Humberside Federation News

December 2013/January 2014

The Humberside Federation of Women’s Institutes 10 Queen Street, Brigg, DN20 8HY 01652 653641 Website— www.humbersidefederation.weebly.com Editor—Sue Bolton email sue_bolton@ymail.com Office email humbfedwi@btconnect.com

Office Hours—Tuesday. Wednesday. Thursday, 10am until 3pm (Closed 12.30—1.00pm for lunch)

Speaker’s Corner—if you have any in-teresting speakers you want to share—please contact the editor. One recommendation from New Holland—”Athena Owls” - Esther Killen (can be found on Facebook) - will bring her barn owl and little owls—charge approx £20. Thoroughly enjoyed by all who attended!

Family History Day Tuesday 28th January, 2014. Note the new date for this event. This exciting day is aimed at members who want to begin research into their family history using a com-puter. You will have the chance to use “Ancestry” and other Family History Websites, as well as information about visiting the County Archives. Further details will be circulated to WI’s soon. Cost £6.00 members and £7.00 non-members.

Public Affairs Committee Excess Baggage Campaign—Single Use Plastic Bags *Energy expensive to produce *Litter our streets *Pollute the environment Wales, Scotland and N. Ireland have all stopped using them, so why can’t we? Can we persuade the government that a plastic bag charge is needed to protect the environment and reduce waste? Please write to your MP explaining your views and help to build up the momentum behind this campaign. Your MP:— Scunthorpe—Nic Dakin—www.nicdakin.com Grimsby—Austin Mitchell—www.austinmitchell.co.uk Cleethorpes—Martin Vickers—www.martinvickers.org.uk Brigg—Andrew Percy—www.andrewpercy.org.uk Or write to your MP at—The House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA - Thank you. Jennifer Nix.

Ladies attending the Button Brooches Workshop with Carol Hird.

A Very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from your Board of Trustees:- Sue Hawney, Karin McCollin, Jennifer Nix, Maxine Moss-Allison, Michelle O’Brien, Pam Farmery, Valerie Lancaster, Lisa Rabin Smith, Maureen Moody, Sue Bolton, and Gill Chambers.

Christmas Office Closure - Please note that the Federation Office at W.I. House, Brigg, will be closed from 3.00pm Thursday 19th December 2013 and will reopen at 10.00am Tuesday 7th January, 2014

Visit to RAF Scampton Monday 24th February, 2014 Price £3.00 members and £5.00 non mem-bers. 1.30pm. See flyer for further details.

Club Draw—

October 2013 winner— No. 49—Michelle O’Brien, Wrawby November 2013 winner— No. 69—Maureen Rickwood, Worlaby

Chairman’s Blog! Having recently returned from a very sunny family holiday in Spain it is hard to believe that Christmas is just around the corner. Where has this year gone? My mother in law used to say that as you get older time passes more quickly and we all used to laugh at her, but now we know she was right! Karin and I recently attended the National Council Meeting in Bedfordshire. This is an opportunity to meet with other Chairmen and Treasurers as well as the main Board and take part in discussions about the future of the organisation. On this occasion too it was a chance to see our new National Chairman, Janice Langley, in action! She has a clear vision for the future of the organisation and is particularly keen to meet members around the country. Therefore next year, the main Board will be embarking on a series of conferences throughout the country entitled Inspiring Women – Working Together. Invitations from National will be arriving in the New Year! I do hope you have all enjoyed your WI year whether you’ve been busy organising and/or participating in events. I would especially like to thank the Trustees for their hard work and support and we all look forward to seeing you at some time in 2014. Sue Hawney

A.C.W.W. Amutor Calvary Women’s Agriculture Project What a fantastic response!! Together you have raised the wonderful amount of £926 for the Sierra Leone project. Well done everyone and a great big “Thank You”!! Because of your efforts in raising this money, 120 women and their families in the Taiama Kori community in Sierra Leone will benefit from the production of rice, groundnut and pineapple crops. Since they began cultivating their “farm” they have encountered many challenges such as a lack of tools, a hired tractor which decided not to work, no means of transporting materials to their site and a very heavy rainy season. But, because of ACWW’s support and our money, tools were made by a local blacksmith, a tractor was hired from another community, and local transport was hired to move materials to the farm. The Amutor Calvary Women have been able to buy pest and rodent insecticides and fertilizers to protect and improve crop growth. They have also been able to build a hut on site to house workers whilst they are working on the farm. They are still in great need of adequate storage facilities but hopefully because of ACWW’s backing, this problem may soon be resolved The whole budget for their project is just £1,600 which seems to us a very small amount but it is a lifeline to this community. For the first time in their lives these women are be-coming self-reliant and feeling the joy of being able to provide for their families, thanks in the main to your efforts in supporting ACWW’s funding. Because of the remoteness of this community, communication and reporting remains a challenge, but I will keep you all up-dated as progress reports become available through ACWW. Marjorie Grisdale. (Below, ladies of Kirton in Lindsey W.I.—raising money for A.C.W.W.)

