Record of our Meetings
Our regular monthly meeting is on the second Thursday in every month at the Catholic Church Hall, Bath Road, Thatcham at 7.30pm when we either have a speaker or celebration event
OCTOBER IS OUR 88th BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION WHERE WE ARE FOLLOWING IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF THE GREAT BRITISH SEWINGBEE AND DOING A TRANSFORMATION CHALENGE
Our September meeting brought us up t date with our Knitting Story from Joyce Meader
We've enjoyed a varied selection of topics at our meetings so far this year
In April Jo Fagent told us the Secrets o a Suitcase
In May we had talk on Jane Austen
Followed by Dave Stubbs teling us about the First Battle of Newbury in June.
In July we had our "Fun and Frolics" Evening which involved much laughter
In August John Kinory told us all about his life as a film extra
At our AGM in MARCH we had all the usual WI business involved in electing our Committee and
President -Pauline does such a good job that she was re-elected for another year! Then the fun started as we asked the members to buld as tall a tower as they could using spaghetti and marsh mallows!
JANUARY 2026 - A NIGHT AT THE RACES
Sue arranged a wonderful evening of fun to kick start 2026. Each team had to dress a member of the committee as a jockey complete with 'horse' and after parading around they raced up the track. Our winning best dressed jockey was Chris and the winner of the race was Jaki.
For our DECEMBER 2025 PARTY we had the wonderful Claire Goodall come to celebrate a Medieval Christmas with us. She played some Carols surprising us with the origins of these and then led us in a dance around the hall - see the video below! We enjoyed some wonderful cakes from Daisy's, a local Cafe which ere washed down with Pimms or Juice.
OCTOBER is our Birthday month - it was also one of our ladies 90th Birthday, so we asked her to cut our WI Birthday cake to celebrate. We also enjoyed a bit of Line Dancing!
September 2025 - The Miracle Flower - from Flanders to the Tower
Lt Col (Ret'd) Jeremy Prescott told us all about the significance of the Poppy as a remembrance token
August 2025 - Repair, Renew and Re-use
We welcomed the local Repair Shop to come along and tell us all about their work in the local community
JULY 2025
The Rhyme of our Lives Poetry to make you laugh and cry by Jean Hill
We enjoyed a wonderful hour listening to the poetry written by Jean Hill describing different aspects of her life in a humourous way
JUNE 2025
We had a wonderful evening playing games and eating a delicious cream tea.
Our first game was to find the Film Title from a cryptic clue - the winners got 19 out of 20 correct.
Our second game was Human Bingo which meant all our members had to approach others to find out who the Bingo Clue related to. A great way of mixing and getting to know other members.
MAY 2025
What an amazing display of MAY BONNETS from our wonderfully creative members. Each table was given 2 bonnets to decorate and a large selection of materials, ribbons, flowers etc along with glue, Sellotape and scissors and 45 minutes in which to decorate their bonnets. As you can see from the video, it was an amazing success with some beautiful bonnets being created. The final 2 winners were judged by our outgoing Secretary, Elaine (who will be greatly missed by us all as she moves away from Thatcham next month).
