Things To Do
GFWI Things To Do
- please contact WI House for information about late availability -
ALL EVENTS ARE VIA ZOOM UNLESS STATED OTHERWISE
2021
JANUARY EVENTS
SILK SENSATIONS - THURS, 7 JAN - 7PM
Join Mary Day to take a trip along the silk road to discover some silk history, its uses in fashion and the home.
Tickets £5 via Eventbrite - click here, or search GFWI within Eventbrite.
DOGS FOR GOOD - TUES, 12 JAN - 7PM
GFWI is pleased to introduce Dogs for Good, a UK-based charity which trains dogs to help adults and children with physcal and/or learning disabilities, children with autism and adults with dementia.
Tickets £5 via Eventbrite - click here, or search GFWI within Eventbrite.
GFWI WINTER FUN QUIZ - THURS, 14 JAN - 7PM
Save the date!! A perfect post Christmas pick me up. Further details, and how to sign up, to follow.
WEST WYCOMBE AND THE HELL FIRE CLUB WITH PETER HAGUE - FRI, 18 JAN - 7PM
An illustrated talk about the National Trust property in Buckinghamshire and its rather quirky grounds, and father of the Hell Fire Club.
Tickets £5 via Eventbrite - click here, or search GFWI within Eventbrite.
QUIRKY BIRDS WATERCOLOUR PAINTING DEMONSTRATION WITH LYNN BARROW - THURS, 21 JAN - 2PM-3:30PM
Watercolour artist Lynn Barrow, aka The Quirky Bird, who is also a WI member herself, will be joining us to lead a paint-along! Lynn herself admires how greatly our mental health and wellbeing is benefiting from painting fun and ‘Quirky’ Watercolour Illustrations. All you require are watercolour paints, a brush, pencil, fine liner pen and watercolour paper (you could also use pencil crayons or wax crayons).
Tickets £5 via Eventbrite - click here, or search GFWI within Eventbrite.
GARDENING FOR BEES WITH RICHARD RICKITT - MON, 25 JAN - 7PM
This fascinating and richly illustrated talk will introduce many of the bee species found in the UK, and explain how you can help to save them by creating a polinator oasis in your garden or windowbox.
Tickets £5 via Eventbrite - click here, or search GFWI within Eventbrite.
EVE'S APPEAL - THURS, 28 JAN - 7PM
Female cancer awareness session. More details to follow.
FEBRUARY EVENTS
BRIGHT YOUNG THINGS WITH VERONICA ISAAC - TUES, 2 FEB - 7PM
This talk explores the lives, lifestyles and wardrobes of the 'Bright Young Things' in 1920s London. An elite social circle living a frantically paced lifestyle centred around fast cars, foreign travel and lavish parties.
Tickets £5 via Eventbrite - click here, or search GFWI within Eventbrite.
AN INSIGHT INTO ACWW WITH TRISH COLLINS - TUES, 9 FEB - 11AM
The Associated Country Women of the World exists to amplify the voices of rural women, so that the problems they face and the solutions they raise are heard and acknowledged by international policy makers and legislators.
Tickets £5 via Eventbrite - click here, or search GFWI within Eventbrite.
EAST LONDON & COCKNEY RHYMING SLANG WITH PAUL ROBBINS - FRI, 11 FEB - 7PM
Listeners will find out about the key events that shaped the way East London has changed so much in the last 300 or so years, including two major disasters in WW2.
Tickets £5 via Eventbrite - click here, or search GFWI within Eventbrite.
INSIDE THE GILDED CAGE - TUES, 16 FEB - 7PM
Watercolour artist Lynn Barrow, aka The Quirky Bird, who is also a WI member herself, will be joining us to lead a paint-along! Lynn herself admires how greatly our mental health and wellbeing is benefiting from painting fun and ‘Quirky’ Watercolour Illustrations. All you require are watercolour paints, a brush, pencil, fine liner pen and watercolour paper (You could also use pencil crayons or wax crayons).
Tickets £5 via Eventbrite - click here, or search GFWI within Eventbrite.
NEEDLEFELT BADGER - WEDS, 17 FEB - 2PM-4PM
Make a gorgeous needle felted badger with Mandy McLoughlin of Frankie and Sidney Needle Felting. Two kits are available: OPTION1: this kit contains everything you need for two badgers (one upright and one asleep) £17. OPTION 2: just the wool for the two badgers (£10). More details can be found on www.frankieandsidney.co.uk/shop. Please apply by 7th February to ensure the free delivery of your materials.
Tickets £5 via Eventbrite - click here, or search GFWI within Eventbrite.
MOKUNE GANE WORKSHOP 
- 17th February
ORANGUTANS WITH ALISON BRISTO (SUMATRAN ORANGUTAN SOCIETY CHARITY) - MON, 22 FEB - 7PM
Orangutans are among our closest relatives in the animal kingdom. Genetically they are about 97% identical to us. They are highly intelligent, thoughtful and humane.
Tickets £5 via Eventbrite - click here, or search GFWI within Eventbrite.
MARCH EVENTS
WALKING THE WAINWRIGHT FELLS INTHE LAKE DISTRICT WITH KATIE POOLE - Tues, 2nd Mar - 7pm
KNICKERS BY LIZA JONES - Thurs, 4th Mar - 7pm
SHACKLETON'S ANTARCTIC WITH JEREMY HOLMES - Mon, 8th Mar - 7pm
Tickets £5 via Eventbrite - click here, or search GFWI within Eventbrite.
PEARL STRINGING WORKSHOP - 10th Mar
ANNUAL COUNCIL MEETING - 24th March (now via Zoom)
APRIL EVENTS
BOOK BINDING WORKSHOP - 7th April
NFWI ANNUAL MEETING - 19th April - Royal Albert Hall, London
MAY EVENTS
CREWEL EMBROIDERY WORKSHOP - 5th May
WALKING WEEKEND - 7th - 9th May
SCRABBLE TOURNAMENT FINAL - 20th May - WI House
JUNE EVENTS
ROYAL THREE COUNTIES SHOW - MARQUEE ONLY - 18th to 20th June
JULY EVENTS
ROYAL HOSPITAL CHELSEA TRIP - 6th July