Campaigns and Charities
The NFWI and local Federations take campaigns to the heart of Government and make available action packs online to local WIs, enabling them to take forward and participate in these campaigns, should they so wish.
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 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.
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.
Our Knitting & Crochet Group recently delivered 31 knitted Easter chicks to Royal Trinity Hospice and some members then helped fill them with donated crème eggs, for sale in local shops and schools. They have also been crocheting and knitting poppies for Standing with Giants D-Day 80 commemoration project later this year. Next they plan to knit clothes for mothers, babies, and toddlers, for another donation to Little Village.
