About Broad Town Women's Institute

The Broad Town WI are a friendly group of women. We meet in the village hall on the 3rd Wednesday of each month, apart from December when we meet on the 2nd Wednesday. We start with our speaker so please arrive promptly at 7.30pm for a talk or activity which may be educational, inspiring, amusing and energetic.  After the talk we have time for socialising and refreshments.  This is followed by a short business meeting.  We also arrange visits to gardens, pubs, local attractions, and go on summer walks.  With a membership of 27 and growing we are keen to welcome new members. We have had a stall at the Broad Town summer Big Gig for the past few years supplying the festival goers with hot drinks and delicious homemade cakes.

We are affiliated to the Wiltshire federation of WI which in turn is part of the national WI allowing us to make a difference to campaigns such as reducing supermarket packaging, influencing the price of milk at the farm gate and accurate labeling food with the country of origin.  Current campaigns are helping to alleviate loneliness, improving hospital arrangements for carers of people with dementia, helping to reduce plastic waste and trying to end food poverty. 
 
There is also a dedicated college of further education; Denman college in Oxfordshire, offering the widest range of courses allowing WI members to learn new skills or further existing ones.
 
If you would like to meet some new friends in the village, have an opportunity to learn something new and maybe influence a national campaign why not come along one evening soon?  Visitors are always welcome and you can try us out without any obligation.
Broad Town Women's Institute - Events and Plans
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Starting off 2020 we had a very interesting and humorous talk from John Jameson Davis, a handwriting expert, on how he comes to the conclusion a signa...

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We held our Christmas Party in Broad Town Village Hall last night trying our best to make beautiful bead and parchment Christmas tree decorations...

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An officer from the Swindon NIght Shelter came and talked about how their organisation offers a hot meal, shower and bed for the night on Friday ...

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Many of us enjoyed a lovely walk around Marlborough in gorgeous sunshing finishing up with a great meal at the local pub in Manton.
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Sharon Tombs from Dressability spoke about how her organisation adapts clothes for disabled people.  None of us had heard of Dressability which i...

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For June's meeting we went to the Dorcan Netball Dome and tried the increasingly popular 'walking netball'.  Although our bodies have...

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This month our speaker was Heather Wannell from Awdrey, Baylis and Douglas Solicitors.   She gave us a lighted-hearted look into w...

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We had a fascinating talk on Romano British Gardens by Cherry Hubbard who told us what the Romans brought to us as regards gardening.  There was ...

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This month we had our AGM and elected the committee for the current year.  At our general meeting which followed Margaret showed us the bag ...

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Our well-attended February meeting featured Mollie Gratland who showed us how to paint scarves with iron fix silk paints.  We were amazed at how ...

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