Archive for February, 2022
🌳Plant a Tree for our Future – Portrush WI
Planting progress… With the help of council staff, members of the Portrush Institute recently planted 4 trees in Antrim Gardens, Portrush, as part of the Home and Garden Sub-Committee’s climate change initiative to ‘...
Arts Trophy Presentation
The theme for the Arts Festival Competitions for 2022 was “ The Beauty of Nature”, with entries in Painting, 3D Decoupage, Calligraphy and Good Handwriting. Due to Covid-19 regulations earlier in the year, the annual ...
🎈Celebrating Milestone Institute Anniversaries!
The Federation of Women’s Institutes of Northern Ireland is celebrating 90 years in 2022! Here, we share some of the Institutes that have also reached a special milestone mark! Some Institutes were unable to celebrate...
Ladies Who Lunch
In keeping with Covid restrictions, some of our Institutes have sought alternative ways and times to meet, seizing the opportunity to get together for lunches, brunches and dinner dates! Cullybackey ...
WI 2022 – Celebrating 90 Years – Looking to the Future, Inspired by WI Ladies of the Past
The Federation of the Women’s Institutes of Northern Ireland will celebrate 90 years of WI in Northern Ireland later in this year. The story of the Women’s Institute began at Stoney Creek, Ontario in Canada back in February...
Arts Festival Competitions 2022 – ‘The Beauty of Nature’ – *Winners Revealed!
The theme for the Arts Festival this year was ‘The Beauty of Nature’, with classes in Painting, 3D Decoupage, Calligraphy and Good Handwriting, and here are the winners… *Cla...
Arts Sub-Committee – ‘Design A WI Scarf’ competition – *Winner Revealed!
Last year, members got to unleash their inner fashion designer, for a creative challenge set by the Arts Sub-Committee – to come up with a modern, stylish design for a lady’s fashion scarf that could be worn by WI m...
WI Life – Institute News Reports (*New Year 2022)
“The New Year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written.” (Melody Beattie) Snippets of WI Life! Now that some form of normality has returned and Institutes are holding official, face-to-face...
Homecraft Weekend 2022 – ***CANCELLED! X
Hi ladies, some disappointing news… Unfortunately, the Homecraft Sub-Committee has had to take the difficult decision to CANCEL the Homecraft Weekend, which had been planned for 1st-3rd April 2022. This was a tough call to ma...