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| Our new President, Caroline Burton, can be seen here on the far right. |
We’re very pleased to announce that Caroline Burton is Hebden Bridge WI’s new President. You can see Caroline in the photo above, proudly sporting her Hebden Bridge WI Rag Hag apron and, erm, the delightful handmade head garment… cough.
The outgoing President, Amy Leader, gave her final annual report which is below so you can see what fun we’ve got up to in the last 12 months…
The Hebden Bridge WI has just celebrated its second birthday and we’ve learnt plenty and achieved a lot in the last 12 months when we have:
- Eaten vast amounts of cheese and got an insight into the cheese making process thanks to Pextenement Cheese
- Drank beer and learnt about micro breweries with Andy from Haworth Steam Brewery, followed by stuffing our faces with pie, peas and trifle
- Tasted chocolate and chocolate cupcakes with Shabby Chocolat
- Drank copious volumes of gin, but only to ensure we knew which was best, with Joe at Pennine Cheese and Wine
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| Shabby Chocolat made us our very own Hebden Bridge WI chocolates. They were delicious. |
So, it’s obvious we like to eat and drink, but we do do other interesting things too. We have also…
- Welcomed Claudette from Fleur de Lys who showed us how to create fantastic flower displays
- With cameras at the ready, Sarah Mason gave us top tips on how to take great photos
- The team from Zeitgeist taught us which hairstyles suit different face shapes
- Under the steady eye of Rebecca Land Cave we all got knitting and delivered the winter scarves for the Hebden Bridge Junior Band’s new uniform, for which they were very grateful
- Rachel Connor and Linda Green delivered brilliant writing workshops
- And we had a private screening at the Hebden Bridge Picture House for our second birthday last month
- As an aside there was collection for bras to raise money for West Yorkshire Air Ambulance
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| Linda Green (stood in this photo) and Rachel Connor gave us inspirational writing workshops |
Thank you to all of you that have led and participated in these meetings and create the atmosphere that means we keep turning up each month to learn new skills and meet new friends. You’ll be pleased to hear we raised £494.30 for Overgate Hospice in 2012. We hope to do something similar for Living Well, our charity in 2013 by raising money and collaborating with them.
Thanks to everyone who has brought a fabulous selection of edible treats over the past 12 months. And thanks to all of you that came to meetings to eat them.
The textile committee have organised 2 very successful rag markets under the guidance (and hard work of) Vanessa Kay. Last summer we saw our first 2 day Rag Market and despite its timing the weekend after the first flood it was yet another success. We’ll be having another 2 day rag market this summer and a one day event in autumn. The rag markets are our main fundraising stream and this income has given us the opportunity to offer members of the group a £500 bursary to undertake study. We’ll be offering another bursary this year for members, so here’s your chance for studying something that interests you with the help from this group.
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| A rag hag points the way to the Rag Market |
We have sub committees, other than the textile group, that meet regularly and irregularly. These are the book swap, the walking group, the film lovers, and the art lovers. In the last 12 months we have added the badminton group and there’s the brand new ukulele band. All members of Hebden Bridge WI are invited to join in with any of these groups at any time. We let you know about dates and times on our Facebook page and on our blog.
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| A book swap meeting (with booze) |
Written and posted by Amy
Hebden Bridge WI 