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Arts Sub-Committee
Arts Sub-Committee handle an array of creative competitions and one-day schools. Subjects include: music, drama, public speaking, painting, calligraphy, 3-D decoupage, parchment craft etc. A variety concert is also organised every third year.
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Balmoral Sub-Committee
The WI’s input at the annual Balmoral Show is organised and handled by this Committee. They provide a social centre for members, their families and friends to meet at the WI Rooms within the Balmoral Park Showgrounds, Lisburn.
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Homecraft Sub-Committee | Home & Garden Sub-Committee
Members of the Homecraft Sub-Committee actively promote craft through one day schools and craft fairs/ craft weekends. Their aim is to encourage interest in traditional and modern handcraft. The Home & Garden Sub-Committee tutor those who wish to learn/improv...
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International Sub-Committee
Responsible for keeping members up-to-date with the work of our ‘umbrella’ organisation – Associated County Women of the World. Members contribute to various projects which have been carefully vetted and selected by the ACWW Projects Committee. The main e...
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Magazine & Leisure Sub-Committee
The Magazine & Leisure Sub-Committee handle the production of the Ulster Countrywoman, the WI’s in-house magazine. The Committee also organises several competitions: scrapbook – which encourages each Institute to produce a colourful and detailed scrapbook...-
Golf Competition 2014
On Monday 2nd June, twenty-nine enthusiastic golfers set off for the beautiful surroundings of Aughnacloy Golf Club. They travelled from all over the province and nineteen Institutes were represented. The weather looked sligh... -
Quiz Final 2014
The WI Quiz Final took place in Hillsborough Community Hall on Wednesday 28th May. This event was organised by the Magazine and Leisure Sub- Committee and twenty-one Areas took part. Roberta Hall, Chairman of the Committee,... -
Balmoral Show 2014 – WI Homeskills & Handcrafts Competitions
It was another successful and eventful year for the Women’s Institute at the Balmoral Show. The WI Marquee at Balmoral Park was once again ablaze with colour and aroma from both flowers and cookery, and there was a beauti... -
Drama Festival 2014
On what turned out to be a fresh Spring morning all roads led to First Cookstown Presbyterian Church Hall for the Arts Sub-Committee’s annual Drama Festival. Arts Chairman Ethel Simpson welcomed a great audience and she hop...
