Things To Do
GFWI Things To Do
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AUGUST EVENTS
CROQUET TASTER SESSION - 11TH AUGUST (SEE ALSO 14TH JULY) - 14:00 - 16:30
A fun afternoon learning how to play the genteel sport of croquet. No experience necessary as tuition will be given.
MEMBERS ONLY
Venue: Cheltenham Croquet Club, Old Bath Road, Cheltenham. GL53 7DF
Tickets are £13. Booking forms are with your Secretary. The booking deadline is 14th June.
SEPTEMBER EVENTS
NEW SPEAKER TASTER MORNING - ST ANDREWS CHURCH CENTRE - 6TH SEPTEMBER - 10:30AM-12:30PM
10am for refreshments, cost £5 (up to a max of 4 per WI).
Booking form with your WI Secretary
BLACK COUNTRY MUSEUM TRIP - 8TH SEPTEMBER
Spend a day at the open air museum, a living replica (without the pollution) of one of the first industrial landscapes in Britain over 26 acres.
Cost £33
Booking forms with your WI Secretary
A WALK AT DUNSTISBOURNE ABBOTS - 24TH SEPTEMBER
HAND COLOURED SILK COWL INFINITY SCARF WORKSHOP - 27TH SEPTEMBER - 10AM-12:30PM 0R 1PM-3:30PM
The softness of fine knit silk jersey lends itself beautifully to being dyed and painted so in this workshop you will learn how to combine your own range of colour blends to colour a generously sized silk knit cowl.
Cost £30 + £12.50 materials.
Booking form with your WI Secretary
OCTOBER EVENTS
A WALK AT FRANCE LYNCH (OAKRIDGE VILLAGE HALL, OAKRIDGE LYNCH) - 8TH OCTOBER
Walks over 2, 4 and 6 miles. Cost £8 (includes a light lunch).
Booking form with your WI Secretary
A WEEKEND IN LONDON - 7TH TO 9TH OCTOBER
Half-board at a Kensington hotel£350, plus the option of a trip to the Knitting & Stitching Show at Alexandra Palace (£13) - open to friends and families too.
Booking form with your WI Secretary
WOOD BLOCK PRINTING WORKSHOP - 11TH OCTOBER - 10AM-3PM
Explore the lovely traditioal craft of hand block printing on both papers, card and fabric. You will be shown how to load the blocks with paint ready to print first onto papers for practice before moving onto greetings cards, gift tags and papers as well as a cushion cover and cotton shopping bag.
Cost £30.00 +£10 materials
Booking form with your WI Secretary
LITERARY TEA (FODDER & DRINCAN - AN ANGLO-SAXON CULINARY ODYSSEY) - 22ND OCTOBER - 2:30PM-4:30PM
At The Farmer's Club (Sandhurst Lane) Emma Kay will bring cooking in the early medieval period to life.
Cost £15
Booking form with your WI Secretary
NOVEMBER EVENTS
PATCHWORK WORKSHOP - details TBA
DECEMBER EVENTS
A WINTER CELEBRATION (CHELTENHAM TOWN HALL) - 7TH DECEMBER - MORE DETAILS COMING SOON