Local Areas
WI Life – Institute News Reports (*Spring 2022)
“Spring won’t let me stay in this house any longer. I must get out and breathe the air deeply again.” (Gustav Mahler) Snippets of WI Life! Now that some form of normality has returned and Institutes are holding offic...
90 Years of WI in NI!
Woohooo the Women’s Institute is 90 in 2022! We can’t wait to celebrate 90 years of the Women’s Institute at this year’s Balmoral Show! Here are Vice-Chairman Kathleen Verner (left) and Balmoral Sub-Comm...
Christine Adams of Macosquin WI Elected President of the Royal Ulster Agricultural Society!
Huge congratulations to WI lady Christine Adams, who has just been elected as the 36th President of the Royal Ulster Agricultural Society (RUAS)! Christine is a member of Macosquin WI and served the Federation at Executive leve...
🌳Plant a Tree for our Future – Ballyclare WI
Planting Progress… The weather was kind last Monday morning when the Mayor Councillor Billy Webb and some members of Ballyclare Women’s Institute planted 100 trees in the War Memorial Park. This was for the Queen’s ...
🌳Plant a Tree for our Future – Moneyrea WI
Planting Progress… Well done to our Moneyrea members who planted their saplings in the community field, with a helping hand from Mark Rowan of Lisburn and Castlereagh Council! #plantatreeforourfuture #woodlandtrust #woodlandt...
🌳Plant a Tree for our Future – Garvagh WI
Planting Progress, Celebrating 90 Years… It’s all go on the tree front at Garvagh WI! This year, we celebrate 90 years of the Women’s Institute in Northern Ireland and the Garvagh Institute was the province...
🌳Plant a Tree for our Future – Hillsborough WI
Planting progress… The Hillsborough WI ladies had had the honour of being asked by the Royal Palaces to plant 50 native trees as part of the Queen’s green canopy – and were finally able to do this on Friday 18th March...
🌳Plant a Tree for our Future – Glenanne WI
Planting progress… Well done to our Glenanne girls who are already on the ball with their tree planting! Members of Glenanne WI donated their trees to ‘The Glen’, a volunteer project in their local area which ...
🌳🌱Plant a Tree for our Future – *Saplings have arrived! 💚
Woohooo, the saplings have arrived at the various distribution points and are ready to be planted! Pictured above are 3 of our Executive Members – Rosemary Savage (Roe Valley Area), Joan Beattie (Abercorn Area) and Teresa...
🌳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 ‘...