by Maggie | Jun 14, 2022 | News and Events, Ullesthorpe WI
Ullesthorpe WI Report. June was a very entertaining and enjoyable meeting. We welcomed Barry Watson, a Raconteur and Musician to our meeting. Barry has spent many years organising barge Hotel holidays. With his wife and friends, over a number of years, he provided...
by Maggie Pankhurst | Feb 15, 2022 | News and Events, Ullesthorpe WI
Ullesthorpe WI held their first actual meeting of 2022 on 10th February. The ladies had previously enjoyed a celebratory lunch in The Wycliffe Rooms for the January meeting. At that lunch we raised over £70 for the Hope Against Cancer Charity. In February we welcomed...
by Maggie Pankhurst | Dec 16, 2021 | News and Events, Ullesthorpe WI
On Thursday 9th December members of Ullesthorpe WI celebrated their 95th Anniversary. The first ladies met on December 8th 1926 and the President and founder was Beatrice Seale from the village. It was a very thriving group with lots of activities, trips and...
by Maggie Pankhurst | Oct 18, 2021 | News and Events, Ullesthorpe WI
The Ullesthorpe W.I. held their October meeting at the Ullesthorpe Village Hall, where our speaker was Ginny Davis, whose entertaining talk was ‘To the Fringe and Beyond’. Ginny was a former translator and barrister and she is now a writer and...
by Maggie Pankhurst | Oct 11, 2021 | News and Events, Ullesthorpe WI
Ullesthorpe WI has at last returned to some form of normality. Members met for an afternoon tea in the garden of a member and then held their first meeting in the village Hall on 12th August. The speaker was Nick Syderham from the Canine Partners Association. He...
by Maggie Pankhurst | Jul 9, 2021 | News and Events, Ullesthorpe WI
The Ullesthorpe W.I. held their July meeting on Zoom again, hopefully for the last time!, when Jane Isaac gave an interesting talk about her life as a novelist. Jane writes crime and psychological thriller novels and is based in Northamptonshire. ‘The Lies Within’...