Event Reports
Bowls Final 2015
Abercorn Area Bowled Over With Success! WI ladies from nineteen Areas took part in the WI Bowls Finals at Killymurris Presbyterian Church on Saturday 7th March 2015. Roberta Hall, Chairman of the Magazine & Leisure Sub-Co...
Arts Coffee Morning 2015
Despite it being Friday 13th and a wet morning, over one hundred WI ladies descended on Federation House for the Arts Sub-Committee’s annual Coffee Morning and presentation of prizes. Arts Sub-Committee Chairman Ethel Simpso...
The Christmas Event 2014 – The Spirit Of Christmas
On Saturday 29th November 2014 the Home & Garden Sub-Committee’s annual Christmas event, this year entitled The Spirit Of Christmas, took place at the Tullyglass Hotel in Ballymena. The response was exceptional with fou...
Autumn Council Meeting 2014
Pictured at the ACM (L-R) are: Federation Chairman Margaret Collinson, guest speaker Lady Moyra Campbell CVO, ACWW World President Ruth Shanks from Australia, ACWW Finance Committee member Heather Brennan from Australia, and Fe...
World Rural Women’s Day 2014
Pictured at WRWD (L-R) are: International Sub-Committee Chairman Elizabeth Warden, International Sub-Committee member and ACWW Finance Committee member Margaret McMillan, ACWW World President Ruth Shanks from Australia, ACWW Fi...
Festival of the Spoken Word 2014
Pictured are the award winners- In the back row (L-R): Joan Ward of Crumlin WI, Anna Murphy of Kells & Connor WI, Ellen McKenna of Donaghmore WI, Edwina Marr of Downpatrick WI and Elizabeth Gray of Muckamore WI. Pictured ...
Festival Of Food & Flowers 2014
Federation Treasurer Anne Kirkwood, judge Nora Brown, Home & Garden Sub-Committee Chairman Nora Lennon, Mayor of Dungannon Rodger Burton, Federation Chairman Margaret Collinson, Federation Vice-Chairman Irene Craig and judg...
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...