose topic was Sustainable Palm Oil. Chester Zoo is a…
County Quiz Final
Friday night 5th April at Comberbach WI saw 20 teams competing for the first and second place trophies in the County Quiz Final. Federation chair, Jean Harding read out the questions and she was assisted by Federation Hon Treasurer, Ann…
Bowls Fun Day
On 11th May 2019, a bright but blustery morning, Veronica Gough writes ‘forty ladies gathered at Winnington Park (Northwich) to take part in the Fun Bowls Day. It was mainly cool but occasionally the sun broke through and all the…
Nantwich Dabber Dames Decorated Pear Tree
Nantwich Dabber Dames members decorated the pear tree which they planted in Nantwich Community Orchard in February 2018 as part of the Chairman’s Challenge https://cheshirewi.org.uk/centenary/nantwich-dabber-dames/, with hearts painted by WI members as part of the July 2019 Climate Coalition initiative…
Beryl Hood Denman Bursary, Federation trip and an Update on the Saving Denman Appeal
Lyn Hand our Denman representative has news of a Beryl Hood Bursary, our Federation trip in October 2019 and an update on the Saving Denman Appeal. The Federation is offering a bursary from the Beryl Hood bequest of £330 pounds…
Happy Christmas To All Our Members and Friends
Jean our Federation Chairman and all the Trustees wish everyone a very happy Christmas and send you all best wishes for the New Year. Christmas at Whitefriars WI House closes on Friday 21st December and reopens on Thursday 3rd January
Getting Your WI Online
The CFWI website is being updated soon and we are taking this opportunity to help all our WIs get online with either their own website, facebook, twitter or Instagram pages. The WIs in our Federation are responding to a letter…
CAS Certificate of Appreciation
Congratulations to our current Federation Chairman, Jean Harding, on her award of a Certificate of Appreciation from the Cheshire Agricultural Society (CAS) at the stewards reception on 25 January 2019. She received the award from the Lady Patroness the Rt…
2020 Our Centenary Year
As preparations get underway for a very special year for the Cheshire Federation of Wis in 2020 we wanted to share the information about the events with you all. We will keep updating the information as new details are…
Winsford Salt Sisters
The first new WI of the year!. Congratulations to The Winsford Salt Sisters WI which formally opened on 8th January 2019. Meeting in Christ Church Wharton, 40 women attended the Formation Meeting, along with Pat Sharp and Helen Ebbitt (WI…
WI Christmas Celebrations
Happy Christmas from Fulshaw WI, Dutton WI, Great Moor & District WI and Frodsham WI as well as Mercia Group who all dressed up to celebrate Christmas and had great fun. Mercia Group performed ‘Santa Saves Christmas’. Dutton WI had…
The Unveiling of Emmeline Pankhurst’s Statue
On Friday Manchester unveiled its second female statue and long awaited ‘Our Emmeline’. Women from across the region, including women from Cheshire and Lancashire Federations, walked together to celebrate 100 years to the day when some women placed their very…
Christmas at White Friars
Despite the weather, which was particularly wet on Saturday, Trustees and members enjoyed the two special Christmas days at WI House. White Friars was beautifully decorated, there was an archive display to explore as well as the house itself, crafts…
Huxley Cup Winner 2018
This photo is featured in this month’s WI Life (September 2018) together with an article about the Huxley Cup competition which took place at the Three Counties Showground in Malvern, Worcester Federation on 14th June. It shows the winner of…
Malbank Group Afternoon Tea
Margaret Hughes, Chair of Malbank group. writes “the Group started to organize an afternoon tea to celebrate the 100th birthday of the WI on September 16th 2015 and it was decided to make it an annual event. This year, members…
Golf Day September 2018
Veronica Gough, Chairman of our Sport and Leisure Sub Committee writes: ‘On Friday 21st September twenty ladies gathered at Hartford Golf Club. The weather looked ominous but at that time it was fair. Halfway round though it was raining and…
White Water Rafting in Wales
Members of Fulshaw WI challenging all the stereotypes doing a spot of white water rafting near Llangollen. What an amazing way to spend a Wednesday. The pictures were taken by an employee of the Water Rafting Company on a bicycle.
