Category Archives: Events

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 excuse to bake, buy and eat and there was much recipe swapping afterwards too! Based in Lochaber Hall, we were delighted to support this great community event again. We triumphed over the challenges of the card reader (thanks June)  and the inner workings of the water flasks. This is a fabulous fund-raising event for us, allowing us to book some great speakers at our monthly meetings so a big thank you to all, especially Jane Verity for organising the rota!

 

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

Lee Green Open Studios, November 2023

A huge thank you to all our wonderful cake bakers, sellers and buyers at this year’s Open Studios event.  Based in Lochaber Hall, we were delighted to support this great community event again. We … “… sang Happy Birthday to one visitor, heard a poetry recital from a lady recovering from a stroke and had… Continue reading

Up to the oche*! May 2023

In May, we were invited by Catford WI to take part in a South East London darts tournament.  We scrambled together a team of spirited enthusiasts (lured in partly by the promise of a subsidised bar at CWI’s hall) and a keen travelling supporter, and headed off on the 202 bus for a great night’s… Continue reading

Summer bowls in a leafy paradise, June 2023

It was a gorgeous sunny evening, very peaceful with birdsong, rustling leaves on the trees around the green, the clunk of bowls … and much chat and debate about style and tactics For the second year running, on another lovely summer’s evening, about 20 members of Lee Green WI attended a Bowls Taster session hosted… Continue reading

Picnic in the Park, July 2023

  On 8 July WI Committee members were watching the weather like hawks … after the heatwave of June, rain was promised for our picnic in the park … and indeed for much of the morning we had enjoyed some long overdue rain.  Could our picnic go ahead or would rain stop play?  As tension… Continue reading