Here's what's happening this month at Gloucester Rd WI.

Celebrating International Women's Day

8th March was International Women’s Day so we shall celebrate this when we get together for our meeting on the 20th.

In what might be a first for Gloucester Road WI, we will have two speakers.
The first is lawyer Bethan Evans. She studied law at Bristol University and has built up 35 years of experience, specialising in local government.
The second is journalist and author Jane Duffus. Her book The Women Who Built Bristol was recently published with all profits going to Bristol Women's Voice.

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Clubs & Events

Book club and knit and stitch group meet regularly (see Dates for your diary) but we also have a few clubs that you can sign up for at meetings or by responding in our members group on Facebook. Here's what they have been getting up to recently.

Wild Women

A great evening had by all trying Real Tennis at Clifton College sports ground.

Ale Birds

The Inn On The Green on Gloucester Road was the pub selected for this month's gathering.

Dinner Club

February's table was booked at Bomboloni on Gloucester Road. The next outing will be at Pacos in Stokes Croft on 26th April.

Fundraising

Re-Gifting Auction

Many thanks to everyone who brought along an item or placed a winning bid at February's meeting. We raised £129.75 which is a great start to our fundraising for LinkAge Bristol.

Cakes & Bakes at Meetings

We will continue to raise some funds with cakes and bakes this year. Please don't forget to sign up to bring some along to meetings as well as buying a slice (or two!) on the night.

Community News

Foodbank

One of our members has kindly volunteered to start collecting items for foodbanks at our meetings. Please bring along your donations of non-perishable items and toiletries.

Looking Ahead

Grow Off

If you are thinking about entering some homegrown produce in this year's grow off / make off / bake off in September then you might need to start planning your planting now!

WI Resource Area

Did you try Liz's Red Dragon Pie at the February meeting? Well the recipe is now available in the Resource Area of our website.
Do you have a great recipe or craft project that you'd like to share? If so email it in to us at info@gloucesterroadwi.org and we can add it to the WI Resource Area on our website!

Last month

Social and re-gifting auction

Photo Credit: Becky Bushnell

Read the review on our website.

Things to remember this month:

Money for cake

Look out for those signup sheets

Dates for
your diary:

20th Mar: Monthly Meeting - Celebrating International Women's Day
8pm

21st Mar: Book Club, The Flyer - Discussing The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell.
7:30pm for 7:45pm start.

3rd Apr: Knit & Stitch Club, The Flyer at 8pm.

24th Apr: Dinner Club, Pacos in Stokes Croft

Please make yourself known to Elisabeth Mueller if you are interested

Events & activities with Avon Federation here for any member

In between monthly updates please check our events page

Membership & Visitors

The membership year began in January 2018, although there are still spaces available if you would like to join or renew. As the year progresses pro-rata membership fees apply.
We do accept a few visitors at our meetings, which costs £5. You can visit up to three times a year.

Check our website for further information about Being a member

To find out more about the WI and what membership gets you, visit the national website.

Click here for our 2018 programme

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