The Big WI-Kender 2018
The Big WI-Kender was held in Cuddington by members of seven WIs from Cheshire Federation (Cheadle & Gatley, Offerton Hatters, Cale Green, Great Moor & District , Fulshaw, Runcorn and Stalybridge plus Cottonopolis WI from Lancashire Federation. This is the…
Autumn Council Meeting at the Storyhouse
The Cheshire Federation of WIs Autumn Council meeting was held for the first time at the refurbished Storyhouse Theatre in Chester and it was a great success. We were warmly welcomed by the staff and there was plenty of room…
NFWI Judges
Congratulations to the members of the Cheshire Federation who have qualified as judges recently. Cindy West, Tricia Jones, Bev Langham and Jane Percival, have been successful in becoming qualified NFWI Craft Judges. We also have three new NFWI Produce Judges…
PAL Meeting at Frodsham 24th October 2018
Members, primarily PALS, listened with rapt attention to a clear, understandable, sometimes humorous, and very engaging and informative talk from Cliona Kirwan about breast cancer, as part of the regular series of events arranged by our Public Affairs sub-committee. And…
Tytherington’s Real-life Calendar Girls Bare All for Charity
Members of our very own Tytherington Treacles WI have bared all in a revealing, 2019 calendar shoot to raise £10,000 for the Victoria Breast Screening Centre in Macclesfield. Twelve women, aged from 39 to 76 years old, pose in a…
Dean Row WIs 95th Birthday Celebration
Dean Row WI celebrated their 95th birthday on November 7th in style by holding a party filled with singing and dancing. The day also commemorated 100 years since some women got the vote and the end of world War 1. …
Eastham WI in Devon
Members of Eastham WI are on holiday in Devon for the week. With glorious weather and excellent company, they returned exhausted to their hotel after Christmas shopping. Jean and friend found a chair to rest in in the shopping centre…
NFWI Food Donation Poll
Rebecca Sharkey, Head of NFWI Public Affairs writes ‘ The NFWI is conducting a poll to establish the extent to which WI members and the public donate to food banks and other community food aid organisations. In 2017-18, a record…
Climate Coalition Week of Action July 2018
Written by: Sue Bentley MBE, Climate Change Ambassador for Cheshire Federation of Women’s Institutes As part of the Climate Coalition Week of Action in July, several Cheshire WI members organised a waterside Plastic Waste pickup walk. We wanted to highlight…
Women’s Suffrage
This year marks 100 years since the Representation of the People Act, which gave British women the right to vote. Millicent Garrett Fawcett click on the link to read about Millicent and her fight to get Women the Vote Millicent’s great,…
Annual Council Meeting 2018
There is still time to order your ticket for the Annual Council Meeting. We have a new venue for this meeting – Sandbach Girls School and there is ample parking at the Cheshire East Council offices next door to the…
Cheshire Members Cast Their Votes 2018
Approximately 28% of the CFWI membership returned. 562 additional votes were received this year Votes received in previous years 2010 420 2011 528 2012 720 2013 536 2014 935 2015 1,398 2016 1,675 2017 1,998 CFWI Resolution Selection results returned…
Capesthorne Millennium Cup
Cheshire Agricultural Society – Capesthorne Millennium Cup I am pleased to announce that today Rachel Hughes, Board of Trustee member, was awarded the Capesthorne Millennium Cup. The cup is awarded for exceptional endeavour in promoting the interest of Agriculture or…
Christine Robinson – Handbridge WI
It was lovely to see one of our members featuring in the March copy of WI Life. Christine has created a beautiful garden in Handbridge, on the outskirts of Chester. WI Life Does your garden have a story to tell?…
Annual Council Meeting 2018
400 members packed into the hall of Sandbach Girls School on Saturday 10 March for the Annual Council Meeting for a day of meeting fellow members, business and speakers. Wendy Morris from Fulshaw WI shares her report of the meeting:…
Ludworth and Mellor – Celebrate 100 Years
Cheshire Federation’s oldest WI, Ludworth and Mellor has celebrated their 100 birthday. I together with Selina Prescott, Vice Chairman and Vivien Lee, WI Adviser, was a guest at their afternoon tea with a suffragette theme. The celebrations took place in…
Literary Lunch – 19 April 2018 – Cheshire View – Christleton
The sun shone for the first time this spring which enabled members to enjoy a morning coffee in the sunshine looking out over the Kelsall Hills. 166 members from WIs all across the Federation enjoyed a three course lunch of…
Dr Ruth Bromley – Spring PAL Meeting
There was a packed hall at Byley Village Hall to listen to Dr Ruth Bromley on Monday 23rd April 2018, 1.30pm – 3.45pm “How are ethical dilemmas resolved in medicine ?” • Doctors have to make very difficult decisions every…
Rogationtide Service – Chester Cathedral
Rogationtide Service. A Celebration of Rural Life in Cheshire held at Chester Cathedral, Sunday 29th April 2018. Yesterday several Board of Trustees and me were invited to attend the Rogationtide Service and give a presentation. Sue Bentley, MBE, Climate Change Ambassador,…
Congratulations to Prince Harry and Megan Markle
The Cheshire Federation of WIs have sent a card of congratulations and best wishes to HRH Prince Harry and Megan Markle on the occasion of their wedding at Windsor on Saturday 19 May Official Photographs
All you need is a little faith, trust… and pixie dust!
Birmingham Hippodrome and the National Federation of Women’s Institutes (NFWI), invite WI members, friends and family to an exclusive performance of Peter Pan on Wednesday 2 January 2019. Launching at this year’s Annual Meeting, WI members are being given an…