LINCOLNSHIRE SOUTH FEDERATION OF WOMEN’S INSTITUTES
FOSTON WI
Founded in 1921
Meetings are held at 7.30pm, on the second Tuesday of the month at
Foston Village Hall, Church Street, Foston, NG32 2LG
Guests are always welcome
2022 - 2023 Programme here
Contact details: President: Eileen Ross Tel No: 01400 281932
FOSTON WI PROGRAMME 2022/23
2022
April 12th Flower Arranging
Speaker Rita Drury
Refreshments Jenny & Lin
Competition Flower of the month
May 10 th Resolutions Evening
Refreshments Debbie & Susan
Competition Flower of the month
May 13th Holocaust Centre Visit
June 11th Nat: Annual Meeting at Liverpool
Virtual screening in V/Hall with Lunch
June 14th LINCS & Notts Air Ambulance
Open Meeting
Refreshments Vikki & Carole
July 5th Eastern Walled Garden Visit
July 12th Lamp Shade Making
Speaker Tamar Kirk
August 5th Lincoln Flower Festival Visit
With A & P Travel
September 13th Bletchley Park Cracking
the Enigma Code Open Evening
Speaker Keith Appleyard
Refreshments Vicki G & Lin
October 11th Personal Style
& Colour Analyst
Speaker Michelle Wright
Refreshments Gillian & Maggi
Competition Flower of the month
November 8th Life In the Forces
& Remembrance
Speaker Claud Preira
Refreshments Liz & Annette
Competition Flower of the month
November 25th Christmas Wreath Making
December 13th Annual Christmas Meal - TBA
2023
January 10th Kathmandu & The Everest Trail
Speaker Tim Hudson
Refreshments Sue S, Jenny & Margaret L
Competition Flower of the month
February 14th Our Birthday Night
Organised By the Members
March 14th Foston WI Annual Meeting:
Refreshments Pam & Marion
Competition Flower of the month
COUNTY AND LOCAL DIARY DATES
April 28th Quiz, with afternoon tea at Ropsley
May 10th Embroidery workshop,
At WI Regional Office
May 24th Ladies Day Lunch
At Belton Park Golf club
June 5th Big Lunch – Queens Jubilee – Sunday
For further information, contact Eileen Ross Tel No: 01400 281932
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Programme 2017 -2018
2017
May 9th W I Resolutions & Talk on Grantham
Food Bank by Brian Hanbury
May 15th WI Home Economics Meeting @
Gonnerby
June 11th Village Hall – Foston Women’s Institute Tea
Party – Tickets on sale – Monica Winters
June 13th Talk on The History of Nursery Rhymes –
Hey Diddle Diddle by Sandy Leong
June 21st/22nd Lincolnshire Show - at the show ground
July 11th Talk on Military Dogs by Pam
Farquhar
August 8th Walk along the Grantham Canal with a meal
afterwards
September 12th Talk on The Eton Avenue Association for
Special Needs Allotments by Gillie Wilkinson
September 1st Group meeting will all the local Women Institutes
October 10th Make & Show evening, Members’ bring along various items of interest
& that they’ve made.
November 14th Talk on The Swinging Sixties – by Sue Stephenson
December TBA – Christmas Wreath Making with Rita
Drury
December 12th WI Christmas Celebration Meal at The
Thatch Restaurant, Bottesford for Foston Members’
2018
January 9th Flower Arrangement demonstrations’’ with our
Rita Drury
February13th Foston WI Members’ Celebrating our” 96th
Birthday Night”
March 13th Foston WI Annual Meeting
April 10th Ruby & Betty’s Bras Emporium
with Emily Eady & Helen
We all look forward
to meeting you....
Programme 2016 -2017
May 10th W I Resolutions & Talk on ACWW – Associated Country Women Of The World by Irene Roddam
May 16th WI Home Economics Meeting @ Walton Girls School
May 22nd Village Hall “Mad Hatters Tea Party” – Celebrating The Queen’s 90th Birthday – Tickets on sale
June 14th Talk on “You can put your money on it” by Anne Hobbs
June 22nd/23rd Lincolnshire Show - at the show ground
July 12th Talk by Sharon Kirk – Author & Chartered Surveyor
July & August Outing/Trip – details TBA
September 10th Talk on Grantham Canal Society by Rosemary Gibson
September 27 Group WI meeting at Foston Village Hall– talk by Dawn Blunden, “Sophisticake”,
Maker of many Royal Cakes
October 11th Craft evening – with Members’ Demonstrating & Making Cards’
November 8th Talk on “Ladies in Pigs” – Tracing meat to fork by Mary Ibbotson
November TBA – Evening trip to Grantham Boots
December TBA – Christmas Wreath Making with Rita Drury
December 13th WI Christmas Party for Foston Members’
2017
January 10th Talk on “Tales of an Wimbledon Umpire” by Alan Gray MBE
February 14th Foston WI Members’ Celebrating our” 95th Birthday Night”
March 14th Annual Meeting
April 11th Talk on Lifeboats by a Sea-safety Officer – Peter Barnard
We all look forward to meeting you....
WI Photographs here