February 2025 Newsletter

January always feels such a long month but looking at the posts on Instagram, you’ve been a busy bunch, and that’s how we plan to keep it!  For those who missed January’s meeting, we voted to support resolution 2 Bystanders Can Be Life Savers. Once all votes have been tallied at HQ, outcomes will be finalised by the Board of Trustees by the end of February before further discussion and voting in April/May on any amendments and proceeding …

January Newsletter

Happy New Year and a very warm welcome to our first WI Newsletter of 2025. We have a great line up of speakers and activities to look forward to this year, as well as our monthly meetings, special interest groups meet ups and outings.  Our first speaker for 2025 is food writer Ruth Neiman, whom we’ve rescheduled after she was unable to attend last year owing to illness. Her latest book, Freakeh, Wild Wheat & …

December Newsletter

Hello on behalf of our newly elected committee! And we would like to thank the outgoing committee for all their hard work over the last few months and years; Battersea WI has grown from strength to strength and is now one of the most active WIs in South London! After the election we had a fun session making Christmas birds. The Christmas theme will continue with our BWI Craft Group running a vintage card making workshop …

WHAT’S ON

As well as our monthly evening meeting and our group activities, we run plenty of extra outings and events. We try to make our schedule as diverse and interesting as possible, and to keep our activities low cost or free. See our latest newsletters below for more details.

What’s On

What’s OnAs well as the monthly meetings and groups, we organise a couple of outings a month, aiming for as wide a variety as possible, on both weekdays and at weekends, and either low cost or free. Highlights so far have included a behind-the-scenes tour of Peter Jones, participating in Processions, a mass participation artwork to celebrate votes for women, an educational evening at the tip, and a swim in the delightful Hampstead Ladies …