CLWYD-FLINT WI NEWS January 2015 Chairman’s Message Here we are on the threshold of what promises to be a tremendously exciting and fun packed WI year. Let’s see if we can all stand the pace as our diaries fill up with stimulating and nostalgic events to attend. I hope we will all be able to look back on 2015 as a truly memorable year for all the right reasons. With every best wish for a healthy and Happy New Year Mair Federation Chairman FEDERATION NEWS Federations of Wales Conference on 18 & 19 September 2015 at St David’s Hall, Cardiff. Twin rooms are still available at the Future Inn, Cardiff Bay to attend this special event at a cost of £63.00 per person B&B. Tickets bought together before the 1 June 2015 are £35 otherwise: Eve of Conference - £15 Conference - £25 - Coach fare - tbc Please send your £20 deposit to secure a place to the Federation Office asap Just a reminder: The February newsletter can be collected ‘500’ Club application from the Federation Office on Thursday forms are now with your WI 22 January 2015. Any not collected will be Secretary. A ticket costs just posted 2nd class post. £5.00 for eleven monthly draws starting March 2015. Some good news – we are pleased to announce the launch, in ‘500’ Club Winners in December: st this centenary year, of the new 1 Win Garroch, Rhosesmor WI Federation Badge. The badge will 2nd Rhian Hughes, Flint Mountain WI be on sale shortly at a cost of 3rd Sheila Hall, Sychdyn WI £5.00. Please contact the See your WI Secretary to view a Federation Office. colour flyer of the new Federation badge. We are taking bookings for the following events: Officers School : Monday 19 January 2015 at the Federation Office - 10.30am-noon and 7.30pm-9pm sessions available. The Federation welcome new or established officers alike to attend this workshop where all manner of WI business will be discussed and questions answered. Group Convenors : Monday 23 February 2015 at 10am at the Federation Office. Please come along with your Group reports - discussions will follow on future events etc. Fashion Show : Wednesday 25 February 2015 at 7.30pm at St Ethelwold’s Church Hall, Shotton. Clothes by Peacocks of Mold. Models of all ages, both men and women. Ticket £5.00 to include tea/coffee and ‘scrummy cakes’! To commemorate the centenary of the WI, we would like to borrow any photographs of Wedding Dresses and Swimwear, taken in the last 100 years, in order to make a display at the Fashion Show. Please send any items to the Office as soon as possible – remembering to put your name on the back so that they can be returned safely. Please also include an estimate of the date of the photo. Peacocks will also be handing out discount vouchers on the night! Centenary Concert : Wednesday 25 March 2015 at 7.30pm at the Civic Hall, Connah’s Quay – a musical evening reflecting the past 100 years in music and up to the present day. More details to follow... First Notice - Spring Council Meeting : Tuesday 31 March 2015 at 10.45am (doors open at 10am) at the Civic Hall, Connah’s Quay – come and join us at this special council meeting when historian Tony Waters will share his passion for the Titanic with stories of some of the Welsh on board from the seamen and the Countess to devoted millionaires and a baby! Heart Research UK will be on hand to collect envelopes of old jewellery for their ‘Treasure Chest Appeal’ and much more .... Tickets £2.50 available from the Federation Office. Date for your diary: Betws y coed Walking Trip : Tuesday 21 April 2015 – full details to follow. FOOD BANK – if you are able, please continue to support the Mold Food Bank by buying an extra item when you go shopping. These items can be brought to the Federation Office and will be sent on to the Food Bank. If you live too far away from Mold, please consider supporting your local initiative. NFWI NEWS FROM THE WIs Ewloe WI : NFWI 2015 RESOLUTIONS Tuesday 17 February 2015 – 1. The next 100 years Shrove Tuesday – Pancakes 2. Plant a tree for the future 12-1.30pm – Ticket £2.50 3. Public access defibrillators Wednesday 15 April 2015 – 4. Failing to care—assessment of Soup & Sandwiches – 12-1.30pm need in long-term care Ticket £3.00 5. Cutting back on food waste Wednesday 