Inspiring Women

On Monday the 22nd March we had the pleasure in welcoming Chris Duffin. This meeting produced our highest attended Zoom meeting with 443 Cheshire Federation members attending. As the first female governor into HMP Strangeways and the notorious Dartmoor Prison,…

On Tuesday the 9th March at 7pm for a 7.30pm start we had the pleasure in welcoming Toto James. Toto was co-opted to the Board of Trustees in November 2019. She is also Vice Chairman and a Trustee of Surrey…

Christmas (or any other celebration) Shoe – Zoom Meeting showed us a  way to re-use greetings cards. Fifty eight members watched Tricia gave us hints and tips to work our magic to produce little shoes ideal for Christmas, Easter, Baby…

    On Thursday the 25th February at 7pm for a 7.30 start we had the pleasure in welcoming Katie Awdas talking about Living with Endometriosis. It is thought that around 176 million girls and women suffer from endometriosis worldwide.…

On Wednesday the 10th February at 7pm for a 7.30 start we had the pleasure in welcoming Dr Jackie Bell a Senior Teaching Fellow at Imperial College London and Honorary Fellow of the University of Liverpool Mathematics Department. Having always…

On Thursday the 28th January at 7pm for a 7.30pm start we had the pleasure in welcoming Jacqui Felix- Mitchell – Member of the Chartered Institute of Horticulture and RHS Garden Design Consultancy. Thank you to the 375 members who…

We were delighted to be able to welcome Julia Fawcett, CEO of The Lowry Theatre to speak to us in December. The Lowry, is the ‘go to’ theatre for many members of the Cheshire Federation. It is one of the…

Helen is a member of Cale Green WI, Stockport, Cheshire Federation On Tuesday the 22nd December Cheshire Federation Trustees we had the pleasure of inviting members to a Christmas Celebration for a musical evening of much needed Christmas merriment with…

On Wednesday the 16th September we had the pleasure in welcoming Elizabeth Gowing speaking to us direct from Kosovo. Elizabeth is a trained teacher and a travel writer. She has written 5 travel books, 4 about Kosovo and in 2016…

On Monday we had the pleasure to hear Stacey Copeland speak to us. What a breath of fresh air she was. As a child she has no interest in playing with “that thing with elastic bands” and loved to play…

Last night we had the privilege of inviting Emily from Milly J Shoes, Norwich to give her talk ‘Walk in Your Own Shoes’ to over 150  ladies for our final Federation virtual event of July. Emily was abandoned on a…

Jean Harding, Federation Chairman welcomed WI members to Winsford Academy and the members sang Jerusalem accompanied by Hilary Totten, Comberbach WI, who played the piano splendidly. Neighbouring Federation Guests from Clwyd-Denbigh, Shropshire and Staffordshire were welcomed alongside Chris Bailey, Margery…

The 9th September was  a very wet and chilly morning   but all the ladies turned up. The quarter finals were played in the rain but no one complained!! By the time we came to the semi finals and final the rain…

Cheshire Federation was well represented at the Climate Change Lobby ‘The Time is Now‘ held at Westminster on Wednesday 26th June from 1pm to 4.30pm to draw the attention of MPs to the problems of pollution and climate change and…

Cheshire Federation was very well represented at the 2019 NFWI Annual Meeting in Bournemouth on Wednesday 5th June at Bournemouth International Centre when they heard the Rt Hon Lord Bradley of Withington give an update on the Care Not Custody…

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…