Category Archives: Events

Picnic in the Park – August 2025

Around 30 of us met for our annual summer picnic in Manor House Gardens, under the shade of our ten year old oak tree, to celebrate another wonderful year of WI-ing in Lee Green.  There was plenty of fizz, cake and chat throughout the afternoon and the sun shone on us (mostly) as we whiled away an excellent afternoon’s merriment in the park!

“Today’s picnic was SO good.  Lovely folks, gorgeous nosh and flowing libation. A most enjoyable Sunday afternoon.”

“Thank you for a lovely afternoon.  Very relaxing and welcoming.”

“Sunshine, laughter, fizz and scrummy cake! What a delightful afternoon.  Thank you so much Lee Green WI.”

Manor House Gardens Festival – June 2025

Another great day at the Manor House Gardens Festival this year! On a very warm and sunny afternoon, this wonderful community event was well attended, and in spite of the heat a lot of people bought and ate cake! The day started rather challengingly when our trusted gazebo, that hadn’t been used for a couple… Continue reading

It’s all Greek to me – the WI quiz returns! – January 2025

                  A huge thank you to our quizmaster Graham and Alison Hooper for yet another excellent quiz.  Great fun was had while we scratched our heads and taxed our brains. Many congratulations to worth winners Out of Towners and to second and third place teams Taunton Road… Continue reading

Carols for Crisis – December 2024

Wow!  Thank you to all those who joined in the carol singing in Effingham and Taunton Roads.  We had the biggest group of singers we’ve ever had and made a fabulous sound.  Lots of money was stuffed into our collection pots and we were able to send a donation of over £400 to Crisis –… Continue reading

Lee Green Open Studios – November 2024

A huge thank you to all our wonderful cake bakers, sellers and buyers at this year’s Open Studios event which took place over the weekends 9/10 and 16/17 November.  As you can see from the smiles, it’s a great event to take part in – a great opportunity to meet other members and a great… Continue reading

A triumph on the darts board – September 2024

The Lee Green Dragons After last year’s successful event, we were delighted when we heard Catford WI were hosting another darts evening for local WIs.  Our very keen and enthusiastic team, now sporting a new official name had a great evening winning one game. Although narrowly missing out on their other two games the team… Continue reading

Picnic in the park – September 2024

A splendid time was had by all attending our annual Picnic in the Park this year.  Having had to postpone the original event from a wet and windy July afternoon, we were delighted to find that the weather would be much kinder to us in September.  We enjoyed a perfectly lazy afternoon under our oak… Continue reading

Treasure hunting in Greenwich – July 2024

Catford WI held another of their popular treasure hunts, this time in Greenwich and two teams from Lee Green WI joined in the fun. “What a fun, brain challenging day in Greenwich completing the WI treasure hunt with my brilliant team mates” (Jean, Monika and Gail) “We had a great day out in Greenwich and… Continue reading

Manor House Gardens Festival – June 2024

As you can see from the photos great fun was had on our fabulous cake stall at this year’s Manor House Gardens Festival!   The festival was probably one of the busiest we’ve seen – thanks to a bright and sunny afternoon at the end of a very rainy June and perhaps word being spread about… Continue reading

An evening of wine and pampering – June 2024

Seventeen members were given a talk and demonstration by Carolyn’s daughter Robyn, to the range of Tropic Natural Skincare products for which she is an Ambassador. Robyn firstly told us about how the company had been started by Susie Ma – a previous contestant on The Apprentice and explained the guiding principles and ethos of… Continue reading

Strictly we quizzed …, February 2024

We were delighted to welcome back Graham “Quizmaster” Hooper for the Strictly Come Quizzing quiz in February.   Many congratulations to the worthy winners, the Out of Towners, Masters of Whine who came second and Quizee Rascals and Rowche Rumba who shared third place.  A huge thank you to all who took part and helped… Continue reading

Carol singing, December 2023

A very joyous and festive evening was had by all on Friday 22 December when about twenty of us including our friends and family  sang together on local streets to raise money for Crisis.  An amazing £282 was raised on the door and subsequent donations increased the total donation we made to a wonderful £450! … Continue reading