Looking Ahead to What's On

2025

2025 January  Yarnbombing Newsletter - click here

Monday 27 January    Yarn Bombing Project Meeting
10am  at WI House  
If you’d like to join as an individual or a WI and help put Northamptonshire WI on the world map in 2025 then come along. Bring along any work you have started, together with patterns and wool and your record sheets.

Saturday 1 February 2025  Reduce, Reuse, Recycle for 2025 - New Event !
10am to 2pm WI House   Refreshments £4  All Welcome
A new event for a New Year – come along to WI House with your unwanted jewellery, electronics, bras, foreign coins and used stamps for WI to recycle. Have you got any bags or shoes you don’t use any longer? Please could you bring them to be sold on by donation at our Reuse/Recycle event in February. All monies donated will go towards our Federation.

Saturday 8 February  County Walk from Maidwell
9.45am for 10am start  (just under 4 miles)
A very scenic walk taking in some of the best of our county’s views. No stiles and a good surface even if it has been wet.
The Stag, Harborough Road, Maidwell NN6 9JA

Monday 3 March  Speakers Selection Evening
7pm to 9pm   WI House   Members only £5
This is always a popular event where WIs have an opportunity to meet prospective new speakers for their programmes. We can only take 2 members per WI.  Refreshments from 6.30pm

Saturday 8 March  County Walk from Wollaston
9.45 for 10am start  (just under 5 miles)
Hopefully we will be having lovely spring weather by now so do come and join us. Warning – the paths can be muddy, so suitable footwear is recommended.
The Nags Head, 87 London Road, Wollaston NN29 7QS.

Sunday 9 to Wednesday 12 March 2025 - 4-Day Federation Holiday - Devon
Members £550 Non-members £560
Join us on this early Spring break based out of a Torquay seafront hotel. With sightseeing and guided tours of the English Riviera and beyond. Fully escorted by Avalon Tours. Three night’s dinner, bed and breakfast. To include Exeter city, Greenway, Buckfast Abbey, guided tour of Britannia Royal Naval College, Kingswear and steam train to Paignton – with Swindon Steam Museum on return. Limited number of double rooms for single occupancy at £30 supplement. Four true singles available at £30 discount – allocated on first come basis. Non-members very welcome.  Application Form with your Secretary this month

Friday 14 March  Spring Coffee Morning
10am to 12 noon   WI House
A Spring themed coffee morning will chase away those winter blues.  More information in the February News Sheet

Friday 28 March - County Lunch, How to Catch a Killer
12 noon  Greens Norton Community Centre NN12 8BL  Members£26  Non Members £30
The husband and father of the deceased (a mother and her two children) is missing but is he also a victim, is he absent through work or is he the offender? Come to the County Lunch and find out from Andy Tennet, a former senior police officer. Andy will tell us what really happens and that’s probably not what you see on TV!

Monday 31 March  NFWI ANNUAL MEETING & RESOLUTIONS BRIEFING CONFERENCE  
WI House   7pm-9pm  Members only £5
Have you been chosen as a delegate for the National Annual Meeting this year? Are you one of the members who will lead the discussions or get involved in Resolutions at your WI meeting? Would you simply like to learn more about the Resolution(s) being discussed this year.
If any of these apply to you come along to WI House to hear expert speakers, join the debate and have the opportunity to ask questions. These are always lively sessions and it’s good to hear different views on the topic.
For delegates this is the opportunity to find out more about how the voting process will work on the day of the annual meeting.

Monday 14 April 2025  Bi-annual County Quiz - Mercure Hotel, Daventry
£26 for a team of 4 (PAID UP MEMBERS)Bi-annual County Quiz. Which WIis the brainiest and will take homethe magnificent cup for 12months?Start gettingyour teams of 4 paidup WI members together.Questions on various subjects ofmixed difficulty.

Monday 26 April   Treasurers Workshop
10am to 12.30 pm    OR    1.30pm to 4pm   WI House
Are you a fairly new Treasurer or an established one who would like an update? Membership and Training Committee members will take you through a ‘Year in the life of the WI Treasurer’. We will discuss budgets, keeping records, financial safeguards, charity law and where to find information and guidance. There will be open discussion and lots of handouts to help assist you in your role

Wednesday 4 June 2025 NFWI Annual Meeting
The National Federation Annual Meeting next year will be hosted on-line on 4 June. With Emma Bridgewater, founder of Emma Bridgewater pottery, announced as the first speaker we can expect an exciting and interesting meeting. The meeting is open to all members, and in addition to delegates, other members can register to attend as observers. Those of you who have been to Annual Meetings will agree that one of the benefits of attending is meeting other WI members. In Northamptonshire we are looking at the option of holding two Annual Meeting events, where we can watch the meeting together. More details to follow.