Author Archives: Lee Green WI

February Meeting – Janet Bolton Textiles and 5th birthday

Very many thanks for everyone’s help on Thursday – I thought it was an excellent meeting (isn’t Janet Bolton great?!) and a lovely birthday party……special thanks to Carolyn and her trolley for getting the booze organised, as well as IT support and non-alcoholic catering detail too (hope you had a big glass when you got… Continue reading

January meeting – Mental Health and Mindfulness

Fantastic to see so many people (including some new faces) at the meeting last night – A great meeting to kick off the new year. Ian Dimond from Oxleas Trust gave an overview of of mental health provision in the past and looking forward. We were treated to a very relaxing introduction to mindfulness by… Continue reading

2017 membership and trips

January is also the start of a new WI year and so the membership fees for 2017 are now due.   This year the cost is £39, which covers attendance at all 11 meetings through the year as well as the bimonthly ‘WI Life’ magazine.   We really hope you would like to stay with us for… Continue reading

Photo competition

We are running a competition of photos of our neighbourhood – Lee Green and environs. We’d like to get enough to do a calendar, so get snapping. Here is a contribution from Kay Dunham – Manor House Gardens in autumn. Continue reading

Shady ladies

By popular demand we have ladies and their lampshades – souvenir of a memorable evening spent crafting Continue reading

New website launched

Let us know what you think of this new website for the Lee Green WI by clicking on Comments above. Continue reading

WI makes it to the Guardian

WI no longer about ‘jam and Jerusalem’, says Emine Saner, in this profile of the new wave of WIs (of which Lee Green is one!) A recipe for change. Continue reading