Campaigns and Charities
Our Aims
Here at BWI whilst we do not currently have a campaigns organiser tackling these campaigns, we support any member who would like to do so.
On a local level, many of our members are involved in local charities and we offer help and support to their activities where we can.
Our local Community
This January for the second year running we invited members to bring new, unopened toiletries to our monthly meeting for Little Village, a charity which supports families with children under 5 living in poverty in Wandsworth. Once again we had an enthusiastic response as you can see. Our Knitting & Crochet Group is currently working on some children's clothing items for them as you can see in the photos on the right.
Our Knitting & Crochet Group also made knitted Easter chicks for Royal Trinity Hospice and helped fill them with donated crème eggs, for sale in local shops and schools.
Wider Community
In March we collected lots of unwanted spectacles to send off to the Lions Club of Chichester recycling scheme. This checks the spectacles and sends them to known contacts holding eye clinics in a number of countries including Nigeria and Nepal.
We also provided poppies for the Standing with Giants D-Day commemoration project Pictures from the installation are in our September Newsletter.
As a member of the Surrey Federation of Women's Institutes, Battersea WI is joining their 16 Days of Activism against gender based violence. Our Knitting & Crochet and Craft groups made a selection of orange flowers from a variety of materials from wool to plastic bags to donate to the appeal.
