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Just back from an absolutely fabulous weekend in Lytham with over 90 Cheshire members with a few guests from around the country. Over a third of the members offered an activity, talk or craft. It wouldn’t have been as wonderful…

Join in the nationwide celebration of action on climate change, taking place across the UK from 10th to 18th June 2024, and get some recruitment done as well.  Your local library would welcome any WIs who want to take up…

Pat Sharp, Editor of Cheshire News, organised this years Literary Lunch. Hartford Golf Club was a new venue for us which was in stunning grounds and had a beautiful function room. We were so fortunate that the weather was superb…

REPORT FOR NFWI AGM MAY 2023 HELD AT ST DAVID’S HALL IN CARDIFF The meeting opened with St David’s Hall ringing with the sound of 100’s of WI members singing Jerusalem. After the appointment of officers and tellers, and the…

Green Dot Day 2023 Every year Cheshire Climate Ambassadors ask all WIs to do something during Great Big Green Week (10th – 18th June) to reduce their collective carbon footprint. If they  let us know what they have done, their…

What a fantastic three days we had welcoming members from across the Federation. It feel such a long time since we held this event but we were delighted by the response. Bacon and sausage barms, mince pies, mulled wine, Archives…

It was such a pleasure for our Federation Chairman Selina Prescott and Federation Trustee Sybil Graham to attend the National Harvest Service which was held in Chester Cathedral. This is held every year in different parts of the country. A…

8.9.22 – 21.53pm Sadly our Queen Her Royal Highness Queen Elizabeth II passed away this evening with her family by her side. We all feel what an incredible honour it was that HM Queen chose to be a member of…

On Wednesday 26thJanuary 7pm for 7:30pm start we had the pleasure in welcoming Joanne Goodwin, Editor of Cheshire Life. Joanne learned to read, aged five, by picking out the words in her grandmother’s Woman magazine. Joanne started her career as…

Final Resolutions Shortlist 2021/22 Following the NFWI Resolution Shortlist Selection meeting on 5th October 2021, here is the final shortlist chosen by member and federation delegates. Each member has one vote which needs to be returned to the Federation Resolutions…

On Monday 4th October we welcomed 63 members to our first virtual literary lunch. We enjoyed having a lovely chat whilst eating a variety of lunches including radish leaves, salads and soup and one member even joined us doing her…

Did you join the Arts and Craft Sub-Committee for the first in a series of workshops to help get you started to knit? Don’t worry if you didn’t make it there is still time to join in.  Try and follow…

Tricia Jones helped 36 women to make a thread catcher last night using things found around the home.  Well you might need to eat a few Pringles to start with! What great fun was had by all! Some of the…

Thank you for all those who completed the Membership Survey in 2020. We found that 73.5% of the respondents found the majority of their information from both the Cheshire News and 86.63% from their own WIs.  However, we are aware…

Susan Leicester presented a number of ways to upcycle a wool sweater  in an entertaining and at times hilarious way to 68 members. Everyone seemed to have a great time with lots of ideas  to get crafting and upcycling as…

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 Wednesday the 13th January we have the pleasure in welcoming Clare Pooley. Over 200 members joined us to be inspired by Clare’s story from alcoholism and breast cancer. She was honest and upbeat.  The Q & A was wonderful…

We had 104 participants at the peak of our federation resolution shortlist discussion meeting tonight. Run by members of our Public Affairs team and other enthusiastic members we had 5 different members present each of the proposed resolutions and then…

On 9th November we had the pleasure in welcoming our next inspirational women, Jen Gale. An author, public speaker with an online following of 50k and a campaigner with kindness for being Sustainable-ish. This is for absolutely anyone who wants…

16th September 2020 – Celebrate WI DAY – Lynne Stubbings – NFWI Chair – 16th September 2020          Melissa Green – General Secretary – 16th September 2020    WI DAY 2020 – VIdeo

Stem Cell Resolution Meeting 2/7/20  Everyone had the best seat in the house for our first Virtual Resolution meeting to hear all about Stem Cells and how to increase potential Stem Cell donor registrations. We heard from Peter McCleave, who…

On Friday the 20th September twenty four ladies from sixteen different WI s gathered at Hartford Golf Club. The weather was perfect, warm with bright sunshine. The winners were Norma Hughes from Capenhurst And Ledsham and Liz McClure from Christleton…

REPORT ON PAL MEETING 19 SEPTEMBER 2019 MODERN DAY SLAVERY AWARENESS                         On a bright sunny morning almost 200 PALS and WI members descended on Frodsham Community Centre to…

WI Enterprises and Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines, our official travel partner, would like to cordially invite you to a WI dedicated ship visit on the 6th of October 2019 in Newcastle. On the day you will be greeted by Catriona…

Don’t fear the smear 2019 Annual Meeting Resolution “Cervical screening saves around 5,000 lives a year, yet attendance is currently at its lowest for a decade. The NFWI urges WI members to attend routine screening, to take action to raise…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…