ACWW—Reminder—to send all Pennies for

Friendship to ACWW before the end of December to:- Mary Summer House, 24 Tufton Street, London SW1P 3RB Marjorie Grisdale

Membership Team I’m happy to report that we have been successful in our application for a second Centenary Grant from Na-tional. We applied for £1000 and were awarded the full amount! The money will be used to purchase an-other freestanding banner, and new display boards, which, like the banners will be available to hire for your WI events. We can use £250 towards training another Adviser and the remainder will help towards the cost of opening another WI. Jean Mumby from Thornton Curtis WI has agreed to become an Adviser and will start her training in Janu-ary 2014. Good luck Jean and thank you! We also opened, in October, a new WI in Killingholme. There was an enthusiastic response to the first meet-ing and a committee of 7 was easily formed. So good luck to them too. A happy Christmas and New Year to all our WIs from the Membership Team. Sue Hawney

Around the W.I.’s

Denman News At the Ambassadors’ Conference at Denman last month, it was good to hear that things are improving and that the NFWI Board are 100% behind Denman. September was a very busy month and it is look-ing very positive for the rest of this year and next year’s bookings are already on the way to meeting their targets. Preparations are under way for the Centenary celebrations at Denman so I will pass on details as I receive them. There is a new brochure out with lots of exciting courses and many new tu-tors, so if you don’t have one, there are some in the Brigg Office and you can see everything on the Den-man website. Now a date for your diary, Denman has been booked for a three-day Federation visit in 2015 from Friday 29th May to Sunday 31st May and there will be seven courses to choose from. Full details will be sent to your WI early next year. Don’t forget the Jam Festival and Christmas Fair on the 7th and 8th December, and if you want to celebrate in style there is the New Year House Party—30th December to 2nd January.

Maureen Moody—email Maureen.moody@rocketmail.com

Michelle O’Brien

Cup cake decoration

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Hibaldstow W.I. Hibaldstow Institute is celebrating it’s 90th Anniversary this year. Rather than hold one big celebration, we decided to hold several events throughout the year. The year started with a beautiful cake at our March meeting. To highlight just how long 90 years is, a series of information boards were put together showing world events and Inspirational Women since 1923; this was on display during the Hibaldstow Open Gardens Event in June when we were visited by Radio Lincolnshire’s Pirate Gold programme. We continued our celebrations in September with a speaker from Normanby Hall who talked about Evening and Nightwear through the Ages and showed us examples from their collection. Several friends from Kirton in Lindsey and Broughton WI’s attended at our invitation. Our year will end with a fun quiz based on the 90 years history we have discovered in our research and we also hope to donate a lasting memento to the village. The photograph shows our longest serving member Mrs Kath Hall, who has been a member of our Insti-tute for 60 years having joined in 1953. Also included are other members celebrating the anniversary.

Bonby WI

Invite all members for an evening of fun and entertainment

On Wednesday 5th February, 2014

with Dr. Ajay Vora, with his “sleight of hand” magic show

- - - - - Cost is £6.00 includes a glass of wine

and refreshments. Please contact Mina Parker on

01652 618814 if you would like to come.

The next newsletter will be published in February 2014. Date for copy to be received by —15..1.2014

Date Price Details

Tuesday 28.1.14 £6.00 (M) £7.00(NM)

Family History Workshop

17.2.14 to 21.2.14 Federation Quiz heats—various venues.

Monday 24.2.14 £3.00 (M) £5,00 (NM)

Visit to RAF Scampton—1.30pm

Saturday 8.3.14 International Women’s Day

Friday 21.3.14 Federation Quiz—Final—WI House

Saturday 12.4.14 Annual Federation Day—Masonic Hall, Grimsby

Thursday 24.4.14 Resolution meeting—Bonby

Saturday 26.4.14

£2.50 Unfinished Objects Day—WI House, Brigg—plus coffee and cake. Bring your un-finished objects—members of the Home Economics Committee will be here to help and advise!

Monday 15.5.14

tbc Hidden and Forgotten Lincolnshire—Chapter 2—Walk around Caistor plus lunch with a speaker in the afternoon—”Come into the Garden Fanny” - about the Baring Sisters of Harrington Hall. Plus raffle and quiz. Great Limber Village Hall.

16.5.14 to 18.5.14 Denman Visit with North Lincs.

Wednesday 21.5.14 Baton exchange—Humber Bridge

Wednesday 28.5.14 Baton exchange—Cleethorpes

Saturday 7.6.14 AGM—Leeds—details to follow.

Saturday 15.3.14 £18.50 Watercolour Workshop with Leslie Treacher 10-4pm

Thursday 26.6.14 tbc Outing to Boundary Mill plus a visit to a Japanese Garden

Saturday 22.3.14

£18.50 Angelina Metallic Embroidery—making gift cards. Materials provided. See flyer at your WI Meeting. 10am.

Wednesday 18th June

£18.50 “Sew a Little Scene” - using fabric and hand stitching/embroidery to cre-ate a quilted picture which can be framed or used as a centre for a cushion. Materials will be provided. 10am—4pm

Wednesday 19.3.14 For Presidents—Inspiring Women Working Together—conference at York Race-course.

Federation Website — www.thewi/humberside.org.uk Over the past few months the Humberside link on the National Federation Website has been undergoing some changes. I am now in the process of updating this and work is still ongoing to keep it up to date. There is a Contacts page, a Diary page, and a link to old photographs/archive and there will also be a link to the current Newsletter. We are still experiencing a few problems with the “Find a W.I.” part of this website but hope to get this sorted soon. If you have any information you wish to add to this website—please contact me—Sue_bolton@ymail.com—or contact Gill in the office who will pass on any information. I will endeavour to up-date this website with diary dates and events sent in for the Newsletter. (We are no longer using the old web address—www.humbersidefederation.weebly.com—and you will redirected to the new address above). Sue Bolton—I.T. Officer

Centenary Committee The third meeting of the Humberside Centenary Committee took place this week. The Centenary Baton which leaves Anglesey in the new year will be received from East Yorkshire Federation on Wednesday 21st May 2014 at The Tile Works, Barton upon Humber, and will then hopefully be passed to each W.I. for a short time. It will then be handed over to Lincs North on Wednesday 28th May somewhere on or around Cleethorpes beach (weather permitting). Further details will be forwarded in the new year.

NFWI have asked that each Federation submit up to 12 photographs which depict their Federation, and which will be loaded onto a Memory Stick which will be inside the baton. So get snapping ladies!

Pam Farmery