Willersey Women's Institute, Cotswolds

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Willersey Women's Institute

Willersey Women's Institute meets on the 2^nd Monday of every month in the Village Hall at 7:15pm (except in August).

Both male and female guests are welcome on payment of £4 entry.

Willersey Village News includes reports from the Willersey WI.

President	Mal Jeffs	858351
Joint Secretaries	Mary Frost and Lizzie Robinson	853443
Treasurer	Gi Kavanagh	853136

The records of our meetings including future meetings are in the Willersey Church & Village News.
You can also consult the Village notice boards for details of our monthly speakers.

Here we all are in the 1960s.

Willersey WI about 1964

The Women's Institute has a long history worldwide. Here is even more history.

A Miss Wadhams started the Willersey WI in November 1922, and the first records we have are from 1944.

The Queen at the National Celebrations of our UK centenary.

Willersey WI
Invited all senior citizens resident in the Village
to a Traditional Christmas Lunch
on 4^th December 2021 and on 2^nd December 2017 in the Village Hall.

December 2021. What a Difference a Year Makes

We started 2021 in lockdown and having endured much disruption to our lives during the earlier part of the year we are now enjoying our freedoms once more and we are well and truly back on track. Throughout the first months we continued with our communications through newsletters, trying to keep all members up to date with our news, about friends, happenings within the WI and generally offering help and support wherever possible with a little humour along the way.

From May onwards we were able to meet again in small groups, with our coffee mornings restarting in member's gardens. In June, 30 of us enjoyed our first outing to Sezingcote House and Garden followed by a cream tea- what a luxury!! We continued with our fundraising through raffles, coffee mornings, cake and bric a brac stalls. In August our much anticipated Fish and Chip Supper was held at The Bell with Rev. Scott being our guest speaker.

Our monthly meetings began again in September it was so good to welcome everyone back and to finally welcome and meet our new members who we had managed to recruit despite Covid! Since then we have been planning our programme for next year, making arrangements for the WI Xmas Bazaar on the 20th November and organising our Seniors' Xmas lunch on the 4^th December. Last year, unable to have the actual meal, hampers were delivered to our usual attendees and these were very well received but were no substitute for actually meeting friends, catching up with all the news and sharing a meal together. So we now look forward to welcoming everyone back again, sharing a meal and having a jolly good natter!

. After the meal we were entertained by the Blockley Blokes Choir, always a jolly happening encouraging everyone to join in the carols and merriment and getting us all well and truly into the Christmas Spirit. We have had an unusual but busy year and we send our good wishes and Season's Greetings to all our supporters and members for a healthy 2022 from all at the Willersey WI.

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