10 June 2015 – 6. Ending Female Genital Ramble – Coffee & Lunch (ham salad, Mutilation roll & dessert) – 9.45am-2pm - £4.00 7. To curb the use of antibiotics (Please tel: 01244 532303 before Briefing notes are available online at 5.6.15 for catering purposes) www.thewi.org.uk/campaigns/resolutio Wednesday 22 July 2015 – ns-and-mandates in WI Life and on the Afternoon Tea – 2-4pm Ticket £3.50 WI Moodle. Could WI Secretaries please count the Leete Group at the Carol Festival – returned voting forms and return the A big thank you for everything from Federation form only (without slips) Hazel to all the ladies of the Leete to the Federation Office by Monday 26 Group Choir who practised regularly January 2015. Many thanks. for two months and sang so beautifully at December’s Carol Concert. See NFWI-Wales – Centenary Craft Panel you all next year! Hazel Exhibition at Bulkley Hotel, Anglesey 16/17 May 2015 – to include 13 5’x3’ ALL VIDEO CASSETTES panels depicting events throughout the CONVERTED TO DVD £8.00 per last 100 years. Each Federation has cassette additional copies £4.00 been designated a panel (ours is 1930- Audio cassettes converted to CD £5.00 39). Also exhibition of artifacts Plus p&p. SPECIAL W.I. PRICE throughout the century. Federation Gwynneth Darby WI Martley, coach will be organised for 17 May – Worcester WR6 6QW 01886 888490 details to follow... [email protected] http://www.videocassettestodvd.com CELYN FARMERS’ MARKET AGM Draw – Royal Albert Hall, MOLD – St Mary’s Church Hall, King Street London on 3 & 4 June 2015 – due to 1st & 3rd Saturday of each month unforeseen circumstances, the draw GROSVENOR – Grosvenor Garden Centre for tickets to the AGM in London will 2nd Friday of each month now take place at the next Board of Trustees meeting this month. The All markets 9 am to 1 pm Federation Secretary will be in contact www.celynfarmersmarket.co.uk after then with the members For further details tel: 01745 540207 concerned. Stonyford Cottage Gardens and Nursery “GARDEN TOUR with CREAM WI Treasurers – please return TEAS” subscription fees with the enclosed Visit our Poolside ‘Monet Style’ form after your February meeting to the Gardens; 45min-1hr guided tour Federation Office. Thank you. featuring unusual plants, wooded islands, boarded walks, bridges and ALLERGEN FOOD HANDLING waterfalls. Optional Lunch served in ADVICE FOR WIs – from 13 our Garden Tea Room. Evening tours. December 2014 the EU Food “Over 100 WI Groups have enjoyed Information for Consumers Regulation our popular Garden Tours. We (EU FIC) comes into force. A welcome you once again to have a download of the Allergen Information great time with us, your group maybe for Loose Food leaflet, produced by the interested in the craft workshops we Foods Standards Agency, is available will be holding throughout 2015 – to at www.food.gov.uk include Garden Obelisk and animal Pennies for Friendship : please keep willow making courses, stone sculpture on collecting pennies & foreign coins & and craft workshops. banknotes and also any old British To book please call 01606 888970 or Email: [email protected] money - we have now collected Website: www.stonfordcottagegardens.co.uk £1,250.42 to date. Voel Coaches – Not actual size which is 28mm x 28mm Sat 7 and Sun 8 February 2015 – The Creative Stitches and Hobby Crafts Show and Cake International Show at The Trafford Centre, Manchester. £18 & £20 respectively, including admission Sun 22 March 2015 – Hobbycrafts Show, Birmingham. £28 including admission. To make a booking contact Voel Coaches on 01745 570154. Follow us on Facebook Our latest day excursion, concert, show & holiday brochures are available New Clwyd-Flint Federation Badge at www.voelcoaches.com. Gift (see your WI Secretary for colour version) vouchers for any amount also available available in the New Year - £5.00 per badge Federation Contact: Shirley Morris If you would like to book a Office Open: Mon-Thurs 9.30am-1pm ticket/place for any of our events, Address: The Hutments, County Hall, please send name, cheque (made Mold, Flintshire, CH7 6NB payable to ‘CFFWI’) and stamped Tel: 01352 756884 Email: [email protected] addressed envelope to the Charity No: 217004 Federation Office. .